@JessTheUnstill this is the 'i would rather have four quarters than a hundred pennies' school of thought
@Viss How do you mean?
This *looks* like a pro-social use of AI, but it's not https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/ai-data-children-predict-criminals-fwclzh323
1. Sociology has a pretty good idea of what factors contribute to crime, such as poverty. This "solution" is a surveillance-based intervention into individual rather than structural harms.
2. It fails to notice that predictive risk systems themselves victimize the vulnerable; they amplify bias and create feedback loops.
3. This will necessarily treat children as pre-criminals.
@Ashedryden muuuuum! fashy's playing with the phrenology machine again!
@JessTheUnstill if it helps, I'm a cis het who often feels very other to other women. 💜
@sarajw It just seems like I always only find out after the fact that there are whisper networks and group chats and lunch outings and shit that nobody ever invited me to, and I feel too uncomfortable to ask to be included. Maybe I just don't belong after all, since they're always going on about husbands and kids and I just don't have anything to contribute.
I hate how I'm basically going to have to decide between finding people locally to meet and make friends with, and having a Facebook and Instagram account.
@JessTheUnstill this is the 'i would rather have four quarters than a hundred pennies' school of thought
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I can only think of a few major offsetting forces:
- If the EU invests in replacing US software, bolstering the EU job market.
- China might have substantial unfulfilled domestic demand for software, propping up their job market
- Companies might find that declining software quality harms their bottom-line, leading to a Y2K-style investment in fixing their software stacks
But those don't seem likely to do more than partially offset the decline
Kind of hoping I'm missing something
@baldur I mostly agree with the above, but I'll add one more mitigating factor:
- Massive security issues in machine-generated code lead to governmental regulations on its use and a requirement for hand-coding or other human engagement with software.
As I've said elsewhere "it works" is a very low bar for these models. The vulnerabilities still being introduced in machine-generated code will become a compounding problem.
The WordPress AI assistant doesn't need precisely tailored prompts, either. https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/wordpress-com-adds-an-ai-assistant-that-can-edit-adjust-styles-create-images-and-more/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
i feel like i've probably asked this before but has anyone written a fancy command line man page viewer to replace `man`?
(not emacs or vim)
@b0rk I use man with MANPAGER set to `less -ic --use-color -Dd+g -Duc`. Not super fancy, but has a few colors.
I hate how I'm basically going to have to decide between finding people locally to meet and make friends with, and having a Facebook and Instagram account.
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@clarfonthey it's been like 40 hours of gameplay since I last got killed by a pole plant, I'm so upset
@SuperTaliaDX most recent pole plant deaths were all from the watcher DLC
those are particularly insidious because throughout the 20-something regions added in that DLC, pretty sure only like 3 actually have pole plants
should have expected the spaghetti combo, though. that's pretty much how everything tends to go past a certain point, minus the occasional oneshots like dropwigs, white lizards you didn't notice, and king vultures
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If the model impact is largely fictitious, meaning this is all a scam and the perceived benefit is just a clusterfuck of cognitive hazards, then the financial bubble pop will be devastating, tech as an industry will largely be destroyed, and trust in software will be zero, collapsing the job market
I can only think of a few major offsetting forces:
- If the EU invests in replacing US software, bolstering the EU job market.
- China might have substantial unfulfilled domestic demand for software, propping up their job market
- Companies might find that declining software quality harms their bottom-line, leading to a Y2K-style investment in fixing their software stacks
But those don't seem likely to do more than partially offset the decline
Kind of hoping I'm missing something
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If the models increase output but are flawed, as in they produce too many defects or have major quality issues, Akerlof's market for lemons kicks in, bad products drive out good, value of software in the market heads south, collapsing the job market
If the model impact is largely fictitious, meaning this is all a scam and the perceived benefit is just a clusterfuck of cognitive hazards, then the financial bubble pop will be devastating, tech as an industry will largely be destroyed, and trust in software will be zero, collapsing the job market
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If you model the impact of working LLM coding tools with no bottlenecks, then the increase in productivity massively increases the supply of undifferentiated software and the prices you can charge for any software drops through the floor, collapsing the job market
If the models increase output but are flawed, as in they produce too many defects or have major quality issues, Akerlof's market for lemons kicks in, bad products drive out good, value of software in the market heads south, collapsing the job market
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If you model the impact of working LLM coding tools (big increase in productivity, little downside) where the bottlenecks are largely outside of coding, increases in coding automation mostly just reduce the need for labour. I.e. 10x increase means you need 10x fewer coders, collapsing the job market
If you model the impact of working LLM coding tools with no bottlenecks, then the increase in productivity massively increases the supply of undifferentiated software and the prices you can charge for any software drops through the floor, collapsing the job market
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When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.
These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this
@thomasfuchs Reading this graph went like this in my mind :
- I don't see what the fuss is about, this looks like a pretty classic git flow
[...]
- Wait, wat ?
[...]
- Oh no
[...]
- Oh no
[...]
- Oh no
And the more you look at it, the worse it gets
Getting a bit depressed as, no matter how I slice it, basic economics would seem to indicate that the software developer job market is largely fucked no matter what happens now. No matter whether the LLM tools work or not and no matter what happens to the bubble
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If you model the impact of working LLM coding tools (big increase in productivity, little downside) where the bottlenecks are largely outside of coding, increases in coding automation mostly just reduce the need for labour. I.e. 10x increase means you need 10x fewer coders, collapsing the job market
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