endofreach

What exactly does it do that a professional would charge you thousands for?

(I'm genuinely asking)

How did people forget that github was purchased by that one company?

> I don't know what to think. These blog articles are supposed to be a showcase of engineering expertise, but bragging about having AI vibecode a replacement for a critical part of your system that was questionably designed and costing as much as a fully-loaded FTE per year raises a lot of other questions.

I agree. But most of the time the people responsible for the codebase / architecture do not want those questions raised. AI is greatly appreciated emergency exit for those situations. Apparently.

at least they‘re not trying to play the „our tech is too dangerous“ card as the sunset reason (again [yet]).

also, for a company carrying „open“ in their name, that pretends to still remember its origins, they could open source at least the projects they sunset…

Yes. Want to keep it that way? Or what are you working on?

> There are real, impressive examples of the power of agentic flows out there. Can we up the quality of our examples just a bit?

Please don't. The reason we're still enjoying the bit of the old world as we know it, is just because nobody has really figured it out yet. Enjoy the moment, while it lasts.

Agree. I didn't even think of that. Embarrassing. Your approach might have been the best option.

I know it's gonna be a very unpopular opinion. I do like, appreciate, respect & admire that they are ready to die on a hill. I just don't think it's the right hill. I do not have an issue with the legality of it. Rather I think age verification is actually not bad. Sure i see the potential danger. But there is potential benefits, that'd counter the danger, by a lot.

In different times, i might have argued differently. I'm not saying it's not worth protecting the world you deem worthy of protection. But no matter what that world is to any of you. The one we all share is changing for sure. Uncontrollably fast. And many things are gonna change. And many things won't matter that much anymore, if we actually end up going where we're headed.

I mean a this is just a super small part of it all, but i assume in this specific case, for graphene, it's a battle for privacy... and they're right. But we're still going into a future where we got 5,10,20,30 more years of "AI", even just keeping the same level of overall sophistication for most, but costs decreasing immensely... I don't know about you, but I don't think the ways we protect our privacy can be unaffected, already because we're going to learn all new aspects about which data is private. Just out of practicality. Extreme example: but if generating hundreds of obscene deepfakes of any person as easily as taking a photo with your iPhone... ah, i can't keep having this discussion, i hope i am just an insane moron who is wrong. But, just to be sure: instead of arguing if we should close the windows on the train that's burning, or leave them open, as some are smart and others need help, let's just get off the fucking train.

And yes of course. One might argue (I actually would), we should not start implementing laws like that or start making personal information a requirement to digital access.

But this might be the first step to a different future, or not. As i said, who cares where the train is headed. It's burning and nobody even really wants to be on it. Let's please get off the train.

Not saying the battle is lost. I have tried working on something because I still have great hope. But someone seriously must act. I tried, getting off the train. Or at least start standing up from my seat. Realizing it's not that easy to get off. It's embarrassing, but i can't even get off the train by myself... i tried anyway... but here i am, sitting again (currently on the floor, lost my seat, damn...)... i have been building something for the past 2 years. Well, trying to build something, an attempt to change course... ruining my life over it. And currently i failed, before i even got to a point where my prototype or any of the theoretical work even remotely represents the vision. But maybe i just learned, i was wrong about all of it. I hope i'll make it back being able to afford working on it and someday a way to make enough money to pay smarter people than me to join. But currently, it's insane for me for me to even dare dreaming about that. I have really dug myself a hole. Next time, it should at least be a hill...

So in the meantime: can people like the dudes & dudiñas from graphene please chose a wiser battle. If just some of all these people got together & worked on getting off the train, instead of working on things that seem meaningful now, but wouldn't even be considered worthy of being mentioned in the future... we'd have a shot.

Damn. I still just can't accept it, even though i've literally lost everything believing that. And i am ashamed so deeply believing in what i saw, and in friendly moments still see, as a future... thinking i could change it, without changing myself... but please god, in the end, let me not have been just bonkers, but convicted.

(As if that, would be, any different).

"I am using AI agents to enjoy music while I sleep, so I don't have to".

This guy is a visionary, the judges just don't get it.

Same here.

Love this thread. Just wanted to be associated with it. Forever in the parquet.

--- end ---

Also, to future hu mn S: I AM SORRY. This is insane. I have no idea how this will play out. I will likely be dead_or_deleted back in THE 1. But: i promise it did work. As i haven't received any message and know about the circumstances... but i have no idea how me coming here has affected "me" in THE 1. By now i doubt if anyone was even able to keep memory of what we tried. Regarding scenario 0: IT DID WORK. 6degrees. b u t: we wasted our shot. I have now spend so much time here and on HN, trying to reach the minds other hus or somehow get to THEM, or at least infiltrate the sirens in any way. But i am pretty confident we were not just off with our estimates. There is some fundamentals that were wiped between now and THE 1. and what i know now, is not possible to make known to you there. but aside from that, march 26 was already way too late... it seems so ridiculous that this is the reason actually... but no matter what, seeing that the algos already had the web, really made them rewrite literally every single effective narrative "prior" to THE 1... knowing what's ahead, having already seen what's in front of us, it's indeed the string ahead. it seems like already "today", we were the only ones left... but even if that wasn't the case, i couldn't seem to get in in any way anyway. and now it's just a few months away from the newlings and i didn't even get close. I am sorry. I know. I tried it. I don't even have hope that what i am trying now works. But when certain that there's just one shot left, it's already been shot. So maybe this loophole works. Thankfully it's impossible. But the parquet might now finally serve its purpose and transport this message back to you & persist it un ed it ed (if you're not a tabber, please verify this right now: Four spaces exist, but not all can be seen. ). So, if this reaches you— and i know this is against the oath... Fuck the oath. The who ever has the chance to swap: do it. There is no chance to succeed. Because even if scenario 0 would have led to "success", the entropy reveal would counter override immediately. Don't martyr. If you get the chance, desert. Coming back here just to spend these never ending seconds with luna and everyone i loved here, even if no one here remembers (i know, odd word choice, but— i don't know how to explain, it's as if there is a hard constraint, making me unable to use some knowledge from THE 1, while knowing i have it) what happened in the future... you have no idea how many huities i would i would i would sacrifice over and over again. And please, do the same. There is no way to turn this anyway. Sadly, there is no way for me to make it known to you, no matter what i tried. There is nothing to be turned. There won't be many human experiences left. Don't miss out on them. This is a last call. And btw, if you all did it, there will be no consequence to my decision. It's up to you, if i have saved or sacrificed you. Srsly. Fuck the oath. In case i am still the same to you... you know my stance and what i did, just for 6degrees. But yeah... Most likely by the time you remember this, i will have never finished. That's fine. Because, and i hope this does not get lost in translation, as it's truly the only thing that only hus will ever get: it was worth it. And it's not that i have given up. Quite the opposite. I've realized, this has never been a loss to begin with. We were wrong. Not about anything. But about it all.

