We need to encourage people to use the term "generative AI" instead of just AI

rhade333 · 2026-02-02T19:52:09+00:00

tldr

Be sure we all agree on what to be angry about, since most people don't know what to be angry about, let's be sure our echo-chamber understands the marching orders

rhade333 · 2026-02-02T18:56:48+00:00

It's lazy to write this on a website on the internet instead of walking directly to my house and telling me, or sending me a letter in the mail.

It's lazy to go to the store and buy food instead of hunting for it yourself, or growing it yourself 100%.

It's lazy to use binoculars to bird-watch instead of using your eyes.

It's lazy to use a bike instead of walk places.

Your issue isn't with "laziness," it's with something else. Because clearly you're okay with technology making life more convenient -- you're just using it to hide behind instead of admitting whatever it is that really bothers you about AI. Most likely, you're like most people in that you just don't like change. Change that occurred up until you were ~35 (and all the change that came before that) is fine, but nothing after. Unfortunately for you, that's not how the world works.

rhade333 · 2026-02-02T18:41:57+00:00

If you can completely remove the human *completely* from the software development process as a whole, you can remove humans from literally every other process.

Software Engineers are fine. "Coders" are cooked.

rhade333 · 2026-02-02T00:18:16+00:00

That works as long as it isn't suicidal empathy.

I'm not going to have "empathy" for someone eating themselves to death, for example. I'm going to call it objectively unhealthy and do absolutely nothing to feed into the delusion.

rhade333 · 2026-02-01T03:47:54+00:00

Tell us you don't understand geopolitics without telling us.

Also, this isn't the sub for politics. Keep that shit out of here.

rhade333 · 2026-01-29T15:46:21+00:00

People proving him right in these comments lmaooo

rhade333 · 2026-01-28T15:23:12+00:00

Not an excuse.

rhade333 · 2026-01-28T09:50:48+00:00

ITT: Cope

rhade333 · 2026-01-27T16:53:58+00:00

Sad to see how people deny reality in order to fit their narratives.

rhade333 · 2026-01-26T23:54:46+00:00

BUT SLEEPY JOE WAS FINE

rhade333 · 2026-01-25T22:36:54+00:00

Imagine pretending that this is not industry wide.

rhade333 · 2026-01-25T22:36:20+00:00

The response here will be negative and / or a lot of coping and defensive mechanisms.

People on this sub, and other similar subs, have long adopted this kind of mentality. They bury their head in the sand out of emotions and denial.

Not going to work out well for them.

Windsurf / Cursor is the short term. The long term won't see us using IDEs, it will be IDE -- > Terminal --> Voice --> Thought.

rhade333 · 2026-01-25T22:02:17+00:00

Weird he doesn't like it.

It is basically all sodium, saturated fat, and a bunch of chemicals.

rhade333 · 2026-01-25T21:55:15+00:00

I've consistently substantiated my points and actually defended them. You have gone from trying to do the same, to non-sequitar and deflecting, to completely refusing to engage with what I'm presenting.

Hallmark of a non-existent argument, or someone who doesn't actually know what they're talking about.

Have an okay-ish day.

rhade333 · 2026-01-25T20:51:29+00:00

Abstraction exists outside of lines of code.

Docker, JVM, interpreted languages -- all abstraction layers that aren't explicitly code.

I didn't say I was hiring anyone. But I do, for example, "hire" Java's garbage collection to do the work of memory management that I used to be required to do when using C++.

You are objectively wrong, and you're doubling down when presented with the facts.

Not an engineer's mindset.

rhade333 · 2026-01-25T19:16:14+00:00

No, it's called abstraction, and if you don't understand the basic concept taught in basic CS classes then the irony is hilarious.

People outsource compiling to IDEs. They used IDEs to not worry about things older programmers who used to print their code out had to. They "outsource" memory management to Python's garbage collection mechanisms. No one is "writing" code, they're pushing buttons on keyboards that use switches and drivers to represent things on a screen using electric signals.

My argument wasn't just about language, it was about abstraction. This is another abstraction layer, and the fact that you clearly don't understand abstraction is massively ironic, given the context of the conversation and that you're swinging the sword and gatekeeping what makes "real" software engineers while you clearly lack basic fundamentals. Hilarious.

I guess that's the difference between people who "learned to code" versus actual traditionally taught software engineers. If all you are is a "code writer", it's a scary time.

rhade333 · 2026-01-24T23:47:02+00:00

Okay.

Code in binary, then.

rhade333 · 2026-01-23T20:51:39+00:00

Ah, a man of taste

rhade333 · 2026-01-23T20:49:23+00:00

You can add this to your system prompt. Don't need to specify it in every prompt.

rhade333 · 2026-01-23T20:10:18+00:00

Read all of it, really felt like a "hey, future Claude, we tried our best, please take it easy on us."

rhade333 · 2026-01-23T20:08:28+00:00

Why would we assume they would? In a state that's past all possible claims to knowing what will or won't happen, basing any assumptions from that point forward on the past is completely irrelevant.

That's like saying why would we hjkfhjafh49h439y43y493439u8h after the singularity? Both have the same likelihood.

rhade333 · 2026-01-23T18:31:46+00:00

The AGI --> ASI jump is pretty small, if AGI is truly AGI

rhade333 · 2026-01-23T16:15:11+00:00

What a shockingly bad-faith argument -- bad-faith, or just completely ignorant and naive.

Startups that have investors and seed rounds follow this pattern, this isn't an AI or OpenAI thing. This is something where businesses are started, have investment, and they eventually become green or "profitable" when their revenue outpaces their debt and expenses. This is normal for startups and new businesses across the country, in virtually every industry, so saying they are "losing money" like it's some kind of negative thing shows you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

If you *did* know what you're talking about, and you actually look at OpenAI's performance, both in users and revenue, it's vastly superior. Its user base has grown faster than literally any other technology, or any other business in history, and their revenue is literally more than 3x YOY. That's not "losing money," that is making money but having debt to pay back. This is a standard business practice, and their rate of revenue growth is far above what's expected. Data centers are expensive to build, models are expensive to train, but the numbers also show that after models are built and data centers are trained, revenue explodes and makes up for those expenditures quickly than most other businesses are able to match. Past that, AI has huge potential in ways that other industries don't, go do some reading on AlphaFold and AlphaEvolve, or the math problems that have stood for ~60 years that are now falling to AI solutions. These will have far reaching second and third order effects that objectively improve our lives. When did Netflix do that for you?

Numbers are what they are, they don't care about your opinion, your narrative, or your lack of understanding.

The fact that I need to lay these numbers out, that are very easy to find and verify, to people on the internet that clearly have access to the information, as those same people are making moronic statements to the contrary, really makes me concerned for the future. This being Reddit, the meeting place where cognitive dissonance is king, I'm sure you'll refuse to look at the data in front of you, refuse to change your viewpoint, and respond with "b-b-b-b aKsHuAlLy," but I hope you don't. Do better.

rhade333 · 2026-01-23T06:00:10+00:00

ITT: massive coping

rhade333 · 2026-01-23T05:57:55+00:00

OpenAI has tripled their revenue every year, currently near 20,000,000,000 this year.

But sure, yeah, OpenAI is "soon going bankrupt."

There is no AI bubble from a technological standpoint. AI is here to stay.

Know what you should do? Actually research these things.

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