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  • Dishonest Larry? That sounds alrather Trumpian and it doesn’t sit well with me. What did Larry Page do to deserve a label from you?

    The articles you share are both interesting and I appreciate the share. However I’ve found the tool useful. Moreso than wading through Wikipedia pages, which I do love to do but not when I am reading a book.

    These tools certainly aren’t correct coincidentally. Ask Gemini to define 100 words and get back to me on the success rate. Is it coincidence? No. It’s statistics. ANNs are based on pattern recognition. They have significant defficiencies and downsides, but the unfortunate reality is that their margin of usefulness means they aren’t going away.

    And if just like to bring something to your attention: poisoning wells is a well worn Jewish conspiracy theory, and I can’t help but find it a bit self defeating that you are claiming that a Jew (Larry page) is poisoning the well of my reading of Hannah Arendt.

    If anything, I find your statements much more typical of people with an unhealthy media diet. And I am not accusing you, it’s just my observation from afar.



  • I think some context here is lost. I was asking for parralels between the Dreyfus affair and modern events. The anti Dreyfusards had phrases they used to identify each other and I thought about the parralels between that and the January 6 insurrection. Specifically the statement that the election was stolen. When I asked for similarities that started this conversation, because it basically refused to draw the parralels.

    I agree about the environment, however insofar as this tool can help get us out of this political catastrophe caused by the US, it’s unfortunate but necessary. “Drill baby drill” needs to stop by any means necessary.










  • I am building a commercial application in my free time and I can definitely see evidence of this templatization. There are things that are very common in C# developer’s implementations which I deliberately don’t want to do. The AI will do it with reckless abandon. I can tell it not to, but it sneaks back in.

    OSS library funding has been a huge issue in general. I really think the companies that have trillion dollar market caps can fund the development of top libraries but they just don’t.







  • Even if you can do this with AI and it produces a fully working result, the biggest problems in legacy systems are not the programming languages they are written in.

    In fact converting one programming language into another doesn’t require AI. That’s because programming languages are uniform and exact. You can easily find tools that do this already.

    The biggest problem is decades of technical debt and forgotten rules. With old mainframes the people who wrote the code are often no longer with us.