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[Andrew @The_Root_User]

The hardware team for the MacBook carried so hard. The software team should probably all be fired.

[Andrew @The_Root_User]

It's so funny that when tasked with making repetitive edits, an LLM will justify using a script because it has been trained to understand that it could make a mistake while making the edits.

The degree to which we are attempting to have these things mimic humans is comical

[Andrew @The_Root_User]

A human cannot work effectively with tools that are meant to completely replace humans.

Evidently, if the tool fails to entirely replace humans, its usage will be sub-optimal.

[Andrew @The_Root_User]

Coding agent benchmarks have deeply misguided companies making Agents

[Andrew @The_Root_User]

@ThePrimeagen I kid you not, sometimes I talk to an AI and they are stunned by my insight into X

[Andrew @The_Root_User]

AI systems need to become infinitely more reliable, or we need to find a better way for humans to interact with and use them

[Andrew @The_Root_User]

Appeal to X. Become surrounded by X. Become a slave to X.

[Andrew @The_Root_User]

Tells you how little Anthropic understands their model's when they name their features "Project" and "Artifact" as if this won't result in confusion from the evident ambiguity.

[Andrew @The_Root_User]

@rickasaurus This is ragebait... right?

[Andrew @The_Root_User]

This is a bit of an overstatement. You can engineer and use AI, but it will not be the thing doing the engineering

[Andrew @The_Root_User]

"AI Engineering" is an oxymoron. You can create products with AI, and you can generate content with AI, but you cannot engineer with it.

[Andrew @The_Root_User]

@ericweinstein @NSF @myles_boylan The people who think that America or Europe needs immigration for technological advancement are so deep in denial. They must be afraid to even open a history book and learn about who invented the modern world

[Andrew @The_Root_User]

The future is incompatible with Islam and Christianity, and despite being a supporter of a "New Right", I am confident that it will not prevail without a separation from the antiquated and ignorant members of the movement

[Andrew @The_Root_User]

@wealthpotion @growing_daniel And your point is...?

[Andrew @The_Root_User]

@TheOnlyDSC Sex and the City made women think that if they look like SJP then they are a 10/10...

[Andrew @The_Root_User]

@gabriel1 I think that the two notions are not mutually exclusive, and so one can want to win and love building for the sake of making beautiful things.

I resonate though bc there are grifters that pretend like all they care about is *building*

[Andrew @The_Root_User]

@_benkaufman Yes, humans do produce slop (see the tweet above)

[Andrew @The_Root_User]

@gabriel1 Counterexample: children

[Andrew @The_Root_User]

@soycarts Is that what people have been doing with guns?

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

Immigration policy must be driven by the present, not the past, and business leaders are too terrified of the left AND the right to acknowledge this.

Recent H1B discourse revolves around a longstanding immigration sleight-of-hand. H1B proponents point to exceptional people who came here decades ago as if they represent the current state of the program in the same way that advocates for low-skill/illegal immigration point to very favorable immigrant crime/welfare/education/etc statistics that do, in truth, have them beating native-born Americans on many fronts.

It is all a sham. The world that created those statistics, people, and businesses no longer exists. Brilliant but desperate Vietnamese fathers who fled communism have nothing in common with young men from Honduras, and the crime rates/economic acccomplishments/integration of the former should not be used to justify mass migration of the latter.

Nor should the accomplishments of people who managed to get an H1B visa in the 90s (when the program was capped to just 65,000 visas) be used to justify staffing agencies and tech companies using the program to replace American jobs for less money. The obvious abuse going on is politically suicidal and something that even the most ardent supporters of the visa should want to crack down on, no immigration program can possibly survive the obvious and widely known reality of what is going on. I am a longtime outspoken advocate for stealing the best people from other countries to make our own better, runaway abuse of existing programs robs the government of the worker trust required to do so.

Lots of people in the tech space know this. Even the dumb people are smart enough to see it. Nobody actually believes these are all incredible people with unique talents performing jobs no American can. Everyone knows the guy in Cubicle Bay 7 doing mediocre but functional web design for half the salary of his American peers is no savant and doesn't meet the statutory requirements for his H-1B visa.

Unfortunately, most people with power or profile are terrified that any public statement or acknowledgement will get them attacked by the right (You guys have been screwing over American workers for years with visa abuse, you damn hypocrite!) or the left (You are racist, sexist, misogynist, and sucking up to this fascist administration!). Or, more likely, both. I know too many tech execs in particular who feel trapped, like the only winning move is to stay silent.

JD is blowing the whole thing wide open by putting facts and stats front and center that nobody wants to engage with. Critics will talk about anything and everything else but these damning facts and this obvious truth, that H1B visas serve neither their original purpose, legal purpose, invented purpose, or the American people.