And to make it worse, this is happening again.

What kind of asshole says no to cycle lanes?

I should reframe what I said: there is not a single profitable AI-focused company. There are tons of already profitable companies that are now deeply embedding AI into everything they do.

Like Zitron says in the article, we’re 3 years into the AI era and there is not a single actually profitable company. For comparison, the dot-com bubble was About 5-6 years from start to bust. It’s all smoke and mirrors and sketchy accounting.

Even if/when the AI hype settles and perhaps the tech finds its true (profitable) calling, the tech itself is still insanely expensive to run and train. It’s going to boil down to Microsoft and/or X owning nuclear power plants, and everyone else renting usage from them.

People are making money in AI, but like always, it’s the founders and C-suite, while the staff are kicked to the curb. It’s all a shell game and everyone that has integrated AI into their lives and company workflows, is gonna get the rug pulled out from under them.

Lol mine was too insignificant to make the cut.

I’ve beat both the campaign and campaign+ in Road Redemption, and I’ve unlocked the entire upgrade tree. It’s one of my most addictive games. I’m now playing through it on campaign++ lmao.

Yeah, you get immediate feedback, vs a scenario where you have to manually check the “facts” it provides in order to ensure it’s not hallucinating. I’ve had Copilot straight up hallucinate functions on me and I knew that they were bullshit instantly.

I iterate with it a ton and feed it back errors it makes, or things like type mismatches. It fixes them instantly and understands the issue almost every single time.

That’s the trick. Iterate often and always give it new instructions if it does something stupid. Basically be as verbose as needed and give it tons of context, desired standards, pitfalls to avoid, whatever. It helps a ton.

I’ve had the greatest success with Claude. The company I work for basically let us all go wild with a few to trial, and Claude has been the best for all of us—even better than GitHub Copilot.

I pay for my own pro plan outside of work and use the VSCode plugin. I’d say read the quickstart guide and experiment with it. Start off with having it do smaller changes and don’t be afraid to be verbose. The more context, the better. Point it to existing files you want to follow the patterns of and model after; give it links to resources for best practices, etc. You can also use it in “plan mode” if you want to see its proposed approach before it starts editing.

I also recommend leaving it so that each change it makes requires your approval (it will do this by default and you can step through everything). That way you always have some control and if it does something dumb, you can stop it at that step and pivot with a different instruction. Alternatively, if you want to see it go ham and carry everything out without approval at each step, you can enable auto-accept.

Once you get into it, start looking into how to craft instruction files. You can have those at your disposal for things like writing tests, language-specific guidelines and practices, etc. That way you can make sure it uses those as a reference so you don’t have to give it the same instructions over and over with every prompt.

If you hate writing tests, I’ve had really good luck letting it handle that. I tend to use it more for the bulk tasks that suck. For things where I want more control, I work with it on a piecemeal basis in my project.

Speaking as someone who hates generative AI but has been forced to adapt to using AI in the programming field to stay relevant, this doesn’t suggest they’re vibe coding. The programming world is the only place AI has actually added value (I should note it’s done some neat stuff helping with diagnoses in the medical world too), but like everything, you get what you put into it.

Feed it enough instruction and context, and it can handle the drudgery of things like tech debt updates and other things a programmer knows how to do, but would rather offload to a tool. I’ve had Claude do refactors like that while stepping through and reviewing every single change. It has saved me hours, spared me from hell, and made me look good at work.

That’s my grounded take as a person that has worked with Claude a ton.

But AI everywhere else? Fucking worthless. The whole point is to do the bullshit mundane tasks so that us humans can do art and passionate work, not the opposite.

In Mad Max vehicles.

Your life is a dream. Daily real connection to the world and the creatures that make it great.

Our yard is wild and I let it run loose, with only some control. The southeast is getting old though. I’m a northerner that yearns for the snow and mountains again.

Works for me! I’d love to say I built a house. That’s real accomplishment.

That’s a valuable thing to hold onto. Everyone needs and deserves companionship.

My wife is my best friend. We both work from home, so we spend like 90% of our time together.

Who is this “everyone”? Because this ain’t even remotely my dream.

1. House needs to be in the mountains
2. Fuck lawns
3. I don’t have this many friends (by choice)
4. If I did, I wouldn’t want to be in this close of proximity to them
5. This place probably has an HOA which is a big fat NOPE

Raise his jersey number to the rafters!

I’m a hardcore introvert. I don’t have the energy to maintain friendships like this.

Placentzza.

No. Actual. Articles. Also here. And here. One more.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Ionov

Alexander Ionov was charged by a US Dept. of Justice indictment unsealed on July 29, 2022. He is accused of working on behalf of the Russian government and in conjunction with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and orchestrating a years-long foreign malign influence campaign that used various U.S. political groups to sow discord, spread pro-Russian propaganda, and interfere in elections within the United States.[10] According to the indictment, Ionov is accused of providing support to political campaigns in Florida, advocating for California’s secession from the United States, and financing a protest tour in solidarity with a petition denouncing the alleged “genocide” of African people within the country.[11]

The organizations him and his company worked with were also pulled into that investigation and, in some cases, charged themselves. I was no longer working with them by the time the charges came, so it was scary to suddenly see articles years later being published about this.

Articles started popping up and an activist group near me, as well as a couple others across the country, were also involved. A Russian very obviously associated with the Kremlin, was flowing money to these orgs under the guise of a common goal and alignment. Their ultimate goal was to sow chaos during election time and to take votes away from other candidates. It was US-esque tactics on US soil.

I didn’t uncover anything and was merely volunteering with one of the groups when I could, but it was one of those “oh fuck” moments when I saw articles involving the group I was working with.