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  • The pattern of demoing stuff like this and then responding to the glaring issues and failures with, "but just wait until the next model bro, eventually this will work bro, just need a larger context window, maybe some recursive prompting, we're basically already there bro," is so embarrassing. If I claimed to have written this myself and presented it at a tech conference (or hell, even turned it in as an assignment in a CS course), I'd be laughed out of the room when it failed to compile hello world. The fact that people see this and get excited is so bizarre.

    If it can't compile hello world, can you even imagine all the easily exploitable security issues, the unhandled edge cases, the major performance issues, etc. that are buried in that dumpster fire of source code. That this is what passes for software "engineering" now is so sad. Too bad they don't start using this compiler at Anthropic.

  • I can't wait to see how RFK Jr. manages to turn this one around! /s

  • I'm not so sure the "open source" part is working either when you think about how AI tools were trained.

    It's really sad, because the accessibility of developing software and collaborative nature of the open source community is a big part of what drew me to software engineering as a career, and it's always been one of the first things I mention about why I love it. But, of course, these fucking evil companies found a way to take every individual part of something good and twist it into something awful.

  • It's stuff like this that leaves me completely hopeless that the AI industry will ever see the crash that it 100% deserves.

  • The most frustrating is when someone asks me for help because they're stuck then hits me with a barrage of "chatgpt said xxx" complete nonsense while I'm trying to assess the situation

    That is the absolute worst. I've even gotten "Because Claude said so" in response to code review comments asking why they made a certain design decision.

    they let off the gas

    Man, I'm so jealous. My company is too large for me to have any sway, and they just added AI tool adoption as one of the key performance indicators on our performance reviews. 😔

  • I am staunchly anti-AI, but the company I am working for unfortunately pushes AI tool adoption extremely aggressively. A lot of the things in the post are similar to sentiments I have. Specifically the sections around vibe coding offloading the burden of work to the reviewer and how to mitigate that by pushing back against those sorts of PRs.

    I agree with you, though, that the post ignores the simplest solution of just not using AI tools. It may be the case that the author doesn't have the ability to enforce that, but it should still definitely be listed as the first and most logical solution.

    I'm at the point where I'm seriously considering creating a blocklist of certain engineers at work that spam out vibe coded trash PRs and informing my manager that I will not do code reviews for anyone on the list.

  • Mainly just piano. I like playing chords with my left hand and the melody with my right hand. I'm not great at keeping steady rhythm. If I or anyone else starts singing along, I immediately lose focus. I mostly just play for myself for stress relief.

    I'm trying to learn guitar, but it's slow going for the time being.

  • Duolingo isn’t just teaching vocabulary — it’s teaching real communication.

    Wow, nice, even the article's written by AI! /s

    Come to think of it, why would I even bother learning a new language in the first place? I'll just have my AI talk to my friend's AI, and that way I won't have to think or interact with another human at all!

  • Upgrade it to Cat6a.

  • In Texas, voters just passed a constitutional amendment giving parents the right "to exercise care, custody, and control of the parent’s child, including the right to make decisions concerning the child’s upbringing" specifically for cases like this. Almost everyone I spoke to was in full support of it and kept saying "obviously a parent should decide what's best for their child". But as someone who grew up in a toxic religious family, it makes me so sad to see that there's no protection for kids in these situations. Parents can ensure they're doomed to a life of ignorance and bigotry before they even have a chance. :(

  • I'm kinda with you tbh. At the rate he's going, maybe, just maybe, the frog will realize it's being boiled.

  • Ah, yep, that's what it is. Thanks for the clarification. Found this in another article:

    The state included identifiable information about voters, including dates of birth, driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, Pierce said.

  • So does Texas actually. But the part that I finally found in this article which is noteworthy is this:

    The state included identifiable information about voters, including dates of birth, driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, Pierce said.

    So what got sent to the federal government included additional PII not present in the public dataset.

  • My experience from community college was quite a mixed bag. Some of the professors were amazing and genuinely loved to teach, and I benefited so much from those classes. And then some professors just seemed bitter that they weren't at a university and made their classes miserable. I even had a few classes "taught" by someone that didn't even have a bachelor's (through a technicality where the dean proctored the actual exams). Overall, I learned enough and got the degree, and I was able to break into software engineering with just an associate degree and no debt. So worth it in the end!

  • This reminds me of that old SCP where some photo of a mountain had like 4 pixels of the "anomaly" in it, which would trigger if you noticed the 4 pixels. SCP-096 I think. Haven't been on that site in ages, lol.

  • They were not

    Where are you getting that from? As I mentioned in another reply, you've been able to request voter records for years now, and they already include basically all the information the article is talking about: https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/pi.pdf. There are several websites that submit these requests and then publish the results online for free. My voting history (including name, address, age, etc.) has been up on these sites for years. I do not like that at all, but I have no control over it. I'm not really sure what is different about what was handed over from Texas to the federal government...

  • Yeah, I'm kinda confused here as well. You've been able to request voter records for years now, and they already include basically all the information the article is talking about: https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/pi.pdf. There are several websites that submit these requests and then publish the results online for free. My voting history (including name, address, age, etc.) has been up on these sites for years. I do not like that at all, but I have no control over it. I'm not really sure what is different about what was handed over from Texas to the federal government...

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