My overall concern has to do with our developer ecosystem from the important points mentioned by simonw and narush. I've been concerned about this for years but AI reliance seems to be pouring jet fuel on the fire. Particularly troubling is the lack of understanding less-experienced devs will have over time. Does anyone have a counter-argument for this they can share on why this is a good thing?
The shallow analogy is like "why worry about not being able to do arithmetic without a calculator"? Like... the dev of the future just won't need it.
I feel like programming has become increasingly specialized and even before AI tool explosion, it's way more possible to be ignorant of an enormous amount of "computing" than it used to be. I feel like a lot of "full stack" developers only understand things to the margin of their frameworks but above and below it they kind of barely know how a computer works or what different wire protocols actually are or what an OS might actually do at a lower level. Let alone the context in which in application sits beyond let's say, a level above a kubernetes pod and a kind of trial-end-error approach to poking at some YAML templates.
Do we all need to know about processor architectures and microcode and L2 caches and paging and OS distributions and system software and installers and openssl engines and how to make sure you have the one that uses native instructions and TCP packets and envoy and controllers and raft systems and topic partitions and cloud IAM and CDN and DNS? Since that's not the case--nearly everyone has vast areas of ignorance yet still does a bunch of stuff--it's harder to sell the idea that whatever AI tools are doing that we lose skills in will somehow vaguely matter in the future.
I kind of miss when you had to know a little of everything and it also seemed like "a little bit" was a bigger slice of what there was to know. Now you talk to people who use a different framework in your own language and you feel like you're talking to deep specialists whose concerns you can barely understand the existence of, let alone have an opinion on.
> Do we all need to know about processor architectures and microcode and L2 caches and paging and OS distributions and system software…
Have you used modern software… or just software in general to be honest.
We have had orders of magnitude improvement in hardware performance and much fewer orders of magnitude increase in software performance and features.
May I present the windows start menu as a perfect exhibit, we put a web browser in there and made actually finding the software you want to use harder than ever, even search is completely broken 99% of the time (really try powertoys run or even windows + s for a night and day difference).
We add boundless complexity to things that doesn’t need it, millions of lines of code, then waste millions of cycles running security tools to heuristically prevent malicious actors from exploiting our millions of lines of code that is impossible to know because it is deemed to difficult to learn the underlying semantics of the problem domain.
That is the issue at hand in this story, but not really the comment I was replying to (at least primarily).
Leaded avgas is coming from piston-engine aircraft, and I don't think that was really what OP was talking about when commenting about the people flying private aircraft while publicly demanding people stop driving pickup trucks.
For leaded gas, we can simply ban the leaded gas, as the cost of performance in piston-engine aircraft. I'm not really an expert, but at a first glance I see no particularly compelling reason not to do it, so I'm not opposed to that at all.
Absolutely, I have a partner who has had severe PTSD and went through a great month-long program, she's overcome many longstanding fears and triggers and has made huge strides in being able to feel that she is living her life once again.
I wonder what the age limit is on stuff like this. So many young folks experiencing crippling anxieties that are impacting their ability to navigate the world at an age where it's going to have longstanding ramifications for relationships and careers.
I have a close acquaintance who uses ketamine to manage depression and Complex PTSD. My experience as a bystander is that the depressive symptoms reoccur periodically regardless of the use of ketamine. The depressive symptoms seem to be caused by the PTSD, and ketamine does not seem to alleviate the PTSD.
I'm saying this as a huge fan of the positive impact of ketamine.
There are some symptoms that seem like they need more rewiring.
C-PTSD is probably the simplest way to summarize what I’ve been dealing with (I’m not totally comfortable with the label).
I’ve done 20 ketamine sessions over the past 2 years (the last one about 5 months ago). I agree with you that a lot of the immediate relief from an infusion can fade after not that long. However, combined with some of the other work I was doing there was a slow accumulation of benefits and new perspectives on life.
Overall, the infusions definitely helped… it hasn’t been easy going though, and I have been continuing to work on myself.
A few months ago, I finally found a therapist who I felt was actually helping me. I had tried a few different therapists in years past and it wasn’t that helpful. My current therapist uses a lot of “somatic therapy” in her work, which I think is really important. With trauma, talk alone won’t get you very far.
I’ve made a lot of progress since November when I started seeing her. I think the Ketamine and the work I had been doing on my on own “prepped” me in a certain sense.
Your friend might benefit from finding a good somatic therapist.
