Long term computer programmer, making my own library. American based. Far left politically. Politics centered around promoting use of paper ballots. Follows news about environmental collapse, political corruption in my country, human rights, science and tech. Earlier

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  • One thing I keep missing in these AI layoff articles about the United States is that a huge percentage of tech workers lost their jobs because of tax changes. It was a little known tax code that was modified.

    The tax code allowed a deduction of worker salaries and benefits if they were engaged in pure research. This write off is what powered many of the invocations from the USA and was done for decades. The change mandated this be deducted over ten years instead of the next year.

    For a long time, companies could write off the cost of salaries on their taxes, if the workers were doing research. This was changed by the republicans, and most of these private research departments closed . It was what caused a lot of the major layoffs this year in the mega corps.

    That, coupled with the public research departments being laid off , caused a cascade bouncing off entry level jobs in tech.

    Very little of this has to do with AI, and I think the misinformation is driven by a combination of AI hype, and PR by some companies laying off workers.



  • When adding code this way, one needs to look it over and read to fix bugs or things that are not quite correct; stats show experienced developers often are faster not using this approach because debugging existing code takes longer than writing it fresh.

    The speed is not the issue.

    What matters is sometimes subtle bugs are introduced that require several people to catch. If at all. These issues might be unique to the Llm.

    Having large sections of generated code offers the possibility of hard to find problems.

    Some codes are more sensitive to such issues.

    The details of how the code was added, and what it does, may render this issue harmless or very much a problem to be avoided.

    This is why it’s a flag and not a condemnation



  • This redistricting should be seen more as a failsafe or backup to keep bad governance. There are several other reasons why good governance cannot happen.

    While what is happening is scary and enraging, it will only matter in elections should there be a movement to actually count the ballots by hand in the next generation.

    But there is a secondary reason this is happening. Most Texans have no clue their ballots are miscounted, in primaries and general. Having such districts prevent movement in all parts of the state to question this. This future-proofs the cheating past the 2030s