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- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 5 hours ago:
Most opinions on this topic are very much so based on vibes rather than real experience,
Very much so. You can tell from the way certain people talk about it that they’ve never actually used it in any meaningful way.
I don’t think LLM’s will be doing all the programming in a few years. They do keep getting better, but hallucinations are baked into how the system is designed, and unless they can solve that, it does feel like they are starting to reach a plateau. If they can solve it, I don’t think it would be an LLM as we know it today either, it would be a wholly other thing that we would need to reassess.
Also, some jobs won’t want to use it for fear of copyright infringement issues, others won’t want to use it as a mean to stay pure. Did you see any of the Claire Obscure Expedition 33 stuff over 1 AI generated placeholder texture that was accidentally left in the game and promptly removed? They’ve now said they just won’t use AI at all so they can remain pure.
I think learning to program is still a really good option even if it might be a little harder in the near future to get a job than before. In an ideal situation, hopefully you’ve found something you want to build for yourself so you can just keep learning off of that while benefiting from it, I find that usually works better motivation wise than building something random you don’t have an attachment to.
That also gives you a project to talk about in interviews, where you can talk about how you built it, what decisions you made while building it, problems you encountered, how you tackled those problems, the steps to make it publicly available etc etc.
Just don’t be too reliant on AI generated code while learning, or like I said with the website it helped me make, I didn’t learn much. You want to build your skills knowing how to use it as a tool, but not needing to use it at all.
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 10 hours ago:
So I’m developer, I do mobile apps, and I do use Claude/GPT.
I could be wrong, but I don’t foresee any imminent collapse of developer jobs, but it does have its uses. I think if anything it’ll be fewer lower end positions, but if you don’t hire and teach new devs, that’s going to have repercussions down the road.
I needed to make a webpage for example, and I’m not a webdev, and it helped me create a static landing webpage. I can tell that the webpage code is pretty shitty, but it does work for it’s purposes. This either replaced a significant amount of time learning how to do it, or replaced me hiring a contractor to do it. But I also am not really any better off at writing a webpage if I needed to make a 2nd one having used it, as I didn’t lean much in the process.
But setting it all up also did have me have to work on the infrastructure behind it. The AI was able to help guide me through that as well, but it did less of it. That I did learn, and would be able to leverage that for future work.
When it comes to my actual mobile work, I don’t like asking it do anything substantial as the quality is usually pretty low. I might ask it to build a skeleton of something that I can fill out, I’ll often ask it’s opinions on a small piece of code I wrote and look for a better way to write it, and in that case it has helped me learn new things. I’ll also talk to it about planning something out and getting some insights on the topic before I write any code.
It gives almost as many wrong/flawed answers as right answers if there’s even a tiny bit of complexity, so you need to know how to sift through the crap which you won’t know if you aren’t a developer. It will tell you APIs exist that don’t. It will recommend APIs that were deprecated years ago. The list goes on and on and on. This also happened while I was making the webpage, so my developer skills were still required to get to the end product.
I can’t see how it will replace a sizeable chunk of developers yet, but I think if used properly, it could enhance existing devs and lead to fewer hires needed.
When I hear things like 30% of Microsoft code is now written by AI, it makes sense why shit is breaking all the time and quality is going down. They’re forcing it to do what i can’t do yet.
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 14 hours ago:
So the link I posted was about proving Waymo truly can remote control them if needed even though they deny it, but I would be pretty surprised if Tesla said it wasn’t possible, because their car has the “summon” feature and literally any owner can remotely drive their car with a forward/back button. So regardless of if they do or don’t, it clearly can.
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 14 hours ago:
Ya, I don’t buy the hype around AGI. Like a Waymo drove into a telephone pole because of something they had to fix in their code. I’m not doubting there’s AI involved, neural nets, machine learning, whatever, but this isn’t an AGI type level development. Nor do I think they need an AGI to do this.
I’m also not convinced this LLM stuff can ever lead to AGI either. I think it can do some pretty impressive things with some very real drawbacks/caveats, but that the whole architecture is flawed if you want to make an AGI.
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 15 hours ago:
I’m not fully up to speed on Waymo or if they have ever released details, but when Cruise went through that shit storm a year or two ago, it came out that that the cars were asking for help every few miles.
Cruise was essentially all smoke and mirrors.
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 1 day ago:
From the description it’s really not meant to solve that. In a situation like that they’d have to send someone, but they would be able to get out of the middle of a lane, off to the side, even if that only gives an extra foot or two of space.
