We desperately look for ways to force ourselves to stay focused. What that tells me is that we don't like our jobs. What it shows is that our work culture is toxic. The job should be interesting and even exciting enough that staying focuesed is the base line. We should be forcing ourselves to take a break from it. Of course, it's small wonder in a society where 85% of the jobs is just an alibi to produce the numbers that the establishment of free market demands, and where we don't do 95% of the jobs that we should be doing to future proof a liveable civilisation.
I think LLMs are the great filter of software engineers. They can do a lot reasonable well, but they lack the ability to be an overarching architect of complex projects (and it's my conviction that they can never achieve that).
Only the best humans with insight, intuition and pattern recognition and application in non trivial scenarios can fill that gap.
Source Hut has been around for 6-7-ish years (https://sr.ht). A rather different approach to Git, closer to its original intentions. No PRs in the classical sense, just email patches (that's how the Linux kernel is developed to date). You can do most things though that you can on GitHub using tools and CLI.
This is so awesome! Every city and town should follow suite. Then live TV, streaming and internet platforms. No forced advertisements at all, the entire industry should move into an on-demand model. Do you know why? BECAUSE NOBODY F***G WANTS THEM, and they or forced down our throat by the ton every freaking day!
This would be good, because the entire industry would shrink to a few percent of its current size, and, let's be honest, who wouldn't be glad that they don't have to a job any more that didn't make any sense whatsoever but in exchange it frustrated millions of people on a daily basis? If all those people now become a useful member of our societies then we are one step ahead.
What made you think we'd ever need AI tokens as much as we do bandwidth, or that they are even comparable.
Bandwidth is abstract, it's information flow. LLMs are a specialised tool, they are based on noise and randomness, and thus are inherently imperfect.
We could have guaranteed the elimination of famine world-wide for 100 years from the resources we wasted on the AI infrastructure in the last 5 years. Shame on us.
There's usefulness in LLMs but not that much. They are definitely not the future.
The world has enough of everything in abundance to create a global civilisation without any major problems. There's only one problem standing in the way: we can't regulate ourselves. We can't achieve equal distribution of resources because we can't stop bigotry and greed. AI can do exactly nothing about this.
Creating a place to source the information needed to solve these problems that institutions, agencies, govt's can use to employ healthy, happy and prosperous regulations isn't a pipe dream. We need to start somewhere and the internet isn't the best library. AI isn't going to solve these problems but it will help review and source through the piles of information we have created in this world.
Thanks! It looks like the viewer app somehow mangled the link I was reading into a link to the whole issue. If a mod sees this, it would be great to use this link instead.
It's unfortunate that they use this ghastly viewer app, but I promise the content is worth it.
Dude must have misplaced his pills... That has always been Linux. Period. Windows is the trusted platform for unwarranted data collection and unwanted ads. Undeniably. Also, for people who never knew anything else, and so haven't grown up yet for the task.
