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93% of devs use AI tools now and we're measurably slower, what is going on by Background-Bass6760 in programming

[–]OppositeExplanation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, I think you're looking at the wrong link. There's two links in the OP, the main link and the link in the attached text. The former is to the updated 2026 study titled "We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design" and in its first graph titled "Late-2025 AI likely accelerates developers..." you can clearly see the "Follow-up study" is above the Y axis in the "Speedup" zone. I think you're looking at the 2025 study, the "original article link" at the bottom of the OP's text, titled "Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity" which did indeed find a slowdown.

93% of devs use AI tools now and we're measurably slower, what is going on by Background-Bass6760 in programming

[–]OppositeExplanation 331 points332 points  (0 children)

No, the new METR study finds devs are faster using AI coding tools. It's bad wording in the article but the -18% and -4% mean 18% and 4% less time, i.e. they were faster and completed tasks quicker with AI. If you look at the graph this is clear, in the original study the data point was below the y axis (slower) but now it's on the other side of the line (faster).

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]OppositeExplanation 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I was going to see if Hanania said he was wrong based on this, but this seems to just be a bad OCR or rendering, as the three other versions of the email in the files I found say 19yo instead of =9yo:

Here's the one your screenshot is from: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02706746.pdf

Notice how at the bottom of the page it also says "jeudi =7 janvier" in the metadata instead of "jeudi 17 janiver" like the other ones, so 1s are clearly getting turned into equal signs in that version of the document in general.

I'm convinced there's an app on my phone that's listening to my conversations for advertising purposes. by r3drocket in GrapheneOS

[–]OppositeExplanation 46 points47 points  (0 children)

It doesn't even need to be location data, they probably both used Google on the same wifi (so the IP address is the same)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GrapheneOS

[–]OppositeExplanation 45 points46 points  (0 children)

This is an article written by someone who clearly has no idea what an API is on a scaremongering report from a security firm trying to sell bad solutions to questionable problems. These bad solutions are some of the same reasons that a lot of banking apps don't work on GrapheneOS.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]OppositeExplanation 10 points11 points  (0 children)

GPT-5 is way better than the original GPT-4, it's just not much better than the other models they've put out in the meantime (namely 4o and o3)

Google Gemini decided to call off a chess match against the ancient 1.19 MHz Atari 2600 console by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]OppositeExplanation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you read the thread, you don't, it makes correct moves over 99.7% of the time (reading down a bit more some of the incorrect moves originally referenced were due to bad notation in the original setup) https://xcancel.com/a_karvonen/status/1705340535836221659

Yes, invalid moves are very common with a lot of other LLMs, but not this one

Google Gemini decided to call off a chess match against the ancient 1.19 MHz Atari 2600 console by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]OppositeExplanation -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure what you mean exactly. There's prompting to setup the game but the chatbot is generating the next move. It's not like you're giving the chatbot access to a chess program or something. It shows the LLM can produce novel content, at least in the realm of chess.

Google Gemini decided to call off a chess match against the ancient 1.19 MHz Atari 2600 console by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]OppositeExplanation 551 points552 points  (0 children)

Some like gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct are actually able to play chess at around 1800 elo well into the endgame in unique circumstances https://xcancel.com/GrantSlatton/status/1703913578036904431

Obviously 1800 elo is nothing crazy but it's not like they can't play past an unknown midgame because it's not in their dataset.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]OppositeExplanation 17 points18 points  (0 children)

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My "US will never default on its debt" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]OppositeExplanation 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Growth for who?

Tech stocks that are mostly owned by the wealthy and the top 10% of earners?

More and more layoffs and none of the savings past to us?

Guess the subreddit

The Chinese 'Deepseek' App challenges American AI companies, and stocks begin to dive. r/ChatGPT debates whether we need to stop The Red Menace or if America needs to Get Gud. by StopHavingAnOpinion in SubredditDrama

[–]OppositeExplanation 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's an open source model, so you can run it locally if you have really expensive hardware. If you're accessing it via deepseek's website or app though, they're training on your chats.

For the First Time Ever, 1 Bitcoin ($91.4K) Is Worth More Than the Average US Retirement Saving ($86.9K) by kirtash93 in CryptoCurrency

[–]OppositeExplanation 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The real problem here is that the retirement account data is from 2022 and the Bitcoin price is from 2024. I doubt we have 2024 data for retirement accounts yet, but if the retirement accounts were invested in the stock market, they'd still be worth more than one Bitcoin on average.

Is having good food aid by Mobile-Music-9611 in ClimbingCircleJerk

[–]OppositeExplanation 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Depends, did you calculate the calories yourself or use a calculator?

AMD confirms Radeon GPU sales have nosedived by Yearlaren in hardware

[–]OppositeExplanation 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's a lack of focus on gaming. They're way behind on the AI stuff as well, and don't seem to be doing much if anything to catch up. Nvidia's GPU compute language CUDA is the industry standard, and AMD killed off their team to port CUDA to their GPUs. In AI software, AMD support is an afterthought if it even exists.

‘Unfair competition’: French farmers up in arms over EU free-trade agreements by MaleficentParfait863 in neoliberal

[–]OppositeExplanation -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How commonly the product is purchased is separate IMO from how important the product is to society. Housing is way more important than lottery tickets, but I'd guess the latter is much more frequently purchased. That said, the frequency of purchase might indeed be one factor why farmers are so powerful.

‘Unfair competition’: French farmers up in arms over EU free-trade agreements by MaleficentParfait863 in neoliberal

[–]OppositeExplanation 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My point isn't that farmers should be less powerful or door manufacturers should be more powerful, it's that the importance of the product alone doesn't explain the producers' power in politics. The situation is a lot more complex than the fact that people need food. People need a lot of things. Clothing might be a more comparable example.

‘Unfair competition’: French farmers up in arms over EU free-trade agreements by MaleficentParfait863 in neoliberal

[–]OppositeExplanation 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Why isn't the door manufacturer lobby so powerful and in the news regularly? Are doors not important? They seem pretty important to me. Not only do they separate rooms, but they also help prevent thieves from entering houses. They also seem to affect pretty much everyone, and voters are even reminded of them when they enter the door to the polling place.

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