@ericweinstein What makes you think that politicians and those who have control of resources (banks, corporations. Etc) would be incentivized to attribute fair value of property rights to the average American? Do you really think they'll assign proper value to people's work, IP, data, etc?
@d_feldman The first two statements can be debated, the third is false on it's face. It was probably most helpful for Melania to marry Trump in solidifying her citizenship, sweeping alleged work visa violations under the rug. Having Baron didn't move the needle
With orgs seemingly moving away from hiring junior programmers, prior to AGI taking over, will we have a situation where any programmer that coded by hand for 5+ years is today's COBOL programmer? Dwindling in numbers but desperately needed to keep AI agents on the rails?
I’m seeing some hot takes that AI assisted coding means that you don’t have to be technical anymore. That’s only gonna last you until the first database migration, or the first security issue, or the first cloud migration, or the first scale out, or the first major regression, or the first refactor that ends in slop. I am finding that I’m learning more and I have to be as technical or more technical than ever before to get the kinds of high-quality output that I expect of any code, regardless of whether it comes from my fingertips or someone else’s - including an AI.
Whether your source comes from open source libraries, your own hands, or an AI via your clever prompt, there is exactly one responsible person for the output. That is you.
I never want to be accused of gatekeeping AI assisted programming, as non-technical people can get a lot of interesting work done. Until they hit a wall, and it’s gonna surprise them how quickly they either need to get technical, or get a technical person to help untangle the mess they’ve made.
The art and science of programming is taking intent and turning it into shipping products. I will never blame an AI - nor should you - for bad output. Own the code that you ship.
@BretWeinstein "Readily possible" is quite different than "readily apparent". Faith puts trust first before the evidence. Most humans can't calculate the "global maximums" (less obvious but more beneficial long term outcomes) and opt for local maximums or outright self interest and hedonism
@elonmusk@grok I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to use this coffee maker. I asked @grok how, and it told me what brand it was, that I already had the top open, and how to place the pod in it.
@SpencerHakimian If this isn't depressing enough, there are 2.7 workers who contribute to social security for every social security recipient. It was 42-1 when it started in the 40s. Plus we missed trillions of dollars in fund growth by not investing it in equities like sovereign wealth funds do