What I'd love to see is videos of nontechnical folks using language models to create software.
When I use them myself, I just see them crushing it and think, this thing is now doing my job for basically $0, I am no longer economically relevant. But I've spent a lifetime learning to program, so it's possible I only get good results because of the way I think to prompt it.
I really can't get the outside view so I can't decide whether AI is going to make me homeless or not. I think we need the videos.
The format is editable. The line chart seems always to be scaled so the minima is at the bottom, but you can get the zero point by changing it to bars.
The options do seem a bit idiosyncratic, but I guess they are useful for the kind of data the site users usually look at.
Broken axes aren't the solution. Starting from 0 is but nobody making graphs seems to understand or, in the case of journalists, they're trying to mislead their readers. I suppose readers enjoy being awed by dramatically changing graphs too.
It would also be nice to include a shaded area for the first standard deviation over a relevant period of time to get an idea of how far outside normal it is.
In my unhinged pipedreams, we’d have some sort of standard for conveying the data directly so users could use browser settings to decide how to display the data. There like a dozen people in the world that would use it, but they’d really really enjoy it I bet.
But it essentially shows the same thing, the covid overhiring boom and then layoff cycle post-covid is over. And jobs are rising again.
What’s absolutely mind blowing to me though…the idea AI isn’t causing software engineering jobs to collapse…which you would think would make people here happy…is something that makes software engineers upset??
It’s almost as if everyone here has married their identity to the idea they are victims of AI progress and any suggestion otherwise is ego destruction.
”What??? You mean the job market is expanding and the reason I can’t find a job is…me? That can’t possibly be true I’m a genius, the data is clearly wrong!”
First few paragraphs I was trying to guess how this was going to turn out to be a metaphor for AI. The modern disposable product is the LLM, right, and the cloth diaper is doing things yourself? But, no, it really is just an article about baby poo.
Inscryption, too. I didn't know it started as an LD game until after I played it, and it was great to see how much of the atmosphere and mechanics were already there in the LD version [1].
This is one of those bugs that taught me something, so I did this writeup. I hope it's interesting. I tried to write it like a murder mystery, showing you the bug first and then dropping clues until the reveal, so maybe if you're into graphics programming you'll go "aha!" at some point and figure it out before you get to the end.
It released in 2020 but I've never stopped adding things and tweaking it. Recently I added mirrors that spin when you shoot them, called "flip-flops" because they work a bit like flip-flops from computing.
I'm also tinkering with some new game ideas, because I'd like to make something popular that can sustain me financially, and the gaming market, as difficult as it is, does still seem to value human soul and creativity.
I took the pilot one as an abstract logic type question where you're supposed to assume the premise is true, so I said yes and the page said I was right, because that's a "valid logical deduction" or something.
Then there was another question in the same format that said "if you study hard enough you'll pass the exam. You didn't pass, so you didn't study hard enough." So I thought, oh, another logic one, and said yes to that one too, but the page was like, "not quite! You might fail for other reasons!"
And if, as OP says, it’s necessity and sufficiency we’re testing—whether or not there were also other reasons contributing to your exam failure, wouldn’t failing that one necessary condition be sufficient to fail the outcome?
It was the same kind of logic question. You missed a key word in your quote. I think it said “If you study hard enough you _can_ pass the exam”. It was there to make it clear that studying hard is not a guarantee for passing the test, and therefore can’t be used as the certain reason for failure.
Weird article. The author talks about Unicode "public use areas" (which don't exist), clarifies that they're sometimes called "public use access" (a term appearing only in this article) and are invisible while also being used for flags and emojis and also having special meaning to JavaScript interpreters and also representing letters in the "US alphabet".
There's a real vulnerability here but whoever wrote this has no idea what they're talking about.
Good article, and I feel your pain. Sometimes it feels like there's no point creating anything anymore, because shitty people will just steal it.
In case you're interested, though, I just wanted to point out that there are things you can do.
In my experience, Google does respond to requests to scrub infringing sites from their results if you submit their Copyright Claim form. They even give you a dashboard with the status of your claims. Probably worth trying your luck if you can be bothered.
Also, many of the theives have X and Bluesky accounts, and I don't believe either of these services let users censor replies to them.
There's also the payment platforms that are collecting money for your stolen work on behalf of these guys. They might be interested to hear about what's going on.
Then there's the hosting companies themselves, of course, hosting the infringing websites.
It's a pain, and it would be better if you could just create stuff and people weren't shitty, but we live in a fallen world and sometimes you gotta defend yourself. Up to you, of course, and I totally get it if you don't have the energy, but I've been through the same thing and you do have some power.
There is a reason games and software have moved to the client server architecture even when it doesn't really makes sense. Its the only way to maintain copyright.
You can hate it, but for the creative types your options are:
Assume it fails and no one knows about it / Assume it succeeds get stolen / build it on the server side
140. Good fun. I like how it teaches you things, too. I learned that toads are considered frogs, axolotls are salamanders, and that it's "anemone" not "anenome". If you type in Unicorn it accepts it as "Unicorn spider" with a fun message. Don't forget to think of insects, birds and fish too, all of which it accepts. I love this kind of detailed, handcrafted thing that someone put a lot of time and effort into.
If you wanted to develop this more, some fun features might be telling you the most commonly entered animals you missed and the most unusual ones you thought of. Appreciate you probably want to keep it a static site though.
When I use them myself, I just see them crushing it and think, this thing is now doing my job for basically $0, I am no longer economically relevant. But I've spent a lifetime learning to program, so it's possible I only get good results because of the way I think to prompt it.
I really can't get the outside view so I can't decide whether AI is going to make me homeless or not. I think we need the videos.
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