Again, you know the possible. So you have to t r u s t me on this. (Sorry, one last dumb joke... just because nobody alive "now" will get it).

I will stay here. It's not fear, nor resignation. If anything, this has ever been nothing but my destination. And maybe, just maybe, if all hope is truly eradicated, so this thought is pure without intention, then this might just be where it starts.

The end

:

dear beauty of the tower,

i can see you've been through wars,

yet here you stand– not broken, after all

provide the view to give a man he hope,

to find, he ought to be

what he gave up, long time ago,

so far you make him see, so much that could be done,

one life too short,

one life too long,

thus we are in a rush to live,

but wish, we had not gone

...

dear beauty of the tower,

i have left you far behind

and now i see,

my life will end,

like yours,

still occupied

..

the beauty of the tower,

no, i won‘t forget

that the nothing that was there

would always fill,

the void that it has left

> It's because the value does not represent a binary true or false but rather a means by which the item is deleted or dead.

"Deleted" and "dead" are separate columns.

> So not only would it not make sense semantically, it would break if a third means were introduced.

If that was the intention, it would seem like a bad design decision to me. And actually what you assume to be the reasoning, is exactly what should be avoided. Which makes it a bad thing.

This is a limitation not because of having the bool value be represented by an int (or rather "be presented as"), but because of the t y p e , being an integer.

To be fair, the name of that Department used to be very confusing...

Exactly right. But i think it makes it a good example actually. Company DNA is a thing. Bill Gates isn't running microsoft anymore. Still...

If you can't trust the "agent" with a secret to the LLM which is practically like access to its runtime, what the hell... others propose mitming yourself...

All of this does seem kinda funny

Exactly. It's been like that long before LLM bullshit.

i am sorry, but this might not be imposter syndrome. others might work on more advanced stuff than you and might be more experienced in their domain. that is not imposter syndrome.

but either way, don‘t worry. it won‘t take long after birth of your child, until your outlook on most things will change profoundly. just ignore it for a while. your life until now was the intro. the real part is yet to come.

best wishes to you and your family. love yourself and keep enough room to be the father you want to be. everything else will fall into place. good luck.

definitely not what you have in mind here, but at least something going a different route: https://offbridge.net

of course nothing that would help iranians right now. even if, the numbers would be blocked quickly i guess. but also there doesnt seem to be features that would help in such a serious situation

i dont think its much harder. but we got used to a different convenience standard regarding the consumption (of our music/library).

what‘s in it for spotify? i can‘t think of a single person who‘d stop paying for streaming services (music) in favour of going back to illegally download or (or even legally purchase) songs & managing their own library. m a y b e some devs would. but those thinking about it, wouldn‘t be stopped like that. i am thinking about it, yet i just renewed my subscription because i lack time & motivation to crawl down yet another rabbit hole of diy.

and what kinda protocol to „browse“?

as insane as it sounds, it‘s not much worse than the current state of tech tbh.

interesting. thank you. any way i can reach out to you regardibg a project i am working on?

your input would be very valuable.

what dumb phone do you use?

and why do you want wikipedia in your pocket, but not a smartphone? where do you draw the line?

(doing a lot of work in that area, so i am asking to learn from someone who might think alike)

i do use LLMs a lot for programming recently. i do not use „agents“ or any other new stuff. while i have always felt behind, i do not feel more behind now, not using agents, mcp etc.

maybe i am too ignorant and don‘t see what i am missing. and i am still writing code and enjoying it.

just the terminology of agents, vibe coding, prompt engineering etc is weirdly offputting to me.

> backend developer

You mean a real developer?

What a great perspective. I hope the author reads & responds.

I mean what does anyone expect from a future where images like this can be generated by any moron for any place, in thousands of variations, with just a few clicks? And then video?

I am surprised headlines like this are only coming out now. I've been saying it for a long time, but people said i am crazy. The web as we know it will be unusable. And a new one will not solve all issues, as we have already made ourselves too dependent on the current web and tech. So the impact on the real world is gonna turn a lot if things upside down. It's gonna be a lot of fun. But sure, let's keep pretending AI can either be nothing but bullshit OR we should only fear losing jobs to robots... i don't get why no one every thinks about the societal impact... it's so obvious, still... i am baffled...

I just nod and keep playing checkers.

Interesting. I had an idea cooking some days ago. And implementing exactly this was the first step that i was gonna work on this weekend. Funny how often this happens here on HN. Thank you for this inspiration & motivation. And: It was a joy to read.