I mean they want that, but it’s just not happening with the way the tech works right now. Unless you have a deep understanding of the problem you have the model solve, then you have no way to evaluate whether it solved it correctly or not. And it’s basically like an evil genie where it will interpret your request in a dumbest way possible by default. So, you get god results when you already know what the shape of the solution should be, and you give the model concrete direction on the approach to take, algorithms to use, and so on. And that’s why the whole idea of deskilling workers or replacing them with automation is not really working out. You’d need genuine artificial intelligence for that and LLMs aren’t it.

Right, there’s nothing wrong with disagreement because it just means people have different perspectives. Discussing these perspectives in a civilized fashion creates a more complete understanding for everybody. That’s what debates are meant for, people present their positions and defend them, so that the counterparty can point out problems or inconsistencies. And through this process you build shared understanding of things.

But when debate happens in our media is just a spectacle of idiots yelling at one another and talking over each other incoherently. And that’s presented as providing different views. There’s no depth, no substance, and no actual debate happening. It’s just a bunch of people yelling I’m right.

And that’s a broader problem in the media too now where there’s no more investigative journalism. The media outlets simply parrot whatever the official narrative is, there’s no analysis, no historical context, and no push back. In a sense, the only real debate happening is the one between mainstream and social media. And, in a way, it’s kind of hilarious how regular people do a better job explaining things now than professional news outlets. Hence why social media is winning the debate.

I’ve been using opencode for actual projects at work. DeepSeek v4 can code up a lot of stuff fairly confidently. If you give it clear requirements, tell it to make a phased plan, use TDD, and commit after each phase, it tends to produce decent code. I just do code reviews against the diff and then tell it to fix anything I don’t like. It’s also great for spelunking through large codebaes. You can easily trace through how an endpoint works for example, get it to write stuff like sample curl queries, etc.

But the thing is that you don’t actually work all that much faster. You still have to review everything. You have to actually the app and make sure it works functionally. Like you basically can’t trust anything it does. So, it makes my life easier. I don’t have to look up API docs, figure out how random libraries work, or having to write a bunch of boilerplate. But it doesn’t replace me, and it doesn’t actually result in me working significantly faster.

Oh it’s very much that. Every single study that’s come out on companies adopting AI shows that it makes no meaningful difference to productivity. So, it’s very clearly just an excuse to do layoffs.

even a broken clock is right twice a day

Ah yes, calling out your white privilege is so racist, gonna cry about white genocide next? 🤣

lmao when you’re so white that you’ve never met a First Nations person in Canada

It’s not going to happen overnight, but if they continue to ignore this then people become more and more disillusioned. A lot of people already have lost faith in mainstream outlets, so there could just be a collapse in public trust. And there’s a greater context for this too because the standard of living is collapsing at the same time. So, people see their lives get worse, they see the media talk about how great DOW is doing, and then they start connecting things and realizing they live in a house of mirrors.

I think the fact that these kinds of interviews are happening at all is significant. While they’re doing everything they can to suppress this, the public opinion is not really going along with the narrative. And that creates a dilemma for them. Either they continue to deny the genocide and continue losing credibility or they have to start discussing it however tepidly.

yeah not very subtle

That’s the single best thing about the internet in my opinion as well.

Imagine how much longer they could’ve kept the whole thing going if not for social media. If people were only exposed to the mainstream news narrative, we wouldn’t even know there was a genocide going on right now.

at some point they’re going to have to realize the US is just using them

It’s also pretty funny how what they’re upset about is the fact that DPRK has the ability to defend itself and has credible deterrent. Nowhere is it even suggested that DPRK has any desire to attack the US.

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Buddy, I was in HK just a month ago. It’s night and day compared to the shithole it was when occupied by the Brits. Go spew your drivel somewhere else.

Exactly, taking over a large existing codebase is a herculean task. So, most forks just end up adding superficial changes on top and keeping upstream code as is.

The reality is far more complicated than that. Maintaining a large project takes a lot of work in practice, and you can’t just fork it and expect the fork to magically succeed. There are very few examples of such successful forks in the wild.

And who’s going to develop this fork?

I recall somebody said that Tesla is much better understood as a meme stock company, and honestly that’s the best description of it that I’ve heard. The stock value is completely divorced from the actual product, it’s just hype. And as a result the company focuses on ensuring hype persists rather than making decent products.