We’ve been subsidizing and supporting domestic EV manufacturing for longer than China has and yet US manufacturers dragged their feet in favor of higher profit margins. Of the electric vehicles they have managed to come out with, they’ve tended to price them higher even after the tax credit in order to maintain that high profit margin. The American manufacturers don’t care unless they feel threatened. That’s why it took Japanese competition in the 80s to make them get their act together.

In April 2023, the Joe Biden administration set a target to ensure 56% of all new cars sold in the U.S. by 2032 would be electric.

and we would’ve been able to easily achieve that if he didn’t also slap 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs.

It certainly saves time because of course plagiarism saves time. Does it mean people are doing their job better or more productively? Depends on how carefully they review that AI output, but I have a feeling that people aren’t always so vigilant. That’s where the technical debt creeps in.

This “moral code” would only be a suggestion rather than a hard constraint, given how this current iteration of AI works.

The next step after all AI company logos looking like an anus.

I think it’s because they think they’ll win more money. I’d be happy having fun while getting money at the same time.

Not from AI, except for nvidia who sells the tools for others to lose money on AI.

It’s faster to go from the 50th floor of a building to the bottom by jumping out the window than it would be taking the elevator, but that just makes a mess of things. Similarly, you seem to be going faster with AI, and in some respects you are, but there’s also the matter of technical debt, which is the messy aspect that someone has to deal with later.

I have used AI to quickly write up small functions here or there, but even then I’ve had to go in and clean up the code because even in small tasks it can be messy. The mess scales with the size of the problem, even if you do split it up among more agents (in fact it can be worse if you use too many agents).

Especially when people claim 10x productivity gains (a suspiciously oft-repeated claim, by the way), alarm bells ring in my mind, because I’ve seen the garbage that AI generates, and no one is actually reading that garbage carefully and cleaning it up while maintaining 10x productivity.

Reminds me of when the stupid “Web 3.0” made up by blockchain freaks was supposed to be the future. Not every technology will be as widespread as the internet. The internet facilitates communication across the entire world and offers many advantages over phone, mail, and other forms of communication.

The use cases and advantages are clear, even if there was an overly eager hype cycle in the 90s. AI might have some uses, but a clear advantage has not actually been established yet, nor have the legal challenges been ironed out. Remember that the current iteration of AI would not have been possible without breaking tons of IP law, slurping up as much data as possible.

Not just 20 extra people. I’m seeing a funny trend in my company where managers decide to get into vibe coding and they get super excited at getting something somewhat functional running, so now they’ve been presenting “their work” and expecting developers to merge their heaping trash in. That’ll require quite a few more people.

They should start with themselves.

Vibe coding is basically poorly rewriting dependencies.

Cringe on my Hinge? We shall measure true caliber in Soulcalibur.

Piss.

I wish there were more plug-in hybrids. I know there’s added complexity in the mechanics, but I’ve been enjoying 99+% electric driving for almost 10 years now and I feel like more would be willing to try it out if they had that “just in case” gas backup instead of having to take a full plunge all at once. They may find that they don’t need that extended range as much as they’d think.

It depends on what you consider worse. Deepseek will outright refuse to answer a question, but other models will happily answer with poisoned data.

See for example, grok translations of neutral questions about israel completely changing the questions: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXpK0BvFOUn/

and israel investing in influencing the output of chatgpt: https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/rj00kxqzaxx

Both are forms of censorship and both are bad, but personally I’d rather an AI shut up than slip in misinformation. If someone is going to take AI at its word (which people shouldn’t do, but you know how people are) then the misinformation will be taken as truth, but a message saying “I can’t discuss such things” will make someone turn elsewhere for answers.

Now ask western models about israel.

These companies have been tokenmaxxing i.e. judging employee performance based on how many tokens they use, so employees are incentivized to use up as many tokens as possible, even if it doesn’t actually improve productivity (and can actually result in the opposite).

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These politicians are either gigantic morons or malicious pieces of shit. Probably both.