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Through much experimentation, trial, and tribulation, we have a new seasonal #margarita recipe!
“Snow on the Beach” (with apologies to Ms Swift)
Good news: AI will achieve human levels of intelligence next year!
Bad news: This will not happen as a result of improvements to AI.
While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum
@stevenharman Saw this. Thought about your time working for me at Heroku. This is how I saw you. Frustrating that this doesn't fit into promotion systems because measuring it is hard AF.
Some new (to me) ideas, and a good bit of re-enforcing, or putting names to, thoughts/intuitions I've been noodling on for a while.
"Team dynamics after #AI”
https://mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/team-dynamics-after-ai/ #programming
“The next generation of AI will be trained on code written by humans who learned primarily from AI. Each iteration becomes slightly more removed from fundamental understanding. It's like making photocopies of photocopies until the original image becomes unrecognizable.”
And my consulting rate is going to increase at a multiple of the rate of this decline.
https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/ai-vibe-coding-destroying-junior-developers-careers
poetic justice |pōˌedik ˈjəstəs| (noun)
- the fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for one's actions. example: “It was poetic justice when the GenAI deleted itself.”
And now, a case from the real world: “Cursor YOLO deleted everything in my computer, […] including itself.” [source: https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yolo-deleted-everything-in-my-computer/103131]
Hi everyone - as a previous context I’m an AI Program Manager at J&J and have been using Cursor for personal projects since March. Yesterday I was migrating some of my back-end configuration from Express.js to Next.js and Cursor bugged hard after the migration - it tried to delete some old files, didn’t work at the first time and it decided to end up deleting everything on my computer, including itself. I had to use EaseUS to try to recover the data, but didn’t work very well also. Lucky I alwa...
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
Rob Ricci
Evan Light
