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> I am so confused about the motivation behind this

Seems obvious, experimenting with what it's possible with LLMs.

There's sharks out there that are much older than the United States.

And sponges older than pyramids.

My company (me, I'm self employed) did so as well.

Since this summer coding on Opencode Go + Codex for a total 28$/month gives me more intelligence and token than 400$ did in may.

Also, SOTA models are increasingly useless for anything even barely tangential to security work.

"companies" is a meaningless metric.

If you want to make it about 99% of real world companies, they are all on Gemini or Copilot anyway, nobody is going through legal and procurement to get models from dubious silicon valley startups when you have relations with Microsoft or Google or Amazon from ages because some benchmark is showing some minor digit benefit when vibe coding GTA 6.

Doesn't matter, it's excellent, and it's European with European inference, which solves the pains of all my clients trying to build data lakes and processes on top of it.

Nobody in the real world cares about minor benchmark differences in money losing coding agents.

And nobody in the real world is giving Altman or Musk their data.

> But coding/development is way more important

This isn't 2016 anymore.

To me this feels the worst of both worlds.

I'm slowly accepting that this is the new reality.

I've spent 1 month between august and early september writing some of the best code of my life. LLMs only provided feedback, I wrote all the code manually, still remember it by heart.

I was very delighted by the many architectural iterations that led to it. 9 files, around 10k lines of code (of those, 7k tests).

By the end of super funny exercise I kinda realized that if I had the same feature vibe coded it would've been better. I would've done much more and progressed more feature wise.

I just feel stupid hand writing my code.

It doesn't help that I work with stellar individual contributors. All of my team mates (except a junior) are either all former faang or contributed to projects we all use (from the TypeScript compiler to Linux). And they are all abandoning if not spearheading the abandonment of reading code. I'm talking people that truly loved the technical aspect of it and excelled in it.

I just feel stupid, like I'm carrying a weight that I should abandon.

Comments like yours feel would've made sense 6 months ago, but now are crumbling.

Software is essentially so cheap and throwaway nowadays that letting LLMs write it is imperative. When you find your use cases you start reviewing it or rewriting it thoroughly.

Move more of it to rail.

Eh, that is the nostalgia ignoring how many crap seasons we had by the end of the previous regulations and how unbalanced F1 used to be.

Isn't it missing a removeListener?

The first react implementation was done in OCaml, it was ported to JS later.

1. Because most developers are unskilled and don't even know the platform.

2. Because very few companies out there have a quality over quantity metric.

3. Because developers are very hard to change technologies once they get in the comfort zone.

4. Because LLMs keep shoving the same inefficient tailwind react crap everywhere.

Antirez understood the fundamentals of how LLMs work, and read the inference code (or summaries of it via ai).

But what really made the difference was his understanding of hardware and systems programming in general and low level or architectural tricks to pull.

Companies out there are on google cloud or microsoft offerings and getting Gemini in their bundle, they aren't going through lawyers, etc, to provision from Anthropic or OpenAI just because they look a bit better on nerd benchmarks.

DeepSeek and GLM made it impossible for "sota" to price any way they want.

The problem with benchmarks is that they are end to end.

You go from one prompt to the final solution, whereas for many of us it is about the experience of iterative, multi turn working.

The people commenting are also consumers, as are their families and friends.

So anybody may have their own take from their experience of what's happening.

I myself drink much less wine as is my inner circle so I have an opinion.

We don't have materials, we don't have energy.

Not sure how are we supposed to thrive in a world where cars are very simple and our know-how is borderline useless.

Imho cars are a dead race-to-the-bottom business, that was true in ICE world, that will be even more true in the electrified/autonomous driving one.

> All of Europe is now buying EVs like crazy.

In my country, Poland, 40'000 EVs were sold last year.

Toyota sold 106'000 cars.

People keep saying that Toyota is doomed since 2019, but numbers don't show that.

If anything, numbers confirm Toyota's strategy was right: play it slow and cool, and start shifting into EVs when a huge EV market will exist.

EVs really need no FOMO. They are simpler beasts to build than ICEs.

There was no arrogance.

Incompetence maybe, but no arrogance.

European governments and companies are like ships that change captains, while the direction of the ships is hard to change due to inertia.

Politically, I'm happy for this, on a business level, not really.

I love this non sense fear mongering.

This has been said so many times, yet Toyota's sales keep growing and incumbent EV makers plateaud.

Except Chinese ones, of course.

* in neapolitan :D

I want to agree with you, at heart I do, but:

1. AI is exposing the harsh truth that 99% of the code out there has always been throwaway code. Yet good developers, void of any engineering skill, treated it like the 1% that wasn't and called their hygiene and practices engineering.

2. Way too many developers that have made their careers or internet fame out of their technical proficiency understand that the shift is unavoidable. See Antirez implementation of Arrays in Redis or his Dwarfstar project. Virtually every line of these projects has been AI authored. And yet they are terrific projects with extremely strong architecture. And not a single line was edited in vi (his favorite editor).

A better representation of real Italian mafia in movies is offered by the TV show Gomorrah.

It's a strong antidote to those romanticizing crime.

In US it should be available on HBO Max.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomorrah_(TV_series)

The first two seasons are great, watch it with subtitles (fun fact: in Italy it was also shown in tv with subs because most people cannot understand neapolitan dialect).

When people don't care when it is done to groups they don't like, they can't be surprised when they find they weren't in the safe group either.

> Asking once every 15+ years seems fine, the population changes and opinions change.

But nobody asked, there hasn't been a third referendum.

I am not debating the benefits of democracy, rather how there's no democracy at all if a referendum is not legally binding and a government can disregard the result.

> after voters *twice* rejected it in national referendums

Democracy is just lovely.

Have your citizens answer to a straightforward question on a topic twice, have them reject it, both times.

And the government will still go its way.

I'm not against nuclear per se, I'm just baffled at the "democratic" process.