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Lifelong Marylander (Montgomery County), 2x Terps alum (comp sci undergrad + MBA), husband, twin dad, software engineering senior manager. Longer thoughts now available @ https://genxjamerican.micro.blog
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also a reminder that kent state did not involve an intentional order to fire on civilians, it involved poor training and incompetent on the ground leadership. and so if the claim is “the guard will fire on civilians if ordered,” you don’t even have an example with which to use!”
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the fact that everyone’s example of “they’ll indiscriminately shoot peaceful protestors” is an event that happened 55 years ago and not any of the times since where the guard has been deployed during civil unrest should probably tell you something
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She parked that one in low earth orbit, mercy!
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As I said, thus far the reporting is good, better than other national outlets.
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Incomplete narratives hinder our ability to bring the praxis of history full circle…
Peace was preferred because violence was an option
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AND there is no explanation for the fuck up because the system is black box.
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There are definitely other fields where the hallucination tendencies of GenAI have already proven to be a problem, such as legal filings. Imagine what happens when Intuit and/or H&R Block use GenAI and hallucinates you into paying more or less in taxes than you’re supposed to owe?
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Coco put foot to 🍑 and that gal ain’t like it is all.
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The internet bubble bursting in 1999-2000 put a ton of programmers out of work. So did the telecom equipment bubble bursting.
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I’m old enough to remember when the same thing happened to an entire generation of business majors.
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One reason might be because we’re subject to Dodd-Frank making unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices (UDAAP) illegal. Everything we’ve heard about GenAI hallucinations alone sounds tailor-made to put a financial institution in violation of that.
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Our pace of hiring college graduates in CS is *increasing*. The choice of limiting AI usage being limited to low-stakes, low-risk activities means we have plenty of work remaining for software engineers.
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I manage engineering teams for a heavily-regulated financial institution. We are moving deliberately slowly with the introduction of AI because there are bad consequences for not keeping consumers’ financial information safe and secure.
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Agreed 100%. You starting to see some backpeddling now.