I think it's down to dumb luck that we, as a species, survived the cold war. And we're not doing nearly enough on the climate change front. We are plenty capable of ending things ourselves without help from AI, lol.
I hope they face consequences for such flawed decision making. Poor software quality is not penalized anywhere near severely enough nor quickly enough for my liking.
Hopefully people will eventually realize when LLMs aren't good at a particular job and change course.
there is a disconcertingly large supply of people who are just chomping at the bit to replace people regardless of whether the bots are up to the job or not.
I'll quibble with this a bit. They are chomping at the bit to replace people with something they think will yield equivalent or better results than people at lower cost. That may or may not materialize in any particular situation. Remember the recent article about Ford rehiring engineers after replacing them with AI didn't pan out?
Anyone who looks at the current state of LLM technology and fears human extinction either doesn't understand LLM tech or is wildly extrapolating.
If such a financial apocalypse materializes, I would put the blame more on the way our economic system is organized and regulated (or not) than any particular technology like LLMs.
Right now, the whole AI thing looks more like a bubble in the technology sector than anything which could rightfully be called a financial apocalypse. AI companies are burning through cash, and other companies aren't willing to pay enough for tokens to make AI companies profitable.
What meaningful improvements do these desktop environments offer beyond the capabilities of something like CTWM?
This might give a little more detail: https://vanderworp.org/notes/geany-vs-notepad/
Or https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#editing or https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#editor-keybindings
Have you used both programs? Or are you just going on impressions from the blurb on geany's website and the name of Notepad++? I've used both for programming, and they behave similarly. Granted, I don't use all of the features in either one.
Heck, even the front page of https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ says,
Notepad++ is a free (as in “free speech” and also as in “free beer”) source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several programming languages.
What is a source code editor that supports several programming languages other than a programmer's editor?
Geany comes up in multiple lists of Notepad++ alternatives, for example, https://askubuntu.com/questions/313973/what-are-the-alternatives-to-notepad-on-ubuntu
You're right about the poles. That said, backing over one entails driving toward a networked automated license plate reader with the side of the car that has a license plate on it... And they can identify cars by features other than license plates (color, make, stickers, dents, etc.).
Furthermore, they are networked automated license plate readers. Using a vehicle to damage them is particularly ill conceived.
Do they edit the result or just ship it?
Geany is a nice text editor with similar functionality to Notepad++. https://www.geany.org/
Further, it puts the lie to all the yap about the US "falling behind" and failing because "capitalism" and some mythical abhorrence for "public-private" partnership, etc. The US does all of that, and it does this at least as well as everyone else.
Long-term changes in funding of higher education and more recent changes in funding of basic scientific research are more concerning to me on this front.
A field can change a lot in 35 years.
I can see someone saying something like that if they don't feel progress is being made. I met someone at a conference who said, "Everyone thinks their own research is bullshit." That rang true to me.
Evolution is a million line computer program falling into place by accident.
