Some of my favorite things to use AI for when coding (I swear I wrote this not AI!):

- CSS: I don't like working with CSS on any website ever, and all of the kludges added on-top of it don't make it any more fun. AI makes it a little fun since it can remember all the CSS hacks so I don't have to spend an hour figuring out how to center some element on the page. Even if it doesn't get it right the first time, it still takes less time than me struggling with it to center some div in a complex Wordpress or other nightmare site.

- Unit Tests: Assuming the embedded code in the AI isn't too outdated (caveat: sometimes it is, and that invalidates this one sometimes). Farming out unit tests to AI is a fun little exercise.

- Summarizing a commit: It's not bad at summarizing, at least an initial draft.

- Very small first-year-software-engineering-exercise-type tasks.

I'm not trying to be presumptuous about the state of your CSS knowledge so tell me to get lost if I'm off base. But if you haven't updated yourself on where CSS is at these days I'd recommend spending an afternoon doing a deep dive. Modern-day CSS is way less kludgy and hacky than it used to be. It's not so hard now to manage large CSS codebases and centering elements is relatively simple now.

Having said that I still lean heavily on AI to do my styling too these days.

Interesting, I found AIs annoyingly incapable of writing good CSS. But I understand the appeal of using it for a task that you do not like to do yourself. For me it's writing ticket descriptions which it does way better than me.

Can you give an example?

Descriptions for things was the #1 example for me where LLMs are a hindrance, so I'm surprised to hear this. If the LLM (not working at this company / having a limited context window) gets your meaning from bullet points or keywords and writes nice prose, I could just read that shorthand (your input aka prompt) and not have to bother with the wordiness. But apparently you've managed to find a use for it?

same here, i dread CSS because it has to look good visually, not regress, work on a ton of devices and is very time-consuming to get right. But every time i tried Cursor with different models it produces CSS code that is just really bad. And the CSS hacks it knows somehow just don't add up to a good solution. Maybe it'll catch up, but so far the result has been worse than mine, so - still coding manually.

I get the temptation to use it for CSS too. But whenever I do, it produces a bunch of debts that are annoying to spot. Sure it looks nice visually, but you need to review it even more so than normal code.

I'm living a pretty okay life, I need money for certain things and helping my friends and family takes a lot of money. I think the guy in this article and some of the people in this thread have their perspective warped by the amount of money they have. (This has been proven time and time again: https://caldaclinic.com/the-psychology-of-wealth-and-how-it-... )

Try making some friends with people who aren't as wealthy as you and try to help them out, maybe they need something that is out of their reach, maybe their family needs expensive medicine or something. Anyways, my TL;DR is make friends, spend your money on others and stop hoarding it because it won't make you happy.

We have the ability to mathematically determine the readability of books based on the words in them: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2013/09/24/guide-to-re...

As far as what rating a book has as to who should be allowed to read it, what do you think? If you are a voracious reader, would you be happy having certain book topics restricted based on your age? Or maybe what your parents thought was right? Maybe they didn't want you know about certain topics. Be careful what you wish for.

> would you be happy having certain book topics restricted based on your age?

When I was a child, I can recall reading 2 books that contained (rather different) graphic accounts of characters coming to significant harm. I absolutely wish they had been better restricted.

While in the mainstream trigger warnings are hated by the righties and content warnings are hated by the lefties, once you get away from the culture war everybody loves content categorization. For example, before you read any piece of fanfiction you're greeted with a long list of tags describing it's content, particularly the content some readers might find distressing. It's a tool for readers, not a government conspiracy.

I was trying to read the paper and it talked about putting shapes together, and I was sad to see that there were no graphical representations of what it was talking about. This is my only hope is that someone would build an accurate graphical representation of these 3D or even 4D shapes (using movement lines I imagine!).

Also a common trope on Car Talk, RIP Tom Magliozzi.

To be fair, the Tappet Brothers were probably around when the stooges were recorded. ;)

I do miss the show though. It was one of the few that could still be labeled, good fun.

That sounds like Type 1 diabetes. Your pancreas doesn't generate insulin in Type 1, and in type 2 your body has insulin resistance, which makes the insulin that your body makes ineffective at regulating your blood sugar.

Type 2 diabetes is not a single disease, but rather a combination of failed signaling pathways in a variety of tissue.

For some people, they will have insulin resistance in fat cells, so lipolysis continues even during high insulin levels.

Some people will have hepatic insulin resistance so their liver does not uptake glucose as glycogen as readily or inhibit gluconeogenesis.

Some people will have insulin resistance in the pancreatic alpha cells, so glucagon production continues in the presence of insulin.

Some people will have skeletal muscle tissue insulin resistance, where excess glucose is not as readily taken up by skeletal muscle tissue (our most metabolic active tissue).

Some people can also have insulin resistance along side decreased insulin production in the pancreatic beta cells. This is mixed type 1 and type 2.

I'm glad that everyone is hitting this guy hard, I see these articles all the time and they all stink of entitlement and definitely the guy writing this has something to gain by having this opinion.

I didn't see a conversation on this in the comments, maybe I missed it, but I think one of the reasons why you don't see as much creative control over web pages is spambots. Lots of things that I've put up on my own personal web page that let anyone add things to it also allowed spambots to invade. And since most software to repel spambots needs to be rather advanced to work effectively, you see instances where the user content part just keeps locked up until it's closed completely.

This is a problem that big companies can solve, but it's much trickier for one guy with a web page to solve.

I think you might have missed the point of the article. Trust doesn't matter in an unbalanced power dynamic. If your direct superior can punish you for disagreeing with you on anything, then it stands to reason that you will submit to their will regardless of the outcome (this is where bad decisions are made because alternative points of view are squashed before they even get a chance). This seems to be the reason why more egalitarian organization results in better outcomes, the better outcomes are possible when trust is given to people, not trust is forced upon people.

> Trust doesn't matter in an unbalanced power dynamic.

I am sorry you have never had a chance to work in a place where it did.

> If your direct superior can punish you for disagreeing with you on anything, then it stands to reason that you will submit to their will regardless of the outcome (this is where bad decisions are made because alternative points of view are squashed before they even get a chance).

No it does not. Not if you have what is called a spine.

Anyway, I wish you will find a boss with whom you can disagree productively. Best thing ever. Highly recommend.

Jailbroken androids for the enterprise! What could possibly go wrong?