Alright, I'll be the boomer and say that's what I want every webpage to be like. If you want to customize it you can bring your own CSS or download someone else's. The modern web is a nightmare of user-hostile time-thieving behavioral manipulation and our brains would be better off without it.

Are you suggesting 60db is is acceptably quiet? It is well above the thresholds for sleep disturbance, negative health consequences, and in line with that of "[extreme irritation]". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_from_noise

Noise pollution is a serious issue and is second behind air pollution among environmental health risks.

And Americans' lives have been heavily shaped by cars and the car industry in a negative way. So, a pretty apt comparison.

And also in a positive way. I mean, it's not personal teleportation, but it sometimes feels like it.

And despite all the deaths they caused, the benefits are undeniable... Fancy going back to horse and cart? Didn't think so...same logic applies to ai

Horse and cart, no. But some cities have banned cars and replaced them with various alternatives, and it works.

There are alternatives to the car culture we have. It would require significantly rebuilding how we build infrastructure, but the result could be much safer, cleaner, and less stressful.

Of course Americans would rather die, but counties of sane people might be able to work it out.

First off, you don't know if duskdozer doesn't want to go back to cart and horse. Second even if they don't there's an enormous amount of space between horses and https://parkingreform.org/resources/parking-lot-map/ a third of my downtown being parking lots, downtown which is already the dense bit.

The car did not replace the horse and cart. This is an oft cited and widely believed myth. It replaced mostly walking, but also cycling, trollies and trains. And it didn't do so until after a huge build out of infrastructure to accommodate drivers at the cost of everything else.

After the building of highways and roads cities were no longer walkable, people had moved out into the suburbs, their jobs were now a couple of towns over and they couldn't even walk to the grocery store. Cars enabled that, but politicians and capitalist were the ones who did that.

> It replaced mostly walking, but also cycling, trollies and trains.

And everything was carried on people's heads, yeah? The horse and cart was in use right up to the 20th century my man...there was no other way to move heavy items across land until the combustion engine (or canals thought that's not technically over land)

True, but not in the way you're thinking.

How far does a million tokens go?

Well, perhaps we will be sent similarly to asylums for "anti-AI psychosis"

As if meetings weren't bad enough already, I now have to sit through an informal introduction to the model of the week and its personality characteristics and how quickly it burnt through one subscription's token allotment or whatever and the latest tweaks on the magic markdown files. Luckily I've only had a couple changes sent my way so far, which weren't much different than just getting a bug report to debug and fix myself. I will need to get into risky options gambling or something so I can go start my farm early, if it keeps going this way. Even supposing it all works correctly, I don't see how it is in any way enjoyable, satisfying, or fulfilling.

There's a constant "need" to churn UI revamps, so I guess eventually you run out of ideas before cycling around.

So, how many are getting paycuts this year? Things aren't/haven't ever been suited for me to be a job hopper, and as always that seems to be the only way to have your salary meaningfully keep up with inflation.

When you feel they are toxic or harassing you and you don't want to deal with them anymore. If you're overwhelmed, say that you're busy and will attend to issues and PRs when you have the time. If you want to be accommodating, have good build instructions or action workflows so that people can easily fork and build it themselves.

If you ask me, LLM-generated things should just be banned outright, but I suppose other people's definitions of "community" include them.

> If you ask me, LLM-generated things should just be banned outright,

Why? In the end it's a patch's quality that counts. Regardless who or what contributed it.

Bad patch from trusted contributor is still a bad patch.

Perhaps this is more a management problem. How to best use developer's time, where to use AI (vs blindly deploy AI to generate patches & swamp developers with that).

Or do some rate-limiting? "Sorry, we accept no more than 10KB worth of patches per week on this project! Try again next week after we've reviewed this week's batch".

> Why? In the end it's a patch's quality that counts.

LLM patches tend to be significantly harder to review. Mostly because LLMs let people who don't know what they are doing get much further.

It might be an unfair heurestic as there are plenty of competent people who use it to good effect, but the vast majority of negative value patches use LLMs and it can be a bit exhausting. Lowering the technical barriers of entry just means more pressure on the human ones.

> Why? In the end it's a patch's quality that counts. Regardless who or what contributed it.

You just said: The things that I think and care about matter more than the things that you care about.

is that what you meant?

Being honest, if we're talking about the health of any given project, the patch quality doesn't matter that much. Not when you measure it against the importance of consistency and continuity of a regular contributor. A thousand perfect LLM patches are less valuable than an experienced maintainer.

If your LLM is annoying them, and they quit. The perfect LLM patch just destroyed the repo.

People wasting others time is a social problem, not a technical one. Rate limits can't prevent somebody feeling disrespected.

It's a bad signal. Someone who is lazy and using an LLM was probably too lazy to do another number of things you want a contributor to do.