I get what you’re saying, but also see the other side - these services exist and aren’t ever going away, so the level of knowledge you need about these to use them at least competently is significantly reduced.

What their existence does mean is that there are thousands of developers who wouldn’t ever touch or learn any of this stuff previously are now actually learning it and using it. That’s a positive thing. Not everyone needs to be an expert on the inner workings of everything that a service provides unless you’re specifically looking for an expert.

Also……people lie on CVs and cover letters. If your ad has buzzwords and technology X, Y, and Z, then you should expect people with little to no knowledge of at least one of those things to have all 3 on their resume.

Tl;dr:

It said the two people alleged the suspected use of X’s algorithm for the “purposes of foreign interference.” It didn’t detail the alleged interference or how the algorithm was allegedly used.

The 2 people are politicians, and you’d assume they’re the sore-loser type looking for someone to blame for their loss. Most likely a nothing-sauce.

Adding context is “knowing more” for a computer program.

Maybe it’s different in VS code vs regular VS, because I never get issues like what you’re describing in VS. Haven’t really used it in VS Code.

DLSS is applied in the rendering pipeline before post processing effects. It is part of the rendering pipeline.

You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about. We’re done here.

Interesting downvotes, especially how there are more than there are upvotes.

Do people think “junior” and “senior” here just relate to age and/or time in the workplace? Someone could work in software dev for 20 years and still be a junior dev. It’s knowledge and skill level based, not just time-in-industry based.

They’re tools that can help a junior engineer and a senior engineer with their job.

Given a database, AI can probably write a data access layer in whatever language you want quicker than a junior developer could.

They’re also bad at that though, because if you don’t know that stuff then you don’t know if what it’s telling you is right or wrong.

The reason it goes down a “really bad path” is that it’s basically glorified autocomplete. It doesn’t know anything.

Not quite true - GitHub Copilot in VS for example can be given access to your entire repo/project/etc and it then “knows” how things tie together and work together, so it can get more context for its suggestions and created code.

I’ve found it to be great at writing unit tests too.

I use github copilot in VS and it’s fantastic. It just throws up suggestions for code completions and entire functions etc, and is easily ignored if you just want to do it yourself, but in my experience it’s very good.

Like you said, using it to get the meat and bones of an application from scratch is fantastic. I’ve used it to make some awesome little command line programs for some of my less technical co-workers to use for frequent tasks, and then even got it to make a nice GUI over the top of it. Takes like 10% of the time it would have taken me to do it - you just need to know how to use it, like with any other tool.

Sounds like you just need to find a better way to use AI in your workflows.

Github Copilot in Visual Studio for example is fantastic and offers suggestions including entire functions that often do exactly what you wanted it to do, because it has the context of all of your code (if you give it that, of course).

“Using something that you’re not experienced with and haven’t yet worked out how to best integrate into your workflow slows some people down”

Wow, what an insight! More at 8!

As I said on this article when it was posted to another instance:

AI is a tool to use. Like with all tools, there are right ways and wrong ways and inefficient ways and all other ways to use them. You can’t say that they slow people down as a whole just because some people get slowed down.

Ok so you definitely don’t understand how DLSS works lol.

DLSS has to be implemented by the developers of the game. They literally have to use the DLSS APIs in their game code. DLSS requires things like the player input and motion vectors for all scenes, materials, and objects that are in the frame. It adds time to the rendering pipeline. The more powerful your GPU the less rendering time it adds.

We’re getting way off track now anyway, so to go back to the start: DLSS Super Resolution is amazing because it lets you get a framerate bump with either little-to-no visibile change to IQ, to a very noticeable degradation of IQ depending on how much of a framerate bump you get. It is one of the most significant advancements in gaming this century IMO.

On my PC with a 4070 Super, I can play COD BO6 at a near locked 120fps on my 4K 120hz VRR tv at “4K” using DLSS, whereas my PC definitely cannot do that without DLSS. It looks like native 4K, and believe me I’ve taken many screenshots and compared them at 300% zoom lol.

It adds rendering time, not “latency” btw.

DLSS improves framerates at basically no cost, to let people hit playable or high framerates at quality levels they couldn’t without it. It’s not for hitting 500fps, it’s for hitting 30/60/100 etc.

But no one said it would?

No, they banned it because they don’t like pride flags being replaced, or male and female being the sex options, or black characters being replaced with more historically accurate white ones (no issue with the opposite though, shock horror). It had nothing to do with trolling or the comments section or throwaway accounts. It was ideological.

Yes, they can do what they want with their site. I agree. I didn’t say they can’t. I just pointed out what they do.

If they banned mods that put pride flags everywhere it wouldn’t bother me one bit. People can mod their single player games however they want, I don’t care.

If you’re playing games at 500fps you don’t need DLSS. What is your point? Again - it’s for situations where you can’t get a good framerate at the settings you want to use.

How is this hard to understand?

A whole article about how terrible this is, then towards the end they got clarification from Google and, surprise surprise, it was all an overreaction and they were fear mongering.

“This update is good for users: they can now use Gemini to complete daily tasks on their mobile devices like send messages, initiate phone calls, and set timers while Gemini Apps Activity is turned off. With Gemini Apps Activity turned off, their Gemini chats are not being reviewed or used to improve our AI models.

It’s just giving Gemini more local assistant abilities.

I don’t know how many government workers you’ve met, but I wouldn’t have much hope of that haha

That’s not why they banned it though, as they could have simply turned off comments.

Well you’d be impressed then :)

Playing a lot of fps games doesn’t mean you can play at a high level. Having an ultrawide monitor and 144hz is completely irrelevant lol. There are people with 4K 200+hz monitors and 5090s who are trash at competitive play.

Raster isn’t capable of these things, that’s why it’s never been done until raytracing came along. Rasterization rasters what is on the screen, nothing outside of that.