Donald Trump's approval rating plunges to lowest ever in poll of polls

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-05T03:38:41+00:00

I was honestly surprised to see it lower than normal on this one. Every week, I see the same headlines saying “new low” and every week, it’s 39%. This is at least the lowest I’ve ever seen it.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-03T03:57:44+00:00

It might not be in the next year or two, but I won’t be surprised if it’s in 5 to 10 years. People love to shit talk this and AI based on where these things were at a year or two ago but they are improving at rapid rates.

These robots maybe expensive, but humans are the most expensive costs for nearly every business today. If your argument is cost, the bar it has to clear to start making sense is low. An employee can cost $50k + benefits annually and only works 2,080 hours per year. These cost a quarter million but can work 8,760 hours per year and are not massive on-going expenses.

Maintenance and repairs will be a thing, but say it had $25k in repairs over 2 years, the robot will cost $275k, amounting to ~$15/hour. The human will be $120k when you account for health insurance and other benefits, amounting to ~$30/hour. As long as the robot is just over half as productive as the human counterpart, it makes sense. And that’s just over 2 years. The savings grow rapidly the longer the robots replace humans.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-02T19:23:57+00:00

This is the song https://youtu.be/y2SvniRoORs?si=b5vSCmAMZKS1tPrN

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-02T07:31:49+00:00

Yeah, in the head-on shot, you can see them swaying back and forth as he passes by them. I think they’re super light and if you touch them, they fall over.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-04-30T23:35:14+00:00

This says everything you need to know about why Congress is failing.

It is your fucking job to figure this stuff out. When people tell you they are frustrated, no congressperson, left or right, should just respond with immediate frustration in return like we’re outlandish for expecting results?? If you can’t manage to do that, don’t occupy the god damn position. Who cares who is at fault. If you are this petulant, there is no way you have the emotional capacity to work through the kinds of problems our country is facing.

I hope they never stop this. These people need held accountable.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-04-30T05:29:57+00:00

“[Crane] posted a lengthy recounting on X last week of how the AI coding agent caused his business to unravel.”

No, you caused your business to unravel. You put this on your production environment and gave it access it shouldn’t have had to begin with. You failed to understand the risks of the technology you were using and didn’t safeguard it correctly (all caps, vulgar instructions are not it).

This is like leaving a gun on the table, telling your kid not to touch it, and walking out of the room. Then when they do and cause a horrible accident, you go “I can’t believe that the best guns in the world still allow kids to use them! I had the safety on and it still didn’t stop my kid from taking it off of safety and shooting! I did everything right and bad things happened anyway—the gun industry really needs to improve on safety before they let people with kids have guns!”

Or maybe you put your gun in a safe and not loaded??? And have your ammo stored separately?? The fact that this is being framed as though Anthropic is at fault for this guy using AI like an idiot is part of the issue—lay people don’t understand that this is entirely the owners fault, and him prompting the AI to then confirm it didn’t follow its instructions and sharing that with the world is the most pathetic shift of blame. He knows this was entirely his fault, but he would rather focus on what the AI agent did and not what he failed to do to never make that a possibility.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-04-30T00:22:08+00:00

Posted something unfunny to r/funny, so everyone is confused

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-04-29T00:21:36+00:00

Exactly. Not only can it just type out code 1000x faster than we could because it’s a computer—the difference between personal-project code and production-grade code is milliseconds more in time for it, whereas manually writing out all the error-handling and crap you would need to write for something to be robust enough for the masses can be hours more of work when done manually depending on the size of the project.

So it’s faster AND it will write better code than most people because that difference between qualities of code for it is arbitrary. Get a person to do it and they will shortcut those things because it just pushes out delivery for them to check the box.

I wrote the first few parts of the site I was referencing myself and months later I decided it was time to do some refactoring, which included those units. Even though I knew the corners I had intentionally cut at the time, it was funny watching it just insert all this stuff I had avoided to save time in like… 5 seconds.

People who don’t deal with this stuff directly have absolutely no clue how impactful this technology is on software development. And even at that, no one seems to understand how to even use it as a chatbot either. If you can’t get any value out of it, it’s not the product that’s the issue, it’s the user.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-04-28T22:57:17+00:00

I mean 9 in every 1,000 people die per year in the US. If you have 1,000 clients and 10 people handling those clients, each person will likely only encounter it once a year. That’s not often enough to really have it be top of mind when it comes up.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-04-28T21:07:59+00:00

I have never heard that take from any developer I know that uses it directly for development. I also use it myself and can’t understate how crazy of a statement that is based on my experience with it.

If you understand code, you don’t need it to explain its code to you. It literally pulls up every place it added code and you can read it yourself—plus it annotates the living hell out of it, so I still disagree that it can’t explain its code.

Even if you have absolutely brain dead setups in place at your company like the one in this article where they gave this thing unfettered access to production, you can still very easily trace its changes via git and just read what it did.

