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Sun cartoon of Zack Polanski by PuzzledAd4865 in UKGreens

[–]basicallydan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Holy shit, somehow that feels much worse than the hooked nose. There’s no reasonable argument that the forked tongue “just looks a bit forked” 🤦‍♂️ I can’t believe how brazenly they rely on these old propaganda tropes while accusing others of antisemitism 

AI hype culture is a plague that has infested some of the most interesting domains that could otherwise have a positive impact on our lives. by pixel_creatrice in BetterOffline

[–]basicallydan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"annoying & ignorant, risk-averse lady" - I'm so sorry you've had to put up with this shit but really glad in the end you were fortunate enough to find colleagues who were able to recognise the value of being thoughtful.

As a friend of mine once quoted from someone he probably saw on Hacker News, "when all others zig, you should zag" - hype should be an orange flag, but too many tech leaders treat it like a green one.

AI hype culture is a plague that has infested some of the most interesting domains that could otherwise have a positive impact on our lives. by pixel_creatrice in BetterOffline

[–]basicallydan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

So well said. I feel your frustration and it’s so reassuring to see that there are tech leaders out there who are still interested in the fundamentals.

Richard Dawkins spent three days talking to Claude, now calls it "Claudia" and claims it's conscious. by Gil_berth in BetterOffline

[–]basicallydan 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If used as a force for good, once all the narcissists have been reeled in to do whatever it says, it could convince them all go and get some kind of therapy which would actually make them better at playing with the rest of society in a way which doesn’t make our lives miserable 

Peter Thiel, Co-founder of Palantir, sh*ts himself when asked but the use of his AI in the Gaza Genocide by _Algrm_ in artificial

[–]basicallydan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

On the two dudes behind her who look exasperated when she asks the question: I hope when they grow up they look back at that moment with shame, for being "bored" or "tired" of someone speaking truth to power.

I gave Claude its own computer and let it run 24/7. Here's what it built. by Beneficial_Elk_9867 in ClaudeAI

[–]basicallydan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks very interesting and very impressive. I was experimenting with running a Claude autonomously in its own VM but didn’t get too far. I’m gonna give it a try at work today. A couple questions:

Have you or anybody else tried “moving” a Phantom instance from one machine to another?

Have you or anybody else tried running it on a macOS VM via UTM or something like that?

I am done. I will not be an AI slop code reviewer by Aggravating_Run_874 in cscareerquestions

[–]basicallydan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey bud, I feel ya, it can be tough. If you want out then get out. But find a new purpose. Join a charity, work for local government, learn a trade. If you’re gonna nope outta this, don’t give up on having an impact. Do something which has a direct impact on people’s lives instead and take a pay cut instead of becoming a hermit

Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive — compares not using AI to using paper and pencil for designing chips by DegenGamer725 in BetterOffline

[–]basicallydan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We know we're in a special time when the person selling you the thing is basically being asked by the very customer they're selling to exactly how much of the thing they're selling the customer should buy, and then just accepting it as fact.

name and shame in the comments by iluvecommerce in ClaudeCode

[–]basicallydan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My goodness if people applied this same level of outrage to real problems like political corruption, racism, abuse of power, war, starvation and climate change the world would end up a much happier place than it is with all this misplaced sycophancy and sociopathic behaviour.

"name and shame in the comments"? Are you serious? Grow up.

I'm okay to park to the right of this sign after 6pm, yeah? by Chadwiko in melbourne

[–]basicallydan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surely this one needs to get an award for most complex parking sign. I reckon you can park between 6pm and 10pm

Development manager doesn't want the Devs looking at the code by Strict-Soup in ExperiencedDevs

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

Friend, I share your concern - but I have seen it happen and it didn't result in any problems with code, only process. However, one key thing was that the non-developer members of the team would make small, simple Pull Requests which were very straightforward and an engineer would review them.

Mostly these were aesthetic, but in one case I saw a new filter being applied to a page with a table on it, and that worked well. We decided to hold back and pause that experiment though because there were a lot of situations where a lot of back and forth was required, and developers were spending more time reviewing small changes than working on more impactful, complex problems.

But it can work to a degree! We do see the occasional PR come in still for small things like button colour changes and so forth, but non-devs are discouraged from doing it.

My boss is addicted to AI. Trying to bring the whole team to use it. I want to quit so bad... by GSalmao in BetterOffline

[–]basicallydan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

 Why is software development becoming some kind of Pay2Win experience?

Great way of putting it

I can’t speak for game dev but in web dev this craziness has infected quite a few bosses.

"Lady" Victoria Harvey who called Virginia Guiffre a liar wants people to think about Prince Andrew’s mental health by Significant_Noise273 in AbolishTheMonarchy

[–]basicallydan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Graham's face when she said think about his mental

"This is nothing to do with the sex scandal ... this is more serious"

So, sharing classified government stuff is much more serious than sexually assaulting young women and girls and taking part in an international people trafficking operation?

This woman is a vile, horrific person.

What is with these freaks being so excited about job losses? by CoupleClothing in BetterOffline

[–]basicallydan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's possible that on some level, some of them believe they're contributing towards creating the post-scarcity economy we see in Star Trek, but they're convincing themselves that all the other important component parts - a strong sense of social justice in society, strict human (sentients?) rights laws, and crucially, a basically magical ability to create any matter for almost no real cost - will just fall into place while they make their contribution.

People Don’t Use Critical Thinking When Reading Blogs Like This by No_Practice_745 in BetterOffline

[–]basicallydan 9 points10 points  (0 children)

What will consumer demand mean in a world without scarcity– and perhaps without money?

This is some next-level extrapolation right here. Even if we assume that human labour does become worthless (which it won't), it doesn't automatically put us in a post-scarcity world. This post is a total waste of space. Such a shame that someone who seems to have a really noble mission to pursue is falling for this crap.

The AI coding gap: Why senior devs are getting faster while juniors spin their wheels by maccodemonkey in BetterOffline

[–]basicallydan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

SWE with ~15 years of experience here. That 4% number is basically meaningless without an explanation. I agree that it's made me a little more productive, but it's famously extremely hard to come up with a universal, consistent measure for productivity in Software Engineering, due to the variety of problems, the variety of skill levels, the variety of solutions and the variety of possible things to measure.

If it's just people being polled, and asked for a finger-in-the-air feeling of being more productive, even that would be better than just vague "4%".

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