That's the exact same problem in coding as well. Oh, we'll have senior level devs dive into the hard problems in the codebase and AI agents will handle the easier stuff.
And how, pray tell, will any people in future learn how to get the level where they can solve hard problems in the first place??
Explains why I find AGI fundamentalists similar to tater heads. /s
(Not to undermine progress in the foundational model space, but there is a lack of appreciation for the democratization of domain specific models amongst HNers).
I'm being hyperbolic but yeah four roses is probably the best deal next to Buffalo trace. All their stuff is fairly priced. If you want something like Weller though, you should get another wheated bourbon like Maker's Mark French oaked.
If you can find Buffalo Trace for msrp which is $20-30, it's a good deal. I think the bourbon "market" kind of popped recently so finding things has been getting a little easier.
> I think the bourbon "market" kind of popped recently
It def did. The overproduction that was invested in during the peak of the COVID collector boom is coming into markets now. I think we'll see some well priced age stated products in the next 3-4 years based on by acquaintances in the space.
Ofc, the elephant in the room is consolidation - everyone wants to copy the LVMH model (and they say Europeans are ethical elves who never use underhanded mopolistic and market making behavior to corner markets /s).
It is literally impossible for someone to understand what they're "coding" in a day if 10,000 lines (!!) just got farted out of some codegen tools. I cannot believe anyone would say this responsibly with a straight face.
They're not coding, they're not vibe coding, they're asking for the code to an LLM.
When people say "I did this" showing something they did with AI, the reality is "I asked an AI for this". Okay, not every time, but something on this scale would, they don't even know what those 10K lines of code do, they asked and received.
Gaslight, gaslight, gaslight. That's all Google does now. Their AI tools gaslight us, and their human leadership gaslights us. It's all truly sad, considering what a major breakthrough Google Search was in the early days.
Use DuckDuckGo, use Kagi, use virtually anything OTHER than Google.
And also the overt political bias and censorship (it's a problem over at Youtube, which is owned by Google, they might be separate in theory but it's possible it's not)
Dumb AI is one thing. Not autocompleting "Donald Trump assassination attempt" (or any number of other things) is a choice
The sound quality is worse than 128Kb MP3. It might fool some people on their smartphones barely paying attention, but "studio-grade music" is an outright lie.
Seriously, I haven't used Google in years. I stopped even relying on Google as a decent backup option because it's gotten so-o-o bad. DDG has gotten incrementally worse simply because they're unable to fend off the reams of AI slop taking over everything (and it's also based in large part on Bing's index).
I recently tried Kagi now that they have free and lower-cost tiers, and oh wow I can feel the difference. This is like 2010s-era search, and I mean that as a distinct compliment. I signed up and won't look back. The "Quick Peek" feature is truly fantastic…it feels like it's some sort of AI but it's simply just a good set of queries with good excerpts of REAL text from REAL links. Bravo!
And how, pray tell, will any people in future learn how to get the level where they can solve hard problems in the first place??
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