“[People] simply drop it into where it needs to go (or not), and somehow, magically, it seems to work. And I am not talking about not remembering flags for Linux cli tooling (tar, looking at you), I am talking about people copy pasting entire piped xargs commands into their terminal and then praying that it doesn’t ruin your day somehow. No thinking, no learning, just slop everywhere. Yes, people did this before AI using Stackoverflow snippets, but at least you had to fit the puzzle piece into your architecture, and think about the code in some way or form. Not anymore.”

An account of using AI to do a project that was just a bit out of reach previously. There’s some really good insights, like comparing AI coding to slot machines.

“While Silicon Valley is investing tens of billions of dollars chasing the AGI dream, academic computing research in the U.S. is facing a severe drought.”

This really adds to some of the anecdotes I’ve heard regarding the competitiveness of the CS academic track now.

“SNSで被害を訴えた方や、その思いを応援した人を責める“犬笛”” おっしゃる通り。この発言は暴行事件によって「球児の夏」を始まる前に終わらされた被害者ではなく、件の暴行の加害者の側に立っていることは明らか

読解力に関する統計の問題は根深く、GHQによる1948年の調査からずっと全国的調査は行われていないんですよね https://rmr.ninjal.ac.jp/materials/fo0161/

いつかタワーレコード社にこのレコメンドのことも含めたファンレターを送りたいなと思っています