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Comment Imagine answering questions while kids shout (Score 1) 41

I am an extremely experienced developer who knows his codebase well. I am forced by management to use AI. The edict is those who don't embrace AI will be replaced by those who do. I WANT it to succeed. I think it would be pretty cool to have AI write my unit tests or diagnose bugs, etc. Claude 4.0 generates a solution that compiles 50% of the time (ChatGPT and CoPilot seemed a lot worse). Seriously, it can't match braces.

One difference is I work in Java, not Python. Most advocates I have met of AI mostly work in Python where they don't know the shit is broken until their users find the bug. A compiled language will tell you right away if you insert a semicolon in the wrong spot (all the AIs do that often) mismatch braces, or try to add arguments that don't exist to a method or enum values that are incorrect. Even when I add all the classes needed into the context, it regularly suggests invalid enums...they look right, but they don't exist.

The other issue is I am doing REAL work. I am not prototyping some clone of an existing project. I am taking a commercial product that earns billions of dollars, which has had at least 20 contributors and adding features or fixing bugs. If I was making some dumb toy app from scratch that is just a clone of another app in the training set, I am sure it would be easier for the LLM.

The problem is IntelliJ had a pretty good autocomplete system that is now replaced by LLM-based AI and it went for not very ambitious, but always correct, to trying to write the entire program for me and doing a shit job of doing so. So if I don't type fast enough, it will autocomplete the entire statement...get it wrong, and break my concentration.

It's like this...imagine a kid asking you a question..."Dad...what does a Spleen do?"....you don't remember, and you're thinking "does the spleen filter blood or am I mistaking it with the kidney...or wait, is that the liver"...and while you're thinking, another kid is blurting out wrong answers, very confidently..." the spleen makes digestive enzymes!!!"..."the spleen makes pee!!!!"..."the spleen makes blood"...."the spleen makes bile!!!!" You're having to say "no to each one, but it takes some fucking focus to not think..."wait...is the spleen the part of the body that makes blood cells?...I thought they were mostly made in the marrow.....hmmm, but I haven't thought about this in 15 years and I haven't studied this in school for almost 30 years now"

I am not confident it's saving me any time. I honestly think it's slowing me down, but am not fully certain. It SHOULD be making my life easier...like WYSIWYG tools did for web development 25 years ago...or a debugger in an IDE, but it's not there and it has far to improve before it can get there for real work.

Comment Re:Why would it be possible (Score 1) 121

There are a few situations where you might want to do it. Some of them include:

  • Damage to an engine or its fuel system causing a fuel leak. You want to be able to cut off the fuel to the engine completely to avoid losing any more fuel.
  • If you know you're going to crash, cutting fuel to the engines reduces the risk of fire.
  • In case of an engine fire, you can cut fuel to the engine. If you activate fire suppression, you can't start the engine again. However, if you just cut the fuel and the fire is extinguished from lack of fuel, you can consider whether it may be safe to restart the engine.
  • Restarting an engine. If you move the switch from CUTOFF to RUN in flight, the FADEC system will automatically attempt to restart the engine.

Comment Re:Regulations written in blood (Score 1) 121

Someone probably accidentally poked a wrong set of switches, or they got caught in clothing or muscle memory of pilot was bad.

The thing is, you need to grasp and lift the switch to move it past the detent when switching from RUN to CUTOFF. It's pretty hard to do accidentally.

Comment Re:Tier 2 time. (Score 1) 121

I'm not sure where they are on a 787

They're directly in front of the throttles. There are two toggle switches for the two engines, each of which has a centre detent that requires you to grasp the switch and pull it up in order to move it from RUN to CUTOFF. There is a metal guard on each side to prevent you from accidentally knocking the switches. I think the positioning and protection against accidental operation are reasonable.

You don't want to make them too inaccessible. There are situations where you need to use them. One is to restart an engine - when you flip the switch to RUN, the FADEC system will automatically attempt to restart the engine. Another is to cut fuel supply to reduce the risk of fire if you're going to crash.

