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15 experts · 36 posts · 12h ago
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“Did you try this yourself? Because I feel like a lot of people who dismiss AI coding outright have no idea what it's like. People are criticizing and fighting the idea of it they have in their head…” evidence ↗
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Grace: He's upfront with when he uses AI, so you can trust he's upfront with when he doesn't
mackuba.eu: Please just stop…
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3 experts · 58 posts · 14h ago
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“at $200 a month (plus, let's say $100-400 a month in overages), it was absolutely a steal, zero regrets. at $6k (10-20x the cost), it is pretty eye-wateringly expensive. anthropic is phasing out th…” evidence ↗
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): for an engineer like me who is maximally using Sonnet, and hasn't yet switched to a local model, it's about $6k a month, or $72k a year. it is a very very hefty fraction of the salary, & is going t…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): this is definitely not technology that, at the moment, you want put in the hands of the average white-collar worker right now, you'd be better off just hiring more workers, rather than pay for the …
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3 experts · 12 posts · 6d ago
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“I haven’t really found any of those yet… the city I live in has a tech scene but it’s become dominated military robotics and milgov surveillance AI companies” evidence ↗
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: I had lately found my anger about technofascism to be so much that it was making it hard for me to feel in community with other tech people—just in general, not even ones who support fascism—so see…
Abstract Tesseract: yeah I get that it's not sustainable for everyone to be angry about everything all the time, but given how much these communities have historically been willing to overlook, it does make me feel be…
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2 experts · 20 posts · 4d ago
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“I think the frame we should really be exploring is that the world is suffering from a crisis of _what the software is actually being produced to do_; such as fascist surveillance, behavioral and ps…” evidence ↗
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VE, cybersocial occult investigator: I think the frame we should really be exploring is that the world is suffering from a crisis of _what the software is actually being produced to do_; such as fascist surveillance, behavioral and ps…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: This is entirely orthogonal issue to both the quantity and quality of software produced, and actually driving up either the quantity of software production OR the quality of software production mak…
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