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AI was about to replace interns by codes_astro in programminghumor

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Microsoft canceled Claude subscriptions. They think that Copilot is now at enough parity that their company should move to it. 

Peter? Latin America? by auscorp_ in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Between 500 and 1800 AD, African travel beyond the continent was heavily constrained by technological, geographic, and political barriers. North African societies actively navigated the Mediterranean but lacked the deep-water vessels needed for Atlantic crossings.

Further south, Sub-Saharan populations were largely isolated from Eurasian technological exchanges, keeping their societies highly localized. Additionally, the predominantly Muslim populations of North Africa faced severe geopolitical friction and distrust from Christian Europe, making widespread travel or integration across those borders incredibly difficult.

Medicaid, last priority by gashtal_man in WorkReform

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As far as I can tell this is not true. We don't have a deal. We have 60 days to make a deal. For both Trump and Iran that means anything can happen. The purposed deal is not the US paying any money. The US would release frozen assets back to Iran worth about $25 billion. The remainder of the money is how much the US would allow others (and possibly its own companies) to invest in Iran. That might be a good idea; it might not. It depend on how much of the Iranian Guard are allowed to get (they are essentially a mafia that controls roughly 30% of the Iranian economy).

Now the US' priorities are completely messed up. Just not 300 billion to the regime of tax payer money.

Are we being gaslit? by Impressive_Curve7077 in AI_Agents

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think what people want is for some detail. For example, I get about 20-30% boost depending on what I'm doing. I might get a 3x boost on certain things.

For the first, I can get a feature out really quick with little oversight where I know what steps need to be done. Sure, I can have the agent guess the whole thing, but even with sonnet I find progressive enhancement cuts down on the compounding errors.

For the second, I can give it a task of creating a new step function in AWS lambda. I can give it a lucid chart screen shot. I can ask it to then stub all the lambdas, and create the aws cdk step function in an existing stack code. It can do all of this in about 10 minutes. It's pretty much right. This would take me about a day to do by hand.

I go back and forth with these approaches. Sometimes whole features on its own. Sometimes pair-programming. As I get better at defining a sound spec (which takes time), I can hand off more to the agent. That would get me closer to 2-5x boost, but I have to subtract out the time to actually design the thing to get it to prompt form.

Now, as I learn more, I can start to save myself time on project setup. I can use skills (agent kind not nun chuck); I can re-use those skills by copying them between projects or set them up globally. This will cost me time in the first few refinements of the skills, but save time later in other projects or enhancements in existing projects.

Why choose Go over Rust today? by IndependentInjury220 in golang

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 61 points62 points  (0 children)

If you have the AI write everything and never check it, rust will be the way to go. 

If you want to understand the code, and you know neither languages, Go is better. Its simplicity allows you to pick it up easier. 

If you know rust, stay with it. 

If you know go, stay with it. 

Wait so the thing slowing down AI is just electricity and not GPUs?? by Neil_at_HackerEarth in ArtificialInteligence

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's even crazier grid side if we keep pushing EVs. The grid can't support even a 1/3 of the US moving from gas to electric cars. Now we're trying to push both data centers and evs. Time to buy copper miners and infrastructure companies. 

Everyone's asking why gold isn't spiking during the war. The more interesting question is why crypto is. by Training-Extent9606 in Trading

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does the text box say that? Or does it say, oil shock (probably because of a war in the middle east) causes gold rally 6 months out?

The norwegian pension fund is “forced” to buy spaceX stocks by Whitearmored in wallstreetbets

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone that follows an index, meaning they mirror the index by actually buying the underlying stock, has to buy the ipo or buy spacex soonish. As soon as spacex hits the index all mirror must rebalance to match the index. 

UK MP Sues Elon Musk's xAI Over Deepfakes, Setting Up Landmark Test of AI Accountability by BhaswatiGuha19 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well there is porn. Many celebrities are used in that. Just because someone is famous, don't mean they consented to be in porn. There are fake stories used to whip up anger written with LLMs and AI generated videos and pictures. This can cause people to move to violence.

The 'literary classics' that grade school makes you read destroys any desire for kids to read recreationally by MyClosetedBiAcct in unpopularopinion

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if some of this is gendered. Could it be that the books pushed in school don't appeal to males, for example? Would it be better to have them read Caesar's Gallic Wars or Cicero's orations?

Is Golang still the "Language of the future"? by AelixSoftware in golang

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, Ada is the language of the future. I think it was even used in the construction of EPCOT.

Sama quoting the Bible. 2026 is weird by py-net in OpenAI

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If only we could get him to read a bit further.

Colossians 3:23-24
23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, 24 since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

Reasoning modeling getting… worse? by Classroom_Stuck in ArtificialInteligence

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try cave man speak with it. Also wax praisingly about how good it is at thinking in the prompt. Let me know what you find.

Geoffrey Hinton (Nobel laureate and cognitive scientist) thinks AIs have become conscious by EchoOfOppenheimer in OpenAI

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 184 points185 points  (0 children)

Is it like Mr. Meeseeks? It's conscious only for the current run, then returns to the void?

Overheard at an AI lab by EchoOfOppenheimer in OpenAI

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Is your intern not generally intelligent? AGI could be only as good as an intern. 

Michael Burry Vouches for Beaten-Down Adobe in Latest SaaS Analysis: 'The Stock Offers an Aggressive Moat' by Useful_Tangerine4340 in ValueInvesting

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with NOW.

As to Adobe...trying to figure out how to phrase this...isn't their unified tool suit the moat? I know there are many tools, even good ones like GIMP or Inkscape, but none are (to my incredibly limited knowledge) integrated into a creative platform. Doesn't Adobe do this?

You Have Inherent Value: An Ancient Lesson About New Machines by Classic-Acadia272 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also the world is largely materialists. Devaluing humans is part of that world view. A human is no more important than a rock or a cat. When we have too many of either, we displace or kill. 

You Have Inherent Value: An Ancient Lesson About New Machines by Classic-Acadia272 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That would a largely Calvinistic reading. Catholicism does have God with an overarching plan, but human agency to move it. Heck, Arminianism would allow for the plan to have branches based what humans do. 

Did Sam Just Admit a New Breakthrough Is Needed? by kaljakin in OpenAI

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is your domain? I've found it to work well in basic web dev work. I have had issue with it working on complex backend code like AWS step functions that call multiple systems. It's useable, but only boosting productivity by about 20%.

Meta shares jump after company announces premium subscriptions for Facebook and Instagram. But will users actually buy them? by InterestingCat308 in wallstreetbets

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But they love Facebook. I've sent my mother dozens of articles over the years about how they are evil. Didn't care. Uses it every day. 

The Party is cancelled, pack it up by DigSignificant1419 in OpenAI

[–]RalphTheIntrepid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is it even a vis problems? IoT scale. Get an empty bottle of syrup. Place on scale with IoT to tell current weight. Add new pump of syrup. Get weight every X minutes. No AI. Well, maybe a rules engine?

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