It made it harder because no one can find a job anyomre. New grads can't even get a foot in. How are they supposed to have a career if they can't start?
>This has probably been beaten to death, but I think this is the biggest disciminating question between "pro ai" and "against ai" in the software world is: "Dp you do (this) becuase you like writing code, or because you like building things for the world?"
I do this because I want to build quality software. AI to the extent people are trying to push it cannot achieve that. So I'm pro-buildinig and anti-AI.
I spent my years in this domain learning how to optimize code, and AI meanwhile doesn't always make compileable code. Let alone correctly functioning code (step 0 in optimizing: "make sure it actually works first")
Got unflagged. Really speaks to HN's priorities when slop can get unflagged but negative news against the tech overlords is "too political".
>Irrespective of who wrote it or how it was written, the essay is packed with wisdom.
As always: if they can't be bothered to write, why am I bothered to read it?
Especially on this topic. I know the exact fear mongering and catch phrases it's going to say here. "AI is here to stay", "you need to get with the times or get out", etc. There's nothing new nor wisdom in this.
You can also just kind of hop from blog to forum to subreddit to discord to social media account etc. passively over time based on what interesting people are talking about or mentioning. My main point is that you can't expect to find a list of good pockets of the internet with low effort, because if they are low effort to find, they will be flooded and made not good.
I spent days worth of reseach some years ago trying to find a reddit alternative (think pre-pandemic, well before consensus started to turn). I more or less found a few substitutes (which includes HN), but nothing that ever truly felt like "community".
As you implied here, the sad fact is that a lot of the niche groups live within the mainstream. on a Discord server, or a subreddit, or Facebook group. And I've moved away from most of those. Probably need to move away from Discord in time too.
It's the US being special in how there's zero good reasoning behind any of this. A private company made a choice and it's retaliating like a spurned date.
There is plenty of good reasoning executed badly from a PR perspective.
It is (now) called the Department of War for a reason: It needs to be able to kill people very fast and cheap. Autonomous weapons platforms do that: you give them a geofenced area and let them kill everything that moves in said area. No loss of human pilots, no fatigue.
If Anthropic they had any ethics concerns they would not have signed up the Pentagon as client in the first place.
My guess is that they wanted to have their cake and eat it too.
>I guess my tangent meant to point at the need for both general, or specialized, "social hubs", where regularly appearing people silently agree to, eventually, getting talked to.
Those are called "3rd places". Those have sadly been on the decline for the past 30 years.
It's easy to point to phones as the problem, but few can point to proper solutions. Because they don't exist in the same way the previous generations had it.
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