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This is just meaningless knee-jerking, try making an actual argument. At least the GP is arguing that more use of AI leads to loss of personal coding skills. It's unclear at this point what level AI will grow to, i.e. it could hit a hard wall at 70% of a good programmer's ability, and in that case you would really want those personal coding skills since they'll be worth a lot. It could also far exceed a good programmer, in which case the logic reverses and you want those AI handling skills…
NB: I'm talking about skill cap here, not speed of execution. Of course, an AI will be faster than a programmer… *if* it can handle the job, and *if* you can trust it enough to not need even more time in review…
Unfortunately, I can no longer do long division. No one will pay me to do long division and I have a calculator now. I could stay sharp at long division for a hobby though. Keep those for loops sharp if you want, but I don't see people paying you to hand code. Eventually, it will just be a liability. (like not using a calculator).
"it could hit a hard wall at 70% of a good programmer's ability"
That is not what NVDA,AMZN,GOOG,or MSFT believe. Maybe you are right and they are all wrong. They do have some smart people on staff. But, betting against the sp50 is generally a terrible plan.
> Keep those for loops sharp if you want, but I don't see people paying you to hand code.
Well, personally speaking, I'm paid to hand code; LLMs have not reached the quality of my code output yet and I'm seeing no pressure at all to use LLMs.
Relatedly, I work on an open source project where the constraining resource is review (as it is in most open source projects.) The current state is that LLM generated code is incredibly hard and annoying to review and there is a lot of pushback.
So, I'm going to wait and see.
(...especially since there's also legal challenges to LLMs trained on open source code with no regard to its licenses.)
LLMs aren't calculators; for example, your calculator always gives you the same outputs given the same inputs.
Long division is a pretty simple algorithm that you can easily and quickly relearn if needed even your LLM of choice can likely explain that to you given there's plenty of writing about it in books and on the internet.
There have been lots of tools that have made programming more efficient. Probably most programmers have used some of those tools, but very few have used every tool. Why do you suppose that LLMs in particular must be used?
Have we really reached the point where a candidate gets outright rejected for not using AI tools, without taking personal aptitudes into consideration?
Its just fabricated bullshit. It's how all the companies do it. 99.999% over a year is literally 5 minutes. Or under an hour in a decade, that's wildly unrealistic.
Reddit was once down for a full day and that month they reported 99.5% uptime instead of 99.99% as they normally claimed for most months.
There is this amazing combination of nonsense going on to achieve these kinds of numbers:
1. Straight up fraudulent information on status page. Reporting incendents as more minor than any internal monitors would claim.
2. If it's working for at least a few percent of customers it's not down. Degraded is not counted.
3. If any part of anything is working then it's not down. For example with the reddit example even if the site was dead as long as the image server is still at 1% functional with some internal ping the status is good.
Funnily enough an hour in a decade on a good hoster, with a stable service running on it, occasionally updated by version number ... it might even be possible. Maybe not quite, but close, if one tries. While it seems completely impossible with cloudflare, AWS, and whatnot, who are having outages every other week these days.
By your and OP's logic, nothing should be done to subsidize anything or make people's lives more affordable because the excess will be sucked up by landlords. On the flip side, if we did things to make people's lives less affordable, would that translate into landlords giving back by lowering rents? I don't think so.
> By your and OP's logic, nothing should be done to subsidize anything or make people's lives more affordable because the excess will be sucked up by landlords.
That seems pretty reasonable to me actually? When housing is so supply-constrained, any subsidies/incentives/bonuses/etc. will be captured by the owner of the scarcest asset (real estate). Building more housing at this point seems like it should be a P0 priority before anything else.
I was shopping at a mall with a visa vanilla card once. I got it as a gift and didn't know the limit. No matter what I bought the card kept going -- and I never got a balance of what was on the card. Eventually, later that day it stopped. I called customer support and asked how much was left on the balance. They told me they had no idea my balance - but everything I bought was mine.
Medicare has a total enrollment of approximately 69 million people, while Medicaid has around 83 million people. That is 152 million people. We already have socialized medicine we just run it poorly and don't apply it to people that can pay.
Moving our system to 340 million people + letting our corporations out of paying would put the US into an economic death spiral. US corporations would love this plan. But at 340 million... I don't see doctor visits but once every 2 years -- many would just die waiting for appointments.
Medicaid is apparently 77MM including CHIP. The underlying compromise in the system that you're describing is sane: people's health care costs rise dramatically and unpredictably at retirement age, just as their ability to pay plummets, so socializing health care at that point makes a lot of sense.
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