You can get a huge amount of good code out of LLM 's if you know what you're doing. An experienced programmer can just fly.

This does not appear to be holding up in practice, at least not reliably.

https://developers.slashdot.or...

Clearly the value being generated is very large. Not just my perception but in the opinion of the most wealthy investors.

You may have thought tulip bulb growing was generating very large value too...

The machines are already able to do most coding and in some cases all of it.

Again, not my experience. I'm inveterately lazy, and have tried it repeatedly. It's... OK I guess. Definitely faster for some stuff, seems more to actually slow me down on others. Trouble is you never know which in advance.

Sales force among others have given us hard numbers and they would be in deep shit with investors and the SEC if they were lying about that.

I can tell you that if I contact a company I hit a chatbot first and then if that doesn't work I hit a more advanced and more computationally intensive chatbot. I don't know how far up the ladder I would have to do to speak to a person but I suspect it's probably three layers at least.

Also if you're selling something scammy which a lot of sales is about selling things that are scammy then chatbots can often do better because they have absolutely no hesitation and no conscience. Good salesman also have that but there aren't a lot of good salesman so they tend to command a high salary.

I know there are a lot of old farts around here and I can pretty much guarantee some of us started in shitty customer service help desk jobs it just aren't going to exist anymore. You can't work your way up the ladder you're either born into it or you can go fuck yourself. With the exception of the occasional random freak of nature genius that the elites will rise up or just a random kid they pick for fun.

Because Russia can't get proper air superiority. America would have completely bombed the shit out of any country we attacked long before drones could be a factor.

The drones mostly do not take out even Russian planes. I get a notification in my YouTube feed when one of them does because it makes the news. The problem with the drones is that they make it basically impossible to do an occupation.

It should be noted that because of that if Russia ever does take Ukraine they will kill everyone there in a total and complete genocide. I think some of them of course will be shipped off to Siberia and what not for slave labor but everyone else has to die because Russia does not have the ability to occupy Ukraine while the ukrainians are still alive.

The real problem though with America is as our country and empire collapses we're going to start invading other countries just like every other failing empire does. We will start with Canada and Mexico and South America but it won't be long until we move on to Europe and eventually China.

And we absolutely do not care if you have nukes because any country crazy enough to elect Donald Trump twice isn't going to believe nukes are real. If nothing else we will convince ourselves that Trump's golden dome will protect us along with Jesus.

They were talking about unionizing. You're not even allowed to say the word Union anymore in Media. The right wing media just won't allow you to use certain words. Just like they won't allow you to quote Charlie Kirk

What happened was automation destroyed the blue collar working class and a lot of those guys moved to the right wing out of desperation. Meanwhile the Republican party was coming out them with bigotry and racism and they were primed to accept that because America is frankly a pretty racist country.

The Democrats then went after professionals in the suburbs in order to win national elections but they don't have the money and resources to do that on their own with their working class base broke because they've lost their jobs at the factory to automation.

Basically racism and automation all the real problems. We could sell both but it takes time to fix racism and as for automation that requires wealth redistribution of some kind and the Americans of the '70s through the 90s came out of the Cold war being told that that's the worst thing possible way worse than a genocide or Hitler or whatever other bad things you can think of.

As they are trained, general purpose LLMs are really just search engines with some aggregation and adaption capabilities.

I think you undersell the aggregation/adaptation part: plain search engines don't simply make shit up. They're more like search engines with a massive, ad-hoc compression scheme on the data which feeds the results through a huge aggregation system.

Will you continue that stance if you're invaded? Remember war is tribalism at a fundamental level. It's easy to think you're above it when you're not affected by it.

I don't think he's getting money. I think he's laundering money.

Then your hands are just as dirty.

Problem is people won't stop trying to kill you, take your stuff and destroy your culture and way of life just because you don't happen to like it. Do you also criticise Ukrainians developing new munitions to repel Putin's troops?

If not where do you draw the line?

