You really think one cannot be scammed if they agree to a price beforehand? Regardless of surge pricing, or the fact that, in many cities, Uber is more expensive than regular cabs?

The other is service quality - never heard of a cab you can call with an app where it shows you how far it is and how long you have. At least where I live, you have to call for one and just hope they show up.

Again, sorry that you live in a country where cabs suck ass and aren’t properly regulated I guess.

I’m sorry you live in a place where cabs aren’t regulated, I guess. Because where they are, meters are mandatory.

good luck knowing if you’re being ripped off when you don’t know the streets.

How is Uber any better on this regard? Agreeing on a price beforehand doesn’t mean that it is a fair one, at all. Surge pricing is a thing.

They weren’t. Uber isn’t either.

Your point?

It’s funny you say that, because I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve been cancelled on by Anglo uber drivers.

Where do you stay that you cannot find nice hotels at that rate?

$150 a person is $300 for a hotel room, and I get fresh towels and bed sheets every day.

Is it? Because for any lodging of minimum quality, hotels are cheaper nowadays.

The fact that big money keeps creeping in and forcing harmful stuff down everyone’s throats does tell us something about ourselves as a society, yes.

Ugh, chicken? Give me some free steak. Chop chop!

I used to think Reddit users were too negative. Then I joined Lemmy.

How does this even work? Why would any creative person willingly feed the very same tools that are being used by companies as an excuse to lay off thousands of workers? If anything, this kind of policy would push people to ask for increased copyright protections.

Also, in this scenario, we would be handing both private corporations and governments our labor.

Who’s going to train those models and with whose data?

I don’t like GitHub, but this looks like they had someone using an authorized SSH key, but the git client was configured to post some unknown email address. Happens all the time.

Would be funny if they only find out once they have migrated off GitHub though.

We aren’t comparing humans to code.

Except for the bit where LLM behaviors aren’t deterministic, but those of most compilers in most situations are.

And before anyone says that LLVM in version X produced wildly different assembly from version Y, it is not remotely comparable to what LLMs do, not even close.

I would need a citation for that “2x-5x faster” with the same quality, because that hasn’t been my experience at all. Most of my colleagues treat LLMs as “better Google”, and agentic coding in production has been downsized, to the point where it may help with the least critical paths only. And we aren’t particularly AI skeptic, at all.

Also, I feel like progress has stalled in the past couple of years, e.g. Opus latest version doesn’t seem to provide me with any noticeable advantages over the previous one. Are they getting better on paper? I suppose they do, but I couldn’t care less about that if they don’t give me better results.

The thing is, writing code was never the issue, engineering it is. If a machine helps me write code 10 times faster, that saves me maybe a couple hours, which isn’t really meaningful. On the other hand, it increases my workload by forcing me to thoroughly check the work of less experienced devs who rely on them, just to make sure that there aren’t errors that could cause serious harm.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that AI is giving inexperienced people confidence they shouldn’t have in the first place, and that’s not a good thing.

What does it mean? Because just yesterday I saw this guy live streaming a vibe coding session, and he sounded exactly like “Bill”.