> What they found across more than 40 “in-depth” interviews was that nobody was pressured at this company. Nobody was told to hit new targets. People just started doing more because the tools made more feel doable. But because they could do these things, work began bleeding into lunch breaks and late evenings. The employees’ to-do lists expanded to fill every hour that AI freed up, and then kept going.
> As one engineer told them, “You had thought that maybe, oh, because you could be more productive with AI, then you save some time, you can work less. But then really, you don’t work less. You just work the same amount or even more.”
The article also has some dismal numbers regarding how much AI actually contributes, and these numbers look much worse when read in context of the investments the big guys are making. Add in the economic and environmental concerns and it just looks like the wrong tech at the wrong time but humans are stupid like that. Burn the planet up, we can move to mars when we run out of earth!
> By far the greatest IDE I have ever used was Visual Studio C++ 6.0 on Windows 2000. I have never felt like a toolchain was so complete and consistent with its environment as there.
+1. I've tried many times, and failed, to replicate the joy of using that toolchain.
TLDR: ... I'm getting a comparable experience to NixOS, with all the usual pros a declarative environment brings and without having to put up with Nixlang.
How the errors/debugging compare? From what I've read this is the main pain point with Nix where a more mature language like Guile should have a much better experience here. The article touches on this but I'd be curious of a more extensive comparison about this aspect.
Just a personal anecdote, but the errors from Guix are terrible. I had to reinstall because I couldn't figure out the scheme errors for my system config
It's generally a problem with Guile. If you get decently good with Geiser or stare at the stack traces long enough, you can figure out the problem but I shouldn't have to do either.
And which an LLM/AI model can apply the huge training set of Lisp/Scheme to help solve your problem.
Nixlang is so infuriatingly obtuse that I generally have to fire up Discord and bug the local Nix acolyte when something goes wrong. I've bounced Nixlang off of the LLM/AIs, but I have learned that if the AI doesn't give you the correct answer immediately for Nixlang then you need to stop; everything forward will be increasingly incorrect hallucinations.
I suspect LLM/AIs will hallucinate far, far less with the Scheme from Guix.
What? From what I've seen Nix configs and Guix configs look nothing alike in terms of structure. Guix uses Scheme modules whereas Nix modules are just fancy dicts merged together lazily. Which is sad because I like Lisps but I prefer the Nix way of structuring the config.
It's actually a 4D printer unless it exists for just an instant, or an 11D printer if string theory is correct, or an 8==D printer if that happens to be the value in the variable D.
I tried it in Firefox and Chrome, but changing the SVG shape did not change the favicon displayed on the tab. I don't think I understand what you meant.
PS: This submission of mine is at least a day old, but it now shows as posted about 3 hours ago; I presume this is because it is from the second-chance pool.
+1. I bet it's because of this confusing verbiage, the AI also got the gist of the article wrong, and lead me to believe that this article shows "post-hoc exploit" , when in fact there's no mention of the word 'exploit' in the article. See the screenshot linked below [1].
On a tangent, in the process I learnt that Firefox (at least on desktop) now has an "AI preview" feature where if you long-press on a URL, it brings up the pop-up. The first time, it notifies that the "AI" processing is local-only to preserve privacy.
Yup, as suspected, I had submitted it 5 days ago [1], but here it shows as submitted 2 hours ago. But I don't see it in the second-chance pool [2], perhaps because it has graduated out of there to the frontpage.
It took a bit of hunting the internet, so I felt like sharing it.
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