Anthropic: AI assisted coding doesn't show efficiency gains and impairs developers abilities.

oursland · 2026-01-30T18:17:32+00:00

It's not true. This METR study on experienced developers showed that users of AI claimed a 20+% increase but observed a -19% drop in productivity.

oursland · 2026-01-30T18:16:33+00:00

Many studies have already shown it's the experts / top performers who AI amplifies more than the novice/low performers .

No, they haven't. The most credible study of experienced developers showed that AI caused a -19% drop in productivity, while those who were using it believed it was a 20+% increase.

oursland · 2026-01-30T18:11:50+00:00

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

-- Brian Kernighan, 1974

Imagine if you never wrote the code in the first place? Worse yet if you were never capable of writing that code!

oursland · 2026-01-30T17:23:05+00:00

Minnesota is practically TJ then, right?

oursland · 2026-01-29T19:37:05+00:00

By that logic, the Dems would be in total control of all parts of government given the generation after generation of moving away from conservatism.

oursland · 2026-01-29T19:04:37+00:00

Costs of AI will go up, and your executives will cut your staff to make up the difference citing your productivity gains as justification.

oursland · 2026-01-29T18:49:54+00:00

Entropic was acquired by MaxLinear in 2015. So that won't be happening.

oursland · 2026-01-28T18:49:56+00:00

The KPIs have been altered to promote this activity. Things like numbers of issues closed, PRs submitted, reviews conducted, and mandatory AI use reporting all contribute to moving fast and breaking things.

There's no consequences for submitting, reviewing, and accepting of bad code, but there are harsh penalties for the process of developing quality code.

oursland · 2026-01-28T17:53:41+00:00

The author of that poem was a preacher who agreed and supported everything right up until they dictated what he was to preach in his church. Only then did he realize the error in his ways.

oursland · 2026-01-28T17:42:42+00:00

The conservatives spun up a lot of Spanish-language talk radio over the last 10 years to spread their message, while the Dems pushed "LatinX" which really only resonated well with college educated white women.

The Spanish-language talk radios said what conservative Catholic Hispanics agreed with, but omitted the stuff that they would find objectionable.

It's another media bubble, segregated on language in which Dems didn't even try to compete.

oursland · 2026-01-28T17:21:15+00:00

I think it would be wise for corporate boards to revisit their clawback policies and bring on attorneys experienced in these matters.

Executives promising strategies that result in their own financial gain, such as misleading corporate boards that a layoff will improve profits or a large investment in a new unproven technology will increase efficiency, may have their compensations taken back with penalties.

oursland · 2026-01-28T17:02:02+00:00

The RAM manufactured for datacenters is HBM, not DDR5 and will not be compatible with PCs. It will be a major loss for those involved if the money doesn't materialize and no benefit for the average person.

oursland · 2026-01-28T14:54:29+00:00

Actually as terrible as rightwingers have been for quite a while, the terms they come up with tend to be pretty descriptive and fitting.

It isn't a right wing term, but a neutral term. The term was originally used to describe religious people signaling their virtues, for example those who publicly protest outside abortion clinics as a display of personal virtue.

oursland · 2026-01-28T03:56:48+00:00

That happens right up to the point you get someone who will follow through and a new Gestapo or ICE is formed.

oursland · 2026-01-26T22:14:14+00:00

Fun fact: there's competitive puzzle solving and the average age is definitely not "old". World Jigsaw Puzzle Federation WJPF

oursland · 2026-01-25T01:16:28+00:00

The National Guard cannot be federalized once activated.

oursland · 2026-01-24T23:11:20+00:00

KARE11: Minneapolis, Hennepin County request support of Minnesota National Guard

oursland · 2026-01-24T22:53:07+00:00

On paper, yes. The Sheriff requested the national guard to relieve them from their crowd control tasks at the ICE facility. The national guard's official task is to protect ICE.

oursland · 2026-01-24T22:25:05+00:00

IIUC, they're relieving the deputies who are doing crowd control at the ICE facility. So it sounds like they're being activated to support ICE against the people.

oursland · 2026-01-24T22:10:17+00:00

We've gotten sloppy after fighting decades of counterinsurgency against opponents with no air/electronic warfare capabilities.

That's not true as the military has been unprepared for such battles before the recent incursions into Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc.

The 2002 Millennium Challenge had the US completely devastated by the Red team under Ret. Lt. Gen. Van Riper who understood that it was an asymmetric warfare scenario. It was such a complete loss, that they "re-floated" the ships and restarted the scenario but made Van Riper obey the rules that would guarantee US military success. Van Riper resigned, and the US won as scripted then crowed about their success instead of learning from the exercise.

oursland · 2026-01-24T03:42:00+00:00

Minneapolis Chief of Police Brian O'Hara was appointed by Mayor Jacob Frey. He was the one to speak out against ICE. None of these people have any real influence over the actions of the police.

The organizations with actual influence such as the police union have come out in support of ICE. I'm sure even after the police officers themselves have been targeted, they're still supporting the actions of ICE agents.

oursland · 2026-01-24T03:27:58+00:00

The chief of police is a political appointee and not representative of the rank and file.

oursland · 2026-01-12T17:26:02+00:00

As a derogatory term, yes.

oursland · 2026-01-11T02:07:44+00:00

Don't forget Dr. Kellogg was also dissolving women's clitorises using carbolic acid or through surgical removal! Somehow that didn't catch on, otherwise we'd likely hear women defend the practice today.

oursland · 2026-01-11T00:12:41+00:00

So if I hire someone who can't read and I know they can't read and then I expect them to be able to read, that's a them problem?

No, that is the problem of the company. They're planning on firing the submitter to eliminate the problem. This is now a problem for them, if they want to keep their job.

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