This is about the extinction of hand coded programming as we know it. You know how very few people know assembly, and every so often a COBOL expert has to be found to update a bank’s database so they can overhaul their systems?

What if all of programming becomes like that only worse. With new generations of programmers not actually knowing how to program. A massive decline in numbers and competence… Programmers that only “program” by talking to LLMs.

Ever seen an episode of Star Trek where a computer is in charge of everything, and society crumbles when it breaks down?

I think we might hit a plateau in a generation or two. The point at which we can generate more and more LLMs but don’t know how to make them any better. Let alone reprogram unrelated systems like medical scanners, or air traffic safety systems, or mapping systems.

“It’s okay we’ll have the LLMs improve the LLMs”… For the rest of eternity.

Tell me then, was the problem solved, the work done by the LLM?

Was it considered good enough for a mainbranch?

Or was it faulty/risky and require highly trained experts to catch? Then flagged, and only put into an experimental branch?

How many ex-Oracle memory experts do you think are available for this work, in which even Linus didn’t catch the race condition?

“Hey guys, nothing to see here if we have enough high level engineers fixing everything”.

Nah, these are the right sizes. The middle of the country is mostly unpopulated desert (and then Alice Springs). If you mark deserts off as their own states, the snakes and dingos refuse to pay for road maintenance and that’s how you get Mad Max.

Or rather, LLMs helped create bad code, and so didn’t do a significant peice of work - or did it so poorly it was dangerous to rely on for general use in an Operating system:

Race conditions in programming occur when multiple processes or threads attempt to modify and access shared data simultaneously, leading to unpredictable and unintended outcomes. They can result in data corruption, program failures, and other unexpected behaviors if not properly managed with synchronization techniques.

The work isn’t done if it’s introducing risky/bad code (especially at the level of an operating system). That’s like saying “LLMs cure cancer by cutting patients into quarters, human reviewers stop it”

Then someone claiming “the real story here is that LLMs cured cancer”.

Was cancer actually cured? The article doesn’t say the problem was fixed by the LLM. It says humans did the work of finalizing parts of it which had to be restricted to an experimental branch, and only operates on 64-bit machines.

Gotta keep track of all those Nguyens.

(This is a Vietnamese history reference. It’s the most common surname because a king kept forcing people to change their surnames, sometimes as a punishment, often just because he said so. Surnames weren’t seen in the same way back then).

Someone promoted something of the task. Someone had the safeties off. Someone gave an instruction that was interpreted as requesting this.

You don’t know shit about my media consumption so stick to things you do know about.

I don’t think so. I think most people would have difficulty claiming they actually felt particularly warm or particularly liked their 50th on that list.

By that point it would probably just be “shows I don’t think are badly made”. But also, different shows can mean different things to different people. That’s Stuart Hall’s encoding, decoding model of media consumption… and like Anita Saarkesian says: “It’s both possible, and even necessary, to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.”

So I think a lot of media theory disagrees with you… and a lot of the time people only “like” media because of the age they were when it was released, or what was going on in their lives when they watched it.

You know anti-heros aren’t villains… They come on a spectrum. Hans Solo, and Humphrey Boguart in Casa Blanca were also anti-heros.

Nothing wrong with anit-heros.

Did he?

I hate most Hollywood movies, especially super hero stuff.

But shouldn’t you judge people on who they are, rather than the shows/media they enjoy? He’s clearly been nice/fun enough for her to go back to his place… Maybe she needs to be less judgemental on the small stuff.

“You like media/stuff I don’t like” probably isn’t a good reason to get out of there. Plenty of shitty people have good taste, plenty of good people have bad or generic taste.

People ratting out weed dealers? I care not for them.

Apparently they’ve spent 10 trillion in commitments that soan to 2032… And have to get AI earning to 3 trillion a year to avoid a crash.

…and there’s 8 billion people on earth. So I assume they’re hoping for some lucrative corporate/government contracts and bailouts.

Takes a lot of money to organize something like this. But I bet you the state government isn’t competent enough to look into who bought all their train tickets/lunches.

Also plenty of wealthy buyers who aren’t first home buyers will be moving snapping places up while prices are low.

This is why building affordable homes, of all styles, in all locations is important.

Anyone else certain team Rabbit is in the foreground, with team duck the group further away?

I know you’re not responsible for this:

But what old lady wears a frill around their chin?

Conclusion: The young lady is real, the old lady is the illusion.

This is the choice of the state government, and it’s helping them to lose the election unfortunately.

You make vapes illegal you create a black market. You have a black market for one thing, why not throw tax free tabacco in there too.

Oh you need to be criminal to get some of this stuff… Well the other shops are doing it and booming! So now everyone has to.

Oh great, now you have thousands of low level crime networks in contact with kids… Some of the kids get hired to do some firebombing (fucking up on a generational scale now, no sense of normal work/life for them now).

All because the fucking state government wants to lose the election (and didn’t want the healthier option of vapes to be available)… And look at the polls, Labor are on track to lose federally:

https://lemmy.world/comment/26216775

What’s the suggestion, that people should want to put their passion and effort into finding a new boss and set of restrictions on their time just to afford rent/food?

Face it, society is a bad deal. Sure it’s better than nothing or a poorer country. But people shouldn’t have to be stoked or going through burnout just to find a job.

AI job applications are an inevitable time saver for the poor and overwhelmed.