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The only hope is that most of it gets frozen in some way or another, but if even only 1% gets through they'll still have made about $65M
I am (was?) a coder and also feel how you feel in one way or another. I love the productivity while still sort of trying to come to terms that typing lines of code as I've done for the past few decades is pretty much over forever.
Now, I'm still pretty sure that, as smart as AIs become, a lot (or most) of people just can't be bothered with this stuff and just want stuff done. I don't think there will ever be a future, as I've seen prophesized around, where anybody that wants some sort of software or functionality, etc will just vibe code it or prompt for it, launch agents, etc instead of just asking somebody else to do it as always. Sure, some percentage will adopt AI immediately and it will definitely open a lot of opportunities, but I just don't see it taking over everything everywhere in the grand scheme of things.
There's also a big gap into making things actually usable for everybody and their grandmother. Apps are cool and all, but the constant release of model after model, new feature tours every time we open an AI app, weird opaque product names, having to pick low, medium, high, xhigh, ultra, etc, mixed and complicated permissions, sandboxing stuff, connecting stuff, etc. These are all stuff we here on hn do on a daily basis and is second nature but that is not the norm.
Only now we're starting to see some new scientific and math proofs, so maybe that will be what makes AI actually universally revolutionary once it starts making actual new advances. But now we'd be mostly entering into AGI territory and that's a whole other rat's nest.
So, let's first see how we, as a society, accept the proposed future of robots everywhere (probably the big 2027 thing maybe?), then let's talk end of humanity. :)
TL;DR: Still not fully convinced all of this will live up to the hype. And if it does, it will take a few generations. We're a very complicated species living in complex societies and we're kind of being sold an impossible utopia by people that have very little experience living down in the real world.
So if I can't really be bothered to speak with other humans, why would I want to speak out loud with an AI? I may be wrong and soon we'll all have Jarvises, HALs and Samanthas but not sure the adoption will be as fast and broad as these companies want to makes us believe.
In my (probably naive) humble opinion, the entire population of the USA should benefit from knowing their leadership are corrupt and only interested in enriching themselves and their peers.
But having seen the huge amount of American citizens that spend their days justifying the actions of these corrupt politicians and bi/trillionaires where they apparently can do no wrong, I'm thinking that nobody will really benefit from this and it will be filed under "business as usual".
I'm assuming the next few days will probably confirm if this was mostly FUD or not.
And yes, I mean facebook.com
Everything's fine guys, nothing to see here! Look at the flying car!
It was a fascinating, scary and sad story. Can't really find the article right now, so here's the wikipedia article about it in case other readers don't get the reference.
Still great value though, have my app's website and associated infra on one of those 4CPU/24GB in "pay-as-you-go" mode and never ever reached the paying threshold.
[0] https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...
I basically just prompted OpenClaw on what steps to take and then added the API key/secret on its .env and that was pretty much it. Same on all other connections.
As long as what you want has API access and documentation, the agent should help you out on how to do it.
It's mostly doing stuff around my app. I have it connected to my google search console, analytics, paddle, Microsoft partner center, etc.
I prompted it to give me a 1 liner description of the current jobs:
Blog production — 05:00 UTC daily: writes new post drafts into growth/blog-drafts/ and pings you; never publishes.
Blog draft status checks — every 2h: polls the dev blog-drafts API for review/approval status on the 7 pending drafts; silent unless something changes.
Reply opportunity scan — 14:00 UTC daily: finds recent Reddit/HN/X/forum threads where LumoTray genuinely fits, writes a report with links.
SEO opportunity research — 00:30 UTC daily: keyword and content-gap research report.
Analytics optimization — Tue + Fri, 11:00 UTC: GA4 + Search Console + Partner Center read, then an actions report.
Weekly strategy review — Sunday, 18:00 UTC: aggregates the week and sets the next-week plan.
Heartbeat — every ~30 min: my own check-in lane (currently mostly skipping on an empty heartbeat file).
