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That’s replacing Google with OpenAI/aanthropic/whatever. Same shit

So if their TOS say they can also rape my cat, then I cannot do anything about it, right? Ridiculous

It’s not fair. Google, Amazon, Microsoft… they have never played fairly. They will never do.

Please. Are we going to rely now in Anthropic et al to secure our systems? Wasn’t enough to rely on them to build our systems? What’s next? To rely on them for monitoring and observability? What else? Design and mockups?

As an “actual” software engineer, what do you recommend me to read to work in cybersecurity? Assume I have a solid background in OS internals, algos, networking, software engineering. I have never worked in cybersecurity though (I have never reversed engineered anything)

Finally we know what AI is good for! And It’s not about make mundane developers more productive

From my little circle of non tech folks, chatgpt is not used anymore. Don’t know what changed. It just faded. They haven’t heard of claude or openclaw either. But they rely on Google search AI for a lot of stuff

Still don’t understand what regular people (like the author) gain from selling how wonderful AI is. I get that the folks at Anthropic and openai shove AI through our throats every day, but nobodies?

In particular that the most used LLMs are proprietary. This is in great opposition to the best software out there so far: tcp/ip, linux, git, emacs, postgres, and a long etc. We depend enormously on this tools and that’s fine because they are open source. But we are starting to depend enormously on proprietary LLMs and that sucks. I know we have open source LLMs but 99% of us are not using them; that’s reality.

That’s why Im not using Obsidian

Ideally I would like to stick to a single KB for the rest of my… life? So, the only option is going open source (either built by me or someone else). Imagine I start using Obsidian today and I love it. Updates keep coming and I love them. Two years from now they add something I hate, and from there more features that kill my workflow. What can I do? Sure I cn stick to the last version that worked for me but that means Im stuck with it “forever”. That’s not gonna work

Cynical. Start by allowing remote positions in Mistral across Europe.

> Now, did Garry Tan actually produce anything of value that week? I dunno, you’ll have to ask him.

Let’s not be naive. Garry is not a nobody. He absolutely doesn’t care about how many lines of code are produced or deleted. He made that post as advertisement: he’s advertising AI because he’s the ceo of YC which profitability depends on AI.

He’s just shipping ads.

Sounds like an addiction to me

I guess it’s better to step down now that we can rather than wait until it becomes impossible (Stockholm syndrome)

No FOMO

Why scared? Like, if theit software gets bad, we stop using it.

I think this is more true now than ever. Before LLMs, when someone came up with an ADR/RFC/etc you had to read it because you had to approve it or reject it. People were putting effort and, yeah, you could use them in your next perf. review to gain extra points. You could easily distinguish well written docs from the crap (that also made the job of reviewing them easie)

Nowadays everyone can generate a 20-page RFC/ADR and even though you can tell if they are LLM generated, you cannot easily reject them based on that factor only. So here we are spending hours reading something the author spent 5 min. to generate (and barely knows what’s about).

Same goes for documentation, PRs, PRs comments…

I really want to use Obsidian but it being closed source is a big No for me. I know I can keep all my files in plain text and move on to another platform buy the thing is: if a bunch of files and a FS were enough for me to keep my KB, then ofc I wouldn’t need something like Obsidian. The thing is I need something like Obsidian; a bunch of files lying around is not enough for me

Not every change is good, and sometimes we realise too late

Very cool, but won’t use proprietary LLMs for home ever. Can only trust open source models

The problem with AI generated documentation is: you don’t know if it’s accurate/misleading because you don’t know if the docs have been reviewed before being published. With manual generated docs you at least know that someone put the effort to write something. So that effort counts for something. With AI you know that’s it’s perfectly possible to come up with dozens/hundreds of pages with a single prompt that takes zero effort to write. I don’t trust AI generated content by default

Regarding punctuality I miss the option: “A moral obligation from my side, but I don’t care if others arrive late to an appointment with me”

Best strategy is to minimise your digital footprint. There are non-negotiable things like: bank accounts, mortgages and the like. Internet accounts, books, pics, videos are all expendable

I’m more afraid of cyclists than of cars. I know exactly where the road starts and end, I know there are traffic lights drivers and pedestrians usually respect, so it’s very unlikely that I can get hit by a car. And Im talking about myself, not about the average person (I know stats may say otherwise)

But cyclists can ride in the pedestrian lane, bike lanes and pedestrians lanes are not easily distinguishable (if you are visiting a new city/country for example, and/or the painting of the lanes disappear over time) compared to roads, you typically can hear cars/motorbikes coming (though with electric cars that’s less common) while bikes are very silent, and last but not least, typically there is certain hierarchy when it comes to cars and pedestrians (at least in Europe): pedestrians come first. That’s not the case with bikes (which based on my experience, they share the same level of importance with pedestrians in the streets)

Just cancel

I’d love to do manual labor as long as: I have a decent house, decent health insurance, can afford decent food/stuff, can afford taking sabbaticals, can afford getting sick and not losing my income, can afford decent education for kids, etc.

Unfortunately, many of us are chained to the modern way of life.

I don’t think that code is that cheap either. Can we vibe code a new Notion? I doubt it. We probably can come up with a decent simulation, but I don’t think we can vibe code a Notion/Confluence/Slack that can handle millions of users in a performant way

I would prefer if it actually explodes sooner rather than later

The downside of such iCloud aliases is that you cannot send emails from there (you can only reply to emails, and ofc receive emails)

Are devs really reviewing AI generated code? It just seems so pointless. Nobody was reviewing protoc generated code, for example, and most of my colleagues (not faang, but one level below) simply comment “LGTM!” or equivalents when a PR smells like ai generated code. Seems fair. Even more so if I add a comment to a PR and what I get in reply is an AI generated reply with AI generated commit (you can tell also because of the “Coauthor Claude” thingy in the commit)