Every medical professional I’ve spoken to says they hate the A.I. scribe because it makes so many mistakes and gets confused, but they’re forced to use it by the practice manager / institution they work at.

My favourite dad joke is when the waitress asked “how are you all finding the menu?” The reply was “they’re delicious, thank you” and it short circuited their brain lol

Never

For coding tasks I treat A.I. as a fresh intern that doesn’t really know what they’re doing but you can just ask them to do that horribly tedious task and just do a code review later. As you said, something like “rewrite this in Rust”, or “create unit tests for this function”. Then you fix all it’s mistakes. I’d never let it touch an actual algorithm or anything important though.

I would probably do it for 6 month’s income as a lump sum to fix that 1 thing. I wouldn’t go back on payroll that’s for sure

It does feel like a cult doesn’t it? Like the church of the steel God or something. Silicon valley practically performing summoning rituals on their PC’s to try and create sentience ASAP

Is this A.I. generated?

Yeah exactly. I set up Zorin OS for my family who are not tech savvy at all. It was a bit different at first but they said they felt much “calmer” using Linux. Modern Windows feels like trying to read an article online or watch a YouTube video without an ad blocker.

It seems to me

the powers that be

hope the technology

will speed up the “wee”

poverty and displacees

to but a generation or three

It’s just corporate doublespeak messing with your head. The normal person translation is:

oh fuck something might have happened. But we don’t want shareholders to panic. Uhh, so everyone, please pretend everything is fine.

I wonder if Google Translate is using A.I. behind the hood now? I see no other reason that would cause fluctuating results

My favourite part is when your style or the auto formatter changes over time and you have to decide between:

• running the auto formatter on 200,000 12 year old code files
• doing them one by one
• formatting them when you have to change that file
• or ignoring all the warnings forever (it’s this one, this is what you do)

Plus it doesn’t fix the problem of auto formatters writing ugly code. You can’t easily tell the auto formatter that early returns can be bracketless for brevity, but nothing else can be. Unless you add a comment like \\ ignore-rule-2753674 which makes me want to throw up

No I mean I think there was a miscommunication or something, I genuinely agree with everything you said except that 1 part lol. I’m not very good at explaining things, sorry

Believe it or not my first paragraph was working on medical software lol. It was good though, I liked the feeling of helping doctors help people, making the world a better place.

Unemployed / disability lol. But if I could still move around I’d probably get into something outdoorsy. Park ranger or the like. Keeping a candle lit though, in case one day I miraculously recover or medical science advances or something.

Edit: actually it’s the reason I did software engineering in the first place. But actually this industry is now hostile to people with disability. Can I work from home because leaving the house is hard? No, everyone must be in office chained to your desk 9/9/6. Can I be neurodivergent? No, everyone must have constant in person meetings and work in open plan offices.

Sorry I don’t really know anything about North American indigenous, I live in Australia and our mobs are very different. I think actually we’re in full agreement, apart from the detail of whether it’s “intelligent design” or not :)

Most of my career I was allowed to write code how I wanted. I made it beautiful and nice to read. It was genuinely fun to find the best way to implement each feature.

My final job, I was forced to add semicolons on new lines for each if else statement, even for early returns, remove hyphens from my comments because they were “improper grammar”, put a useless giant copy pasted comment at the start of each file so you can’t even see any code without scrolling, one separate file for each class even if it’s an internal helper class used nowhere else, and use interfaces and MVVM for literally everything, even when it was severely over-engineering (or should I say overengineering). It just felt soul crushing to make this ugly ass code that took forever to write, just because the style guide said so.

Then A.I. happened and I quit being a software engineer completely. Telling an A.I. to do my work for me is just depressing. What’s even the point anymore? I still code for fun but I’m done with the industry.

Man, logging issues are like baby’s first engineering problem… That’s just embarrassing

I remember that, like GPT 3.5 era. When I asked it how it would rule the world I thought it had pretty good ideas, if I didn’t know it was an A.I. I’d vote for it anyway. Not anymore though lol

Even just like, needing competition and attention for fulfillment seems strange to me. But maybe I’m the weird one.