Skill collection review — weekly: housekeeping on the skill catalogue.
I'm thinking they're merely riding the free publicity wave. Who, in their right mind, would contribute to the super narrow definition of linux desktop preached by DHH?
Was "being agentic" and "being keyboard shortcut oriented" the big gaps preventing the adoption of linux on desktop?
I honestly fail to see why everybody is so convinced that the linux desktop will be "saved" by Omarchy, a set of scripts specifically designed to mostly satisfy a narrow slice of power users and developers.
Also, sponsoring a multi-millionaire's AI generated side project to the sum of many millions of dollars instead of contributing to the dozens or hundreds of thankless developers that have built and maintained most of the current linux ecosystem is pretty disgusting imho.
Step 1: exterminate all humans
They're apparently evolving slower than most SOTA models but "slow and steady wins the race" is probably still a thing.
And since Google doesn't depend exclusively on AI models, they can probably afford to "wait and see" where all this craze is heading.
This is very likely to be true, even though I do know it's pretty awesome and I'm actually often surprised by what can be done in a browser these days, I'm definitely not that much up to date with all the latest tech.
And sorry, yes I somehow missed that you had terminals on the native list, my bad.
What I'm really keen on is better auto-reasoning so I don't have to constantly have the constant inner debate on which reasoning effort to pick for each task.
I seriously hate the none-low-medium-high-xhigh-max-ultra etc that we have now, with companies frequently recommending different ones on each new model release, etc.
It's apparently called Adaptive Test-Time Compute or Dynamic Test-Time Compute and companies are apparently working on it (according to some LLM :shrug:)
I don't see it making much sense to bundle it. I'm sure a LOT of LLM prompts are related with docs, excels, powerpoints etc, etc but don't really see it worth it for it to be bundled on the codex app from the get go, because otherwise, why not also install dozens of other apps?
Or do you currently still specifically choose to use some web based app for most of what you've "discarded"? Are your 3d editors, sound editors, (or even players), image editors or compression/backup apps webviews? IDEs? Etc?
How about password managers? That's a big (stupid) one people use on web apps for some reason..
Because most "professionals" in areas that need these things seldom use web apps. Toy apps? MVPs? Toy marketing or social stuff? Toy video editors for the TikTok generation? Sure. But that's mostly for amateurish usage, at least for now.
Even terminals.. what do you use in webviews that's better than iterm, putty, ghostty, etc?
Like it or not, and as awesome as browsers and webviews have become, there's still a lot of performance left on the table there.
That's just imho of course, just finding it weird people being pro-web apps on hn, that used to be very pro native and pro performance :shrug:
Surely that was a rushed reply(?). How about regular system utilities? Video/audio editors? IDE's? Debuggers? Image/3D editors? Compressor/decompressors? Terminal emulators? And so much more stuff.
Sure, many of these already have "web" versions but there's still a lot of apps that benefit greatly from being native and not go through another browser/webview/node instance.
Having Nvidia behind HF will now probably have a bunch of litigious entities salivating to sue them for not only allowing, but also distributing uncensored AI models that will then be used for deepfakes, porn, spam, scam, hacking, etc.
Sure that could have also been done to HF before, but I'm thinking Nvidia is a much juicier target.
Should also now be much easier for the government to just eventually force NVidia to restrict access to Chinese open models seeing as it will now become an American company that needs to obey to American law and we all know how American AI companies are lobbying for exactly that.
A system where the employer pays a full decent wage to their workers and avoids having employees complain and insult customers because they didn't tip some random percentage number is the better system. Prove me wrong.
Extremist capitalism is still extremism.
The scary bit, imho, is that even without those, a "dumb" LLM can still do a lot of damage by just blindly following prompts without a notion for how it affects the "real world".
If a flock of flamingos or geese are doing a low pass it's possible they get shredded by them.
If Godzilla tries to get out of the water near them it's possible it gets hit in the head. Also he may destroy them since Godzilla is, as we all know, a nuclear energy proponent.