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What is your CI like? Do you auto deploy somewhere?

Never played TD - How does it compare to Lotus? More of a simulation?

I don't think when people say "terror of screen time" they mean 20 minutes of Bluey here and there.

Wow, took me 2 mins to scroll down to first anti-RTO comment - the sentiment is certainly shifting.

While true - left hand changes position all the time and has to go on the correct frets all the time - right hand is gentle and subtler, I agree, but is also a lot more forgiving.

Some of the best guitarists I have met are left-handed playing right-handed guitar ones. Which also makes sense - The more difficult part of playing the guitar is not fingering/picking, it's the fretboard. By using their dominant hand on the fretboard they have a genuine advantage. I've never understood why we formed the right handed guitar to have the dominant hand on the body. There must be a reason.

I can't think of an AI-enabled IDE project that's not a fork of VSCode - There is only Zed, though I don't know if we can compare it to Antigravity or Cursor.

I am not sure if they have to explicitly say it's VSCode - do we expect car companies to say "Hey we actually rebadged this to X but it's originally Y" - those who need to know, already know.

That Generative UI in Search is amazing, but mocked message from his wife telling him not to use her in demos was cringeworthy.

Erm - It is VSCode.

Nobody who wanted to erase a tree or fix their smile paid for Photoshop anyway. and Photoshop does a a lor more than pixel manipulation. So, a moot point.

Agreed - also things have changed a lot since 2019. Having said that, even people who ship and are rewarded for it do work on stuff that has very little impact on the bottom line. Except ads.

They don't care. Only 5% of their people contribute to the bottom line. Rest are all deadweight.

They are not replacing anybody with AI. Meta has been a bloated hell hole for a very long time now (maybe 10+ years). Nothing, literally nothing beyond Ads and AdTech makes a dent in their earnings. The complaints here - it's not only the "recently toxic environment"; I remember a conversation I had with a Meta SWE in 2019; he said "If I stop doing anything right now, my manager would not realize for at least 6 months - the stuff I am working on is that unimportant". It's not hard to see how people will get disillusioned so quickly when the job itself is this meaningless.

Impossible without a human in the loop.

Having said that - even categorisation of destructive and non destructive calls is inherently not safe, unless you have very strict os level / VM like setup (everything read only, world access is through MCPs so it is not LLM deciding the destructive calls but the MCP etc. )

Yep - It's nearly impossible to assign profit to those things - we have X revenue from Android licenses, what's the cost of an android license? Is it all the R&D that goes to UI or hardware research? What's the cost of a Youtube Ad?

What? - I live in London, if you walk through a high street where there is both a secondary school and a corner store (if you say you don't know what that is, I will assume you are Trump) at around 3-4pm - you either get asked to buy cigarettes; or, refusing to do so you will get asked if you have any cigarettes. Without fail.

You are trying to make it dramatic by saying it is a crime - in this context installing a VPN is as much a crime (arguably with more traces / evidence) as buying cigarettes for teenagers.

Maybe - humans have agency, they understand actions / consequences.

AI agents do not have agency(!), they have no understanding of consequences. They actually have no understanding. At all.

Sorry - still author's fault. They didn't understand how LLM's work. They thought Cursor implemented some magic "I control every action LLM takes" thing. It's impossible.

Did it though?

Following the same analogy, they can use parent’s phones to access social media under supervision.

Is it though? Do you actually live in the UK? Do you want to know how often it happens in London?

Do I have to read the article before calling it bs?

Just like you can't get around a random adult buying for kids. It's just a imperfect deterrent.

Although I agree- hardware level control would be so much better. Apple's on-device age checks can be a good compromise.

It is a flop - very likely to be cut in the next 5 years.

True - although let's call it what it is now: it's a flop. They are going to wind Oculus down or sell it- it's going to happen before 2030.

Oddly enough - facebook groups are not terrible for very niche hobbies. Not sure what makes them attractive, but the groups are there. Thinking about it - there is really no alternative. My Retro Computing group is there, car owners group is there, very niche metal bands' posters group is there.

We have revenue breakdown. Where is the profit breakdown?

Why not sell cigarettes and alcohol to kids, but also educate them that it's harmful?

You are wrong. Google makes ~73% of its revenue from ads compared to 98% in Meta.

Microsoft, Apple and Google have much more diverse revenue streams. Meta only makes money from Ads. Only. It's crazy.