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IMO this take is naive when it comes to actual senior developers (not people calling themselves senior after 3y).

Most of these things that would take me a day or two to figure out, take this time because of the process. Not because of any learning happening. I have enough experience that learning can happen in a very, very small amount of time and explanations.

AI increases the amount of things I learn because it decreases the amount of time I need to spend to get to the signal. But this doesn’t apply to everyone; less experienced developers need the practice and for this your comment does apply I think.

There's exactly ONE factual claim about AI in this entire subthread, and it is word-for-word "AI has been a huge help for my work".

Now you may read that as .. checks notes "star trek post scarcity singularity", but forgive me, I didn't.

No? I really don't give a crap what people criticize. It doesn't change anything in my life - I have plenty going on and nothing you or anyone says here will alter that. It's just sad to see a community I like (and which I've been a part of for longer than you've been programming) factually shut itself down to reality...

GP is right, though. Many programming communities, including (in some threads, but not all) HN, have become ridiculous anti-AI bubbles - what's the point of trying to have a discussion if you're going to get systematically shut down by people whose entire premise is that they don't use it? It's like trying to explain color to the blind.

What "discussion" do you want to have? Another round of "LLMs are terrible at embedded hardware programming ergo they're useless"? Maybe with a dash of "LLMs don't write bug-free software [but I do]" to close it off?

The discussions that are at all advancing the state of the art are happening on forums that accept reality as a matter of fact, without people constantly trying to constantly pretend things because they're worried they'll lose their job if they don't.

> The difference is "negative" people can clearly see that it's on a trajectory in the NEAR, not even distant, future to completely eat your earnings, so they're not thrilled.

We birthed a level of cognition out of silicon that nobody would imagine even just four years ago. Sorry, but some brogrammers being worried about making ends meet is making me laugh - it's all the same people who have been automating everyone else's jobs for the past two decades (and getting paid extremely fat salaries for it), and you're telling me now we're all supposed to be worried because it's going to affect our salaries?

Come on. You think everyone who's "vibe coding" doesn't understand the pointlessness of 90% of codemonkey work? Hell, most smart engineers understood that pointlessness years ago. Most coders work on boring CRUD apps and REST APIs to make revenue go up 0.02%. And those that aren't, are probably working on ads.

It's a fraction of a fraction that is at all working on interesting things.

Personally, yeah, I saw it coming and instead of "accepting fate", I created an AI research lab. And I diversified the hell out of my skillset as well - started working way out of my comfort zone. If you want to keep up with changing times, start challenging.

You are making assumptions about someone you have never talked to in the past, and don't know anything about.

Of the two of you, I know which one I'd bet on being "right". (Hint: It's the one talking about their own experience, not the one supplanting theirs onto someone else)

In a file manager? Any more than the displayed thumbnails, icon size, whether folders are separated from files, whether images are separated from videos, what video types are supported, what file types are opened inline, what the click and double click behaviours are, etc?

And yeah kde has settings for all these but kde is also known for being too configurable.

Incredible how many people here just don’t believe you because it doesn’t reflect their personal experience.

I want to second your experience as I’ve had the same as well. Tackling SO many more tasks than before and at such a crazy pace. I’ve started entire businesses I wouldn’t have just because of AI.

But at the same time, some people have weird blockers and just can’t use AI. I don’t know what it is about it - maybe it’s a mental block? Wrong frame of mind? It’s those same people who end up saying “I spend more time fighting the ai and refining prompts than I would on the end task”.

I’m very curious what it is that actually causes this divide.

Mailjet / Mailgun are one and the same service and since the acquisition, I haven't heard of anyone still happy with them. But yes good point, Mailjet is another one.

Sparkpost to my knowledge is built on SES.

This sounds amazing… basically everyone in the space is either reselling Sendgrid or AWS SES.

What other "root" email services are there out there? Even Google Cloud doesn't provide one...

Send me an email, would love to chat.

Looks very cool! Are there UI tools that work with it though or is it all text based?

Question to you folks, do you have any luck with ai tools that are able to generate clean PPT based designs (or some other non-PPT tool that can generate clean PDFs)?

Like, with Claude Code I can generate a bunch of web pages based on a core design and components. But doing consistent presentations is very difficult unless you have a super simple template.

It does to some extent, because companies have to respect gdpr for their own users as well: so individual employees/slack users have gdpr rights and they individually can get those enforced against the slack operators.

Slack is not a VC backed service right now. It is owned in full by Salesforce.

