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I don't think this is a counterpoint.

An established codebase is already the best kind of context you could give an agent. It has all the patterns baked in so the agent simply follows established patterns. Such a codebase probably contains tens to hundreds of thousands of man-hours poured into it by humans refining it to do what it does - taking into account real world feedback and constraints.

When working on something from scratch, the best an agent can do is the average of whatever is in its training set and the clarity of the text prompts.

> they launched Brave Orion

I think you mean Brave Origin. It's the minimal version without the extra services. Free on Linux and purchaseable on other platforms.

I think that's a fair compromise, since the company needs to somehow make money.

It's been working great for me as the primary browser for a couple of years now.

Prior to that I was on Firefox (for the sake of browser engine diversity) but left as soon as they announced they were turning into an AI powered advertising company, and would use your data for training. However, I keep it around for cross-browser testing.

Perfectly fine for personal servers that matter. Its better IMO to risk having a rare breakage than to stay behind security upgrades.

Experts don't want to 'gatekeep'. Experts have been producing FOSS for the benefits of everyone, and liberally answering questions on mailing lists, stack overflow etc for free.

Experts have been badly bitten by poorly written and badly architected software, lost their hairs trying to figure out bugs and poor design.

They recognize the first version of a piece of software is only a miniscule percentage of the work and majority of effort goes into maintenaning it for its lifetime.

They are viscerally horrified at a thousands of LoC codebase generated at the speed of GPU inference they are to be responsible for.

Explain why you think it's a myth. Also I'm basing my argument on common sense. And I didn't speak about my 'world view' in the comment.

Exactly. Henry Ford made sure his own employees could afford the cars they were making.

These people making these kind of grand pronouncements either have an embarrassing blind spot, or are not making sincere, but carefully calculated statements.

Just via competition, Chinese researchers are doing much more than Bill Gates could ever hope to do through 'thought leadership' spread the benefits of generative AI.

US investors are desperate for the next hypergrowth opportunity. From what I can tell the US economic strategy is to outgrow its debt.

Hey, are people not allowed to self select as smug Lisp weenies anymore? Even on HN?

What Lisp enthusiasts lost in terms of actual status in the programming world they make up for themselves in their niche corners and everyone is happy at the end.

From my understanding (I may be wrong) what is happening now is that frontier labs are doubling down on doing RLHF on their models using the user interaction with their own tools e.g. Anthropic making their models better at producing code with claude code. Perhaps the top Google researchers do not see this kind of narrow focus as a path to more generally beneficial AI technology.

This. When programming meant you get just a decent enough salary and enjoyed your work, and could prioritize technical excellence it was fun. But once it became a ticket to millionaire status it attracted the kind and of people who would have otherwise gone to Law, Corporate Consulting and the like, technical excellence diluted. Everyone doing everything possible to get their next higher paying job leaving a trail of technical debt behind them.

AI to some extent learns APIs. If they are doing new things they are probably introducing new kinds of interfaces.

Are AIs good enough at doing novel work that they have yet to encounter?

My guess is that the GNU/HURD people are doing a lot of novel work that doesn't yet exist.

Android basically ran a long bait and switch game. It came out as open source, achieved wide adoption, important online services like banking and government-related moved to it.

Now they are locking it all down.

I've never done it, but now that you say it, it makes a lot of sense. Using Django just to manage the database and do migrations, even behind other language stacks.

You also get the Django admin interface for free.

I once tried using SqlAlchemy but I couldn't help asking myself why it felt so complicated compared to Django.

The r/programming subreddit is what you may be looking for.

Would you explain farther how China winning the AI race would result in world war 3 deaths?

How is it unprofessional when it is simply someone giving their honest personal opinion on an issue that involves something that is valuable to them, on their personal blog nonetheless.

Is everyone a walking and talking brand now so that they have to always filter their words, walk on eggshells, hide behind corpo-speak so as to seem 'professional'?

More honest discourse is required in today's world, not less. It seems interactions online are becoming less and less authentic.

I'm glad LLM coding exists for people who want to move at an insane superhuman speed (perhaps they're trying to achieve escape velocity and launch into the stars or something) so that they don't grind down their fellow humans.

You can either do local optimization - a single individual moving as fast and as hard as humanly possible, or global optimization - a team working together and amplifying each other's efforts to produce something that is greater than the sum of its parts.

On the bright side however, one can easily vibe code a browser extension that automatically hides comments that are not aligned to one's needs, whether its American politics or comments complaining about it :-)

Generally, it seems like if you are not getting returns that outweigh your token spend, you are merely paying to train AI.

One annoying thing is how long it takes for things to sway back into equilibrium.

It's getting quite exhausting having to endure all these major events of the 21st century and their consequences - 9/11 and the Iraq war, the 2008 financial crisis, covid-19, and now AI.

But I guess it's better than all out war and conquest as was with most of human history.

You can find some video material from O'Reilly Media

Yeah, makes a lot of sense.

From what I've read from people with relevant experience, the only way to get a large organization change direction is to issue imperative decrees lacking nuance, because large organization by nature tend to be process heavy and are too incompetent to follow a nuanced direction.

If you have tens of thousands of employees the more complicated the communication is, the larger the variation of interpretation of its meaning, I suppose

With such kind of ATS systems, is it still a thing to optimize for a one page resume that is easy for a human reviewer to scan, or just include enough buzzwords and external links to try and please the LLM?

Even if they only fire the juniors and retain the seniors, they have effectively broken the pipeline that creates more seniors for the next few decades.

That is either betting on AI being better than humans then, or closure of the company.

I might be reading this differently, but isn't the acquisition a bet that Modular will become a manufacturer-agnostic software stack?

> "We believe the future belongs to developer-friendly, horizontal platforms that can run across diverse compute environments and give customers real choice in how and where they deploy AI," Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said.

Yeah, the whole AI industry is just people ripping off each other.. Started by AI companies gulping up all the information that technical or altruistic people shared on the Internet in the past 40 years to help other fellow humans, then moved to AI companies consuming pirated and copyrighted material and now its AI companies ripping off each other.

Information really does want to become free, but AI companies want to be gatekeepers. Long term I bet on the open weights to win, as the more sustainable approach.

> without increasing educator workload substantially

Isn't this a good thing, employing more educators, building more schools?

Any sane society will always invest more into its future well being and incentivize investments into education.