A software engineer was granted a religious exemption from using AI at work. Legal experts say others may follow now that the Pope has raised concerns about the tech's impact on humanity. https://t.co/Cn2BvGc4xc
In a study of people with generalized anxiety disorder, only 8.6% of recorded worries actually happened.
The most common outcome: 0%. Not a single worry came true.
ai layoffs are getting out of hands so I built “I GOT FIRED” button 🚨
one click, and it makes entire company codebase public, pushes .env secrets to public repo, drops staging db and finally notifies my lawyer 🙂
I hope I never need it but it’s ready 👍🏻
A pattern I've noticed in stuck people:
They're always busy. They never stop moving. They have 47 tabs open and a notebook-sized to-do list. But if you ask them what they accomplished this week that actually matters, their mind goes blank.
Busyness isn't a badge of honor.
wise words from the best systems engineer I've worked with:
"two things that make code actually maintainable:
1. reduce the layers a reader has to trace
2. reduce the state a reader has to hold in their head"
applies to every codebase. always.
This has been said a thousand times before, but allow me to add my own voice: the era of humans writing code is over. Disturbing for those of us who identify as SWEs, but no less true. That's not to say SWEs don't have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it.
Announcing our latest open medical AI models for developers: MedGemma 1.5, which is small enough to run offline & improves performance on 3D imaging (CT & MRI), & MedASR, a speech-to-text model for medical dictation. Both available on Hugging Face + Vertex AI. https://t.co/jPm4UodeAH
#MedGemma #HealthAI #GenerativeAI
I'll say it again, I think this AI cycle we are in is a net negative on society
A man/team that has made the web significantly more pleasant as a platform for many people and spent years doing so for free has AI effectively destroy the business model by first taking his work
And this is how a member of the community responds. Real sad times
IP theft is real and I personally think that the C-suite of these current companies deserve jail time for the level of theft they enabled