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just as soon as we start judging male looks like we do female we’d get on this

Men get judged plenty: height, hairline, weight, income. The 'we don't judge men' line only holds up if you've never been a short or bald guy on a dating app. Plus-size male models already exist (look up IMG's Brawn division); the industry just hasn't bothered to scale it.

short bald guys with $$$ can get any woman they want, short bald women, not so much :)

Bald women wear wigs and there's no comparison between short women and short men. I've never heard a man complain about a woman's height being too short and being bald seemed to have a positive effect on a woman I knew as she attracted attention with her differing wigs.

the public is so used to good quality software that they are in for rude awakening :)

The thing is, people already have certain expectations from their software, because it is all around them.

They'd revolt en-masse if their TV had the downtime of github, of if their computer had the number of successful supply chain attacks that npm enjoys.

The quality may not have been good, but the market had stabilised on what the public would accept. AI changes this substantially.


it absolutely doesn’t. most software is shitty and buggy. I know, have seen 30 years worth of it. just now we can write the shitty and buggy a lot faster.

ask anyone that has been in the industry for awhile and they will tell you the same thing. a lot of crowd on HN write as if human-written code is any good and while there are always exception, on average, most software is shitty. if I had a dollar for every time I met someone writing software for “X” saying “dude, if you knew what I know you’d never use/do/… X” I’d be a very rich man


Most software may be shitty, but users absolutely are not prepared for the level of shittiness we see in vibed projects.

That's what I'm saying: users are used to a certain level of reliability. They might not be so accepting of a decline.


example? or this is theoretical?

So many, so numerous examples.

But, lets start with the C compiler written by an AI, guided by the comp[any that sells the AI. Do you really think that the average user is eady yet to accept that sort of degradation in quality?


C compiler written by AI is used somewhere to compile production code?

> C compiler written by AI is used somewhere to compile production code?

That's the point - it isn't used; the quality is too poor to even replace tcc.


And yet, quality can always get worse.

it could and likely will but it’ll be in the news for a day tops and the world will move on to the “next thing.”

President himself has several

AI codes, AI tests, AI verifies, in a Ralph Loop ( https://github.com/snarktank/ralph ) :)

not using it at all is no longer an option, companies that are not using it at all will die slow/fast death but death nonetheless.

That's just a baseless assumption. To use AI well you should do the things that allow you to use stuff well. You shouldn't just use it any way you can because you assume that 'not using it at all' is not the best option.

This is literally the same with every single technological development.


> This is literally the same with every single technological development.

yup, there are a lot of successful companies today not using the internet :)


What's the LLM equivalent to email and a basic webpage?


Ironically, companies overusing it will probably die at a similar speed. Maybe faster, even, depending whether cash burn or technical debt catches up to them first.

100%

That's like saying farmers that don't use pesticides will die out. There's whole industries around doing things not the way big companies say you have to. Human-centric firms will pop up and proposer.

they are not failing, our Socialist President provides billions in handouts for Farmers so they gonna be just fine

We're losing a lot of workers. Some might consider that a good thing if they hate the idea of a large exploited underclass (or just people of a certain skin color), but it could be a problem for farms if there aren't enough hands to harvest in time.

Let us hope this results in farms offering Americans better wages for working on farms. Only 1% of the retail cost of produce is due to labour. Farms could double wages to workers and it would barely move the needle on inflation.

I agree, but the farmers aren't pulling in massive amounts of cash either. There are record profits being siphoned from the wages of the workers, and from the profits of the farmers, and from the pockets of the consumer at the register. We'd all be better off if we tracked the money down and took it back.

Put Wall Street out of work and have the bankers work the farms out there in rural Conneticut and NJ and NY. It'll be good for them, put some hair on their chest and give them Real World Experience (tm)

Farmers don't see your retail cost in their gains either. That's captured by huge middlemen corporations.

Unless of course the farmers are themselves working for a huge vertically-integrated corpo.


Handout for American farmers or Argentine ones?

if they are large corporation owned farms as many small family owned farms are going to go bankrupt in the next 2 years because of the price of fertilizer and diesel and higher interest rate.

Oh come on. What they are trying to do is turn farm owners into corporate farm employees. The handouts are just to keep their votes.

He destroys trade relations so the farmers can’t sell their produce, then bails them out by taking on more government debt so farmers can dump soybeans in a ditch.

It’s all such a clown show.


> It really isn't going anywhere

It might not be going anywhere cause it is already everywhere and has nowhere else to go :)


never buy index funds. this is what wealthy will tell you but none of them own index funds. how many of sp500 companies are doing great these days, growing, profitable…? 5% maybe. my financial well-being has dramatically changed since I stopped buying index funds 9 years ago. bunch of “smart” people will tell you “oh this is risky, bla bla” and it sure might be but while you might end up “rich” with index funds you won’t get wealthy. I will never again spend a penny in index funds (I am self-employed and manage my own i401k)

the cool thing, google is much like meta, the kids see it as something boomers are using. my daughter is 12, whenever I say “google it” she says “that’s very, very funny Dad, you are fun guy.” it’ll take some time until boomers are off google as well (my usage of google is probably at 30% of where it used to be) but their days of “this is where you go to ‘search’” are numbered

What would she use instead?

you pitch this and next election cycle you will out as soft on crime which is why this can only ever go (significantly) into the opposite direction unfortunately

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