Interesting Coding Assistant use case: sparring partner I kept asking for a design of a feature that I wasn't quite happy about but I only thought of my next objection when the current one was resolved. And on the 3rd or 4th iteration I got the design that "clicked" for me.

Where is the EU petition to abolish the unremovable plastic bottle caps?

Mark Cuban Who is working on a model that knows that it doesn't know?

How do you think?

Mustafa Suleyman If we build a robot today (say simple lawn mowing bot with LLM interface), allow it to earn for its upkeep (money for charging and replacement parts) wouldn't it be considered conscious? Wouldn't it have purely subjective experience distinct from all other such robots?

The Other Alistair Sometimes the "so that" is needed as it is nonobvious but boy do I agree with the sentiment.

Software Development is very kind learning environment. Making Software on the other hand is extremely wicked.

Ya know. I keep hearing how AI will eliminate "junior devs," but the same tech requires senior devs to fix, validate, and test the generated code. How are we to create senior devs if there are no junior devs? Just askin'.

Let's hope at least one vendor will stay pay-only

"It has gone largely unnoticed that time spent on social media peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline." By John Burn-Murdoch

Last night, I was chatting in the hotel bar with a bunch of conference speakers at Goto-CPH about how evil PR-driven code reviews are (we were all in agreement), and Martin Fowler brought up an interesting point. The best time to review your code is when you use it. That is,

The reason AI coding works so well is that the source code of the median app was already slop before LLMs.

Micky The hype is absurd. The same was true of spreadsheets, MS Access, 4GLs, and CASE tools. And BASIC, by the way. I wish people would stop hyping like this, and focus on where the actual benefits and use cases are. LLMs are useful as human *augmentation*

Story Points Names: 0 - Mosquito 1 - Wasp 2 - Rat 3 - Racoon 5 - Coyote 8 - Wolf 13 - Leopard 21 - Tiger 55 - Grizzly And then let's see how managers will try to aggregate across teams 😈

I have a mental illness that makes me think that people will change their minds if I present the correct arguments with the appropriate facts and data.

idk about this new recommendation algo, man. All I get is Rust in my feed. What is it trying to tell me? That I am gay or that I need to start learning Rust.

ThePrimeagen Feels faster to write but I bet this is just time dilation caused by the state of flow.

AI winter is coming.