Are there public examples of "good instruction" and an iteration process? I have tried and have not been very successful at getting Claude Code to generate correct code for medium sized projects or features.
I had Claude write a piano webapp (https://webpiano.jcurcioconsulting.com) as a "let's see how this thing works" project. I was pleasantly surprised by the ease of it.
They can, it would likely just increase the cost of cheap devices to end users, as the manufacturer now has to provide additional software support and does not want to lose money.
Because when you buy most smartphones, you're buying a vendor locked device and choosing to stay within their ecosystem. That's how Google has designed their monopoly. Apple is the same way, but non-fragmented.
You've never had to wait for Dell to type apt update and apt upgrade, but MacOS users have to wait for Apple to update their computer.
These manufacturers gladly took in AOSP back in 2011 when it was still truly a great open source project - exactly as the name should require it to be - and also when security requirements were much much lower. Of course to keep up with device security it turns out you need complete control over the whole stack and regular updates anyway, so now these manufacturers are in a pickle of a situation.
Its possible the forced apps are a cost recouping mechanism. But how does a phone bootloader being locked down become Google's fault? Does it mandate that for some kind of Android certification?
Yes Google mandates a locked bootloader in order to meet Google Play Integrity's remote attestation. More generally it mandates a perfectly clean and valid secure boot chain. Among a variety of other requirements.
One could argue that those “cheap” devices are ewaste from the beginning, and customers needing lower cost mobile devices should be buying more expensive ones used or refurbished.
Because they fucking suck. I never heard desktops or laptops being tied to Dell or Asus or what not for run of the mill kernel or os upgrades. If phone makers want to be fucking ass by locking down bootloaders, jealously preventing reversing etc preventing kernel devs etc from doing their own thing then they should accept the just label of being fucking ass or take on the responsibility of supporting it forever.
No, we shouldn't. We live in a society, and that level of distrust is not just unrealistic, it's disastrous. This doesn't mean you should share your house keys with every drive by PR contributor, but neither should you treat every PR as if it's coming from Jia Tan.
There's a lot of non-engineering people who are very happy to see someone else get unemployed by automation for a change. The people who formerly were automating others out of a job are getting a taste of their own medicine.
I am not an engineer and I expect my white collar job to be automated.
The reason to be excited economically for this is if it happens it will be massively deflationary. Pretending CEOs are just going to pocket the money is economically stupid.
Being able to use a super intelligence has been a long time dream too.
What is depressing is the amount of tech workers who have no interest in technological advancement.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by deflationary, but in general deflation in an economy is a very bad thing. The most significant period of economic deflation in the US was 1930-1933, ie, the great depression, and the most recent period was the great recession.
And since when do business executives NOT pocket the money? Pretty much the only exception is when they reinvest the savings into the business, for more growth, but that reinvestment and growth usually is only something the rest of us care about if it involves hiring..
> that would cause a tremendous drop in demand for the services the schaudenfreuden folks provide, hurting them as well
You're correct. But it doesn't matter. Remember the San Francisco protests against tech? People will kill a golden goose if it's shinier than their own.
> If this goose is also pricing others out of housing market it's not entirely unreasonable
It's self-defeating but predictable. (Hence why the protests were tolerated to backed by NIMBY interests.)
My point is the same nonsense can be applied to someone not earning a tech wage celebrating tech workers getting replaced by AI. It makes them poorer, ceteris paribus. But they may not understand that. And the few that do may not care (or may have a way to profit off it, directly or indirectly, such that it's acceptable).
I don't quite follow. What exactly have non-tech people of San Francisco got from all the tech people working there? How did they become richer (ok, apart from landlords) or how would they become poorer if they lose their jobs?
Generally true - if not stolen, then they would need to lie on the SSN appliation (no permission to work, but some other approved purpose, but then use it when working). It would be easy to cross-reference SS/IRS tax records on this front too. [https://www.ssa.gov/ssnumber/ss5doc.htm#work2].
They have to have those stolen SSNs (or one acquired fraudulently) to get on a W2 payroll, and there is no legal way to get a SSN like that if you aren’t here legally. SS and federal programs explicitly go after anyone with those stolen SSNs if they try to withdraw funds. I imagine California is not as friendly to it either, if you really dig in. But they happily accept contributions.
And it would be trivial to modify the system so those folks couldn’t get on the payroll in the first place by requiring new employee information be submitted and verified to prevent this - last I checked it was actually explicitly illegal to do that however. Though the data is required to be kept handy in case of a raid/inspection by ICE by the employer.
I don’t think anyone is claiming being here illegally is GOOD. Rather that the system benefits from doing things that way (in the sense of illegal folks paying in, and generally unable to withdraw), and things are structured to enable this at the benefit of companies, the US gov’t, etc.
‘illegals’ as far as I can tell are definitely not sitting at home fat on SS benefits. Rather the opposite.
> Thats always the claim, but they have stolen SSN's to get those jobs in the first place (those without SSN's aren't paying income tax).
Where are the criminal prosecutions if that is actually happening? For all of Elon's efforts, even he was unable to find much (if any?) social security fraud.
> Not to mention states like California which explicitly spend federal money on illegal immigrants through Medicaid.
With the exception of pregnancy and emergency care (which are relatively minor), this is not the case.
People get prosecuted for stealing SSN’s all the time (identity theft), just generally not for paying in taxes under said SSN. The gov’t loves free money.
And if companies collude together to all agree to use non-competes to depress salary (reminder that this has already occurred), what would you recommend?
> Coristine wrote impressive, profitable tech. He should have a future as a productive member of society, perhaps even one of its titans.
When did "profitable" become the sole metric by which we judge someone's work? Does what is morally correct factor into it at all, or should the impressiveness someone's accomplishments make them a "titan" regardless of intent or outcome?
> should the impressiveness someone's accomplishments make them a "titan" regardless of intent or outcome?
For a teenager? Barring violence, yes. An impressive, misguided teenager is a net asset to a community and society in the developed world.
I challenge anyone intelligent to honestly say they didn’t have any really stupid opinions or worldviews before their prefrontal cortex had finished developing.
I certainly didn't say anything akin to the recent racist tweets from another Doge staffer, no.
There's also a very large unspoken piece left out of your sentence, which is that they are an asset if taught and guided well. Do you think Musk is likely to do that, or to instead encourage careless "technically impressive and profitable" behavior without regard to ethics or morals?
> certainly didn't say anything akin to the recent racist tweets from another Doge staffer, no
Were you on Twitter?
I don’t remember anything that heinous. But I do remember telling off-colour jokes. If I’d done that in public and received validation from someone I respected and admired, is it implausible I’d have gone down the rabbit hole?
> unspoken piece left out of your sentence, which is that they are an asset if taught and guided well
That’s my point. These kids show potential. It’s being squandered for the short-term gains of old men.
