Speed: AI can generate code snippets, templates, or boilerplate extremely quickly.
Consistency: It can follow patterns and syntax reliably, reducing some human errors.
Accessibility: Even non-programmers can produce functional code with AI help.
Limitations of AI-generated code:
Context understanding: AI often misses the bigger picture, like system architecture, security implications, or long-term maintainability.
Debugging & optimization: Complex bugs or performance tuning often require human intuition and experience.
Creativity & problem-solving: Engineers can innovate solutions that aren’t just syntactically correct but elegant and scalable.
Strengths of human engineers:
Problem-solving: Humans can analyze trade-offs, foresee consequences, and adapt to unexpected requirements.
Collaboration: Engineers communicate requirements, integrate systems, and maintain code collaboratively.
Learning & adapting: Humans can understand new technologies and abstract concepts quickly.
Bottom line: AI can be faster and convenient for repetitive or straightforward coding tasks, but human engineers excel at complex, high-stakes, or creative software design. The real advantage comes when humans and AI work together—AI handles the heavy lifting, and humans guide, refine, and innovate.
“SAN FRANCISCO — Hundreds of new laws are taking effect in California in the new year. Here is a partial list.”
(SB 1053) Plastic Bag Ban Plastic bags are on the way out in California. The state is expanding its ban on single-use plastic bags to include all plastic bags. The original law allowed the use of thicker plastic bags which were meant to be reusable, but since most consumers used them only once, those thicker bags are now being outlawed as well. Starting January 1, consumers will have to buy a bag made of recycled paper or use their own reusable bags.
Large language models do not have a self, feelings, or personal opinions that develop over time. There is no inner viewpoint waiting to be revealed. When someone asks a model what it thinks, the model produces a reply by predicting what a helpful answer should look like, not by reaching into an inner belief.
A model works by simulating patterns it has learned. It can take on different perspectives, tones, or roles depending on the request. That is why questions like ask from the view of a scientist, artist, or friend often produce clearer results. You are choosing the lens the model should speak through.
Asking from different imagined groups of people is a valid way to get richer angles on a topic, but it is not required. You can ask directly, and the model will still try to give the most useful answer.
In short: The core message is correct about how models function, but you can still use “you” if it feels natural. The model is here to help, not to claim a personal identity.
“As the supposition holds, the reason we can’t see these alien civilizations is because they’re all in hiding. Unlike humanity — whose radio transmissions have long echoed throughout our local galactic neighborhood — these societies have all concluded that it’s simply too dangerous to broadcast their location to potentially hostile neighbors.”
“It is one of several companies that together form key elements of the nervous system of the internet – and so when its services fail, websites can effectively go offline, affecting millions of people and companies. ChatGPT and Elon Musk’s X social media platform were among the sites that appeared to be affected by Tuesday’s outage. By one estimate, Cloudflare provides services to one in five of the world’s websites.”
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.”
There’s lots of ways to be, as a person. And some people express their deep appreciation in different ways. But one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there.
And you never meet the people. You never shake their hands. You never hear their story or tell yours. But somehow, in the act of making something with a great deal of care and love, something’s transmitted there. And it’s a way of expressing to the rest of our species our deep appreciation. So we need to be true to who we are and remember what’s really important to us.
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