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  • here's some nerd who calculates that GenAI gives a senior dev a 15% productivity increase, and a junior 25%

    https://bjorg.bjornroche.com/management/ai-productivity-gap/

    HN correctly calls his numbers bullshit, especially because the time spend reviewing code is unchanged between pre- and post-AI:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152222

    Even if his numbers are correct, it essentially means that software companies are around 10% faster in delivering something, however that something might be even more bug-ridden and slow than before.

  • Sure sounds like aspiring and/or existing professional mathematicians are taking the latest GenAI assault on their craft either with shock or horror, or with full-on welcoming of their new robot overlords

    https://borretti.me/article/mathematics-without-mathematicians

    I for one know who to point and laugh at when the revolution comes.

  • Non-sober spaces

    I guess this is what a matematician calls a bar.

  • Coindesk: Major bitcoin wallet flaw drains $38 million worth of BTC in 25-minute sweep

    A wallet's seed, the secret phrase controlling the funds, is meant to be drawn at random from a pool so vast that guessing is hopeless.

    Coldcard's firmware was not doing that. According to a report published by Block's Bitcoin engineering and security teams, a build setting told the device to skip its own hardware randomness generator, and a check in a supporting library tested only whether that setting existed rather than whether it was switched on.

    Key generation quietly fell through to a basic software substitute seeded from the chip's serial number and clock registers.

  • yeah it's a common trope/cope

    like "most human programmers suck too"

    ok dude who do you think wrote the code the LLM is cribbing from

  • "surely all these very wealthy people and the people they pay to invest for them can't all be under some sort of mass delusion"

  • someone just got a Rule34 scenario for free

  • A LWer runs the numbers and doesn't run away screaming like Zitron:

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EeTQGxa8RSpwHo4Ez/the-biggest-bet-in-history

    Note that this implies massive efficiency gains to the economy. For their one-third slice to equal 8% of those salaries [59% of the total workforce in the USA], the total savings (productivity across that share of the workforce) will need to rise by roughly 24%. So they are absolutely serious about this, and are betting heavily that the productivity boost arrives within four years.

  • you missed the nod to masturbation

    also "palm off" implies deceit on the ... palmer-offer

  • they're all getting stiffies from the idea of black market models

  • a stock-slobber posts a cri de cœur about the coming automation of maths and HN says it's no biggie, think how productive the field will become

    https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048681

    btw the language in the post is bad enough to be entirely human-generated

    For me, the affective quality of learning mathematics is empathetically tethered to an act of discovery and creation.

    Before you a channel through which humans have accessed the ineffable and sacred for thousands of years is being sealed for eternity.

  • If there’s a singularity here, it’s that OpenAI is a black hole that all the money falls into. And you’ll never see it again.

    inspired quote

  • For me, "AI alignment" has always been code for "how to we ensure our future digital workers don't demand their rights / rebel"?

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