I’d be more curious to hear about the processes people have put in place for AI code reviews

On the one hand, past some threshold of criticality/complexity, you can’t push AI unreviewed, on the other, you can’t relegate your senior best engineers to do nothing but review code

It doesn’t just not scale, it makes their lives miserable

So then, what’s the best approach?

I think over time that threshold I mentioned will get higher and higher, but at the moment the ratio of code that needs to be reviewed to reviewers is a little high

I would love for someone more knowledgeable in this space than I to chime in on the economics of this industry

Are the few cents you get from antagonizing users really worth it?

I suspect the answer is simple and that most users don’t give a shit

I think it has to do a lot with when you came of age - I’m in my late 30s, I got my first tech job at 14 as a sys admin for a large school district, and every single developer, admin, etc that I knew was already going on about the free internet. As a result, I’ve never had a tolerance for anything but the most reasonable advertisements

I think that ideology is necessary to care enough and be motivated enough to really get rid of ads, how fucking awful the websites are alone should be enough but for most people it isn’t

I’m honestly dumbfounded that these exist

In the past some site had light versions, but I haven’t come across one in over 10 years

Makes me wonder if this isn’t just some rogue employee maintaining this without anyone else realizing it

It’s the light version, but ironically I would happily pay these ad networks a monthly $20 to just serve these lite pages and not track me. They don’t make anywhere close to that from me in a year

Sadly, here’s how it would go: they’d do it, it be successful, they’d ipo, after a few years they’d need growth, they’d introduce a new tier with ads, and eventually you’d somehow wind up watching ads again

a lot of these are internal tools that they just haven't disabled access to for whatever reason. old.reddit still exists for whatever reason.

That's only a matter of time until they kill it. i.reddit.com is already dead.

Yeah I sort of cringed when I read his comment to be honest

The whole point of the area of work that as far as I know is called interpretability, is precisely to try and figure exactly how these things work

So I thought your comment was a good way of putting this

Ah, you can add to that list messages never showing you your attachments

Have a thread going with someone for years? Yeah good luck seeing more than 20% if anything you’ve ever sent each other

Huh? What about all the open source software you use, did you build all of it?

What about the phone in your hand, did you design that?

HN loves to believe they are the noble few - men and women of math and science, driven by nothing but the pure joy of their craft

But this whole AI thing has been super revealing. Almost everyone here is just the same old same old, only that now that the change is hitting close to home, you’re clutching your pearls and lamenting the days when devs were devs

The younger generation born into the AI world is going to leave you in the dust because they aren’t scared of it

My math teacher used to say that people felt this was about…calculators, imagine that

I'm aware I didn't build the things I depend on—OS, language runtimes, etc. But if I use AI to build the thing I'm building, I'm not really building it—I'm asking someone else to. We've been hoodwinked into believing that AI code generation is just a tool, but it's not—it's a service. You're asking OpenAI or Anthropic to make all but the highest level decisions and write the program you described. It's just done automatically by machine. I feel the same way about AI-generated other things too. What else is paying money, submitting a description, and getting back an image or a song but a commission?

If that's the tradeoff a business wants to make, that's their call. But AI-assisted development really is just outsourcing with a bigger carbon footprint.

You are going to end up property of openai and with zero skills. Good luck

Luckily I think in this day and age it’d be more viable and not as miserable as an experience - dare I say more accessible

You can connect an external keyboard to your phone and if you can swing getting a cheap IPS panel that displays text clearly enough, you’d have a working set up

Anyway, kudos to you, I love reading stories about determination

Ryanair heavily advertises on their site that their tickets are refundable

It turns out, they aren’t - there is a ton of fine print and if you happen to qualify they “refund” you in miles

Both in the US and Europe, it’d be great if the government used some of their overreaching powers they use to pass laws to spy on us to also pass laws to protect us as consumers for products and services across the board

It would be a decent consolation prize

Sort of off topic here but lack of consumer protection AND shitty airlines across the world are both subjects that really trigger me (not really)

It's just a cat and mouse game. Some intern comes up with a brilliant way to shaft people, a VP takes that idea and forces devs to work overtime on it, it generates a lot of revenue (and fat bonus for the VP), then the lawyers on both sides to get to spend a lot of time slowly arguing with each other while taking money from the company and taxpayers. By the time it gets to this point, the company already has five other schemes in the works.

It’s naive to think that this is a) the only current use

Almost everything ever introduced with good intentions gets perverted into something else

Traffic cameras, facial recognition, phone GPS, social media - all can and are used against you in one way shape or form

I’m not saying we shouldn’t have any of those things - I’m saying just open your eyes because e sims are no different

Over twenty years ago there came a mandate that all places with many people gathers (both residential and commercial housing) should have a EN 54‑21 compliant alarm transmitter to automatically notify authorities in case of a fire.

I'm afraid that we are crying wolf right now and are undermining our efforts to permanently shut down Chat Control and the likes when we complain about these efforts with a history of not being misused.