From my experience it must be ChatGPT. I am getting much less upvotes for past answers since 2023. Even the reputation (t) curve visible on the profile reflects that, up to 2023 it was a straight line at around 30 degrees, start of 2023 and it's at about 15 degrees.
When you look at the image you can't help but think how it would look like if a giant ball of water was dropped like this on the surface. Apart from the flood / water destroying / reshaping the surface of the entire continent, anyone has an idea how it would the impact look like?
I am probably way off, but I imagine solid ice sinking deep into the ground with water starting to turn into vapor in the upper layers and the vapor generated inside exploding out from the ball as it gradually shrinks and deforms.
Some people say that it has greatly enhanced their abilities, other people say that it's mostly useless. I am myself in the latter camp. I never build the habit of using it because it failed miserably on relatively simple things. However, even if it was smarter, I can hardly see how it could be faster to design the prompt, correct it multiple times vs. just typing code in flow state.
What about things like copilot that are simply predictive autocomplete? It doesn’t pull you out of flow state but dramatically increases typing speed, especially for boilerplate.
It absolutely kills flow state for me personally because I’m being shown code completions that may or may not have anything to do with what I am actually about to write.
When I allow myself to review the relevance and correctness of the attempted completion, I have to set aside the actual code that I was envisioning. This may or may not be easily recoverable after the (generally wrong) suggested completion is dismissed.
I am not neurotypical, and we are all different anyway, so it is obviously different for others. But I disabled the active code assistance option at work almost immediately due to it being actively harmful to maintaining flow state.
It's a wrong comparison. A high-level language is usually good enough for a desktop app because there's not much ongoing computation happening. It's only input processing and small, infrequent updates to the view in response to the input (not to mention rendering of the DOM and low level input processing is done by the browser's C++ compiled code). A video game on the other hand has to do computations all the time at a very high frequency.
> We now have the ability to have an Einstein-level of genius in our pockets
It's pretty cool but what you really mean is that it's a better UI to an encyclopedia and a story / art generator. It has no ability to reason at all and often struggles with simple things.
Is it? If founders were getting only 10% of ownership which would be further diluted in following funding rounds, how many of them would take the risk of starting a company? On the other hand, if early employees were not getting any equity, how many of them would apply anyway because they need the job / or want to gain experience and build their network with limited risk? (not saying that they should not be getting equity). If 1% seems unfair, they can start their own company, then they would quickly find out that the difficulty / risk / stress / responsibility is an order of magnitude larger and equity reflects that.
I tried to calculate a formula once, to convert increment of Earth's mass to increment of Earth's gravity for a planet of the same density, so not the same as escape velocity but sort of related. I'm not sure if it's actually correct but it was: x/x^(2/3) So i.e. for 5 Earth masses and the same density, it would be 1.71 of Earth's gravity on the surface, 10 masses -> 2.15 Earth's gravity.
Reasoning: Acceleration is GM/R^2 and planets R is like (x * Me / 4Pi / density)^1/3 . Directly proportional to M and inverse square root of radius, while the radius is directly proportional to (x)^(1/3)
Though the density for 2 planets made of the same stuff and different masses would probably be different due to differences in pressure in its internals? Just a guess.
