Programming your own app is not practical. It's not worth the time. It's just easier to have someone else do it. I can probably write my own tax software using an LLM but there's no way I will spend the time to do it. It will probably cost me a few grand in tokens and I can't really know if it's accurate without taking lots of time to QA it. As programmers we've always been selling outcomes. No one accepts partially working code. It has to meet specifications. If a programmer can't do that then he/she loses their job. The programing profession is changing but it won't go away anytime soon.
I'm not feeling great about this IPO. When there's this much hype around something, it tends to peter out pretty quickly. I suspect we'll see an initial pop, followed by a sharp drop back to earth before long.
What I gather from this is that we're building super intelligence one subject at a time. We may never get true AGI but 30 years from now, or whatever number, it will certainly seem like it.
I like to bake lemon cakes on a regular basis. I looked at the recipe for lemon cake and the book uses carbonate of ammonia instead of baking powder. What's interesting is that it releases a strong smell a ammonia as the cake bakes. I can't even imagine having to deal with that smell in one of my cakes today. It's funny, we think that we have an idea of what it was like to live in previous times but I suspect that we would be completely lost if we somehow went back. Just baking a cake would have been such a different experience now imagine everything else.
BS, watch how they somehow get the funding. Old people vote and they will make their unhappiness known to every elected official even if the official can't do anything about it.
The coming generations are the ones that will feel the pain. It's likely that SS will switch to a partial stock market funding. Where some of the money the government deducts will be invested in the stock market.
It could easily be funded by raising the payroll tax cap and leaving the benefits cap in place. High income earners would be subsidizing the program, sounds fair to me after society enabled them to become high income earners.
Sure, that would be a great way to fund Social Security and Medicaid. I proposed raising the payroll tax cap simply because it works within the existing framework, but targeting wealth to fund social programs is a good idea too.
Tax the fuck out of people and do they stop working, or quiet-quit reduce hours/effort?
There are many highly paid essential jobs that society needs. Good luck finding a doctor. How long would transportation or infrastructure last without engineers?
Obviously wouldn't matter for deadwood or bullshit jobs: but we struggle to identify those. You might think Hollywood is unnecessary, but how much of your economy depends on foreign income from unnecessary shit?
No more startups - why bother if there's no reward.
Make Britain great again, by making the US suck!
> after society enabled
You've got causality reversed. Society depends on businesses and workers.
I can't understand how anyone looks at complex systems and thinks "let's just fuck $X". Is it just ignorance?
The coming generations have no skin in this game. As more Boomers die the youth will be forced to rewrite the rules.
Nice of the elders to wipe the slate clean on their way out dismantling what they benefited from.
Thomas Jefferson wrote that Constitutions must be rewritten every 19 years to be updated with modern thought. Or else the next generations are ruled by fiat decree.
So it's for the best. Would be preferred if such was done intentionally and not made a necessity due to malfeasance of the dying generation.
I participate because I am not currently employed and have nobody else in the dev space to interact with, and even though this place is pretty parasocial, I still like it.
I wonder why he thinks Milei is going to bring continued change over time? Argentina's economy has been a mess as long as I can remember, decades and decades. Why is Milei so different that's he's willing to move there? He must really see a change he can exploit.
Argentina is, indeed, quite puzzling. They shouldn’t be a mess, and they should vote better, but, yet, they never get to have a stable period of progress.
There are only two countries in the entire South America that DO NOT have the experience of having a democratically elected leader overthrown in a US-backed coup.
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