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Just when I felt we were at a point where it was acceptable to slow down progress for the sake of security we are now at a point where the speed is far too attractive to both stakeholders and a lot of the actual engineers to worry about the details.

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VC firms will be the downfall of the internet as we know it.

The commercial internet. Every time I hear about a new LLM advancement I look at my legacy project list and do something without it just to upset people when I tell them later about how I didn’t do it in the most efficient way possible and am still happy.

That already happened like 25+ years ago, at least for those who knew the internet before there were ads everywhere.

I wanna say not quite 25+

20-ish for sure. Facebook was really the big turning point imo

But maybe that's just splitting hairs

The dot-com bubble burst of 2000 was 25 years ago, and that did ruin the whole internet for years, and it was caused by the stupidity of VC investment - more or less the same as the AI bubble is now. I have no doubt that the AI bubble will crash too, it's currently being propped up by the same magical thinking.

Fair enough. I was like 12. the dot-com bubble didn't affect me at all. I was busy playing videogames online and mucking around in warez irc channels

Should I shed a lot of tears for the demise of the internet as we know it?

The internet as we know it kind of sucks.

Well it happened few times now. I do not think it as unusual phenomen it's just innovation. Not Always positive one.

That point would be late 90s to early 2000s. We've already got internet, it wasn't full of ads and was used to actually exchange information. Should have just made it faster and more accessible and stopped there

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