what you're missing is that the demand curve for housing is basically a vertical line. most people will never buy/rent more or less than one unit of housing, and they will pay literally anything to keep it from being less. therefore even if there is a surplus of supply there isn't a competitive market.
Usually if you’re using it, it’s because you’re forced to.
In my experience, the best strategy is to minimize your use of it — call out to binaries or shell scripts and minimize your dependence on any of the GHA world. Makes it easier to test locally too.
> "there is a lot of racial prejudice when folks criticize the “poor craftsman” of modern construction workers compared to those of past generations, as they more often tend to be Latino workers these days."
This is nonsense. The reason people say nearly all modern construction and manufacturing sucks is because the primary focus is on reducing costs and increasing production efficiency/speed. Something that needs to be replaced sooner is also seen as a benefit rather than a problem - planned obsolescence.
So I don't think it's that they have no concept of correctness, they do, but it's not strong enough. We're probably just not training them in ways that optimize for that over other desirable qualities, at least aggressively enough.
It's also clear to anyone who has used many different models over the years that the amount of hallucination goes down as the models get better, even without any special attention being (apparently) paid to that problem. GPT 3.5 was REALLY bad about this stuff, but 4o and o1 are at least mediocre. So it may be that it's just one of the tougher things for a model to figure out, even if it's possible with massive capacity and compute. But I'd say it's very clear that we're not in the world Gary Marcus wishes we were in, where there's some hard and fundamental limitation that keeps a transformer network from having the capability to be more truthful as a it gets better; rather, like all aspects, we just aren't as far along as we'd prefer.
This is peak corporate drivel—bloated storytelling, buzzwords everywhere, and a desperate attempt to make an old idea sound revolutionary.
The article spends paragraphs on some childhood radio repair story before awkwardly linking it to STPA, a safety analysis method that’s been around for decades. Google didn’t invent it, but they act like adapting it for software is a major breakthrough.
Most of the piece is just filler about feedback loops and control structures—basic engineering concepts—framed as deep insights. The actual message? "We made an internal training program because existing STPA examples didn’t click with Googlers." That’s it. But instead of just saying that, they pad it out with corporate storytelling, self-congratulation, and hand-wringing over how hard it is to teach people things.
The ending is especially cringe: You can’t afford NOT to use this! Classic corporate play—take something mundane, slap on some urgency, and act like ignoring it is a reckless gamble.
TL;DR: Google is training engineers in STPA. That’s the whole story.
It's always wild to me that anyone actually uses reddit by looking at the front page or r/all or whatever. For years when I would go to reddit.com I was like "why is this even a thing". It's only once I found a few small subreddits that I found anything useful there. Most of it is a firehose of garbage.
Unless I’m missing something, that’s quintiles of absolute wealth. I’d be curious how the data shakes out for the lowest quintile calculated relative to costs of living.
For the record I'm not saying that Jews are evil, but if they happened to do any wrongdoings or evil deeds, for example worshipping other fake god in the form of false deity/human/cow/idols/etc beside their one true God they'll be punished accordingly whether in this world or hereafter, or both. This fact is mentioned in Jewish own holy books including Torah and the Bible namely Old and New Testaments (Jesus is a Jews speaking Aramaic - an Arabic like language spoken around Jerusalem during Roman time). This universal God's rule is also applies to Muslim and everyone else as far as Muslim are concerned.
Could we not usually say most software could be documented better. I do not think GitHub Actions ranks near the bottom in terms of documentation and user experience overall. I do understand your point though.
