JimmaDaRustla

System infrastructure and outages aside, it's wild the level of simping for a mediocre side scroller in 2025.

"seamless integration" is an intention of the project - that doesn't mean the software is free of bugs and issues. What an absolute asinine and nonsensical argument.

I'm waiting for this with chromium too. Microsoft Edge most removed uBlock Origin on me today.

broadcast box

It's a plugin. It's not required, it's an optional extension.

That's like saying McDonald's is going to lose customers because they started selling coffee and muffins.

Behold the power of fascism!

Your place is work sucks

Also, you're not making an argument against agentic coding, you're actually making an argument for it - you don't have time to code, so you need someone or something to code for you.

Are they building doors? Or are they realizing that the door already exists and they want to be the first to walk through it?

You didn't checkmate anything.

You're perfectly capable of looking at the world around you. You're arguing in bad faith using a false dichotomy that I must be able to produce examples or my argument is not valid. You're trying to suck all the air out of the room and waste time.

https://tools.simonwillison.net/

ChECk MaTee

My code isn't open source.

Agreed. That argument they made was a straw-man which doesn't really pertain to where LLMs are being leveraged today.

Mine, it's how I have time to argue with the denialists right now.

I don't have time to handhold the ignorant.

I do however have time to put forth my arguments now that I use LLMs to make my job easier - if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here right now.

> LLMs could hit an unsolvably hard wall next year and settle into a niche of utility

LLMs in their current state have integrated into the workflows for many, many IT roles. They'll never be niche, unless governing bodies come together to kill them.

> I can't find a single open source codebase, actively used in production, and primarily maintained and developed with AI

Straw man argument - this is in no way a metric for validating the power of LLMs as a tool for IT roles. Can you not find open source code bases that leverage LLMS because you haven't looked, or because you can't tell the difference between human and LLM code?

> If this is so foundationally groundbreaking, that should be a clear signal.

As I said, you haven't been paying attention.

Denialism - the practice of denying the existence, truth, or validity of something despite proof or strong evidence that it is real, true, or valid

> I can't find a single open source codebase, actively used in production, and primarily maintained and developed with AI.

As I stated, you haven't been paying attention.

> you haven't been paying attention.

Investments are mostly in model training. We have trained models now, we'll see a pullback in that regard as businesses will need to optimize to get the best model without spending billions in order to compete on price, but LLMs are here to stay.

The author seems to imply that the "framing" of an argument is done so in bad faith in order to win an argument but only provides one-line quotes where there is no contextual argument.

This tactic by the author is a straw-man argument - he's framing the position of tech leaders and our acceptance of it as the reason AI exists, instead of being honest, which is that they were simply right in their predictions: AI was inevitable.

The IT industry is full of pride and arrogance. We deny the power of AI and LLMs. I think that's fair, I welcome the pushback. But the real word the IT crowd needs to learn is "denialism" - if you still don't see how LLMs is changing our entire industry, you haven't been paying attention.

Edit: Lots of denialists using false dichotomy arguments that my opinion is invalid because I'm not producing examples and proof. I guess I'll just leave this: https://tools.simonwillison.net/

> That's plain embarrassing for him

You think that's the tipping point of him being embarrassed?

On top of all of that, he demonstrates that Grok has an egregious and intentional bias but then claims it's inexplainable happenstance due to some sort of self-awareness? How do you think it became self-aware Simon?

Exactly - assuming the system prompt it reports is accurate or that there isn't other layers of manipulation is so ignorant. Grok as a whole could be going through a middle AI to hide aspects, or as you mention the whole model could be tainted. Either way, it's perfectly demonstrated in the blog that Grok's opinions are based on a bias, there's no other way around it.

Exactly - why is everyone so adamant that the returned system prompt is the end-all prompt? It could be filtered, or there could be logic beyond the prompt that dictates the opinion of it. That's perfectly demonstrated in the blog - something has told Grok to base it's opinion based on a bias, there's no other way around it.

Stop framing TikTok, this is a social media problem which will continue to exist even if TikTok is banned tomorrow.

How long until other chromium browsers follow suit? I'm currently using Edge.

I also wonder when someone one will "hack" chromium to run whatever extensions they want - I could build my own extension, or build uBlock Origin from the source (if available) and execute the extension regardless of the store.

The title and conclusion are disingenuous - they've proven that Gnome Wayland has higher latency than Gnome Xorg. This could very well have nothing to do with Wayland at all - we need more testing.

I'm not buying this drivel - the company stands to make way more than one rushed and limited buyout would garner.

Your argument is a false dichotomy, and it's made in bad faith. You argue that they should have taken a 10B pay day, meanwhile they are alive today and arguable worth over 100B.

While jerking off Trump. We all know what's happening behind closed doors.

"Too addictive" is such a nonsensical way of saying "accurate".

Nicotine being legal but TikTok is not tells you everything you need to know about government wanting to control the "addictiveness" of social media.

There's no compelling argument or evidence of data collection with TikTok, to my knowledge. Theres more evidence of data collection and aggregation with American platforms than TikTok. Additionally, TikTok is operated independently within the USA and hosted on American servers. I think if there's any opportunity to regulate data collection, TikTok seems to have positioned itself defensively and seems to be distant from being used as an example. The only thing that seems to matter with this ban is that TikTok is mostly owned by a Chinese company.

I'd love to be corrected, but I haven't been provided any evidence or information that suggests this ban was justified at all.

How very "land of the free" of America