Error rate for good, disciplined developers is easily below 1%. That’s what tests are for.

That email was almost certainly written by lawyers with the intention of supporting MS in court, should it come down to that.

Nope!!!

If he doesn’t have what it takes, and he keeps encouraging him to go for that anyway, then he’d be encouraging his son to live in a fantasy world until he gets mowed down by the real one. That would not be a favor to his son. It would be a failure in his duty to prepare him for adult life.

You’re doing him a favor. Even if he was just as good as you, he wouldn’t be guaranteed to have as much luck as you did. Might never be seen by the right people at the right time. He needs a realistic career plan regardless of whether he tries to make it professionally.

This is incredibly bad advice

I ain’t reading all that

Shhhh. Don’t drag us into this

What do you mean “collectively”

Would you accept responsibility for somebody else’s actions because they were born within the same arbitrary block of years as you?

This isn’t fair! I was gambling with those other people’s lives!

I wonder why they didn’t do Quake 1 instead.

Truth Social. That way, nobody will ever see the plans

Because you write like you think this can’t reach you, like you’re always going to have food and shelter no matter what happens.

I can’t contemplate whether LLMs think until someone tells me what it means to think. It’s too easy to rely on understanding the meaning of that word only through its typical use with other words.

I used to be that dumb. I was about 22 at the time

It will only help us get there in the hands of individuals and collectives. It will not get us there, and will be used to the opposite effect, in the hands of the 1%.

Are you a trust fund kid or something

I guess I’ll just have to keep not being aware of what either of those things are

Unfortunately, these articles are often written by people who don’t know enough to realize they’re missing important nuances.

True, they’ve already demonstrated a great capacity to fuck up without AI so this will just be more of the same