Isn’t it enabled by default, and requires extra effort to set up key-based auth? Surely many people take the path of least resistance.

Nitter has been shut down, but there are still working instances for now

Most of the time, I hate turn based combat. For instance Xcom 2 was not fun for me. I really enjoyed playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup though.

The type of bias described in the article (more code vulnerabilities if the prompt mentions the code is for groups not aligned with the Chinese government) does not seem like it should be so complicated to avoid.

There are valid reasons for it, very privacy conscious people often hate sites that require or use javascript because it enables advanced fingerprinting and other threats and is basically impossible to vet

I feel like people would buy a game if the alternative was just that you have to compile it yourself and not have Steam achievements

It also means that his praise for and indeed positive experience with this “tool” is largely irrelevant to the broader social/economic discourse surrounding so called AI.

Yeah, but tbf all of the statements he’s making about it are in the context of organizing linux development and the most effective way to carry that out, and just happen to be public and so end up being widely republished and incorporated into discussions with a broader topic than that.

That does change things a bit

I don’t see how this means he’s wrong though, if people are hating AI as a proxy for hating their abusive relationship with their employer, that doesn’t seem like a strong argument that everyone who isn’t in that situation must also hate AI.

For now, age verification laws are being passed all over the world though

Very cryptic message

Well I’m not saying it’s the correct way, just, that’s why they wash them despite the drawbacks.

Because otherwise they have bits of poop on them

The dialogue bubbles don’t really look AI

Cops in the employ of organized crime are not exactly the people you would want having backdoor access to everyone’s phones lol

I had a report for AI slop today. 1m LOC in 3 months. How do you even modify and distribute that?

That makes some sense but does “AI slop” here refer to code with this type of problem or all code made with AI assistance?

I don’t know what will happen, and there’s a lot of bad stuff that could happen, but what I’m excited and hopeful for is an end to software monopolies of all kinds, the replacement of commercial platforms and services with neutral protocols, and people being empowered in ways that cannot be easily suppressed. If we have software that runs on accessible hardware that can enable nearly anyone to create a wide range of personal custom software for themselves, then what purpose it serves is no longer so much decided by corporations and governments. It’s already way more accessible to use Linux as your main PC because LLMs are decent at walking you through how to do what you want with it without being snarky, or requiring developing a deep understanding. I have a growing collection of personal software made with LLM assistance that is useful to me.

The way I optimistically picture using computers in the future is, there will be code libraries that are made to high standards of security, and those will be recombined on the fly by LLMs build-your-own-client style. The results will naturally be devoid of data harvesting or detectable advertisement, because no one would choose to have that stuff if it’s not a package deal. Media feed algorithms will be decided by everyone for themselves, which I’m sure will also have some risks, but surely people can decide for themselves better than Musk and Zuckerberg and the billionaires controlling traditional media can decide for them.

Less optimistically, that all gets shut down by laws and network effects and apathy and our devices are forced with hardware attestation to snitch us out to WW3 killbots. I don’t think our chances of making it are so terrible though.

one thing I actually really like is having it model a system as a state machine and enumerate all the possible states to find bugs — especially concurrency bugs. I don’t work in a provable language, so this is hugely helpful.

Could you elaborate on that at all, finding bugs with a state machine approximating the system, how does that work?

By “we” I’m really thinking of all earth based life/intelligence, rather than just humans as they exist today. But yeah if humans self-delete in a way that doesn’t involve being replaced by something similarly capable (for instance a planet of the apes type scenario), then it’s probably going to be a lot longer than a million years before we recover, which could start to erode our cosmic timescale head start over life elsewhere in the universe. So we really shouldn’t do that just yet.

The universe isn’t really that old so it probably just hasn’t had time to start getting crowded yet. We should really get our shit together in the next million years or so and get on top of that.