RFK Jr: ... uhm... The Aristocrats!

... but there's a core utility there that will survive. Once that happens there's going to be a realistic appraisal of what it can do well and of what workloads must exist to wring real value from it. I like to imagine that will include "having human knowledge and using it."

That said, you have to assume that the technology itself will continue to advance - unsure at what pace, but it's been quicker so far than I expected - and also, I think, that professionals will sort of adapt around it. Right now a lot of BS built on AI is going to rightfully collapse...

That's the thing - and that's what worries me about the landscape in twenty years. Right now we still have enough people, I think, to say, "whoa hold on a minute there - this right here is capital 'S' Stupid" and enough people to listen. In a couple decades? Who knows.

I wonder how much of that is related to volume of content. I would replace "fluency" with "curiosity" there - a naturally curious writer given a reasonable workload is going to trend "better." Too much work can stifle that, and LLMs understandably become a tempting lifeline.

One of my go-to interview questions has always been - and I'm paraphrasing - "talk about your biggest fuck-up and how it was resolved."

Bonus is that you get to see if you're dealing with an explainer or an excuser.

The moment I get outside of those situations - the "good stuff," generally - the utility of LLM's tend to fall apart.

The thing is, I've done the grunt work already so I'm immediately and unconsciously critical of any code I see. That's been drilled in over the years.

I've fond utility in boilerplate, anything that is expected to align with the dominant paradigm of a given context, quickly brainstorming approaches to a problem, and smoothing out implementation details when I'm working in an unfamiliar language and have known solution but unknown syntax.

"The trick is to write only the docs that need to be written."

Which is quite the trick.

I agree in principle that code should be "self-documenting" but in practice there's some... let's say "wiggle room" there.

Yeah, that's my worry as well.

Management kind of hates to accept that a part of a junior dev's job is to fuck something up. The good part is that they're naturally very adept at it!

Yeah - creating an expansive glass palace to understand how to solve a specific problem and then implementing it, only to find that the moment you turn away it's all crumbled into a pile of sand.

I REALLY need to get better at documentation.

Expectation and motivation, too. I - Not An Expert - think that the potential for AI to reduce extrinsic motivations requires considering the possibility that intrinsic motivations may have atrophied. Younger people, on the other hand, are like 90% intrinsic motivations so it doesn't sting.

Right, it's nuanced. There's the "figuring out the problem" part, but there's also the implementation part. Sometimes, you end up "figuring out" obscure, obtuse implementation details in a given context that are far removed from "the good stuff."

I've always like how in geology things are very slow and then, suddenly, quite fast.

"This moves one centimeter per decade. Now, look over here. This just literally blew your face right off. Everybody signed the vouchers, right?"

$500 collector's edition? Are you trying to burn down Spectrum?

I am so damned tired of shitty, cliched names they come up with for this crap. "Prometheus" is supporting "Hyperion?" Yes, yes, we get it, we're all nerds who watched "Clash of the Titans" as kids.

I can't even count how many "Odin/ODIN/0d1n"'s I've seen.

They named it what they knew everybody was going to call it anyway, regardless of what they named it.

I'm distracted by their utterly mundane billionaire villainy.

I want to have a clever reply, but that header image of Ellison The Younger just reminds me of how committed that family is to the whole "Generic Bond Villain" thing. It's like that was their family Halloween costume in the mid '90's and they all just said, "fuck it, let's just run with this."

My favorite part is when he decided to fund the data centers with massive amounts of debt and is already losing customers because by the time construction is complete the hardware will be obsolete.

So a shoe company named "Allbirds" is now going to buy commodity hardware to offer AI services?

Can I start Sologull and then fail to sell bespoke 80's puffy vests for a few months before a pivot to AI as well? Get in on the ground floor, people!

That... that's kind of exactly the point of the post, though.

I mean, if a VC vulture buying a worthless brand and flipping it to Thing and making bank, isn't that the surest sign of a Thing bubble?

Shitty thing is that we're setting up an existential problem for the 2040s.

Today we have pre-AI knowledge and experience to leverage - lots of stereotypical "it's not the hammer it's knowing where to hit" experts.

In two decades, though?

Happy belated anthropomorphic home-invading rabbit day to all who celebrate.

And that kind of says it all about the two of them, doesn't it?

Oh come ON.... spoiler alert!

God damn it, now I know that Gosling can act. Fucking ruins the whole twist.

A children's entertainer who choose NOT to speak out about kids in concentration camps isn't a children's entertainer, they're Baby's Frist Propagandist.

Motherfucker probably had money on "when will the CFTC sue Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois for their efforts to 'outlaw, regulate, or otherwise restrain' prediction markets."

Funny, it doesn't look that picture was taken in the back of a van.