The article does a great job of identifying the locus of the problem: Windows, which has always been an exemplar of bad software, both in the sense of quality and the sense of ethics, and is produced by a company that…
So your view is that there's no way to recover, and there's no viable alternative. In other words, that "the rot" has consumed the body politic and there's nothing to be done about it. To me this seems like a…
I tend to agree with the idea that one shouldn't define oneself by a job, especially since one's career is generally dependent on some combination of market forces, institutional gatekeepers, and other factors that are…
If the predictions of the death of software engineering come to fruition, the only acceptable result of that is a world where "software" is a detail about how computers do things that some people can investigate for the…
While the phrasing I used derived from a well-known image in modern culture, good enough fundamental literacy skills could likely help you deduce the intent of my reply
Often, there are many solutions to a problem, with different externalities and implementation requirements. Speed limit enforcement for sure has some benefits, but also some downsides. Any absolute has edge cases that…
My brother in china once told me "In china, every company of a certain size has board seats filled by a representative of the party, to make sure corporate and government priorities align. In america, every company of a…
Yet you also participate in society, curious
There is no form of surveillance that does more good than harm in the long run. The endless debates about the value of "catching bad guys" or "keeping people on their best behavior" should be rightly seen as opposed to…
Ah yes, the ol' "the unwashed masses are too dumb to know what's good for them" I can't imagine you're big on democracy per se either, huh
I think "relative to other countries" it has fallen out of favor quite a lot. That's the story the data tell, unambiguously. What it didn't do is fall behind other countries in absolute terms, but in relative terms it…
IDK do we still consider china - a country that currently has a fairly enormous middle class - to be communist? For that matter, do we view the current american economy to be a free market? (It's certainly "capitalist"…
From both experience and the continued state of the incentives that lead to the behavior, it seems unreasonable to trust any company at their word about such things
I think these companies very much want to assign responsibility to an entity we can't meaningfully jail or fine. I think it may sometimes make sense to claim model provider negligence instead of operator responsibility,…
I really don't know enough about it to know whether you're right or not, nor do I know whether or not you know enough to make the claim you're making, so I won't make an argument one way or another because it's…
I don't think the claim is "they definitely have an oracle that solves the problem, and I reject it because it's hard to read". The claim is "OpenAI claims to have used an oracle to solve the problem. The proof is very…
It's a feedback loop. I've fallen into something close to it (Thought not on the level of just not testing things before I ship them) myself once or twice under pressure. If there are deadlines that get tighter and…
In general, it's bizarre that people look at problems this systemic and conclude that they are primarily a failing happening at the level of individual contributors. This organizational rot didn't even start with LLMs,…
It's a bit of a tautology to say that things are inevitable if we don't avoid them, though of course I agree
"Everything moving to the cloud" is far from inevitable, and represents a concentration of power. Of course existing tech corps want that, they proposed it and have pushed it in the first place, but I strongly disprefer…
You have seemingly missed the point of the article entirely, while also becoming offended for... I'm not even sure. Not being mentioned maybe? The internet will never cease to be a rich vein of absolutely baffling…
O hey look that thing I and many others said will happen when there were all these public complaints about the unregulated tech companies not doing enough surveillance and tattling happened Anyway, I'm gonna continue…
In the times before everything could be connected to the internet, it was unthinkable that a "product" would refer to something the manufacturer would be able, let alone expect, to exert continuous control over. I have…
I tend to assume that regardless of political affiliation, pro-surveillance mindset comes from blind trust in the institutions doing surveillance, whether that's the government or google. This is often driven by…
I think any scenario in which SaaS remains a pervasive business model involves either LLMs not ultimately being that transformative or significant worsening of dystopian trends already in progress. If, as many people…
The article does a great job of identifying the locus of the problem: Windows, which has always been an exemplar of bad software, both in the sense of quality and the sense of ethics, and is produced by a company that…
So your view is that there's no way to recover, and there's no viable alternative. In other words, that "the rot" has consumed the body politic and there's nothing to be done about it. To me this seems like a…
I tend to agree with the idea that one shouldn't define oneself by a job, especially since one's career is generally dependent on some combination of market forces, institutional gatekeepers, and other factors that are…
If the predictions of the death of software engineering come to fruition, the only acceptable result of that is a world where "software" is a detail about how computers do things that some people can investigate for the…
While the phrasing I used derived from a well-known image in modern culture, good enough fundamental literacy skills could likely help you deduce the intent of my reply
Often, there are many solutions to a problem, with different externalities and implementation requirements. Speed limit enforcement for sure has some benefits, but also some downsides. Any absolute has edge cases that…
My brother in china once told me "In china, every company of a certain size has board seats filled by a representative of the party, to make sure corporate and government priorities align. In america, every company of a…
Yet you also participate in society, curious
There is no form of surveillance that does more good than harm in the long run. The endless debates about the value of "catching bad guys" or "keeping people on their best behavior" should be rightly seen as opposed to…
Ah yes, the ol' "the unwashed masses are too dumb to know what's good for them" I can't imagine you're big on democracy per se either, huh
I think "relative to other countries" it has fallen out of favor quite a lot. That's the story the data tell, unambiguously. What it didn't do is fall behind other countries in absolute terms, but in relative terms it…
IDK do we still consider china - a country that currently has a fairly enormous middle class - to be communist? For that matter, do we view the current american economy to be a free market? (It's certainly "capitalist"…
From both experience and the continued state of the incentives that lead to the behavior, it seems unreasonable to trust any company at their word about such things
I think these companies very much want to assign responsibility to an entity we can't meaningfully jail or fine. I think it may sometimes make sense to claim model provider negligence instead of operator responsibility,…
I really don't know enough about it to know whether you're right or not, nor do I know whether or not you know enough to make the claim you're making, so I won't make an argument one way or another because it's…
I don't think the claim is "they definitely have an oracle that solves the problem, and I reject it because it's hard to read". The claim is "OpenAI claims to have used an oracle to solve the problem. The proof is very…
It's a feedback loop. I've fallen into something close to it (Thought not on the level of just not testing things before I ship them) myself once or twice under pressure. If there are deadlines that get tighter and…
In general, it's bizarre that people look at problems this systemic and conclude that they are primarily a failing happening at the level of individual contributors. This organizational rot didn't even start with LLMs,…
It's a bit of a tautology to say that things are inevitable if we don't avoid them, though of course I agree
"Everything moving to the cloud" is far from inevitable, and represents a concentration of power. Of course existing tech corps want that, they proposed it and have pushed it in the first place, but I strongly disprefer…
You have seemingly missed the point of the article entirely, while also becoming offended for... I'm not even sure. Not being mentioned maybe? The internet will never cease to be a rich vein of absolutely baffling…
O hey look that thing I and many others said will happen when there were all these public complaints about the unregulated tech companies not doing enough surveillance and tattling happened Anyway, I'm gonna continue…
In the times before everything could be connected to the internet, it was unthinkable that a "product" would refer to something the manufacturer would be able, let alone expect, to exert continuous control over. I have…
I tend to assume that regardless of political affiliation, pro-surveillance mindset comes from blind trust in the institutions doing surveillance, whether that's the government or google. This is often driven by…
I think any scenario in which SaaS remains a pervasive business model involves either LLMs not ultimately being that transformative or significant worsening of dystopian trends already in progress. If, as many people…