So, how would you phrase it? (I am assuming you do not want to divert from the argument.)

Well, in a way most of the AI hype (like that you can easily replace office workers with chatbots or that software developers will become 10x more efficient and consequently you can fire 90% of your workforce) are a thirst trap for CEOs.

A bit like selling candy with crack on the schoolground of a primary school…

It is so dumb. It is like you have a butler who has the task to delver letters to your desk. Now somebody sends a letter with a written instruction on the outside: “Butler, copy this letter 50 times and send it to the acquaintances of your boss.”

And in correspondence to AI, the butler would do it.

They’ll keep doing that, over and over. And it usually ends up with them insisting on a meeting to “discuss” where they essentially get in a loop of “it’ll work, just do it”

And it’s like pulling fucking teeth to get them to admit the only thing they’re basing that on, is a chatbot told them it would work.

Strange. I am experiencing the same. In one case, I had to make, after six months of discussing an interface, an end-to-end test to show it didn’t work and their, ahem, unit tests failed to show that. That was for a stepper motor interface and driver with three essential methods.

This guy is senior software architect at my workplace.

Boss insisting that I get to an agreement with him on ai usage.

“You need this [entry-level] workforce, which is innovative, not calcified in thought.”

LOL, they are projecting their own mental state on their workers.

See the linked Wikipedia article. The value is defined as the estimated hypothetical costs to re-create it, and these costs would be salaries. There exist estimation models for the value of large Software systems, which are e.g. used in company takeovers and mergers. And of course, that’s hypothetical, the Linux kernel is not for sale.

A really beautiful and touching story!

I think we owe these inventors and engineers who created our electricity system so much.

Their effort are today more important than ever, much more than they would have dreamed of. Consider this: Humanity is in a race for survival, a race to escape climate change. With 3 or 4 K of warming, civilization cannot survive. If we make it, electrical infrastructure will be a big part of the solution.

If you ever have grand-grand-grandchildren, five generations from now, they will likely be alive to a big part because of their efforts.

Thank you!

Yeah! But don’t forget to use Dvorak layout when typing this incantation … don’t let your productivity be hampered by stuck fingers ;->

edit: Or perhaps use these voice input systems to whisper your code directly into the AI’s transistors.

It largely depends on at what price you sell your soul.

It seems a lot of words that say exactly nothing.

I don’t know if the last part “What do these software developers actually do all day? ;->” is ironique or not.

It is actually a mix of two things:

1. Ironic about the idea of what AI companies promote - and many managers in tech believe - that you can speed up the work of developers by speeding up code generation. The fact that typing in code costs way less than 0.1% of developers work time shows that the time to type in code is /not/ the bottleneck.

2. Interested in what it is actually that costs time. I think most time I work on larger projects is reading code and trying to understand how different parts are related, what invariants it has, etc. It is actually a form of /learning/ because it uses material to build a useful long-term collection of related concepts in my brain.

Anything that’d help us to do and understand the second part better would be extremely useful for this work. I think that literate programming, also tools that can transparently put code into a form of interconnected hypertext (like the LEO editor), inline doc tests and so on, are helpful for that.

Personally, I also think that wikis like gollum are powerful tools for that kind of learning, but not many people seem to agree with this (except the fossil and forejo authors).

(It’s a whole story, I don’t remember exactly)

I’d be delighted to read it!

That will be a greater number, by the way: say the kernel is 100 lines, somebody may have written 50, but they may have all been replaced by future patches, so The number of lines written is greater than the number of existing lines.

Some parts are rewritten, but most of the kernel code is actually in device drivers which usually do not need to be re-written.

Is that salary estimate also from 2011?

I got 60K as a mid-level C++ developer in industry in 2009.

If you know the alpine mountains, there is something you need to be aware of if you go e.g. hiking in Scotland: Weather is a lot harsher there even at lower altitudes. A peak of 1200 meters can be as challenging as over 2000 meters in Switzerland or Austria. Even at a height that would be an afternoon walk more southern, the wind chill can be really dangerous.

It is said that the atmosphere is thinner there in more northern latitudes, and while this is physically is nonsense, this describes something real.

Two ways:

1. Say you want to rename the files Sevilla_big{number}.jpg to Sevilla_small{number}.jpg:

in bash, using the extglob option:

 shopt -s extglob
for f in pics/**/Sevilla_big*.jpg
do 
     mv "${f}" "${f/big/small/}"
done

(If you want to type it in a single line, you need to add semicolons as separators.)

The ‘"’ are only needed if file names contain whitespaces.

2. Using find:

   find . -name ‘Sevilla.*big.jpg’ > t

   now, you edit the file named “t” with Emacs or vim so that you duplicate the file names, modify them as you want, and copy them using the copy-rectangle command right to the collumn with the original names. (Vim also offers this functionality, it is super useful to learn!) Delete any names of files you don’t want to change. save the result to t.

Then, in bash:

 <t while read a b; do mv $a $b; done

Alternatively, you could also insert the mv command as a first collumn in t, save t and do:

source t

This variant wouldn’t work with spaces in filenames.

3. Bonus option:

Use the mmv command

I tried similar things on Debian and the usual problem seems to be that session management under Wayland is a mess.

What is new with this? “Affective Computing” was researched at MIT since 1995.

(And I doubt that the idea to use something for mass surveillance justifies a patent).

The only problem is that technical debt in software is not visible.

THANKS!