I agree with you here (and also cool project/idea). What I’m trying to get at with my analogy is that, if you understand a programme’s source code, you understand and are able to predict its behaviour in a meaningful way (although of course you lose some amount of knowledge of what the processor exactly does with which registers etc). When you only know the prompt used to generate a programme, you can’t do that. That’s why you have to manually check the code an LLM writes, but not the assembly generated by a compiler.

Oh no :(

Huh, where I live (Zürich), voting by mail has been a thing since before I can remember, but voting at the urn has also been frictionless every time. I’ve never had to wait for more than 30s after getting to the municipal office and it also only takes about 30s. These waiting times and laws are insane you’re telling me about sound insane. Voting at the booth doesn’t have to be this horrible.

I think he’s kinda right in that competent engineers can write good code using LLMs. I don’t know whether they’re actually more productive that way though. The problem lies in the fact that incompetent engineers can write a lot of bad, but good-looking code using LLMs, which might be a pretty big burden on the maintainers.

Also, comparing LLMs to compilers doesn’t really work in my opinion. Compilers follow strict rules and translate one kind of logic into a different kind of logic, while LLMs turn natural language and vague notions into some kind of logic. Writing code is telling the computer precisely what it should do and prompting is vaguely telling it what end result you want and those are two fundamentally different things.

Oh hell no, I wish you all the best with that. Sounds like you have a really uncomfortable situation at home. There might not be anything you can or want to do about that but I would still recommend calling 147 or 143 at some point, you might get help there.

Oh it’s another one of these. For as long as you’re on .ml, China, Russia and North Korea are incapable of doing any wrong.

So that people with an M on their passport can do obligatory military service

(Yes, I am salty about this, how’d you know?)

((Also I think that’s the only remaining way in which people with an M or an F are treated differently where I live so at least we’re making some progress I guess))

(((Oh also they need it to more effectively grope trans people at airport security)))

They’re right though, there should be a ~1200 people Israeli death toll increase on October 7th and there doesn’t seem to be as sharp of a jump as you’d expect. It might just be that the video smoothes over the data and also it’s really hard to tell because the time axis isn’t labelled. I’d love to see a version with less smoothing and labelled axes of this…

Finally make use of this stupid gun culture