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Human Is the Agent: SolveIt Changed My Programming Journey After 25 Years (2025)

christhomas.co.uk
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Australia will run an overt command economy by 2040

caseyhandmer.wordpress.com
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AI Didn't Kill Programming, You Did

learncodethehardway.com
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Eventual Rust in CPython

lwn.net
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Oral History of Richard Greenblatt (2005) [pdf]

archive.computerhistory.org
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0xpgm
·เมื่อวานซืน·discuss
How is it unprofessional when it is simply someone giving their honest personal opinion on an issue that involves something that is valuable to them, on their personal blog nonetheless.

Is everyone a walking and talking brand now so that they have to always filter their words, walk on eggshells, hide behind corpo-speak so as to seem 'professional'?

More honest discourse is required in today's world, not less. It seems interactions online are becoming less and less authentic.
0xpgm
·เมื่อวานซืน·discuss
I'm glad LLM coding exists for people who want to move at an insane superhuman speed (perhaps they're trying to achieve escape velocity and launch into the stars or something) so that they don't grind down their fellow humans.

You can either do local optimization - a single individual moving as fast and as hard as humanly possible, or global optimization - a team working together and amplifying each other's efforts to produce something that is greater than the sum of its parts.
0xpgm
·เมื่อวานซืน·discuss
On the bright side however, one can easily vibe code a browser extension that automatically hides comments that are not aligned to one's needs, whether its American politics or comments complaining about it :-)
0xpgm
·เมื่อวานซืน·discuss
Generally, it seems like if you are not getting returns that outweigh your token spend, you are merely paying to train AI.
0xpgm
·7 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
One annoying thing is how long it takes for things to sway back into equilibrium.

It's getting quite exhausting having to endure all these major events of the 21st century and their consequences - 9/11 and the Iraq war, the 2008 financial crisis, covid-19, and now AI.

But I guess it's better than all out war and conquest as was with most of human history.
0xpgm
·7 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
You can find some video material from O'Reilly Media
0xpgm
·7 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Yeah, makes a lot of sense.
0xpgm
·8 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
From what I've read from people with relevant experience, the only way to get a large organization change direction is to issue imperative decrees lacking nuance, because large organization by nature tend to be process heavy and are too incompetent to follow a nuanced direction.

If you have tens of thousands of employees the more complicated the communication is, the larger the variation of interpretation of its meaning, I suppose
0xpgm
·12 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
With such kind of ATS systems, is it still a thing to optimize for a one page resume that is easy for a human reviewer to scan, or just include enough buzzwords and external links to try and please the LLM?
0xpgm
·12 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Even if they only fire the juniors and retain the seniors, they have effectively broken the pipeline that creates more seniors for the next few decades.

That is either betting on AI being better than humans then, or closure of the company.
0xpgm
·16 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I might be reading this differently, but isn't the acquisition a bet that Modular will become a manufacturer-agnostic software stack?

> "We believe the future belongs to developer-friendly, horizontal platforms that can run across diverse compute environments and give customers real choice in how and where they deploy AI," Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said.
0xpgm
·16 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Yeah, the whole AI industry is just people ripping off each other.. Started by AI companies gulping up all the information that technical or altruistic people shared on the Internet in the past 40 years to help other fellow humans, then moved to AI companies consuming pirated and copyrighted material and now its AI companies ripping off each other.

Information really does want to become free, but AI companies want to be gatekeepers. Long term I bet on the open weights to win, as the more sustainable approach.
0xpgm
·21 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> without increasing educator workload substantially

Isn't this a good thing, employing more educators, building more schools?

Any sane society will always invest more into its future well being and incentivize investments into education.
0xpgm
·23 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It's likely the elected officials know nothing about AI the technology.

Depends on who has their ears in terms creating policies around technology.
0xpgm
·23 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Is that before or after the OpenAI and Anthropic pay off all the people and companies who's copyrights were violated when they used their works for free to train their models?

At least DeepSeek freely gives back the benefits.
0xpgm
·25 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Weird, isn't it? Microsoft owns all of LinkedIn, Github and NPM.

All three either have security or stability issues, which seems to get worse, not better, as microsoft goes more into AI. Where is the AI productivity (10x by some accounts!) within the company going to?
0xpgm
·26 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I use vanilla emacs and compile from source straight from master at whatever commit it happens to be in when I decide to do it.

Only once was there a noticeable breakage when a command like `git log` in the terminal would spit out all its output instead of displaying one screenful at a time. I'd expect someone following stable releases wouldn't experience any breakages.
0xpgm
·27 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
From the article

> Matz has said as much. He’s described Ruby’s design as starting from a simple Lisp, stripping out macros and s-expressions, then adding an object system, blocks, and Smalltalk-style methods. The features most Rubyists fall in love with aren’t the object-oriented ones. They’re the functional ones, dressed in friendlier clothes.
0xpgm
·28 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
There are some attempts at this problem, like Bittensor, Akash Network etc
0xpgm
·28 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
If I remember correctly, the original GPT was considered too dangerous to release to the wild.

With hindsight, does that hold? If not, then how would we know a model is truly dangerous to release?