I buy my software by weight! Give me the biggest one you have, please. I'm talking hundreds of klocs.

I let it work all night, wake up and eat klocs for breakfast.

It's not because of one incident. And the fascist part of these incidents isn't just the killing, it's the official response to it. They immediately claim the victims are terrorists and assassins and suppress investigation of it. Let's not pretend this is just some sad accident.

Agreed the official responses to almost everything - killings, terrible policy, various files - has been horrible. That is the result of having an uncouth person as president.

> If I had a button that would wipe out the entire Amazon jungle and replace it with a world class high technology industry, I wouldn't even think twice before pressing it.

Wow. Why, because the Amazon is just a bunch of trees or something boring? If "high technology industry" is so much more valuable without even thinking twice about it, you probably don't understand very much of the world.

I understand. I just don't care. I'd rather my country got rich and powerful instead. Would be nice to industrialize and keep the Amazon but I'd totally sacrifice it if needed. It's home to huge rare earths reserves.

Are we supposed to be treating LLMs like sentient beings with their own identity and rights? I must've missed this civilization altering milestone.

You were anthropomorphizing software and assuming others are doing the same. If we are at the point where we are seriously taking a computer program's identity and rights into question, then that is a much bigger issue than a particular disagreement.

I'd argue that we will get to that point this century almost certainly, and should start getting comfortable with that.

But we're not there yet.

If morals or ethics aren't an equal partner in security, happiness, and prosperity, then the tribe deserves to fall.

Tedium in art is full of micro decisions. The sum of these decisions makes a subtle but big impact in the result. Skipping these means less expression.

You can say whatever you want, but pretentious sneering is annoying, don't be surprised if people push back.

Not a good one.

Has the quality of software been improving all this time?

The volume of software that we have produced with new tools has increased dramatically. The quality has remained at a level that the market can accept (and it doesn't want to bother paying for more quality for the cost of it).

Absolutely. I missed the punch card days, but have been here for the rest, and software quality is way higher (overall) than it used to be.

Sure, people were writing terrible code 25 years ago

XML oriented programming and other stuff was "invented" back then