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 1 day ago:
For future reference, he’s your proof its possible to be remotely moved.
cpuc.ca.gov/…/tcp0038152a-waymo-al-0003_a1b.pdf
In very limited circumstances such as to facilitate movement of the AV out of a freeway lane onto an adjacent shoulder, if possible, our Event Response agents are able to remotely move the Waymo AV under strict parameters, including at a very low speed over a very short distance.
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 1 day ago:
Right here. It’s the only place they’ve ever admitted its possible.
cpuc.ca.gov/…/tcp0038152a-waymo-al-0003_a1b.pdf
In very limited circumstances such as to facilitate movement of the AV out of a freeway lane onto an adjacent shoulder, if possible, our Event Response agents are able to remotely move the Waymo AV under strict parameters, including at a very low speed over a very short distance.?
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 1 day ago:
For anyone that is curious, Waymo actually is capable of remote moving the vehicles. They do their best not to admit it’s possible, but it’s right in the CPUC filings as a footnote.
cpuc.ca.gov/…/tcp0038152a-waymo-al-0003_a1b.pdf
In very limited circumstances such as to facilitate movement of the AV out of a freeway lane onto an adjacent shoulder, if possible, our Event Response agents are able to remotely move the Waymo AV under strict parameters, including at a very low speed over a very short distance.
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 1 day ago:
This is how it generally behaves, but they are capable of taking direct control in more difficult situations. It’s only very slow maneurvers though, it’s not like they would be driving it down the street.
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 1 day ago:
They just stop moving when that happens. It’s been the cause of many traffic jams.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 5 days ago:
Well it’s one thing if you don’t want to trust information that comes out on something like Reuters or when Glenn Shotwell said it was entering into profitability, but it’s another to continue to claim something otherwise like Starlink isn’t sustainable and is burning VC money.
At this point, it would be best to stay out of the conversation, or at least state something more like an opinion than come across as factual.
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 5 days ago:
Lets be real here… Factorio probably has more time played than all the others combined right? lol
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 5 days ago:
For sure. I don’t doubt they’ll get it functional and getting payloads to space, but the entire premise is on full rapid reuseability, including same day relaunch. That is still a very very big if.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 5 days ago:
Starlink has been profitable for over a year.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 6 days ago:
That agreement should have said excluding any acquisitions or mergers.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 6 days ago:
Salt water is a bitch.
The point of these being in space is there is no maintenance.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 6 days ago:
Government contracts used to be their biggest revenue source, but it’s Starlink now.
They still need the government contracts though to help fund the capital expenditures to try and get starship working.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 6 days ago:
I’m not really convinced SpaceX was over valued IF Starship succeeds, but every single part of xAi was.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
The world is made for general purpose humans including vast amounts of factory space. There will always be things for a general purpose robot that’ll be cheaper than designing and manufacturing a low volume bespoke robot.
Like Amazon is trying and building robots to do a lot of picking, but they can’t even fully automate that.
It’s more a question of will can they solve it (huge if) and even if they do, how many can they actually sell.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
If they work, it’s going to be other corporations for factory work.
It’s going to be a long long time before any bot is good enough and cheap enough to be used at the consumer level in our homes.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
When I tried some games that had a 120hz mode, I had to lower the quality a little to get it work well, but didn’t notice a big difference, but there was a difference.
A few days later I went back to 60hz so i could increase the graphics quality , and the difference was crazy huge. I had to go back to 120hz.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
Did you say you want really clear ads? We got just that!
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 week ago:
albeit with slightly more effort. customers will flow toward the path of least resistance
I think that’s the crux of it. It can be done, but I would bet the vast majority are just playing steam games on SteamOS
So if you launch on Steam, you can reach PC users and Mobile users, and someone might decide to buy the game on steam knowing it will work easily on both.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 week ago:
You left off the newer steam deck which opens your games up to a mobile audience.
- Comment on Netflix Becomes Max-Level Patron Of Blender's Development Fund 1 week ago:
Or maybe they’re distracted because the show isn’t that great, and doing this makes it even more not great lol.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 1 week ago:
Would have been the better choice over the X even if they still had it as well.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 1 week ago:
Like a digital game key? I’d say yes.
If it’s not a big part of eBay though, I can see that maybe sneaking past as Apple might consider them as selling physical goods and overlook a small portion of digital?
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 1 week ago:
Does eBay sell digital goods?
I’d kinda expect the answer to be yes if so if you use the ebay app? If not, I’m actually surprised.
- Comment on Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement 1 week ago:
Looks like it’s actually really with no chase cars. It’s been 2 rides so far. They arrived in 1 (which has no one in it) and then take a ride in another one that has no one in it and no chase car.