> Sounds great as long as you don't think about the fact that not understanding how it works is actually a bug, not a feature.

That's such a wrong way of thinking. There is simply a limit on how much a single person can know and understand. You have to specialize otherwise you won't make any progress. Not having to understand how everything works is a feature, not a bug.

You not having to know the chemical structure of gasoline in order to drive to work in the morning is a good thing.

But having to know how a specific ORM composes queries targetting a specific database backend, however, is where the magic falls apart; I would rather go without than deal with such pitfalls. If I were to hazard a guess, things like this are where the author and I are aligned.

> to know how a specific ORM composes queries targetting a specific database backend, however, is where the magic falls apart

I've never found this to be a particular problem. Most ORMs are actually quite predictable. I've seen how my ORM constructs constructs queries for my database and it's pretty ugly but also it's actually also totally good. I've never really gained any insight that way.

But the sheer amount of time effort I've saved by using an ORM to basically do the same boring load/save pattern over and over is immeasurable. I can even imagine going back and doing that manually -- what a waste of time, effort, and experience that would be.

My Facebook feed (I visit just for marketplace) is also not quite like the author's feed. I don't have a lot of AI content or thirst traps. I wonder if he's got some sort of the default young male algorithm experience.

I wouldn't say my Facebook is good -- I don't interact with it enough for it to be anything.

But that doesn't make any sense anymore either.

It does if you assume there is somebody dumber to buy your stock.

The 6502 is the best 8bit CPU for learning stuff. There's a lot you could add to it, but there is very little could take away. It's minimal but you have everything you need.

When I was a student, they gave away this stuff like candy.

> its bullshit that the US actually needed to pull (tax increases).

Did you forget that the Big Beautiful Bill included a massive tax cut?

That's the real intent of tariffs "in general". Trump's tariffs in particular, though, are specifically meant to punish / shake down other countries.

And the industry leaders in our own country.

It not the paychecks that influence federal judges; these days it's more of quid-pro-quo for getting the position in the first place. Theoretically they are under no obligation but the bias is built in.

The problem with a AI is similar; what in-built biases does it have? Even if it was simply trained on the entire legal history that would bias it towards historical norms.

I think it is usually the opposite - presidents nominate judges they think will agree with them. There’s really nothing a president can do once the judge is sworn in, and we have seen some federal judges take pretty drastic swings in their judicial philosophy over the course of their careers. There’s no reason for the judge to hold up their end of the quid-pro-quo. To the extent they do so, it’s because they were inclined to do so in the first place.

You just repeated what I said -- how is that the opposite?

There have been equally high profile cases where a perpetrator got off because they have connections. I'd love for an AI to loudly exclaim that this is a big deviation from the norm.

Likewise for more progressive cities (NYC) that allow repeat offenders to have rap sheets with 20+ arrests to go free because of a sympathetic judge.

This is cool and actually demonstrates real utility. Using AI to take something that already exists and create it for a different library / framework / platform is cool. I'm sure there's a lot of training data in there for just this case.

But I wonder how it would fare given a language specification for a non-existent non-trivial language and build a compiler for that instead?

If you come up with a realistic language spec and wait maybe six months, by then it'll probably be approach being cheap enough that you could test the scenario yourself!