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Congratulations for your securing of relatively tolerable employment!

You're argument seems like Suresh's to me, in that making working software is just laughably easy for a competent engineer.

This begs the question why noone is exploiting this market gap. But there's a couple explanations...

It can be a coordination problem, in that there are just barely any competent software organisations with enough engineers. The problem can also lie in how software is bought, since customers seem completely unable to determine the competence of vendors. Perceptions on what kind of software is a safe, respectable choice may even be anti-helpful in this regard.

I don't think you have to be hypercritical of that part. Sure, rose-colored glasses could play into it but he calls the bad stuff bad and doesn't justify it via the good stuff.

Also the stuff he describes seems plausibly achievable through buddhist spiritial practice:

In many ways MAPLE delivered: life-long friendships, freedom from past addictions and limiting self-narratives, strengthened character, and, for many of us, profound spiritual openings and realizations.

This Soryu figure seems fairly well accredited in that department. He just also happens to be a megalomaniacal control freak.

(Also, why does he have to share a name with Asoka? I'm dying a little.)

edit: I knew I spelt megalomaniacal wrong...

Of course there's a class element to this, but you give them too much credit.

This isn't poor people being exposed to stupid AI so rich people can reap the benefits of actual AI. This is poor people being subjected to stupid AI so AI company shareholders can pretend that their stupid AI is worth anything for another quarter.

2 fictional men and a depiction of a typical AI booster

Die faulste Variante überhaupt ist aber der Mähroboter, dieser Rasen-Roomba. Solche Gärten sehen aber total langweilig aus für mich.

Wenn man einmal im Monat mit Mäher & Motorsense drübergeht, haben Klee & Wildblumen auch ne Chance sich auszubreiten. Golfrasen ist für mich nix.

I once listened to a talk by a guy from german OSHA that hit a lot of the good points. Perceived productivity opposed to actual productivity from the METR studies. Mental load of alien code review. (This was a company-internal IT-expert exchange thingy.)

A question in Q&A (submitted anonymously on slido like a sniveling coward) was deadass "Have you ever coded with a frontier model?"

If you could get a ukranian drone unit to spray paint "TRANS RIGHTS" with the trans colors on a Flamingo FP-5 before they send it to blow up a refinery, that would make a good post.

This gives me strong Belter drinking bulb vibes.

Das rasterisierte Ex-Kanzlerantlitz kommt gut aufm Schein.

Jährlicher Umsatz 402.8B$, davon wird die Strafe ca. 0,2% sein.