Reminds me of Brexit: let’s leave Europe; we’re still going to be affected by its laws because they’re our closest and biggest neighbours, but now we don’t even have a seat at the table to further our interests.

Welcome the era of political own goals.

own goals is apt for Brexit, but for the US it'd be more of a footgun

The dream of decentralised moderation that came with Web 2.0.

In reality, the Venn diagram of people wishing to moderate online spaces for virtual points and petty bureaucrats that get off on making arbitrary rules is pretty much a circle.

> shitty European country

I wish the crumbling of the empire will bring some humility to one of the most entitled and ignorant-about-the-world culture that ever had the chance to rule the world. Jesus, some of your comments are insufferable and it’s hard to feel pity for whatever is going on over there.

Also, the USA has stopped being the land of the free in the mid 70s for the rest of the world, but it’s clear that within your borders your post-war propaganda is still very effective to this day.

Yeah by whom?

He’s a right-wing sock puppet with an audience of < 25 yo NEETs.

Thanks. I wonder why parent commenter likes and trusts him to interpret a killing on video. Weird.

Evolution operates in much larger time scales.

Evolution operates at every time scale.

Sadly that’s a personality trait that’s far too common in the field, and it can get pretty annoying.

You discount the value of being intimately familiar with each line of code, the design decisions and tradeoffs because one wrote the bloody thing.

It is negative value for me to have a mediocre machine do that job for me, that I will still have to maintain, yet I will have learned absolutely nothing from the experience of building it.

This to me seems like saying you can learn nothing from a book unless you yourself have written it. You can read the code the LLM writes the same as you can read the code your colleagues write. Moreover you have to pretty explicitly tell it what to write for it to be very useful. You're still designing what it's doing you just don't have to write every line.

Code review != code design.

Nor reading a book teaches you how to write a book.

"Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life.” — Stephen King, On Writing

You need to design the code in order to tell the LLM how to write it. The LLM can help with this but generally it's better to have a full plan in place to give it beforehand. I've said it before elsewhere but I think this argument will eventually be similar to the people arguing you don't truly know how to code unless you're using assembly language for everything. I mean sure assembly code is better / more efficient in every way but who has the time to bother in a post-compiler world?

What’s Steve Yegge got to do with Rust? And who’s gonna sponsor some 10,000 hours to “rewrite the sqlite in Rust obviously preserving 100% test coverage”? Will he do it just for the memes, or did you think Rust is so cool there is no effort involved?

Let’s be serious now.

What's not serious? He's got a tool which he claims should be able to handle projects of this scale, the existing test coverage is what makes it not immediately impossible and about the memes, have you read his gas town post? Of course it's for the memes, but more importantly it'll validate his vision of the future in the eyes of quite literally everyone if successful.

The good thing about enshittification is seeing brands just self-destruct out of sheer incompetence.

I don't think it's necessarily incompetence. If a middle manager succeeds in rebranding something they get to put that project on their resume. Their goal just isn't the long term good of Microsoft.