I really love AI for lots of things, but, when I'm reading a post, the AI aesthetic has started to grate. I read articles and they all have the same "LLM" aesthetic, and I feel like I'm reading posts written by the same person.

Sure, the information is all there, but the style just puts me off reading it. I really don't like how few authors have a voice any more, even if that voice is full of typos and grammatical errors.

Maybe, but you won't be able to test all behaviors and you won't have enough time to try a million alternatives. Just because of the number of possibilities, it'll be faster to just read the code.

Eventually the generation and evaluation will be quite fast where testing a million alternatives will be viable. Impressive you suggest that there might be a million alternatives but it would be faster to just read the code and settle on one. How might that be determined? Did the author who wrote the standard library really come up with the best way when writing those functions? Or did they come up with something that seemed alright to ship relative to other ideas people came up with?

I think we need to think outside the box here and realize ideas can be generated, evaluated, and settled upon far faster than any human operates. The idea of doing what a trillion humans evaluating different functions can do is actually realistic with the path of our present technology. We are at the cusp of some very remarkable times, even more remarkable than the innovations of the past 200 years, should we make progress on this effort.

This comment strikes me as not having a good intuition for how fast the space of possible programs can grow.

You don't think the space of possible problems can be parsed with increased compute?

Not for all problems, definitly not. As an example of extremely fast-growing problem spaces, look at the Busy Beaver functions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver

If this were viable, we'd all be running Haiku ten times in the time it took to run Opus once, but nobody does.

We don't have the compute for this today. We will in several centuries, if compute growth continues.

I find this comment suspicious, and rightly so: We should be critical of it.

You should! Think critically about everything, friend!

Isn't that exactly the point of tariffs? To decrease import volumes so local industry can fill the gap and compete?

Not so much compete as being protected from having to compete.

Talking about competition between places with good labor standards and environmental regulation and places without those things is bullshit.

I would be 100% pro free trade between nations with identical labor rights and environmental protections, but that really isn't what free trade is about, is it?

The EU and Canada have better labor standards and environmental regulation than the US.

Perhaps the US should charge them negative tariffs until it gets up to snuff.

The vibe coders will weed out, but programming with AI is never going away.

yep, how do we define AI as a replacement for search engine, and templating engine, and inference engine (do X in Y)?

is there a term for that?

AI at our fingertips, accessible and useful, that's just a tool, that's not redefining us as an industry and denying people's jobs – that's an asset. (I used an em dash to prove I am not AI, as apparently double dash is now a sign of AI text!)*

(*) case in point, the situation is _TIRING_.

Because, when all of Trump's moves just happen to benefit someone, a person might ask whether that is more than just a coincidence.

This is utter bullshit. He has no problems hurting Russia as long as it safe for him. But Trump works for Trump only. Some other party benefitting or loosing is not his concern.

That explains why they gave me the package and then sent me a bill for import duties a month later.

They typically do this because they don't have enough warehouse space to keep the packages temporarily, and also because it wouldn't be very Express if it adds another day or two.

But if the value is high or you've landed on their naughty list, they'll have you pay before receiving the package.

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