It's very odd that they cut the fuel during ascent, especially to both engines 0.1 seconds apart. They could have been trying to restart the engines after some kind of perceived failure, or they could have panicked and believed they were going to crash. Or there's a chance it was a pilot suicide. It feels like there's some key piece of information missing.

Comment Movies sucked just as much in your day!!! (Score 1) 138

Fuck your "cinematic universe". An expression that translates to; we are lazy and cheap and would like to keep remaking the same drek from an 87 year old comic book for maximal profit.

Write something new. Write something interesting. Write something funny. Don't be lazy profiteering fucks! Don't try to, yet again, phone it in by using AI as your writers to regurgitate the same shit that has been passe since the 1950's.

There are 36, thirty six!, Marvel movies. There are perhaps three that are worth watching even once. Stop trying to squeeze horseshit and expect to get gold.

Studios write new stuff constantly and adapt any good book they can find. They're doing Superman because there's a huge audience for it and a lot of people like it. It's like bitching that a restaurant serves burgers instead of something "new."

Also, I challenge you to find a "new" movie. Most of my favorites?...just familiar stories with a twist...blade runner...just a film noir movie in space...Star Wars is just and adventure movie in space...my all time favorite, Aliens...a mashup of existing genres...I fucking love that move and James Cameron did it REALLY well...but very little is "new"

Also, fuck off about Marvel. The movies, especially the top half, are better than anything released in whatever era you idolize. Yeah, we're all sick of them, but I'm equally sick of the greatest hits from all other eras as well. Lord of the Rings?...amazing...but I'm sick of it and don't want to watch it again anytime soon...same with Forrest Gump, most of Tarantino's films, etc. I love them, I respect them, but I can think of a million things I would rather do than watch them again. Most of Marvel's movies were really good and some of the best films released in whatever year they were released. They were a blast and fun...and yes, I'm sick of them too. I don't want to watch them again, but I had a great time watching them.

Which era are you fawning about? I remember the 90s...some great movies, but mostly shit. I remember the 80s...mostly shit movies, a few gems here and there....the 70s?...well, I wasn't there for those, but I did watch LOTS of movies on DVD from the 70s...almost entirely all shit..especially many of the garbage movies boomers idolize...sure, Taxi Driver, Enter the Dragon, Jaws, etc...they were great for their day and highly influential, but they don't hold up. If they were made today, people would find them lazy and dull and shitty.

the 60s and earlier?...even shittier.

You need to get your head checked...EVERY era has mostly shitty movies. The remakes are not because they're lazy...it's because remakes make a fuckton of money. You don't like it, kewl...blame your fucking neighbors, not the studios. I didn't want a new Top Gun either, but apparently a FUCKTON of people did and really enjoyed it, so why yuck their yum?

Marvel Movies?...yeah, I lost interest as well...so I simply stopped going to them and spend my time watching movies I truly enjoy and there are a lot of great new ones being released constantly. Studios are as capitalist as they get. They don't force anything on you. If they make a movie and it sucks, they try a different formula until they make their money back. Half of all movies release are Right Wing propaganda gun porn...why?...not an agenda...people just fucking love Right Wing Propaganda movies about some loner who makes things right...all by himself and his small arsenal of guns and elite skills. John Wick, Nobody, every recent Jason Staham movie....fucking gun porn propaganda....same with about half of horror movies and nearly all action movies....right wing gun porn....and it's fucking awesome and fun...and people love them, so they make more.

So fuck off...movies are very supply and demand...you either forget how shitty things used to be or you have unpopular tastes in movies....also, the new Superman looks really good and unique and fun. So if you're bitching about that, you either didn't watch the previews or read the reviews...or you're really really clueless.

Comment Could be AI-related, could be routine cuts (Score 1) 26

Which sounds better: We anticipate reduced earnings this quarter as well as some severe economic headwinds between the market conditions and the current US administration's policies. Also, have overhired in the past in anticipation of greater growth than we achieved, so we need to lay off 3% of our workforce (1300 people) to keep our business financially viable and please Wall Street...or...

We're cutting 1300 jobs because we're so awesome with these futuristic AI tools, they're no longer needed....we're riding the AI wave of the future to glory, y'all!!!!!

