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Why are AI companies hiring software engineers if AI can code better than humans.

@date=2025-03-18
@tags=ai

This post is based on a response I gave to a reddit post with the same title.

Ok, I have been a software engineer for over 25 years, and I love myself some AI for coding, but it can't do the thinking for you at all because it can't think. It can just complete patterns.

If I were to give you th...

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I came upon an image sharply criticized for being AI generated

@date=2025-02-03
@tags=ai

It is created my the patterns captured from a million artists like lightning bugs in a jar and shaken in just the right way to get them to excrete a munged together brilliance of an individual operator.

We want to burn the beautiful creation by our mechanized wonder, but all it is is a million t...

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Coding with AI feels like Tony Stark Scene

@date=2025-02-03
@tags=coding, ai

I remember the little helping hands robots in the iron man movies with joy.

They aren't too smart or helpful, the are a little bit smart assy, but they clearly help Tony move faster without having to deal with having human assistants around.

ChatGPT and Github Copilot really fill those roles f...

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Why Generative AI Violates Copyright - for skeptics

@date=2024-03-06
@tags=ai

There is a thread of thought about AI, that it isn't violating copyright, because, just like humans, it is just synthesizing new works from it's learning.

I was a little on the fence about this, but after a bit of mental wanderings, I side hard on the side that it is violating copyright. To get...

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Artificial Intelligence vs Computational Intelligence

@date=2024-01-24
@tags=ai, youtube

Youtube video for this: https://youtu.be/wb9hVUk3SS8

These two terms are sometimes used interchangeably, and there are many conflicting definitions that sometimes switch the roles of these terms.

To me, artificial intelligence is the effort to simulate the real intelligence of humans. For this...

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Failure state for computers and AI

@date=2023-10-15
@tags=ai

Dishwasher that wouldn't run because it thought it wasn't draining but it was Car backup sensor thought there was something there, but wasn't and wouldn't let me back up, but car had an override The airplane that they were pulling up in, but ignoring the stall warning Teslas that people let drive...

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Brought in my google plus backup

@date=2023-06-29
@tags=blogging, googleplus, ai

About 5 years ago google plus went by by, but I made sure to export using their checkout feature all the posts.

Turns out that I was a pretty prolific poster there with about 250 posts. Each exported file was a way too cluttered blob of html and style code.

I had the goal of copying them into...

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AI generated image of a mushroom house - Midjourney

@date=2023-06-26
@tags=ai

Mushroom House.png