If that settles the tariff negotiations
I agree that if there was a magic "fix this shit for good" button but you had to crawl around and call Trump "sir" a lot that would be worth it. But what's actually going to happen is that he'll hear a loud noise and forget who any of these people are and he'll be like, "two million percent tariff on the uk!!"
You didn't address your misuse of "girl" which I pointed out. Now you've used "moron", "imbecile" and "mentally deficient" all of which are (outdated) psychology diagnoses. And "mouth breather" which... the meaning is right there. Oh and "dumber" ("dumb" means "unable to speak").
It seems to me that you actually don't have any problem with misusing words. Except for one specific word. Why's that, I wonder?
The theory is that the new hire gets better over time
It always amazes me how few people get this. Have they only ever made terrible hires?
The way that a company makes big profits is by hiring fresh graduates and giving them a cushy life while they grow into good SWEs. By the time you're paying $200k for a senior software engineer, they're generating far more than that in value. And you only had to invest a couple years and some chump change.
But now businesses only think in the short-term and so paying $10k for a month of giving Anthropic access to our code base sounds like a bargain.
Executives are mostly irrelevant as long as they’re not forcing the whole company into the bullshit.
I'm seeing a lot of this, though. Like, I'm not technically required to use AI, but the VP will send me a message noting that I've only used 2k tokens this month and maybe I could get more done if I was using more...?
More as an alternative to a search engine.
In my ideal world, StackOverflow would be a public good with a lot of funding and no ads/sponsorship.
Since that's not the case, and everything is hopelessly polluted with ads and SEO, LLMs are momentarily a useful tool for getting results. Their info might be only 3/4 correct, but my search results are also trash. Who knows what people will do in a year when the LLMs have been eating each others slop and are also being stuffed with ads by their owners.
Coding junkie is where you sneak away from your friends and code a few lines in the bathroom
We're talking here about garbage code that we don't want. If the choice is "let me commit bad code that causes problems or else I will quit using computers"... is this a dilemma for you?
It does seem silly, but it's perfectly aligned with the marketing hype that the AI companies are producing.
Not really that weird? Basically every organization does this or is immediately unsuccessful. The only exception is companies under a government that's stable enough to carry water for them.
This doesn't mean that the organizations are a net benefit.
The nature of language is to change over time. Help yourself to internalize that and a lot of these things may become less stressful.
Your attempt to use a non-inflammatory example doesn't really work: "literally" has meant "exaggeratedly" for at least the past 200 years (likely more, it's just been used extensively with that meaning for 200y).
If you try to demand that language have strict meaning, it's just not going to work. Watch:
girls
What's the definition of "girl"? Do they need to be prepubescent? Pre-postpubescent? Or are you using it in the (gasp, shock) sloppy sense of "a girl or a woman"? You've fallen into the exact same pitfall that you were complaining about.
The resolution isn't to claim that all words have an absolute meaning, but to understand that human language is fluid and extraordinarily context-sensitive.
The disconnect is coming here:
I just don’t see the line where any of that is impossible. It seems inevitable
I agree with you that robots building robots is not impossible. I disagree with you that it's therefore inevitable. I strongly disagree with you that it's therefore inevitable in the immediate future.
Well-earned by Mamdani, but also I hope it's the last anyone has to see of Cuomo.