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The funnier part is that people are being let it without the gov crosschecking their identity with the government they are from and just being like "yeah you look ok, come in".

"Moderation watchdog"

"Independent fact checkers"

Pattern noticing is not a hate crime.

That is their biggest trick: to make normal pattern noticing a crime.


It will be ironic if AfD wins and then pushes their right wing viewpoint to the max to everyone.

There will be immediately be a "no wait, you can't do that" backlash from the same actors that are proposing this.


It's part of the scam, they actually want the AfD to later have that power so that they can say "Hey, look at what these fascists are doing, vote us back with urgency to prevent more fascism".

Win-win for the CDU/CSU and the AfD, the CDU gains power and has a boogeyman to use to scare voters into voting for them.


2 to 3 colonoscopies per ~1k to 2k people cause severe rupture of the intestines that require urgent surgery.

That's also what people said when SpaceX said they will make reusable rockets that fly back and land.

Critics should almost always be ignored, it's the people fighting in the arena that actually create progress for humanity.


His argument is the equivalent of saying in ~1910 when the 1st mass produced Ford car came out "Where are the carbon brakes? Where is the hybrid motor system? Where is the ABS? Where are the rear parking cameras"?

Moving the goalpost.


This will probably be how things will work in future: devs will shift to specifying features which will be validate through tests.

The AI will then be middle layer that will iterate until tests pass.

Layer 1: Specs (Humans)

Layer 2: Code (AI mostly)

Layer 3: Tests (AI + human checks).


Yes, that is how I see it too. What I would add is - intent testing - collect user messages, and check them against executed work from time to time. Every ask must be implemented and tested, every code must be justified by a user message.


What a boring fucking future.


Which to me is why it’s so important to build cooler and crazier shit. A web app to facilitate some business process was always boring, but at least you got to code. Now it’s just boring. The thing I’m building right now is pretty wild, involving computer vision, robotics, and surgery. It’s super complex and without AI, the development would have bankrupted us. But because of ai, we did it and the product is going to FDA this year.


No kidding. AI does all the interesting problem solving and humans...

Write tests. The most boring activity on the planet


I wasn’t talking about unit tests. Was talking about tests that accelerate development, where you can setup everything and test a feature by just pressing enter vs clicking around or whatever. The tests are how you build features, so I don’t consider that boring

There is problem solving in coding, but the bigger problems exist at a higher level and that’s still on you to solve.

Also I’ve been messing with “ai-only” files recently. You make a markdown file that basically tells it what the file does, how it’s used, and point to an API contract in some other file. Then you can run async ai that will try things and only submit a PR of all the tests pass and the perf improves. The files become almost unreadable to be, but I decided to embrace it because they were already unreadable. But so is the output of, say, the protobuf code generator and I never had a problem accepting that


I'm aware that I'm probably an outlier, but implementing the solution is the actual rewarding part for me

AI does nothing for me there. Coming up with the hypothetical solution and having AI build it does nothing for me

I like to build


I also love to build. And I'm mourning the loss of coding as a craft that is sought after and well compensated. I like to get my hands dirty and it feels wrong that I can basically write specs and the real labor that I love is done for me. But it also allows me to build some pretty amazing stuff that I would have never been able to do otherwise. So I'm slowly accepting it and want to come up with ways to coexist. I code for several hours a day because and will continue to do so because even after 36 years I still get joy and comfort from it


Validation plans and acceptance criteria aren't tests. Those aren't "boring" - they're the most important things in order to make sure your software actually does what users need.

Translating those into executable tests is a different process entirely, and one that in the past has been done (often quite poorly) by humans, and it's actually pretty well suited for AI.


Well, humans specify the tests. The AI can probably write them better, too.

Probably more boring still, though.


This.

Even an extremely small population of homeless/junkies is enough to "taint" benches.

The same with parks.


Singapore works as a multi-ethcnic multi-cultural society because of measures like this and an understanding that you cannot have a functional democracy in a multi cultural, multi racial and a multi-ethnic society: each race/culture votes for his own and against others on racial/ethnic lines.


You can never fight against a bully with words.

The only real way for a kid in school to stop being bullied is for him to challange or beat up his bully.

Nothing else works.


> The only real way for a kid in school to stop being bullied is for him to challange or beat up his bully.

Why is this always painted as one individual victim having to fight/challenge their particular bully?

I remember a bunch of us kids spontaneously self-organizing in the fifth grade. After an older kid bullied a few kids at recess, a group of ten of us-- most of whom hadn't been bullied, but who obviously could be bullied-- suddenly realized we could walk over to him as a group.

He did a double take as we meandered over mumbling to each other about what our intentions were. When we got close, he then looked down nervously at his shoes. We didn't do or say anything to him. After about five seconds, we all dispersed.

I don't remember him bullying anyone after that.


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