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I love that the house is on fire and Apple wants to drone on about "battery life". They have always been a company in denial but wow.

Its actually not. Most Tesla accidents are not reported as such. And thats a problem.

Teslas are death machines which should be treated as such.

This is really great, amazing. Thanks Proton for rolling this out.

The main bottleneck is the humanity I will apply to expunging it, ridiculing it, removing any dignity from it, exposing it, deleting it, removing it, marginalizing it, disabling it, sh* talking it, hounding it, disproving it and banishing it from every corner of every shop I work in, and every life circumstance I find it in for the rest of my natural life.

How can we be "more ambitious" when the quality of everything is so bad?

More ambitious would be valuing the software we write today more in terms of quality. Not using LLMs to generate more code so that we can do large amounts of largely unjustifiable work.

More ambitious could mean scrapping the lowest common denominator processes that enable bad software like scrum. Like corporate "code review" that is just a rubber stamp because noone cares. Like junior developers who refuse to learn and insist they are always right and force garbage code into the system. Like business people who instead of working with engineering teams engage in sidelong hacks to avoid the process.

The cultural/organizational/process/tooling forces that create bad/mediocre/barely passable (from all perspectives) software are everywhere.

Life sucks on software island. Because WE made it suck and we continue to LET it suck.

This conversation seems chock full of comments from ML experts. Im really impressed.

There are none. This industry is a joke on all of us.

I always found it wierd that people flocked to github. The app sucks, if I have to use it for work it infuriates me at nearly every turn with its sad excuse for UI. People like free sh*.

As for gitlab...yuck. But whatever. Most of the dev tool space is really just "sh* we have to put up with now", none of it is any good, all of it is dated from the early aughts, and taken as a whole is even worse because none of it works together.

While software development itself got better in the last ten years these tools stayed the same or got worse (enshittification). And this is part of why folks are self hosting.

The other part is that AI is destroying the Internet and its time to pack your bags anyway. The smart people already have.

AI news is the new IDGAF and needs a new website.

It was cute while it lasted. Felt gimmicky. Left after a while. I enjoy side tabs now. As soon as the AI started I jumped off. Didnt figure Ar would last long. I was right.

Its not surprising that this device is a frankenphone. What is surprising is that Apple bothered to come in so late to the game and that iPhone owners even care. There are perfectly good foldables in the world that the Duo and the next several Apple foldables (if apple doesnt go out of business because they cant buy RAM) cant touch for usability.

When Apple cant sell you the same exact thing over year after year, what you get is pretty rough.

Rug pull!!!! I love it

This is just current day LLM consumer conceit packaged as information.

Was never needed, will never be needed.

While I agree with the general thrust of this. After years of using Slack, which is I wont say much better, I hate Slack. I hate teams more, but I hate Slack. And the other crap I hope I never see in use ever.

In fact I lost real any desire to "work in chat", its never been a good experience its just a place to hide from email. Waste time in chat, make jokes in Chat, bitch to my manager in chat ok. Work in chat? F-that.

The only way you can get work done in a place that uses (abuses) Slack is to turn off notifications and forget it. Its a distraction app and nothing more.

People who have wired in their CI and AWS Alarms and metrics, I feel sorry for you. You took the bait.

So yes teams is a red flag. Slack is a flag of a different color. When you take a companies stack in as a whole, it will (no matter where you are) remind you of how TRULY SHITTY software products are. And that should humble you so you dont go add to the pile.

Its pretty easy to put together a microservice framework, along with some API spec driven tools to generate android and iOS clients then just work on UI.

I dont think the author is right to say it because of all the vibe coding that this is pointless.

I think it might be pointless because we are witnessing in essence the destruction of computing itself. And writing code with or without AI will eitehr not be possible (hardware unavailable) or become so unsavory and unenjoyable (jobs nobody wants) that computing for any reason but subsistence (or world domination) will die.

Its even conceivable that the platforms LLMs generate all this code for (the web, mobile, desktop) will die.

Love the sentiment, I think rather than new labnguages I would like to see forms of obfuscation that cannot be reversed and maybe encryption.

Also I been thinking about how we can (re?)create offline open source or fully obfuscated OSS online that has some kind of tooling to prevent exposure to training.

It would be interesting if there was a metaphor we all understand but we could repurpose for this. Undoubtedly new CPUs would need to be made.

This is just like all tech industry disruption.

First they forced their malware bot farms on us, now they want to rent them to us so they can turn the entire web into the dark web.

And eventually rug pull off the major retail sites and just redirect traffic to their own darker sites to scrape commissions, sell direct and keep the change.

