That's true, I don't mind people being paid at all. I'd rather that than some dodgy AI.
I still found it funny that Amazon was implying this was some kind of technology marvel when it really just boiled down to webcams.
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Reminds me of the Amazon Fresh "just walk out" grocery shopping experience where the store is packed with cameras monitored by "advanced ai" that would tally up the total of the items in your cart.
It would take a few hours for them to email a receipt to let you know what you'd spent and the advanced ai turned out to be low-wage workers in India watching the video feeds.
So maybe this explains why Windows takes 20 seconds to find Notepad when I search for it on the Start menu.
Sometimes it's like "Notepad? Never heard of it."
Developer: here's a fun little thing people will be excited to find!
Player: I will never trust anyone again
The idea of LLMs putting coders out of work at a large scale seems inherently self-defeating.
The LLMs needed to ingest a massive volume of code to get to their current level of proficiency. What will happen if they put all the coders out of work and Stack Overflow is down to just a small number of hobbyists? Will the LLMs just stop advancing?
I'm sure Sam Altman would say they are just about to have reasoning capabilities that will allow them to improve. But Sam Altman is not credible.
I agree on the double standard. I also think there's an element of Cory Doctorow's point that "it's not a crime of we do it with an app."
Running an unlicensed taxi service or hotel business? No no we're not criminals, we're disrupting stagnant markets!
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/25/potatotrac/
It's basically a blanket pass for tech bros to bend and break laws
Thank goodness we are finally hiring based on merit!
Good. Don't let the door hit you.
Gonna miss out on those sweet hamberders
Have we reached the point where we don't even bother to make up a fake crime or improper behavior the official is supposed to have committed that justifies their impeachment?
He should just be impeached because he ruled against Musk doing what he wants? I guess I appreciate the honesty.
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Similar story for clothes dryers:
My parents' dryer had 2 knobs for temperature and run time, and a start button. Ran forever and dried clothes.
My dryer has like a dozen programmed cycles that rely on a moisture sensor that doesn't work and leaves clothes damp unless you use the manual time & temp settings, which takes several capacitive button presses on a circuit board that is likely to die before any of the actual mechanical components of the dryer. Also for some reason it has Wi-Fi.