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This is specifically addressed in the article, at length.

> Is he not right though? Have you not interacted with a once star senior engineer who now operates at the level of a low-quality junior because they refuse to use AI?

I don't even know where to start. Let me just say it that by using LLMs you voluntarily decide to let the atrophy happen to your skills, knowledge and experience. You do things without understanding them, or with vague understanding only. Your thinking process becomes completely dependent on something that you find more and more difficult to verify (if you even care). Why would anyone do such a thing to oneself?

I was looking for that line:

> The contract is that the syscalls and low-level interfaces match those of NT, but not the daemons or how the kernel itself is structured. This is in contrast to what ReactOS aims to do, which is an exact recreation of Windows.

I know a few, but they don't advertise as "we were laid off so...", it would be incredibly stupid I think.

> powerpoints, whitepapers

Khm, ackshually... any documentation work is best not left to LLMs. They are excellent at generating many words with little value. Even sketching a doc and running through an LLM although a bit better than just a prompt "generate docs from this code" still suffers from similar problems. I prefer to write briefly, but doing it myself.

OTOH - formatting and other stuff not related to content, this is great to delegate, even though the results are often mediocre, but I really don't care about that at this point.

This will never happen as too much money has been invested in it. I can't recall the last time so much money has been pumped.

And yet, most seem to be completely unaware of this and focus on LLM-related stuff almost exclusively.

> Or is Anthropic (or some other big AI lab) going to swallow everything and become the Google Search of LLMs, with everybody else fighting for scraps?

Of all scenarios, based on the data we have now, this seems to be the least likely one.

> What do you mean, "IAM doesn't work"? IAM has always worked

What do you mean, "IAM always worked"? The last failure was very recent, only a year ago[0]

[0] https://www.dataminded.com/resources/how-to-protect-against-...

> they simply found a better paying private offer, given it was for the holiday season and booked well in advance

This happened to me on booking.com, twice. The host didn't allow prepayment, and when the payment time arrived, they cancelled saying there is a problem with the credit card. I tried to contact them but they didn't respond. Booking.com didn't care. From that time on I generally prefer hotels than private apartments.

> They rarely listened, as it was often deemed too costly to maintain AZ redundancy (let alone regional redundancy) in advance of an incident.

Do you blame them? You not only have to pay double for the infra but also be charged for inter-region data transfers. And, when the worst comes, you realize it was all for nothing as IAM doesn't work, for example.

Non-frontier intelligence has become a commodity already.

And the success of things like ESP32 shows that good price + good enough is a powerful combination.

> illegally.

I haven't found anything in parent's post about illegality, only low ethics. These two are often confused which is a pity.

This comment made me feel awkward for two reasons.

First, Linux was never GNU - the GNU ecosystem has always been a significant part, but if you were obstinate enough, you could get away without using any GNU tools (which is even easier today).

Second, you give just two examples. A few years ago we had a trend to rewrite everything in Rust with these newer tools usually not being part of the GNU project. Sure, you can replace everything now. However, most GNU tools are here to stay for a long time especially in enterprise distros where backward compatibility is important.

So no, Linux has never been GNU, and whatever fluctuations we had over decades with innumerable fights like egcs vs gcc etc., the GNU ecosystem is and will long be part of Linux distros.

> And we made the right choice, both ethically

FWIW, thank you for making this choice.

The parent wasn't giving an answer but adding a more nuance which I find valuable.

> Generally speaking, it's much better to use alerts instead of hard limit.

You can't extrapolate your own experience and generalize like that. There is a huge number of people who explicitly want hard caps, period. AWS giving in and finally offering this option after 20 years of people begging them to do that is a sign of that.

> People said Devin, the AI coding agent, was garbage in 2024. Now it's weird if an agent isn't writing 99% of your code.

I have two comments to this statement. First, using "the" suggests being unique, where in fact there were several similar attempts of similarly low quality, including open-source autogpt even before that.

Second, Devin is still bad, in spite of VC money spent on its development and costly billboards in SF.

> The question for me is where it leaves innovation. Have we really peaked as a species that we so easily want to give up on the young and hand them over a tool that would substitute reasoning?

This is a crucial question but I'm afraid the ship has sailed. We should focus on how to prevent atrophy and cultivate our skills in spite of LLMs. For me and many others this means doing thins the old way with occasional assistance from LLMs that actually increase our understanding. Occassional because if you do it often, you get intellectual atrophy because you stop even trying.

The Brax industries stuff you mentioned looked really sleek and fun until I noticed it's pretty much vaporvare as for today. I'm a great fan of the former submission you mentioned: a technology that seemed innovative but not in production but is available now. Stuff that will be available next year or never is simply less interesting.

Well, where VC money is involved, the aim of these ads placed in SF is not exactly to convince any potential users.

> I can't help but feel that my "wisdom of age" might just be testosterone getting out of the way.

I was thinking the same recently, analyzing my life choices then and now. We can't do a double-blinds study with these things, but I believe you might be right.

I feel you but this kind of discourse only polarizes the already divided society. Mothers face a lot of difficulties, and fathers also do. Arguing whose fate is worse seems really unproductive, what makes sense is looking forward and working towards diminishing the effects of these disadvantages.

What you wrote above is just unfair.

Maybe, I'm not sure.

Realistically, you meet with one, two, three potential candidates and you realize it's not what you need and want. You could have them, it's just the disadvantages are too high.

> On the other hand most societies are more tolerant of male promiscuity.

Quotation needed.

> Sounds way less stressful than a high stakes job.

If it's by choice, then yes. Otherwise, it could be really bad.

When you get enormous power and almost zero accountability, it changes you in various ways. I have zero trust Vance is immune to that.

Interesting that is has ESP32 in there - looks like it's becoming the default choice whether or not wireless is involved.

There is an enormous amount of money invested in trying to prove the opposite, for this reason not only they will never admit it, they will actively negate AI was used. It happened before:

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/02/24/aws-would-ra...

> This will break the rigid instruction-tuning structure

Well, this is something one might naively hope for, unfortunately it only works to a certain extent.