From what I’ve seen, it’s mostly non-coding “tech” journalists, executives, and enthusiasts getting the LLMs to generate tutorial fodder, which it can do just fine. I’m sure there are also some coders doing the most milquetoast development tasks, like yet another thin custom UI that just frontends some data in a database in a straightforward way that it works for. One example was a vibe coder getting pissed because he wanted to implement some feature on top of the tutorial fodder and the AI kept failing to do so and he was completely lost. He didn’t understand why it could get as far as it could with “hard” stuff but be utterly unable to implement this thing he thought sounded like it should be “easier”

From my experience on my sort of work, it can occasionally suggest a serviceable couple of lines fairly frequently faster than I could type it. If I have a tedious but boilerplate sort of thing to do, it can probably present a good draft (for example, if you write a CLI utility just start using the variables you would imagine, then ask it to generate the argument parsing section and it has a good chance of getting 90%+ of the way there). It can also generate a decent draft docstring for a function, which can be nice particularly if you strongly suspect no human would ever read it anyway. Some people swear by its ability to comment functions, but seems like they are grading on quantity not quality, as it documents every single line in useless ways (x = 50 // Assign the value 50 to variable x) and then fails to comment the actual confusing bits of code.

So best scenario is using some code editor with AI integration to ambiently drive completion and quick access to prompt up specific context of code. But still be prepared to be annoyed as while the completions are occasionally useful enough to be worth the annoyance, you may find yourself discarding useless suggestions maybe most of the time. Still might be faster even with the annoyance, but there’s a natural urge to be annoyed at seeing the LLM be wrong just so much of the time.

“Prompt Engineer” to go into the bin right next to “webmaster” for ridiculous job titles having that same vibe as putting “I know how to use Word” on a resume.

If that concern were actually relevant and not merely an excuse, mob justice would fail to consider innocence. That’s seen repeatedly. Merely an excuse seems likely, but…

The thing I could imagine is that the list being something like a contact list, and Epstein treated celebrity contact information as a status symbol. If the list is a ledger of otherwise off book transactions, or a lost of people complete with blackmail material, then I can’t see how they could even try to make the argument about innocent caught up in the list.

Either way if they have a district list, put aside releasing the list for a moment, where’s the legal system enforcement actions?

True enough, there are some rich people that aren’t onboard with it, but there’s just room for some other rich people to suceed even as their business suffers.

And then double dip on a recovery.

But certainly, there’s room for both, so that’s why it’s not quite as mind numbingly stupid that some of the billionaires are on board.

Bad for business, but perhaps not as bad for the rich business owners that can capitalize on the market chaos a bit without even pretending to contribute to actual productivity.

Yeah it’s essentially letting China win by default…

Thanks for that write up, very informative about what went down.

I wonder about having different alert sounds. The one alert sound I barely think to take seriously. I read them and I think I would notice unique phrasing, but I also imagine people are tempted by the ability to turn off emergency alerts as they seem a bit overused.

Well, here’s me pinning my hopes on your interpretation. A few more moderate leaders in the world would be a gigantic relief after so many years of how things have been going. I mostly grew up the last time the world swung a bit more moderate and would be ecstatic to feel that way again.

One thing I wonder is how seriously people take the flood warnings.

Most of the time if it is raining at all, I get the various flood warnings. I could imagine people underestimating those.

I recall quite a bit being made of how overtly grim, specific, and certain the Katrina warning was and how that may have helped set it apart from the usual “warning”

Well not all the success possible…

I think total cost of ownership is lower for EVs for people that have reasonable electricity rates and can charge at home, but that’s a tougher sell and most people aren’t even sure that it will work out unless they try it.

Need a weaker executive branch too

My nephew was trash talking me about Mario Kart talking about how he’d smoke me because he had been playing it so long.

My reply “I was playing this before you were born”

Not me but in way back in high school I saw a comeback I’ll never forget. I’ll call them John and Bob.

John was teasing Bob in a mock flirting way. Bob was uncomfortable and told John to stop it.

John says “what’s the matter, aren’t you secure in your sexuality?”

Bob instantly replies “absolutely, but I’m not secure in yours”

Is it the case that the “they” that want a more moderate leader are consistent with the “they” that actually get to make the call?

I think the US has sunk it’s own ship without any particular effort by BRICS frankly.

But what frame of reference?

Or stealing someone else’s spaceship time machine

They will require the requester to prove they control the standard http(s) ports, which isn’t possible with any nat.

It won’t work for such users, but also wouldn’t enable any sort of false claims over a shared IP.

If you can get their servers to connect to that IP under your control, you’ve earned it