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Sony's State of Play Showed That Every Publisher Is Terrified of GTA 6

kotaku.com
2 points·by classified·vor 14 Tagen·1 comments

Agents, Agile, Communism, Coercion

elliotmorris.net
2 points·by classified·letzten Monat·0 comments

Microsoft kicked off a Copilot revolt by banning the word "Microslop" on Discord

windowscentral.com
2 points·by classified·vor 4 Monaten·1 comments

What Is Software Design? (1992)

developerdotstar.com
2 points·by classified·vor 7 Monaten·0 comments

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·vor 13 Stunden·discuss
Wow, another bunch of people who give up engineering to satisfy their addiction to speed.
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·vor 14 Stunden·discuss
So the last scam fell through and they're trying it again?
classified
·vor 14 Stunden·discuss
You're ignoring that AI coding attracts a whole new crop of people who would never have touched computers before. We live in interesting times.
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·vor 14 Stunden·discuss
So when I clone that repo, am I downloading > 370 GiB, or when and how is that being pulled in?

And can I leave out the web part? I cannot in good conscience run npm on my machine (it's not even installed).
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·vor 15 Stunden·discuss
So it nearly didn't cause bankruptcy? That's nearly great.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for open-weight models, but you still need to be careful what you use LLMs for.
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·vorgestern·discuss
And it costs at least twice the amount of tokens, so a full win for LLM providers.
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·vor 6 Tagen·discuss
That's just laziness. Analog systems are even messier, but they have procedures and regulations that keep the catastrophes to a minimum.
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·vor 6 Tagen·discuss
> at a data analytics company

So it wasn't even anything related to the app's purpose, it was a frivolous surveillance SDK that got people killed.
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·vor 7 Tagen·discuss
The "compose" key was a new rabbit hole for me. Very handy.
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·vor 7 Tagen·discuss
> Seems that HN's auto-headline rewriting in this case has made a critical error :)

Software trying to be smart always runs that risk.
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·vor 7 Tagen·discuss
I'm using LLMs as a search engine replacement. The coding is all me. Writing the code was never the bottleneck.
classified
·vor 7 Tagen·discuss
Guess who will be held responsible when your vibe-coded robot maims or kills someone.
classified
·vor 7 Tagen·discuss
> before the wound underneath turns into gangrene

Too late. The vampires have tasted blood and they will not be stopped.
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·vor 8 Tagen·discuss
> AI Confidence Theater

That's a benign term for it. Actually, it's lies, damn lies, and fucking god-damn lies. It's the super-mega-overdrive version of every principle that ads are based on. Like they are afraid we still haven't understood what makes ads tick, so they give us the practical in-your-face demo. And they were successful. I'm not believing a single word anyone remotely related to that business says anymore.
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·vor 13 Tagen·discuss
Listen to The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. It's bureaucratic language, which could put you to sleep. But then it also contains some ideas that sound utterly unrealistic and utopian in our current times, even as mere aspirations. Thinking about what we've lost since 1967 makes me lose my sleep.

https://www.marfapublicradio.org/podcast/marfa-public-radio-...
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·vor 14 Tagen·discuss
> There is nothing cool about it either.

The "cool" thing about it is that LLM suppliers will own the workforce of the employers who switched so those employers will be at their mercy. Total power, untold profits.
classified
·vor 14 Tagen·discuss
That just means it has massive growth potential.
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·vor 15 Tagen·discuss
Classical case of "be careful what you wish for".
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·vor 15 Tagen·discuss
How do they do it? Is it even still possible to make up stories that sound more absurd than reality?
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·vor 17 Tagen·discuss
And there I was hoping the Swift ecosystem could emancipate itself from Apple instead of getting eaten up.