There’s nothing old internet about these AI companies. Old internet was about giving out and asking for nothing in return. These companies take everything and give back nothing, unless you are willing to pay that is.
Again there's a cognitive dissonance in play here where the future of coding is somehow LLMs and but at the same time the LLMS would not evolve not to handle the operations as well even if we disregard pipedreams about AGIs being just around the corner. Especially when markdown files for AI are essentially glorified runbooks.
Luckily the AI artists can set up their own conventions. Considering how unevitable AI art is, I think the cons will be absolutely swarming with visitors!
It’s impressive how every iteration tries to get further from pretending actual AGI would be anywhere close when we are basically writing library functions with the worst DSL known to man, markdown-with-english.
Funny how the article states that "LLMs can be excellent editors" and then the post repeats all the mistakes that no editor would make:
1. Because reading posts like this
2. Is actually frustrating as hell
3. When everything gets dragged around and filled with useless anecdotes and 3 adjective mumbojumbos and endless emdashes — because somehow it's better than actually just writing something up.
Which just means that people in tech or in general have no understanding what an editor does.
Don't "no coders" find the concepts described in this article imdimitating?
The article states that whatever the article is trying to describe "Takes about ~20-30 mins. The cognitive load is high....". while their literal actual step of "Googling "ffmpeg combine static image and audio."" gives you the literal command you need to run from a known source (superuser.com sourced from ffmpeg wiki).
Anyone even slightly familiar with ffmpeg should be able to produce the same result in minutes. For someone who doesn't understand what ffmpeg is the article means absolutely nothing. How does a "no coder" understand what a "agent in a sandboxed container" is?
I love how the proposed solution is to essentially gaslighting the model to think that it's an expert programmer and then specify and re-specify the prompt until the solution is essentially inefficient pseudocode. Now we are in a world where amateur coders still cannot code or can't learn from their mistakes while experts are essentially JIRA ticket outsourcing specialists.
Love to see it. Especially locking out security features like SSO behind enterprise-talk-to-sales paywalls is basically extortion and hopefully a practise that will go away someday… but as long as the fuck-you-pay-me mentality exists, I don’t think they will.
The real key takeaway here is that Microsoft could fix this of they wanted: they have near infinite resources, the best people and more heavily invested in open source than anyone else in the business, but still refuse to even comment on the situation.
Dropbox Paper was the best Notepad-like app in the market, only to Dropbox to completely stop developing it almost immediately and then eventually making it worse by making it Dropbox-backed and now killing the app. It's a shame really.
GPT-5 is just OpenAI getting started. Just wait and see what GPT-6 is capable of and imagine that GTP-6 is just OpenAI getting started: if GPT-6 was a high school student, GPT-7 is an expert with masters degree; but GPT-7 is OpenAI getting started
Personally looking at the documentation I would say that "no good documentation" is highly misleading, because the documentation that it provides is incredibly detailed from quick starts to detailed explanations, offers a lot of examples and has very high quality typings with inline documentation. Not to mention the code itself is documented thoroughly. Sure it doesn't have an API reference, but you get that from the typings, that what I usually do - just check the imports first and go from there.
There’s always a distinct lack of the names in the posts like this. What was the library that was being changed to what? You say it had ”no good documentation”, but it clearly has some sort of documentation considering the LLM did such a good job on the rewrite. Do you understand the ”large library” now?
The MRR archive is probably the single most important collection in the field of punk music and I am glad that it has found a (hopefully) permanently safe home. Would be amazing if Center for Popular Music would digitize the materials - with the green tape and all - and index it for the public.
There's so many things there that nobody has probably seen or heard in decades, not to mention letters, notes and other additions along side records and flyers.
Also it's a fuzzy feeling to imagine one of my recordings is now laying around in a box in MTSU, waiting for someone to discover it possibly decades after.
Support your local libraries and archives and all the librarians and archivists!
If anyone wants another glimpse behind the red curtain, I highly recommend the documentary David Lynch: The Art Life from 2016. It focuses on David Lynches upbringing and formative years as an artist up until the release of Eraserhead that completely changed the direction (or maybe rocketed forward?) of his career. It also shows Lynch working at this workshop, showing some of the tools you see on auction here too.
The collection has some absolute grails too for any fan, like the original script to Twin Peaks as Northwest Passage.
People have grown to expect at least adequate performance from products that cost up to 39 dollars a month (* additional costs) per user. In the past you would have called this a tech demo at best.
GitHub has spent billions of dollars building an AI that struggles with things like whitespace related linting errors on one of the most mature repositories available. This would be probably okay for a hobbyist experiment, but they are selling this as a groundbreaking product that costs real money.
Documentation is not just translating code to text - I don't doubt that LLMs are wonderful at that: that's what they understand. They don't understand users though, and that's what separates a great documentation writer from someone who documents.
What about developers who do enjoy writing for example high quality documentation? Do you expect that the status quo will be that most of the documentation will be AI slop and AI itself will just bruteforce itself through the issues? How close are we to the point where the AI could handle "tricky dependency updates", but not being able to handle "most interesting and complex problems"? Who writes the tests that are required for the "well tested" codebases for GitHub Copilot Coding Agent to work properly?
What is the job for the developer now? Writing tickets and reviewing low quality PRs? Isn't that the most boring and mundane job in the world?
Great that it's working for them, but for the end user the feel of the site nearly unusable. There's 1s+ of delay on every interaction - pressing "home" button from explore tab takes 1,85 seconds (on a gigabit connection) before home view comes active, without any other feedback to the end user except for "Home" icon becoming active.
You cannot just blindly trust the page speed metric but it should be impossible to miss things like this when you are actually using the site. Compare the experience to something like GoodReads that's using plain old SSR and you'll immediately notice the difference.
Loading the page on Fast 4G connection takes 9,61 seconds before I see _any_ content on the screen. This is loading the "all contacts" page that shows 12 items with a title, excerpt, time stamp and user name. Is this expected performance? Network shows the app downloading huge 4/1 megabyte chunks.
Shipping for your leadership instead of users is so very American and explains how serial blunderers fail from one big project to another while the employees get the short end of stick. Happy if you makes you happy that some big wig on the leadership like you, but is that really all you want to achieve in life?
Hopefully Apple doesn't ruin this, but I assume that it will be infested with Apple AI features sooner than later. Oh well, at least Pixelmator Pro is not a subscription service, so it will last me for a while even if that becomes the case.