I'm sure the teams thinking this up buy their lunches from a ghost kitchen run by illegals that's never had a health inspection,

located in the back of a laundromat with a phony business license and website that only accepts crypto.

Is it not possible to at least consider that if the populations came back so fast that in fact the environmental damage to the populations was overstated to perhaps mythical proportions?

Im sorry for being so negative but MS sold software engineers (and US high school and college students) down the river so long ago, the nerve of them now even pretending to care is just so offensive. This business has gotten so rotten, the best thing I can tell anyone is to find something rewarding to do with your life.

The hardware that you cant afford and will never pay for itself? Exciting!

I would never trust the maker of these crappy software products with my life.

Why would you?

While that sounds a little doomerish and probably for good reason, there is the obvious alternative.

Dont change. Software developers do not have to change anything they control their means of production and we dont HAVE to use any of this stuff. IF you are saying that there will be non-engineers willing to step in to hit enter (as in the business/product people) and LLMs will be good enough to do with it, Im ok with that.

I encourage business people to go down that path, especially since I have no organizational responsibility to help them. So if they run into even one little issue, I wont look at their code, I wont let it into a repo and I can just walk away.

There will be people who cross over and will want to help the people using LLMs and some will be technical. But it wont be in large numbers and it will be based on extraction and not pay very well at all. It will pay less every day as the LLM usage goes up to the CTOs desk.

More power to them! At the end of the day someone WILL have to hit enter, and it wont be me in some low paid slopshop.

What Im saying is the industrys future and mine are not intertwined. The tech industry is of no interest to me as a software engineer. They have jumped their own fake shark.

Im not in a burn out phase but Ive been doing this long enough where the "work" really seems like an imaginary construct of my employer. I dont even relate the software development shop I work in to software anymore. I have a friend who describes it as "taking out the complicated trash". Thats close. But software development hasnt been a respectable career in a while.

Anyway, nothing has changed for me, except that I dont have to deal with google search results anymore for things. When the LLM gets stuck I do still go out there. But its rare.

Nothing has changed in the way I do my job, except having to put up with slop from people around me, or from business people pushing slop towards the dev team and wanting a pat on the back for it. That part has changed for the worse.

The complete willingness to traffic in nonsensical documentation that doesnt represent any real requirements as an excuse for doing a job is pretty sad, and I take note of who does it and I make sure to never trust anything they publish. And usually stop reading it.

I call it "crossing over", once I see someone do it and replace their work product with LLM slop and distribute it, they have created a barrier that will prevent me from working with them forever.

The thing that scares me about Apple security is how completely phony it is. I dont use their stuff anymore but their implementation of "2 factor" forcing me to put in a device password gave me the creeps. I dont think Apple has a good grasp of security, nor do I think they particularly care. But the article is about passkeys. Agree. I dont use em, I dont let my family use em, I dont let my friends use em. They cannot be fixed and should never have been invented.

If its more "bugs than humans can fix", its also likely "more bugs than humans can triage and verify as legitimate bugs".

Sorry, garbage in garbage out doesnt fly. I feel sad for open source maintainers having to deal with this massive slop-ageddon.

Wouldnt it benefit the AI companies if it did "go rogue"?, it would support their desire to convince us all of AGI, and supernatural AI powers.

So maybe they are trying to create an infinite loop among agents intentionally so that they overwhelm systems requiring humanity to call on the tech industry to "save the human race".....

People tempted to buy that new iHome thing should pause and think about how bad Siri has always been.

You might as well take an old iPod and stick it to the wall. (Yes I said iPOD, not iPad)

"You ask the agent", you do? I would never ask an agent about a system at work. I see people doing this and they are getting very obvious, and bad results. I do see this as a detriment for junior devs though since they may need help. But I will never let my dev team off the hook for writing documentation. Although they may now feel using LLM is ok for that.

The biggest difference in experience with seniors is that we already know the standard patterns, I dont have to ask what the inside of a microservice looks like, or the inside of a react app. Or how event driven systems work.

Engineers should learn that stuff by doing. And reading the massive amount of (non-LLM) written documentation on the subject. Written by real people.

Obviously if you know someone with rare earth mines who will mine it for pennies compared to what you can you buy from them. I am not aware of any hidden story here. Yes rare earths are everywhere, yes it sucks separating them, yes China does it cheaper and we shut ours down and sold them off.

When someone says "Didnt lose its...", A mine that is shutdown is a loss, because its no longer financially viable to operate. So are we debating what "lose" means?

Open up any old idled steel plants lately?