Code quality is actually much more important for AIs than it is for humans. With humans you can say, oh that function is just weird, here's how it works, and they'll remember. With AIs (at present, with current memory capabilities), they have to rederive the spec of the codebase every time from scratch. It's like you're onboarding a new junior engineer every day.

every time i ask claude 4.6 to fix a test case it just comments the test out with some nonsense explanation about how the test doesn't matter

No but it sure brought a lot of people to the bay area who are not anything like the people I want to hang out with

The nice thing about programming becoming less lucrative due to AI is that all of the nerds will be losers again, and so it might regain it's previous status as an honest signal of earnestness & interest in systematizations of science/society/the world.

In ordinary life your status explains an extremely small fraction of the variance in whether and how much you're liked by other people.

Strongly disagree. There is a tremendous amount of misinformation & public hysteria about this case, so if you think something materially significant has come out of the document releases you should post it. Virtually all of what I've seen going viral on social media is presented mendaciously for circulation, which is why journalists haven't been touching any of it.

I don't think the discourse is getting "smarter at the top and dumber at the bottom". I think it's uniformly getting dumber. Smart people are impacted relatively less by the refactoring that pushed fact-checking towards the end-user, but they're still impacted rather a lot.

Playing warframe today for the first time in seven years and completely unexpectedly encountered the song we sing at solstice. The game puts all of its Good Story Tokens into that one 30s cutscene so this was more shocking than it sounds

Completely different. The software vulnerabilities we're finding with the most recent codex models are crazy. 

Isaac Newton probably sounded like a 9/11 truther in his day