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Comment Yes, but it overbuilds (Score 0) 174

I've been using two frontier models, each acting as the other's adversarial reviewer, and it's worked out quite well. I've been able to write production code since the beginning of the year, and I've noticed a marked improvement in that production code. Over the last three months, the models really are getting better at the frontier.

The one caveat is that AI will try to solve every possible edge case with an overly robust solution that adds a lot of computational, codebase, and unit-testing overhead when it is unnecessary. It doesn't know how to manage the probabilities of edge cases popping up and what to do if those edge cases do happen. There are some edge cases in my business where they are vanishingly unlikely to happen, and the correct response is to log the problem, deny access, and fire off a quick message to operations. The AI models will give you an overbuilt monstrosity. It really wants to hit a gnat with a sledgehammer.

I've found that the biggest problem I have to solve with AI is teaching it to act like my favorite designer and engineer, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who used to say, "Perfection lies not in asking, 'Is there nothing left to add?' but rather, 'Is there nothing left to take away?'"

Comment Re: Wow! (Score 1) 47

No, this is the exact reason why the ACA is a disaster. Insurance company profits are capped at a percentage of the cost of care, so they are motivated to drive up costs. But what about the uncovered treatments that the hospitals have to eat?

I heard exactly this during a consulting project in the health insurance space. We set up the ACA so that driving up costs made sense to hospitals and insurance companies who manage the major entitlements (medicare, medicaid). Zero incentives to drive costs down.

Comment Re: Wow! (Score 1) 47

Real reform would have meant reforming the way insurance had become a bureaucratic nightmare at all levels. Obama was too cowardly to fight the insurance lobby (and to be fair, so were his predecessors on both sides), so instead he made the problem worse. ACA has raised everyone's premiums by more than triple over 15 years, with worse patient outcomes.

Comment Re: Seriously... (Score 1) 372

The argument confuses natural death with intentional killing. Many embryos may be lost spontaneously, but that does not make deliberately killing one morally equivalent to a miscarriage; just as the fact that many infants die naturally does not justify killing infants. The extent of spontaneous embryo loss is itself uncertain, and vulnerability does not make human life expendable.

The relevant question is not whether the child is viable, wanted, or likely to survive, but what the act intentionally does. An embryo is a living human being from conception, and abortion deliberately ends that human life.

“Murder” is commonly a legal term with jurisdiction-specific definitions, so “intentional killing of an innocent human being” may be more precise. But morally, that is exactly how Catholic teaching characterizes direct abortion: the deliberate killing of an innocent human being in utero, regardless of age or stage of development.

This is how Tolkien would have seen it, this is how billions of human see it - because it is true.

Comment Re: Seriously... (Score 1) 372

Your libelous comments aside, what is a fact is that Democrats have presided over the murder of tens of millions of pre-born children. Numbers that would make Sauron blanch.
 
Tolkien would have voted Republican, not out of a love of less than virtuous mean tweet presidents, but because he would abhor the vile demonic practices of the Democrat party.

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