If you had the ability to eliminate LLM-based AIs from being invented, how confident are you that these layoffs wouldn't have occurred around this timeperiod, regardless??

I don't know the answer any more. I was very confident it was all CEO fraud and AI-washing before...the more often I hear it, the less certain I am.

I just use these tools daily...and if they can cut your workforce by 1300, I really question how valuable those 1300 people were before. When AI tools work (my success rate is less than 50%)...they make life nicer...but I really don't anticipate how they can actually replace human beings, especially this early on. I really think this is just a routine layoff and AI is not a real factor....but most Recruit holdings investors don't use LLMs daily like I do and perhaps they're more likely to believe the CEO and think they're leveraging AI on the path to glory...instead of using it shield a routine downsizing to justify the CEO not getting laid off himself...or a reduction in executive bonuses.

Comment and this is unique to Google? (Score 1) 58

>"I sincerely don't know what Chrome specifically did to ruin the web."

Let's take a stab at that:

1) Wiping out ALL competing multiplatform browsers except Firefox. And mostly through their free and constant "advertising" about it on all their platforms for years.

So IE and Netscape didn't? What should Chrome have done differently? This is like complaining about iPads because they sell so well.

2) Spurring "alternative" browsers, other than Firefox, that are all based on code that Google controls..

So giving away your code to the open source community is bad?

3) Creating a near browser monopoly that threatens the security of the web. .

So IE and Netscape didn't? What should Chrome have done differently?

4) Creating a monoculture that is starting to make sites incompatible with the few browsers that follow standards but not Google's "standards" or implementation. Further eroding competition and choice. .

Again....So IE and Netscape didn't? What should Chrome have done differently? These are not Google complaints, but complaints about a product being successful. Did you forget the whole IE era? And frankly Netscape would have done the same thing had IE not neutered them. I get you don't like these things, but what I don't get is how it's unique to Google's chrome project and not universal.

Comment This is Google's fault? (Score 3, Insightful) 58

The internet was destroyed when client-side scripting was introduced, and I am not even trolling.

Every web developer I've ever met has had no trouble enshittifying their page without the help of Google or Chrome. I think client-side scripting is heavily abused and typically not necessary in the ways most use it...but again, JavaScript was created by Netscape and predates Chrome. How did Chrome make this any worse? Why would it be any different if they never released a browser? Why is firefox any better regarding client side scripting? Safari? IE/Edge?

It sounds like you're making a legit complaint about the state of the modern web...but I don't know how it relates to Chrome directly and is uniquely their fault.

That's like blaming Tesla because there was a ton of traffic on the way to work this morning. You may have a legit reason, but I'd ask follow up questions as to why it's their fault and had they never existed how your commute would be any better. You might have a point, but whatever it is, it's not yet obvious to me.

Comment Lamest teen response in history (Score 1) 58

Where have you been for the past 17 years?

No, I sincerely don't know what Chrome specifically did to ruin the web. Maybe there is something I don't know...but when someone asks you a technical question and you answer with something as low-effort as "where have you been for the last 17 years?" it makes me think you don't have a clue either. I know, I know Google sucks and all...but I honestly don't know what Chrome did...the few guesses I have LONG predate them and would have happened regardless.

Comment Probably just has the address bar go to ChatGPT (Score 4, Interesting) 58

Or is yet another Chromium wrapper? Is making a custom engine a use case for vibe coding?

I will wager it's just a lame Chromium wrapper that directs traffic to OpenAI instead of Google when you type something into the address bar...basically Brave, but shittier? We all know they can't come up with a superior browser engine using ChatGPT to code it...and even if they had a reasonable chance of doing so, it would be a massive headache for them to deal with all the security issues that would arise even from an extremely well made new browser....let alone the garbage ChatGPT pukes out.

Comment Sorry, you gotta justify that statement re chrome (Score 2) 58

Just as the dawn of Google Chrome ushered in the decay of the internet to the degenerative state it now sits in

Please explain how this is Chrome's fault and why things were better when it was Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox? Whatever you're thinking, it's not common knowledge.

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