jimbokun

> All the while I acknowledge that there is something there that will change programming — just not as radically as the US-based doomsayers think.

It has changed programming radically, already. Not sure how much he thinks US-based doomsayers think it will change.

> AI can copy, it cannot innovate.

Is this falsifiable? Is there an example of an AI output that the author would agree verified that the AI innovated, if he or she saw it?

We can only hope.

> Trying out problems and making tangible progress towards AGI are entirely different categories.

They seem very strongly related to me.

Are you saying the data in the charts in the article is fake?

Add this to the things I never imagined when thinking about what a world with artificial intelligence might look like.

Except it’s very difficult for home users to afford the GPUs needed to run them with acceptable performance.

If anything newspapers over much of the past were even more partisan than today.

Can’t regular Kubernetes also deploy to GPUs?

Maybe that’s in the 3% mentioned in the article.

This article isn’t about that. It’s about comparing hosted models.

What’s the LLM equivalent of SEO?

I’m wondering if there are techniques people are using to get their content featured by LLMs. Of course you won’t get clicks or attribution so maybe there’s no point.

My take away from this overview is that MCP is just a synonym for JSON RPC.

I feel like I have to keep reminding people at work that LLMs are more expensive and have higher latency and less predictable behavior than plain old deterministic software.

Those tradeoffs must be considered when deciding whether a feature requires regular software or AI.

It always feels like OCaml is on the verge of becoming the perfect language.

Expressive and type safety of a functional language, without the odd semantics of Haskell, where laziness can make performance difficult to predict and purity can make simple things like IO difficult to understand.

Does it still lack easy to use concurrency primitives?

Sleep deprivation does not give you energy.

The return of Civil Disobedience as a tool for inspiring social change.

Maybe not as profound or important as the Civil Rights movement. But important nonetheless for public safety. (Assuming the guerrilla bike lanes themselves are safe and well thought out.)

> Most software is doghouses.

This is not completely a bad thing. Using skyscraper techniques for dog houses is not sustainable.

The key is to identify when you are working on a skyscraper and when you're working on a dog house and act accordingly. To my mind, the boundary between the two is whether or not you are handling sensitive personally identifiable or financial data.

Yes, I never totally understood why the PHP execution model wasn't copied by frameworks in other dynamic languages like Ruby and Python.

PHP is hard to beat for development velocity. Edit a file, refresh a page in your browser, see the results.

Don't use the term "technical debt".

Explain those super human hacking AIs like the ones that broke containment and hacked outside sites are coming for your infrastructure too.

All the business people have heard about the Huggingface incident by now (or are living under a rock).

This must be handled at the government level.

The cost of "losing customer data" is too abstract for a company trying to survive financially. Corners will inevitably be cut.

Unless the costs to be suffered by the company for exposing private or sensitive information are made very clear through legislation.

So is Codex the real reason it’s much easier to setup?

I’m not active in mobile development, how do the iOS and Android development practices differ?

Equivalent of boxing and other combat sports, I suppose. Equipment that makes a sport almost requiring high speed collisions on every play safe doesn’t exist.

Only in cases of owners who fail to perform basic estate planning.

Apple is trying their hardest to get their device priced similarly to cars.

So Prospero would just walk everywhere?

Can’t access the article, but would assume the schools are more concerned about students having Google AI doing their work for them, rather than concern about using the AI summary for search results?

The hardware company wit software margins.

I imagine for many consumers the choice is between the BYD or no car at all.

So the automotive equivalent of a MacBook or iPhone.