Technology

I get when people say: "hey, this happened with every new tech..." But this one in particular gas many inherent problems: it's built on stolen material, it doesn't encourage critical thinking and it will create mini socio cognitive bubbles, distancing each other more and more. It's built that way because the people that makes it want it to be like that.

That rather sounds like it was written by an ai?

When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning.

Stealing this because it manages to put technical concerns into hand-waving manager speak.

And a pretty solid article. I think leaning on micro-enhancements to performance a little to hard at the end but the rest jibes with my experiences working in a large company where non-technical bloviators are leading the charge of changing the landscape of a field they don't understand and have no training in.

"We're bringing AI to OKRs!" they say hungrily, as their weak arms attempt to pull the rug.

"Sure you are", I say, pretending to stumble.

It amazes me how often I see the argument that people react this way to all tech. To some extent that's true, but it assumes that all tech turns out to be useful. History is littered with technologies that either didn't work or didn't turn out to serve any real purpose. This is why we're all riding around in giant mono-wheel vehicles and Segways.

Old man shakes hands at clouds.

You can still do things the old way, AI existing does not impact your ability to do so.

People still make mechanical watches by hand. People choose to carve things instead of 3D printing them. People choose to drive stick instead of automatic.

I'm more and more distancing myself with computers, it already was "use this library", then use this app, now it seems just ask the "AI".

I took up painting and chess, viable replacements I hope.

You can use the same argument for just about everything. "In the past it was better". Remember when kids new how to actually write with pens, and had to send a letter and wait a few weeks until it even arrived? The damn telephone and internet 'ruined' it with their ease of access and convenience.

it's ease

well-written

You sure? We do not applaud the tenor who cannot clear his throat.

This is a trash take.

I just wrote the ability to take a DX9 game, stealthy convert it to DX9Ex, remap all the incompatibility commands so it works, proxy the swapchain texture, setup a shared handle for that proxy texture, create a DX11 swapchain, read that proxy into DX11, and output it in true, native HDR.

All with the assistance of CoPilot chat to help make sense of the documentation and CoPilot generation and autocomplete to help setup the code.

All in one day.

The thing I hate the most about the printing press and its ease of access: the slow, painful death of the scribe's soul—brought not by war or scarcity, but by convenience. By type. By machines. [...]

There was once magic here. There was once madness.

Monks would stay up all night in candlelit scriptoriums with bloodshot eyes, trying to render illuminated manuscripts without smudging their life's work. They cared. They would mix pigments from crushed beetles just to see if they'd hold. They knew the smell of burnt parchment and the exact angle of quill where their hand would cramp after six hours. These were artists. They wrote letters like master craftsmen—full of devotion, precision, and divine chaos.

Now? We're building a world where that devotion gets mechanized at the door. Some poor bastard—born to be great—is going to get told to "review this Gutenberg broadsheet" for eight hours a day, until all that wonder calcifies into apathy. The scriptorium will become a print shop. The quill a lever.