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Comment Re:Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score 1) 45

Especially when it is done in public on video. But I am just an aging Gen X'er with Catholic values!

Even worse is going to a Coldplay concert. Worse than cheating on your wife. Shows that you have much deficiency in your character that you somehow ended up in that situation.

Coldplay should know better than to put their audience on the jumbotron. Every single person there would be embarrassed to be known to have attended a Coldplay concert.

Comment Mitigation isn't going happen. Funding denied (Score 2) 128

The west doesn't care about climate change mitigation. We are in a place between denying it and not caring about it. We have made up our mind that we will live with the consequences of it and not mitigate it.

It is in bad taste to ask for funds from the west for this. Brazil can cut down all of its amazon rain forest and cultivate soyabean for China and we won't care. The bribing to not cut down the rain-forest is getting old.

The idea of preserving this and preserving that is out of the window. We have to accept climate change, deal with the disasters.

Comment Re:AI marketplace (Score 1) 64

The IDE I use offers 25 backend AI agents to pick from in a dropdown menu. All of them are either free or very cheap except for Claude Sonnet 4.0, which is reportedly the best but it burns through credits. All of them are probably operating at a loss.

The future will be locally run models.

Only problem is that to promote cloud models, the hardware is being slow walked to do local models.

There is just so much consolidation and conflicts that AI development is being done in a very investment friendly way rather than the most efficient way.

Comment Who does he think he is? Elon Musk? (Score 2) 34

Elon Musk is the CEO of half a dozen companies.

But, we workers have to only work for single company; and be at the sole mercy of a single boss and if you don't do that, you're fired and black-listed.

If he's producing good work then let him work whatever he wants. If he isn't then fire him. Don't be a super-asshole and blast the guy. It just shows Suhail Doshi is such an asshole.

I can't even tell if this is the American culture of Indian culture that is the root of this. It feels like the intersection of the worst of both cultures.

Comment Re:Saw this attitude in manufacturing (Score 1) 119

Then: lay off the entry level engineers first because we have senior people who know everything.

Now: Oh No! Our senior people retired, died, etc and we dont have any junior people to replace them and we cant find senior people who understand the art behind our niche process/equipment! We are soon out of business!

Most would be shocked how much of this exists right now in the basic materials industry.

AI writes better code than humans.

When AI has to work around bad human code, it has problems.

When AI rewrites entire systems, AI will know everything and it can update the system properly instead of having to work around bad human code.

Your junior engineers will come from a different path, product engineering path rather than software engineering.

The code is disposable. The entire system can be rewritten in a short time if an engineer can direct it properly and know what it needs to do.

Comment Re: AI? (Score 1) 119

I think AI will replace a lot of coding roles, and we will write programs via UML. Trouble is, AI may not be able to troubleshoot and debug those programs or integrate them with other applications, and if we dont produce people who know how to code then we will flop.

AI can do all of that.

The problem is that the people directing the AI are such horrible software engineers that they will create a mess.

The limitation is not the AI. It is the person directing the AI and pushing towards untestable systems.

Comment Re:Federal conviction upheld on appeal, so ... (Score 1) 101

SBF was too dumb not to figure out a way to put away $100 million somewhere.

All the other pardons for tech fraud were tech guys who could operate their systems. They knew how to hide the money so that they could buy a pardon in the future or something similar in the future.

I don't think SBF was smart enough to do that. He had a bunch of friends who did that and looks like he never learnt.

Comment Re:The new jobs... (Score 1) 73

Will be hiring coders to come in and fix the absolute mess of code that Ai is spitting out.

I have found the opposite to be true.

Just today AI was giving me horrible answers. I was cursing at it. I took a short walk and then just realized that there was a horrendous bug there from an edge case and AI was trying to work around it.

I fixed that bug and the solution that LLM generated was 100% correct and even elegant.

LLMs write amazing unit tests. If you change something, you can ask it to update the unit tests as well. And, nobody's ego is hurt when you throw away unit tests that are not useful anymore.

I can see the future where we won't even let most humans write code, just direct the coding.

Code written by LLM is so so much easier to read than human written code.

