Reddit is just operating from greed, that is true. But Google is operating from greed, too.

It holds up in some cases, not in others, and calculating an average muddles that.

Personally, I use AI coding assists for two purposes quite successfully: a) more intelligent auto-complete and b) writing a piece of code using a common, well understood algorithm (i.e. lots of sources the AI could learn from) in the specific programming language or setup that I need.

It turns out that it is much faster and almost as reliable to have the AI do that then finding a few examples on github and stackoverflow, checking which ones are actually decent, and translating them myself.

Anything more complex than that and it starts being a coin toss. Sometimes it works, sometimes it's a waste of time. So I've stopped doing that because coding it myself is faster and the result better than babysitting an AI.

And when you need to optimize for a specific parameter - speed, memory, etc. - you can just about forget AI.

Hey, industry, I've got an idea: If you need specific, recent, skills (especially in the framework-of-the-month class), how about you train people in them?

That used to be the norm. Companies would hire apprentices, train them in the exact skills needed, then at the end hire them as proper employees. These days, though, the training part is outsourced to the education system. And that's just dumb in so many ways.

Universities should not train the flavour of the moment. Because by the time people graduate, that may have already shifted elsewhere. Universities train the basics and the thinking needed to grow into nearby fields. Yes, thinking is a skill that can be trained.

Case in point: When I was in university, there was one short course on cybersecurity. And yet that's been my profession for over two decades now. There were zero courses on AI. And yet there are whitepapers on AI with me as a co-author. And of the seven programming languages I learnt in university, I haven't used even one of them ever professionally and only one privately (C, of course. You can never go wrong learning C. If you have a university diploma in computer science and they didn't teach you C, demand your money back). Ok, if you count SQL as a programming language, it's eight and I did use that professionally a few times. But I consider none of them a waste of time. Ok, Haskell maybe. The actual skill acquired was "programming", not a particular language.

Should universities teach about AI? Yes, I think so. Should they teach how to prompt engineer for ChatGPT 4? Totally not. That'll be obsolete before they even graduate.

So if your company needs people who have a specific AI-related skill (like prompt engineering) and know a specific AI tool or model - find them or train them. Don't demand that other people train them for you.

FFS, we complain about freeloaders everywhere, but the industry has become a cesspool of freeloaders these days.

The number of people isn't the problem here.

The "started every" is.

How did they not catch that during development and found a solution? I mean, the meme's where a TV ad starts Alexa and orders 10 large pizzas are a decade old now.

It's true, I have no idea who I'm arguing with. Who am I arguing with? Do you know?

He is a liar, because he has the ability and skill necessary to check his assertions, and yet he didn't. He presented himself as knowing something that he didn't.

You, on the other hand, are an idiot, because you have no cure for your ignorance. You have no ability to recognize what kind of training Microsoft and Apple have for their programmers regarding security issues. That is something you never learned how to do.

Oh yeah? How many? You lack the ability to quantify it, but you pretend that you have the ability.

If I were in charge of a Computer Science curriculum at a university, I would address the LLM problem like this:

I would offer a class (third or fourth year class) that starts from the basics of Neural Networks, and by the end of the class the students have built their own LLM. By building their own LLM, they will deepen their understanding, have a solid foundation, and avoid a lot of the nonsense that gets propagated about LLMs. The amount of code involved is not huge, it's actually quite doable.

The difficulty with reproducible builds in Java is the timestamps. It's a solved problem now, but I don't think it was 20 years ago.

OAuth isn't an HTTP extension, it's an OSI application level protocol. Also, of all the protocols you could have picked, OAuth is a really simple one. You could code a custom implementation in an afternoon. HTTP isn't even so bad, even with the HTTP/2 modifications, you could definitely do it yourself, depending on your reading comprehension ability (reading code standards is not a skill every programmer has).

Ever since most of JQuery functionality got added to the Javascript standard library, you mostly don't need third party libraries. Something like React can be useful if you are working on a web app with a large team because it gives you encapsulation, but even then, the number of third party library dependencies is small enough that a security team can review them all, which some companies do.

So far, but it looks like Samsung is giving it a go.

Trademark means that they can't use Mickey Mouse in a way that would confuse people into thinking they are Disney.

You are legally allowed to use someone's trademark. For example, the word "Boston" is trademarked, but we can use it. We can use the word Pentium, and even say "Pentium sux", but you can't fill a box with AMD chips and use the Pentium logo to convince people it's from Intel.

"Payable on delivery."

It makes sense. Rockets are heavy, that's why they are expensive. Having helium 3 will make the rockets lighter (since helium is lighter than air) allowing the rockets to float to the moon at a much cheaper price point than with solid fuel.

If NASA had thought of this, they could have gone to the moon much more cheaply. Typical government waste.

That's what I thought: you are making things up and wishing they were true. Worst kind of idiot.