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How many thousands of dollars are you burning a month on “looks good, go” and then *letting it run overnight*?? I spend enough money on 8 human, interruptible and human-thinking hours with paused hours.

I can’t imagine how high that number would go if I got rid of the collaborative style and also the “please don’t run scary commands on random directories without permission” mode.


Shouldn’t you be, in general, separating out new functionality from old fixes?

Shouldn’t those “fixing bugs we gained in the past” be their own MR that can be read, reasoned about and have evaluated test coverage?


Sure and sometimes that is what happens. Sometimes it's not. We should be doing a lot of things, but have to triage issues and act pragmatically.

In the case of what I'm currently working on, filing bugs for every issue I found, and then factoring out each fix, and then running each change through the 8 hour ci/cd system, and hoping an unrelated issue doesn't get misattributed to me... No, I'd rather just wrap it up into one coherent refactoring change and be done with it because when I'm done there are several more like it waiting for my attention.


Or, more simply, affairs, unwed couples, incidences of rape that were a dark stain in the victim’s life, etc.

A friend of mine loves to think about heritage and genealogy and when I brought up genetic testing and “wouldn’t it be neat to find out if someone in your lineage wasn’t actually in it?” they were quick to point out that they’re not interested in that because it doesn’t matter and her parents are her parents (and her great great grandparents are her great great grandparents).

Discovering infidelity and/or abuse in your family tree 2-3 generations back often (but never ever always) does little but harm to one’s own genealogical journey.


> “wouldn’t it be neat to find out if someone in your lineage wasn’t actually in it?”

There was a whole to-do with Richard III and finding a "non/false-paternity event" occurred. The genealogy tracing in that case though is impressive.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30281333

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-paternity_event


Armstrong and Miller - Who do you think you are sketch

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c65QRaR16io


Oh honey… tell that to Alan Turing, or millions or gay people, or the literal millions of people who smoked pot and are stuck in prison forever.

And that’s ignoring all the laws people break on the regular.


I did not say there was no injustice happening.

Nor did I say that all laws are just.

I'm not your honey, either.


Is your entire line of thinking about crime and punishment not entirely dependent upon laws and punishments, as they exist right now, being perfectly just?

Because otherwise, “they knew the law and chose to break it, therefore they get what’s coming to them” is a bit Javert from Les Mis.


I was pretty clear.

> “they knew the law and chose to break it, therefore they get what’s coming to them”

Please don't make up quotes and attribute them to me. That's called the strawman fallacy.


I'll quote you clearly.

> "People have free will. Bad people know what right and wrong is, and they chose wrong."[0]

Broader Context: In response to a commentary on how 'good and bad' can be complicated:

> "It's always someone else's fault."[1]

Broader-broader Context: Prison is punishment, etc.

So, a reasonable chain of thought here and paraphrase of what you've said is: "people know right from wrong" -> we're in the context of crime and punishment, so this is operating as a substitute for "they know what's legal and illegal". If it's not, it doesn't belong here, because at this point we should all know that legality != morality.

"and they chose wrong" -> therefore they chose the consequences - they chose punishment. The colloquial way of saying that is "they get what's coming to them".

So, while those weren't your words, was that your implicit statement? And if not, what is the implicit statement?

I ask because the people in those cells are real, and 23 of them died of heat.

  [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834799
  [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834226

> at this point we should all know that legality != morality

Recall that I wrote this to you:

"I did not say there was no injustice happening. Nor did I say that all laws are just."


Recall also that you wrote this here:

> People have free will. Bad people know what right and wrong is, and they chose wrong.

The context being that the "bad" person is such simply because they chose to break the law. Even if it doesn't match your thoughts, surely you can see how one might read your comments as both claiming that laws are not morals, and also that those who break the law made the "wrong" (moral) choice (put another way: laws are morals).

Breaking the law is not strictly a moral failure. It can be, but they have an "orthogonal" relationship. To that point:

> I did not say there was no injustice happening. Nor did I say that all laws are just.

Choosing to follow an unjust law is a moral failure. That moral failure is baked into the word "unjust". This blanket statement that the choice to commit a crime is a choice to be "bad" is not self-evident (or it's laughably tautological) and, regardless, is contradicted by the assertion that not all laws are "just".

Of course, one can assume you have more nuanced thoughts than that; the point of my coment is that you've not communicated that nuance here, so you appear to be contradicting yourself: saying both that laws are morals and that they are not morals.


I am not making any claim about the law. You have confused that with what honor is.

Or it’s as simple as “hey, they don’t want telemetry? Cool, we’ll turn off all the extra phoning home” and their feature flag code uses the same paths as telemetry because it’s the same endpoint, etc.

Oops, easy mistake!


Except it’s not a new issue. This is just the feature that made it a conversation topic.

They’re almost certainly referencing Signal.

Signal is worse, with phone numbers, no?

Oh good point. I should have read.

That’s not what they’re saying. They’re challenging the “I can always tell” people who are both proud and regularly wrong.

As fake news becomes more and more real and with photo evidence, this matters more and more.


They're not challenging that at all. The time limit makes it a game rather than an experiment. "You can't tell it's AI if you don't have enough time to examine the details" is not exactly a compelling claim...

Another poster in this threads commented that their strategy was to question why anyone would take the photo that was presented. I think this touches on one of the most important issues with this whole schoolyard level argument of "I can tell" and "no you can't." That is: what is even the point of all of this?

I had funding for a project I had proposed at work yanked out from under me because I had refused to vibe code the whole thing. I had proposed the project to create a tool that would be beneficial to my division, which represents a good 25% of the company's revenue (we're a consulting company). It had the enthusiastic support of my entire direct leadership line, very heavy hitters in the company. But the executives in charge of the internal R&D budget have their own agenda of pushing AI out on everything to gin up this idea that our company is "AI forward." Nevermind that our IT infrastructure is a joke, we need to play a game to convince non-existent investors that we are suddenly, out of the blue, after 50 years, a "technology company" when what we really do well is manage client relationships.

The executive I was closest to at one point told me I had failed because I hadn't used AI to tell me what the requirements for the project should be, that I was just doing "whatever I wanted."

If I were really doing whatever I wanted, I would not be building some kind of data management analysis workflow whatever. I designed the project around exactly the sort of thing that would benefit our direct line analysts. I don't need to be told what the requirements are, I know then intimately from working with these people for years. But because I was not using AI to tell me what to build and using AI to build it for me, I am being "behind the times." Another executive told me it wouldn't matter if I succeeded at the project if I didn't use AI to build all of it. Another time he told me it wouldn't matter if the project was any good, so long as I used AI to build it.

What is even the point? Why would I abdicate everything to AI? I know what I'm doing and I know how to do it. But that is unimaginable to the AI-pilled executive class. They are so used to not knowing how to do anything that they can't imagine anyone else actually knows how to do their job.


That sounds like a really horrible situation and some terrible leadership and I'm sorry to hear that.

... was I the person you meant to respond to, though?


Yes, it was meant to add to your point about the stupid "can/can't tell" argument.

Yeah, exactly, they're right, we're successfully making shit worse. Yay us.

I mean, I learned a bunch of neat new stuff, so I’m excited!

A random, spare letter wastes space and might have been A/B tested to have a higher click away rate.

I would argue feet and inches are pretty good too, since there’s a foot on your body, and a thumb, too, for inches.

Weight, mass and considerable distances, I’ll grant you, though.


let me show you the size difference between my wife's thumb and mine, and let's debate again.

I feel like you’re intentionally misrepresenting me. I’m obviously talking about number sense, mental visualization, etc.

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