Ah yes, the 20th century, well known for not having serious problems…

Actually so far 2000 to 2026 is looking much better than 1900 to 1926.

The choice to compare data centers to canals rather than to railroads seems rather arbitrary.

Good to hear that what I’ve got is hotter and longer.

A life form perfectly adapted for hitting below the belt.

Texas isn’t forcing you to use prediction markets so how are you affected?

There’s certainly an adjustment period - I’m still learning how to use AI effectively and so is the industry as a whole. The technology is so new and the state of the art is evolving so quickly that there are no established best practices yet.

However, I think that in the long term, assuming human programmers remain relevant at all, we’ll adapt like we did to the development of high-level programming languages. That paradigm shift happened before I was born so I can’t speak from experience, but my impression is that the meaning of being a programmer changed.

Modern programmers are less skilled in some ways, in the sense that most can’t write assembly code, but they also have new skills for working with high level languages that make them significantly more productive overall.

I hope I have 30 years until I retire, but given how rapid progress has been, I’m worried about whether or not I’ll still have a job in just a tenth of that time. The technology is just a few years old and already so powerful that my bet is that current limitations will be overcome. (And the goal isn’t 100% accuracy, because humans don’t have 100% accuracy.)

It has already revolutionized software development. As my friend put it:

On the subject of claude code, I went to a high-level founder talk about code ai and the general consensus was that CEOs were telling their staff 100% of code must be written by an agent within 6 months or they have to leave the company. And all the focus was switching on to how you verify, for example, a 15000 line PR written entirely by AI.

100% of my own code is now written by AI. I’ve been programming for 20 years - I can write code myself, but the AI is so much faster than I could possibly be that managing it is far more productive.

I wonder how they tracked him down.

Depends on the price… I’m not going to pay the raccoon Taylor Swift money.

Does she kill you too, or is that billed separately?

They didn’t have infinitely many integers back then the way that we do now, so they needed to conserve.

It’s tragic when people are forced to give up on their dreams and become comedians just to survive.

USB C maxes out at 240 Watts. Is that enough? A modern laptop GPU can use up to 175 Watts on its own…

Edit: I looked it up and apparently laptops are allowed to have other charging ports and to rely on those for operating at full capacity. As long as they can charge at all from USB C, they’re compliant, even if they run in a reduced-capability low-power mode unless you plug them in via their other charging port.

Demigods love it when you disturb their tombs.

Men would be compelled by the ring but elves ruined everything of their own free will.

The hacker known as Four Chan would never lie to us!

It’s like having a real job except you make less money this way.