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by LogicFailsMe6 hours ago |
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upvoteby joquarky5 hours ago|
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> That's because the loudest voices don't really get how the technology or the science works. They just know how to shout persuasively.

These people have taken over the industry in the past 10 years.

They don't care anything about the tech or product quality. They talk smooth, loud, and fast so the leaders overlook their incompetence while creating a burden for the rest of the team.

I had a spectacular burnout a few years ago because of these brogrammers and now I have to compete with them in what feels like a red queen's race where social skills are becoming far more important than technical skills to land a job.

I'm tired.

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upvoteby direwolf201 hours ago|
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These people have taken over every industry and society at large.
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upvoteby fragmede4 hours ago|
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Social skills to get my computer to do what I want still blows my mind. Or having to talk back to it. Claude said it couldn't do something, and the way around that was too tell it "yes you can". What a weird future we live in.
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upvoteby mananaysiempre3 hours ago|
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Claude said it couldn't do something, and the way around that was too tell it "yes you can".

  >kill dragon

  With what?  Your bare hands?
  >yes

  Congratulations!  You have just vanquished a dragon with your bare
  hands!  (Unbelievable, isn't it?)
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upvoteby skydhash4 hours ago|
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What social skills? You can write in broken English and still have good results. It’s a statistical language , not a living being. No need for empathy, pleading, accusing, or manipulating. It transforms languages, any mapping from text to action was implemented by someone. And it would be way easier to have such mapping directly available.
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upvoteby direwolf201 hours ago|
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It transforms languages into the most likely human response. Humans are more likely to respond to rudeness with rejection.
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upvoteby borroka1 hours ago|
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I do not doubt that AI and AI-powered and -native applications will become part of the fabric of our personal and professional lives.

What I don't understand is why, outside of "because I can", people need to automate parts of life I did not know the existence of.

- Why, outside of edge cases, do people have to automate the payment of bills beyond the automatic cc processing? - How many times a month do they have to set up their barber appointment?

It seems to me that the applications of Clawd and similar tools either automate trivial stuff or work on actions and circumstances that should not be there.

As an example, the other day I had a doctor visit, and between filling forms online, filling other forms online, confirming three times I would have been there and that I filled the online forms, driving to the doctor's office, and waiting, I probably spent 2 hours of my time (the visit was 2 months after I asked for it, by the way).

The visit lasted 5-7 minutes: the doctor did not have a look at the forms I filled out beforehand, and barely listened to what I was telling him during the visit.

I worry that, since "AI" will do it, there will be more forms to be filled that nobody will read, more forms to be filled to confirm that AI or me or a guardian filled the forms, and longer wait times because AI will bombard our neurons with some entertainment.

But what I want is a visit with a doctor who listens to me, they are not in a rush, and have my problem solved. If AI helps, it's great, but I don't want busy work done by AI, I don't want, because it is not needed, busy work at all.

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upvoteby adastra224 hours ago|
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> I think AI is about to do the same thing to pair programming that full self-driving has done for driving.

Approximately nothing?

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