in what way does critiquing steve jobs convince the people being screwed over to not share?

i want courts to make it right, not for the swindlers to be confident talking about how they swindle people without consequence.

"owning up to it" is making it right, not chit chatting

This post is greater fool theory in action.

I think you might have an incorrect understanding of what grift means.

It is a swindle by definition.

i only think of it wrt to this guy: https://china-journal.org/2019/05/27/chinese-mma-fighter-xu-...

who couldnt easily get to his next fights against tai chi frauds because the social credit score prevented him from flying or bussing and whathaveyou

at the top level, chess players do prep, and need to take guesses about what prep to do, vs what their opponent will do.

you dont know what lines your opponent has studied, and they dont know which lines youve studied

also assume that the valid credentials have been stolen and are being used by a hacker.

make sure anything done in a session can be undone as part of sanitizing the user

its really fun, like learning to code again to see what all can be done, an how much more power is available at your fingertips.

what sucks though is that its super inconsistent whether the thing is gonna throw an error and ruin the flow, whether thats synchronous or async.

I'm trying to use it to do things I've never done before (ie UI stuff when I've mostly been a backend SRE type).

I like that it makes it easy to learn new things by example.

I don't like that I have no idea if what I'm learning is correct (or at least recent / idiomatic), so everything I see that's new, I have to validate against other resources.

I also don't really know if it's any different from "tutorial hell".

it is, mind you, exactly the same experience as working on a team with lots of junior engineers, and delegating work to them

Wait a minute, you didn't just claim that we have reached AGI, right? I mean, that's what it would mean to delegate work to junior engineers, right? You're delegating work to human level intelligence. That's not what we have with LLMs.

Yes and no. With junior developers you need to educate them. You need to do that with LLMs too. Maybe you need to break down the problem in smaller chunks, but you get to this after a while. But once the LLM understands the task, you get a few hundred lines of code in a mater of minutes. With a junior developer you are lucky if they come back the same day. The iteration speed with AI is simply in a different league.

Edit: it is Sunday. As I am relaxing, and spending time writing answers on HN, I keep a lazy eye on the progress of an LLM at work too. I got stuff done that would have taken me a few days of work by just clicking a "Continue" button now and then.

the existence of "legacy code" i think is sufficient evidence that the code is not a sufficiently detailed description of a system. if it were, legacy code would not exist, because any engineer could simply read the code and maintain it like the original authors, without needing to say, talk to stake holders or prior documentation, etc.

we're still going to need well educated, skilled engineers, but the LLM context can store both lower fidelity details - eg. "this needs a list, but who cares if its an array or a linked list" and detail not covered by the running code "this looks like it could be a set, but we didnt do that because ..."

6. openAi continues to train "for alignment" and gets significant influence over the federal government workers who are using the app and toolkit, and thus the workflows and results thereof. eg. sama gets to decide who gets social sercurity and who gets denied

Or inject pro/anti to some foreign adversary.

Recall the ridiculous attempt at astroturfing anti-Canadian sentiment in early 2025 in parts of the media.

ive been finding that letting an LLM write its own memory bank tends to have it regurgiate your prompts more than keep something actually useful.

That is also true. Occasionally I would go in and clean up the docs and refocus them, but in the end I realized that I'm baby sitting the agent rather than relying on it to help me.