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A frustrating (and beware, long) post I came across: Coding is NOT solved

Starts off with some good sneers:

Those who claim LLM-generated software is good enough: ❌ Haven’t written code in ages ❌ Cannot spot if their code figuratively had 6 fingers! ❌ Have a low bar for what good looks like ❌ Don’t care about quality or NFR ❌ Have difficulty understanding an S-curve ✅ Are honest: AI genuinely writes better code than them

But the author can't get over their AI-centrism:

Instead of following other people’s advice, build with AI, gain first hand experience and make up your mind. But whatever you do, please please please don’t fool yourself into believing this is a fad. AI is here to stay, and as I stated above there are some genuine use cases for it already.

Interesting to note that there seems to have been a steady decline since around 2017 already (with the exception of a Covid-spike), though it definitely picked up after 2022.

It has felt like this is where it would end up since ChatGPT launched in late 2022 to be honest.

he seems to be the rational one

When your movement entirely dedicated to rationality gets casually stomped by the French.

Prepare to be tortured for an eternity by Scotty. No wait, that's an unholy image.

I mean motivated & cowardly ignorance has been a staple of liberal-conservatism for I don't know however long. I support cutting (my) taxes and increasing (my) liberty -- oh dear, why are some people suddenly poor and trampled upon? I would NEVER! This is just so horrible for me, I just need another tax cut right now. Have the poors tried eating cake?

Variation on a theme, I recall the complaints over the ostracism LLM-users face online as being just like the marginalization faced by black people. Waaaah!

I've been using Plasma & Qt-apps for years for their extensive user customizability and as I came from Windows, the Mac-paradigm of GNOME/GtK has always felt foreign personally. If they really go slop I don't think I can keep using them, but the GNOME UX just goes against the grain for me. Is there any other well-maintained modern desktop stack at all that has foregone LLMs?

The EAs and Trump really deserve each other.

Broke: scared of cheaper Chinese competition

Woke: scared of runaway AGI

And who do we have here conducting the interview: Stuart Ritchie, anti-trans activist & one of the more 'deniable' eugenics types of the late 2010s. What an incredibly tight ecosystem our good friends inhabit indeed lol.

Of course The Economist (inherently derogatory) would criti-hype AI.

A magazine whose editorial line is confident cluelessness.