Now you can argue choosing a Salesforce product is not a good idea and that I agree with.

This type of contribution is so incredibly both tone deaf and unempathetic, I wonder if you understand even how incredibly selfish the attitude is? Especially in using the word “just”. “Just” do this incredibly complex switch, which is utterly unsuitable to your users and how they work together, and which doesn’t actually solve your problem at hand since the article is about something else.

You give zero thoughts as to how the people affected are actually using the tool, why they would be in need of real time communication rather than delayed clunky messages, or even who the actual audience is.

Even with the absolute best reading of intentions I can give to your comment, I can only imagine you wrote it to make some microsubset of people still using mailing lists feel better about their choice and validated in one of the ever rarer advantages there are to using email as primary communication.

Either that or you don’t actually know what Slack is. But then why comment?

OK, so define it for us, please. Because, once again, this thread is talking about introducing laws about "AI". OP was talking about LLMs you say - So SLMs then are fine? If not, then where is the boundary? If they're fine then congratulations you have created a new industry of people pushing the boundaries of what SLMs can do, as well as how they are defined.

Laws are built on definitions and this hand-wavy BS is how we got nonsense like the current version of the AI act.

Ah yes the duality of anti-AI crowds on HN. “GenAI is just fancy autocorrect”, and “autocorrect isn’t actually GenAI”.

The thing is, if you’re talking about making laws (as GP is), your “surely people understand this difference” strategy doesn’t matter squat and the impact will be larger than you think.

Did you by any chance type this comment on a device that has autocorrect enabled?

Stripe Support does it for certain specific cases (email & phone). However, whenever they do it, it's a bilateral code generation: The support agent also gets a code they have to read out to the end user, which is featured prominently to them, saying the agent will have to read it out to get authentified.

I wrote websites in the jquery era. I wrote web apps back then. Gaming tools, databases, tons of dynamic stuff.

When I used react for the first time I cried with “where has this been all my life? It would have saved me years of work”.

Whenever I see claims like yours I always have hardcore doubts. React may not have “enabled” new things just like ai coding doesn’t “enable” new things … as long as you consider time to be in infinite supply. If you care about getting shit done, there is no comparison.

Does codex have a good way of doing post process hooks? For Claude Code hooks I never found a way to run a formatter over only the file that was edited. It’s super annoying as I want to constantly have linting and formatting cleaned up right after the model finishes editing a file…

> Humans fail in ways I know, can predict, and know where to look for.

You clearly haven't worked with humans.

It’s because they can see it.

They can go in the inspector and see “oh wow so many MBs of JS”, but they can’t see the backend.

There is a good point to that: this data that is downloaded is an end user resource. Over a mobile network etc it’ll matter. But the days where it mattered at home/office are long, long gone, at least for the audience of the websites that adopt this strategy.

The obsession I believe is a remnant of these old days. There was a transitionary period still a decade ago (when hn was already not that young) where users would spend time loading a website, then complain about the amount of js on the page and how that is unnecessary. The connections got upgraded but nothing strikes down a habit…

A distributed grid is not a one-and-done solution to everything. Supply chain can stop for a number of reasons, not just electricity.

Don’t worry, most countries are buying tens of thousands of drones. That investment is happening. (Source: I work in this sector)

(Worth noting: Your comment sounds like “I have a feeling fixing (critical bug 1) would be a better investment than (fixing critical bug 2)”. You fix both.)

Just like those newfangled computer thingamadjigies. Overhyped, no long term value.

Your post could be reworded to talk about learning just any musical instrument.

A frontier lab being “behind” doesn’t really matter because a lot of the work done by those labs - the rnd - is only proven useful once released and the releases end up letting other frontier labs catch up.

The play is either “dear god let me be first to market and have 8bn users” or something else.

OpenAI is now playing both camps as they’re pushing hard on b2g now. But it’s a terrible idea for govs in europe to create a dependency to OpenAI. There’s a likely world where 90%+ of eu govs sign with Mistral and that is a perfectly fine outcome for the investors imo.

It works whatever way is agreed upon between them and the investors. For such large amounts it’s unlikely to be pure cash (there’s likely some amount of services somewhere in there), and they won’t be calling for all that cash at once.

The cash that is guaranteed is sent as soon as the investee needs it (they do what is called a capital call). Early stage startups and investments just do one capital call for the full amount, but larger amounts are often committed for periods of time; this also helps the investors schedule their own cash flow: for example if I have 500m this year and 500m next year, I can invest 1b in you, given the right schedule.