Not really. What is unprecedented is a call for support for an OS that is not in any way in a long term support contract for over 10 years. You don't get this anywhere else. Heck for the most popular desktop Linux you get 9 months of support. MONTHS! Not even a year. And consumers do not usually seek out LTS releases.

The fact that a future version finally mandates hardware level security (the last consumer OS to do so, and I remind you it's no the 90s, we're in the world of OS acting as passkeys for external services) isn't artificial obsolescence, it's trying to force the one thing Slashdotters have been calling for for years: improved security.

It will not do so in the slightest. Governments are wholly unaffected by this, they are already running Windows 11, or they have LTS agreements in place. And they really don't care much what consumers do with their hardware.

This is the problem with your logic. We're here many years later. What was an antitrust issue in 1995 is now an expected minimum feature. Consumers expect that on a freshly installed PC the vendor provides an internet browser. Also no it's not more difficult to install a browser. Unless you mean clicking a single button (you can't auto default a browser, but you can automatically bring up the window for the user to click on your browser) is "difficult". I don't know anyone who uses Edge, and I know a lot of computer users who metaphorically couldn't tie their own digital shoelaces.

Your post is another typical case of Slashdot being out of touch with reality.

Slashdot logic: Microsoft doesn't take security seriously!
Microsoft: we'll re-design our security infrastructure from the ground up including hardware hardening and yeah we may be the last consumer OS to do so but we're finally improving security.
Slashdot logic:

Honestly everyone here is a whiney bitch.

You can't fail a demo due to a bug in the product if the product is working perfectly. He should accept the failure with more grace ala BSOD on Windows 95 when Bill Gates plugged a plug and pray printer in, rather than gaslighting everyone.

Is the world is more complex than your childish understanding of it. Also Trump fucks kids.

In general democrat-run states have better schools. There is however several factors that make it tough for them to be perfect. For one thing there is still a little bit of the old nastiness involved in funding schools through property taxes. And is a little bit of the old white flight and other bits of nastiness.

Now the Democrats could fix a lot of that but they don't generally get supermajorities they get small majorities and here in america, and I get it wherever country you're from you don't understand this, but we set up our system to make it very very hard for regular working people to improve their lives by requiring super majorities for just about everything so that the wealthy land owning elites (corporate nowadays but when the shit was set up they were landowning) could effectively exercise veto power and that the regular rank and file citizens would need a super majority in order to override The veto of the ruling elites.

This means the Republican party can and does sabotage anything the Democrats try to do even in places where the Democrats are technically in charge. Because the word technically is doing a lot of work there.

This is before we talk about the effects of automation and process improvement on middle class jobs and the tax base but I think that's probably a bit over your head.

I don't think you actually want to learn but if you ever do look up a book called The People's History of the United States. You have been lied to your whole life. Also look up newt Gingrich and the contract with America.

Or if you are you don't know our history. They started slashing the funding and all the other really nasty right wing shit after Barry Goldwater lost in the mid 1960s. That's when they figured out they could trade racism and bigotry for economic gains.

You're right we don't each get our own truth. The reality is that this is been going on for decades.

Donald Trump is the culmination of 50 years of right wing extremism and a slow descent into fascism and dictatorship.

It's like boiling a frog only the frog is actually smart enough to jump out of the fucking water.

And yeah orange man bad. He fucks kids. Generally speaking somebody who fucks kids is pretty bad to me but your mileage may vary.

Is from property taxes. Like a lot of things it goes back to classism and racism. It's a way for rich people and white people to avoid paying for the poors and/or minorities to have school.

The other 38% of your funding comes from state level and federal money. That money is there very specifically to try to correct what's wrong with using property taxes to fund schools.

As an added bonus it maintains the suburbs that do not have a large enough tax base to fund their schools.

I am guessing though that you are not in a very well-off School district because the better ones with more money have plenty of supplies paid for by the district. Better food in the cafeteria too.

It's not a scam but it is a little bit of nastiness leftover from darker times.