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0 pointsjstummbillig4mo ago0 comments

I think it's fun to see what is not even considered magic anymore today.

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Our ability to adapt to new things is both a blessing and a curse.

It is. But understandably the people who need to push back on what is still magic may get a bit tired.

People would have had a heart attack if they saw this 5 years ago for the first time. Now artificial brains are “meh” :)

jimbokun4mo ago

It is anything but "meh".

It scares the absolute shit out of everyone.

It's clear far beyond our little tech world to everyone this is going to collapse our entire economic system, destroy everyone's livelihoods, and put even more firmly into control the oligarchic assholes already running everything and turning the world to shit.

I see it in news, commentary, day to day conversation. People get it's for real this time and there's a very real chance it ends in something like the Terminator except far worse.

root_axis4mo ago

True of almost every new technology.

abound4mo ago

I hesitate to lump this into the "every new technology" bucket. There are few things that exist today that, similar to what GP said, would have been literal voodoo black magic a few years ago. LLMs are pretty singular in a lot of ways, and you can do powerful things with them that were quite literally impossible a few short years ago. One is free to discount that, but it seems more useful to understand them and their strengths, and use them where appropriate.

Even tools like Claude Code have only been fully released for six months, and they've already had a pretty dramatic impact on how many developers work.

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