Comment Re:we gonna give-a you cacciatore (Score 1) 73

Companies don't need programmers to create code. They need programmers to maintain code. From the anecdotes I've read about LLM code generation, it's all either mindless boilerplate, the kind of thing that anybody could type up in half an hour that's too simple to even have errors; or, for more complicated things, bad, unmaintainable code. The LLM won't really buy you any time writing boilerplate, because it all has to be well-specified beforehand and checked afterwards anyway. And if you use it to write things more complicated than boilerplate, it will make spaghetti out of it. And it can't then fix the spaghetti, because every time you turn it loose on an existing codebase, it just makes more spaghetti. Sooner or later, the spaghetti assumes critical mass, and you can't fix one thing without breaking three others.

It's basically just a machine for automating the taking on of technical debt.

You are so feaking out of touch.

Doesn't sound like you're not a coder; or have coded recently with LLM assistance.

Comment Re:Just remember (Score 1) 288

I voted for him three times, so take this for what it is worth to you. My opinions may help you to understand my thinking. My expectations were low first term, and he exceeded them in some areas, met them in some areas, and disappointed in some areas. So when he won again in round 3, I my expectations were slightly higher, because I think his biggest failure in term 1 was proper staffing. Turns out most of his staff were Washington insiders who were just as eager to fuck his agenda over as would have been had he literally just kept Obama's staff.

This term has been so far, an "absolute 1000% exceed my expectations" and I am SO GLAD I voted for him and he won. Lets address a few things:

1. Staffing. I think Elon is a master organizer and the innovator of our time. Steve Jobs once said there comes a product every one in a while that changes everything, and he cited 3 products he worked on that were such products: the iPod, the Mac, and the iPhone. He said that he was lucky enough to be involved in 3. Elon, it seems so far has 5: The electric drive train, FSD, the reusable rocket, Starlink, and lastly, X. Robert F. Kennedy, who's probably the most mis-quoted or out of context quoted single person in history other than Trump himself is for all his shortcomings, probably the most passionate person in America to be concerned with people's health. I could go on and on about Tom Homan and Tulsi Gabbard, but I really think Trump has this time around an excellent team. Exceeded my expectations.

2. Presidential overreach? Clearly, from my point of view, the "checks and balances" isn't working. Look at the absolutely embarrassing state of our government! We were funding Israel AND HAMAS. Our tax dollars were out of control, and giving Congress "The Power of the Purse" was clearly the greatest mistake of our founding fathers since they convoluted the second amendment with a justification sentence. ANYONE who think Trump is overreaching by fixing the spending of the US with the DOGE team, etc. is clearly an enemy of the people of the United States. The Government spent WAY too much and that much is OBVIOUS. If you think Trump wasn't authorized to fix it on behalf of the millions of voters who overwhelmingly voted for him, then the authorizations should be fixed and lets be honest, Congress is so far corrupted that we can't rely on them to fix it at all. Even if Americans had clear and proper media explaining the shit congress has been up to, we wouldn't trust new candidates not to get immediately corrupted once they got elected, never mind the fact that most people just vote for a party, even though that party candidate is corrupt. We now know why the media was so complicit in government corruption, they got the lions share of bribes coming from USAID!

So yes, I really am happy Trump won, and I don't think the DOGE team is cutting enough or going fast enough for my liking. Quite frankly, I would be happier if Pam Bondi was out arresting all those responsible for this spending from Joe Biden, with his billion for Ukraine on condition they fire a prosecutor, all the way down to all the treasury employees who never denied a payment even though fraud was obvious. They betrayed the American people, and committed crimes. They should all be tried and hanged as far as im concerned. Overreach? Hardly.

I agree.

1. Esp with that lineup of the tech billionaires at his inauguration to show what needs to be done. And, only taking 1 week for them to remove all DEI programs and put the right people in place rather than polluting our institutions. The strength of the stock market and letting the people who make our stock market regulate it is going to do wonders for our investments.

2. The foreign policy has been spot on. We need Israel on our side, we need Russia on our sides. It's disgusting to see them getting cozy with China with complete bungling from the previous administration. We need to expand and pick up our economy by expanding and that needs to be the de-facto that we need resources to grow.

3. It's so sad that we have to get our chips from Taiwan who gets their equipment from Europe and Japan. Those Taiwanese are cheating behind our backs and letting China make their chips there. The Europeans are angry we don't let them sell their equipment to China and I'm sure they're smuggling a few out there. We need to take all that and bring it here.

Trump is making all the right moves and putting things right that have eroded away.

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