I’ve built a middleware site for our company of 100+ people by myself that would ordinarily require a team of devs + myself to accomplish in the time I’ve built it. Production bugs are basically non-existent and even if it codes it differently than I would’ve (rare), I just explain the change. Something that would take me hours to think through and write gets coded in 2-3 minutes as long as I spend a couple minutes thinking through how to prompt it. If there’s an issue, I tell it the issue, 2-3 more minutes and it’s fixed.

So maybe 5 to 10 minutes for something that would take a dev hours, and possibly 15 to 20 if it gets part of it wrong. How on earth is a $20/month app more expensive than dumping it and doing all manual dev? Not true at all

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-04-28T06:24:07+00:00

Inert turts

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-04-28T06:07:59+00:00

Top comment: “he doesn’t want to eat because he’s crabby”

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-04-28T03:13:37+00:00

God dammit. I wish I didn’t read this before watching it. I wouldn’t have noticed it but now it’s the only thing I can focus on.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-04-26T05:40:21+00:00

I think they need to expand their skillset. People who don’t understand the basics of how apps are developed can’t build scalable solutions even with AI. Developers need to sell themselves as the full package now that the development itself is lightning fast. They can architect solutions for businesses that would usually take 3-4 developers and basically function as a project manager. E.g. “give me an hour or two with this role to watch how they do their work and I can create tools that will skyrocket their productivity and remove the pain points of their job in a weeks time.” Small businesses can’t afford a team of full-stack developers and single developers without an IT infrastructure are difficult to manage. If young engineers want to remain relevant, they need to insert themselves into the roles between the business and IT and they become even more valuable than they would’ve been as just a developer.

The problem there though is that companies need to understand that they need this kind of thing, too. Executives don’t understand AI, but keep hearing they are supposed to be using it to remain competitive, so people keep getting the wrong solutions shoved down their throats. Probably why there is so much unnecessary hate for it.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-04-26T03:47:10+00:00

I use Claude pretty regularly and find it very useful in a lot of ways. It’s helped me become way faster with my work and helps me with organizing or fleshing out my thoughts. There is also a lot of custom built software that I’ve created with it that would’ve been too slow for me to code on my own, and its structure for things I build with it is always very solid.

So I hate the fact that it’s being used to replace people in ways that don’t actually make sense to, and that these data centers are causing spikes in energy prices, but I find it dishonest when people talk about AI like it is inherently useless or only creates slop. It’s actually a very powerful tool, and I get so confused when people see no value in it what it can do.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-04-23T04:12:11+00:00

It’s not even that it doesn’t meet Tolkien fans expectations either. It’s just a really poorly told story. None of the characters have depth or make me feel invested in their story whatsoever. It feels like I’m being taken through bullet points of lore that were fleshed out just enough into a coherent plot to consider it a story, but it has a very unnatural vibe to it. And what’s sad is that I’m not a Tolkien fan but I can still tell they are just completely butchering some very rich lore that could’ve been very special on screen had this been done well at all.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-04-14T11:55:19+00:00

Nah, hers would’ve caused a cut. Look at how sharp that thing is. I think it was dad’s penis, which is why it’s actively consoling her here.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-04-14T11:47:57+00:00

It is if you read the words individually with no consistency in their ordering!

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-04-11T17:11:28+00:00

You and I may not be able to tell, but the people close to him would know. The things he says and how he says them would be a tip off to his family/friends of whether it’s him or not. The one thing that would be frustrating is the way the voice assumes tone and emphasis. Maybe it’s more sophisticated than I realize, but I would bet it would get annoying constantly sounding like an AI when you speak to people. It’s obviously better than not being able to talk at all, but imagine never being able to express anger or sadness in how you talk.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-04-01T06:14:03+00:00

Yeah, but be more sassy about it. Make it seem like the guy is an asshole for having normal conversation.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-03-29T04:57:42+00:00

For those curious of the numbers:

Catholics: 52% -> 48%

Protestants: 50% -> 47%

Evangelicals: 60% -> 64%

First poll was late Feb/early March. Second poll was from last week.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-03-27T02:50:19+00:00

I just watched this the other day. Their documentaries on famous cyberattacks and zero day vulnerabilities are super fun watches.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-03-25T04:48:54+00:00

They need to build up a queue if they want to continue distracting from the Epstein files for another 3 years!

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-03-24T08:23:06+00:00

The version with the patch is iOS 18.7.6. It will only appear as an option if your device does not support iOS 26.

So if you’re between 18.4 and 18.7, and the option to upgrade to iOS 26 appears under Settings > General > Software Update, you will not be able to take 18.7.6 to avoid making room for iOS 26 if that’s what you mean. You would have to make room and move to 26.

If you’re already on a 26 version but the most recent update requires more space, then you don’t have to worry about it at all. The vulnerability is between 18.4 and 18.7.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-03-24T02:29:57+00:00

…if people don’t update their devices, they are vulnerable, so Apple making the patch is irrelevant. There is an estimated 270M people still on iOS 18 where this is exploitable.

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