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AI in engineering is an accelerator. If you are producing slop software, which most teams are, then it’s just going to accelerate the rate at which you can produce shitty software and bad code.

If teams are producing high-quality software, then it accelerates those teams’ ability to deliver that quality.

on Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14h ago
It’s because the average quality of code that they are trained on is like that. Most code that is written by humans is slop, and the models represent that.

Producing overly complicated solutions to uncomplicated problems

on Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14h ago
Yes, and how many people are going to go change the Linux kernel for their distro to rip out age verification ad-hoc?

Let’s just focus on the <0.001% of the population who might have the knowledge and skills to do so. How many of that absolutely minute portion are capable of spending the time and effort to achieve that?

It’s extremely naive to expand your superiority complex to assume that you won’t be affected by this while ignoring almost everyone else that will.

on Enjoy owning your devices while you still can. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
Lol, thinking this won’t come for the Linux kernel is laughably naive.

on Enjoy owning your devices while you still can. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
Well “solved” is a bit of a weird way to say it. Was it proven as true, or was it disproven? Both of those change things in different ways.

Proven true that it is a stable formula, then that’s cool, and we know that issues with fluid simulations based off of that are a software and compute problem.

If it was disproven, then we learn precisely under what specific conditions nature becomes mathematically unpredictable, and then we can start developing different and better models.

on OpenAI steals Human Mathematicians work to solve a Millenium Problem in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Sep 2026
Damn, and only for $180-$230k/y?

That’s highway robbery salary for employment in an industry as ripe as that, somehow makes me like them even less.

on Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
🍾🔥

on LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
Weird that 996 is on the list, as the point of them using GitHub is to use it as durable forum software, not as a software project issue board like the other items on this list.

on Can't get closed as duplicate if nobody can find the duplicates in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 8 Sep 2026
Could be simpler, yep.

If it was that straightforward then reality would be different huh?

on Meta's $17 Billion Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social Media Users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
Problem being that the majority of software engineers really don’t know how to build software well.

And are using AI as a tool to just accelerate their lack of engineering.

on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
You could include energy usage in the equation, but if you’re buying a $10,000 Mac Studio to edit your PDFs and watch YouTube, then that’s your own decision. That’s also not what we’re talking about here.

The Mac is still going to be incredibly energy efficient.

Let’s break it down for Qwen 3.5 MoE.
- M4 Ultra Mac Studio:
  - 22t/s
  - ~ 210Wh
  - 9.55 watts per token/s
- B300 GPU:
  - ~ 2160t/s per GPU
  - ~ 1750Wh (14Kwh 8 GPU System)
  - 0.88 watts per tokens/s
The Mac Studio comes out using ~ 11-12x more energy per token. Making it extremely energy inefficient at this task in comparison.
on OpenAI Hoarding Tens Of Thousands Of Apple Mac mini And Mac Studio Devices, As ASUS And MSI Burn Through Their Entire First Batch Of NVIDIA RTX Spark Chip And Beg For More. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
They really aren’t.

Have you used open weight models for serious jobs? Ones that you can actually run effectively on a Mac studio? (Not deepseek v4 pro, not Kimi K3, not GLM 5.3)

They work alright, at best, sometimes.

And the ones you can’t run effectively, locally, like Kimi K3 are considerably better at demanding tasks like software engineering. But even then they still suck at that job compared to frontier Anthropic and OpenAI models. I’ve been building with all of the above, and the open weight models just overall suck at serious high demand software workloads.

on OpenAI Hoarding Tens Of Thousands Of Apple Mac mini And Mac Studio Devices, As ASUS And MSI Burn Through Their Entire First Batch Of NVIDIA RTX Spark Chip And Beg For More. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
No, no, they have not.

I did the math the other day, and the cost of the mac versus the token rate that you get off of it for a decent model would take you over 70 years of 100% 24/7/365 usage to pay for itself versus just using hosted inference.

They are wildly poor options for local AI models, at least on a cost basis. If you don’t care about spending $10,000 to run a halfway okay model at 100x the cost, then go for it.

on OpenAI Hoarding Tens Of Thousands Of Apple Mac mini And Mac Studio Devices, As ASUS And MSI Burn Through Their Entire First Batch Of NVIDIA RTX Spark Chip And Beg For More. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
Pmuch this.

How do they feel about machine language translations? It’s been “AI” (ML model) since the late 90’s.

Traffic prediction?

Medical scan data processing?

And so so many more specific uses of ML models that have been a part of daily life for literal decades.

Call out LLMs specifically.

on Ken Thompson Hack 2.0 in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
Good luck.

Lemmy is damn near the when it comes to wanting to hold an opinion on a topic without having first understood that topic.

on Ken Thompson Hack 2.0 in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
Yeah, our society is fucked, that’s what

on Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
… What?

Lazy people using tools in a shitty manner has been an age old problem.

This just lets it scale, which is the problem. There used to be a barrier to entry for those less knowledgeable or experienced, now there isn’t and that’s the result.

It is a productivity tool, and it’s being used as one, by both people that know how and people who don’t.

on Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
Point to me in your quote where it talks about distance.

on First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Did you reply to the wrong comment because you’re quoting time, not distance?

on First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
So you tried to defeat someone else’s experience with an anecdote where you have not had that experience. What even are you trying to say here?

Lots of people’s cats have behaviors like this. Feeding them a certain amount on a fixed schedule helps. We have six cats. One of them is like this. It’s a pain in the ass.

Especially if you’re away from home

on Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
It seems very reasonable for owners of this device to expect something as simple as a schedule to work without having to phone home first.

As a software engineer, blows my mind how teams build shit like this

on Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Ah yes, the classic “the stupid consumers are stupid” argument.

This was sold as being an offline-capable device. It even has battery slots for power outages.

Perhaps instead of shitting on people for buying something they thought would be nice and work well, we shit on the company that can’t even give a pet feeder an on-device offline schedule after selling people on a device that’s supposed to work offline and even during power outages.

And figure out how we can hack it and enable folks to control the hardware they own, because they weren’t stupid for buying a pet feeder. The company that runs it just does so in a moronic way.

(I don’t own one of these, but I have considered it a few times, and this just pisses me off)

on Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Oh of course, I’m not arguing against solar. Just arguing against dumb takes.

on France's Power Prices Jump 22% as Heatwave Trims Nuclear Output in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
Not sure if joking or just ignorance? Both?
1. The nuclear capacity losses are because of environmental regulations, not because of inherent issues with nuclear.
  - Regulations restrict discharge of cooled water above 30°C into waterways, and they are responsible for the riverway temperature downstream of them. Since the waterways are warmer during a heat wave and the nuclear plant is responsible for the temperature of that waterway, they cannot discharge as much warm water into that waterway.
2. Solar doesn’t work at night, and sufficiently scalable energy storage technology doesn’t yet exist.
3. Solar loses considerable capacity as ambient temperature increases. At 40°C ambient, you’re talking about a 15% or higher reduction in efficiency. Which would be HIGHER than the ~12% reduction in nuclear capacity Europe hmis seeing
on France's Power Prices Jump 22% as Heatwave Trims Nuclear Output in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
Our org is doing it better by just hiding the configuration from everyone else in the org, so no one can audit it anyways 🤦

Who knows how it’s configured.

on Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
They aren’t?

They are buying up capacity from manufacturers who are stopping production of DRAM and pivot to HBM which is more profitable. Abandoning DRAM which affects a lot more than just “consumer grade RAM”

on 2027 RAM Capacity Has Reportedly Been Sold out in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026