It's like people pulling their phones out while taking a piss standing, or having to pull their phones out when the traffic lights are red in a crossing.
Just, do one thing at a time, live a life.
Shipping code from your phone, whhhyy. Mates, this isn't a flex, it's depression.
This project in particular has been unconcerned with new coding practices so far, primarily, because I derive pleasure from hand-written implementations of my ideas, and believe that overcoming challenges the hard way is the main value I get from it.
This 100% the same for me. Outside of work where speed is more important than quality, and I work with people that use AI, I don't use AI at all on my own projects. It poisons the mind and the soul. Ok that sounds dramatic, but I felt down up until the point where I started hand writing everything again. Software engineering is still fun and powerful, and the hell with where the world is going.
It's pretty safe to say that AI will be used on the battlefield making real life and death decisions before it will be able to render a decent pelican on a bike in SVG.
I read the article and it doesn’t say it was used for targeting or prioritizing?
> Neither Claude nor any other LLMs detects targets, processes radar, fuses sensor data or pairs weapons to targets. LLMs are late additions to Palantir’s ecosystem. In late 2024, years after the core system was operational, Palantir added an LLM layer – this is where Claude sits – that lets analysts search and summarise intelligence reports in plain English
There’s a lot of humans in that loop who make those decisions.
Yeah militaries don't use commercial chatbots for that, they have their own machine learning implementations. Look into Project Maven for example.
And while there are still humans in the loop, the impression I get is that this is increasingly becoming meaningless, from the way they talk about optimizing the "kill chain" and letting small teams make hundreds of targeting decisions per hour.
> The paradigm shift has already begun. Despite the row, Anthropic’s Claude has reportedly facilitated the massive and intensifying offensive which has already killed an estimated thousand-plus civilians in Iran. This is an era of bombing “quicker than the speed of thought”, experts told the Guardian this week, with AI identifying and prioritising targets, recommending weaponry and evaluating legal grounds for a strike.
I think it's beyond decent. I don't understand how people are not more impressed by this. Just a few years ago the only expectation would be garbled nonsense.
"shift left" on the battlefield. break down those silos. if you have to ask for permission it's already too late. remember the goal. find the bottlenecks in your system and remove them.
In many battlefield scenarios, there is more than one "somebody" on it. The "somebody" that you kill might not be the "somebody" that you intended to kill.
Depending on the how pelicans are created, it is entirely possible to indirectly kill "somebody" due to the externalised costs of global warming etc.
Haha, yeah. I tried for it to create a SVG with scissors and it was hopelessly overwhelmed. I think at least the SVG design niche will be safe a little while longer
Maybe all along what mattered most to them was making good software that people love, not the day to day part of writing code.
Now it’s the industry they’ve always wanted, and less the industry of people who wanted to get paid to write code.
Software engineers who never cared about the higher level product design aspect are finding themselves in the wrong industry. It’s dismal.
It's like people pulling their phones out while taking a piss standing, or having to pull their phones out when the traffic lights are red in a crossing.
Just, do one thing at a time, live a life.
Shipping code from your phone, whhhyy. Mates, this isn't a flex, it's depression.
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