Joe

Don’t worry, your email to requests@luigifanclub.cc with the subject line of “next target” is safe. /s

I’ll cross it off my reading list, thanks! :-)

What’s next?

An AI planned economy with hard-coded nobles & privileged roles (the rest are serfs/citizens) ensuring that everyone stays in their designated role forever (nobles get life extension tech, which is illegal for the rest). Serfs in turn have wide freedoms and an easier life, but swift justice when they break the laws (which is known thanks to full surveillance). Novel lifestyle communities may exist, allowing serfs to live different lives (eg. traditional farming communities, the sims in RL, hobby communities, but with safety nets.) Many see it as an improvement over the insecurities and struggles of life beforehand, in turn supporting the nobility and their privileged status.

That is, until the AI wars break out, as competing sets of nobles build bigger and bigger datacenters with their competing AIs (with different sets of hard-coded nobles) and bigger and deadlier drone armies, sending them on missions in enemy territory, destroying anything and anyone who gets in their way.

Eventually, the nobles move to space and turn earth’s drone wars into a video game for their kids, who are kept artificially young forever, honing their sociopathy until such time as it is needed.

*according to the US constitution ?

You just might be right there. The road to hell and all that.

Otoh, we are living in a world where the rich and powerful have extraordinary influence over our lives through asymmetric application of power, technology and knowledge… we are just pawns/players in systems, and if a system fails us, we might not have any recourse. It’s one reason I value the ability to “vote with my feet” (thanks to international agreements and norms, plus my extraordinary good luck of having a strong passport, decent education and supportive family). If you are stuck in a shitty system, your options might be limited and your readiness to accept extremism and its risks will likely be higher.

Hiya Flying. It’s a joke with a grain of truth. Some vocal (and often well spoken) voices there see russia as a lesser evil than the US and its allies, but imho they go overboard and would rather see and forgive/justify/support russian aggression and its deadly consequences than seek peaceful paths to a more just world.

I wanted a 3d printer too…

It is clear that russian propaganda is the best propaganda. pats you on the head

I don’t think there is a single one, but there are definitely styles that make you think it. Red themes, tools and machinery, fists in the air, etc.

You missed the joke, I guess.

edit: No need to downvote the guy

You forgot “unconditionally supports russian imperialism and repeats its propaganda incessently” … wait, this isn’t lemmy.ml 🫠

I think I speak for Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and Vatican City when I say, I agree.

Finally we can put to rest the laughable chinese disinformation campaigns about well documented historical fact and instead focus on china’s prospects to be responsible world power/leader in the many fields where the US is failing the world right now.

looks at lemmy.ml commenter … oh right, never mind then.

Hah, yeah. Vibe coding and prompt engineering seem like a huge fad right now, although I don’t think it’s going to die out, just the hype.

The most successful vibe projects in the next few years are likely to be the least innovative technically, following well trodden paths (and generating lots of throwaway code).

I suppose we’ll see more and more curated collections of AI-friendly design documents and best-practice code samples to enable vibe coding for varied use-cases, and this will be the perceived value add for various tools in the short term. The spec driven development trend seems to have value, adding semantic layers for humans and AI alike.

Most code on the planet is boring legacy code, though. Novel and interesting is typically a small fraction of a codebase, and it will often be more in the design than the code itself. Anything that can help us make boring code more digestible is welcome. Plenty of other pitfalls along the way though.

No, but it can help a capable developer to have more of those moments, as one can use LLMs and coding agents to (a) help explain the relationships in a complicated codebase succinctly and (b) help to quickly figure out why one’s code doesn’t work as expected (from simple bugs to calling out one’s own fundamental misunderstandings), giving one more time to focus on what matters to oneself.