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yes and no, because you now keep using AI and AI doesn't care if it has seen the code or not before and you just keep fixing bugs / adding features without really understanding the code.

it's weird new reality, but if it works it works I guess. I'm still waiting on the first vibe-coded mass used prod app, not ware of any yet.

I'm starting to think that the LLMs ecosystem is going in the JS ecosystem direction, endless technologies with little to no adaption.

Literally everyday there is a new tool and the tools released last week are deprecated.

not available in our org (EU)

I'm genuinely amazed by anyone still using github CI for anything serious.

wasn't there an algo developed that would use wifi signal as a way to detect humans / movements even behind walls.

I imagine that would be a neater solution. if all what you need is a wifi receiver.

Same for chat control in the EU and all the dystopian post 911 spying agencies.

it's there to keep the well behaving citizens in check.

very authoritarian at the core.

yeah the trick is to use them at a slow enough speed that you can keep paying attention, honestly I think I should do 50/50 (with and without AI). but it's funny it feels we all just got busier with AI that I don't feel I can afford half using it.

Yeah I have a well established ... well designed codebase that I had before agentic coding and it does support horizental scaling (more services integrations doing more or less the same).

I got lazy around claude fable and astra, and asked them to work in loop (pick specified issue, develop it, qa it ...) have a separate CTO checking on arch.

at the end both models swore that the code is perfect and well designed and nothing is lacking.

I ran the software and it suddenly started writing large amount of data to CSV files instead of the typical DB usage.

AI decided to use csv for testing, and just drifted away. 0 regards to the actual project, 0 regards to common sense.

anecdotal but really weird, the project category is rather standard, I wouldn't accept such a mistake from a junior developer.

the target companies are the ones reporting the hacks in many cases.

because they didn't burn obscene amounts of Money training each LLM and didn't promise half the planet that their business is worth a trillion while not having even operational break even let alone the cost if you include the overhead.

Soft Bank just raised couple of billions in junk bond sale to support open-ai's current operations before the IPO.

it's a crazy situation where on one side the Chinese / open source LLMs are catching up and reducing the token price, on the other hand the current leading labs have spent everything they got, every new model will cost much more and the public market is too shaky to support an IPO.

They will make it, I don't doubt it, but it's a crazy situation.

I'm genuinely confused what's the relationship between LLMs improvements and them being so incoherent.

and it's not about the verboseness (even though it obviously contributes to the fatigue and loss of focus), I swear the vocabulary of the llms change working on the same task on the same codebase significantly.

I wonder if there are studies around this.

they don't have to answer for the next quarter, and that's good enough for me.

This is the problem with capitalism.

Nothing is ever enough, all the top tech companies, it's not enough that the conquered the global market, not enough that they dominated commerce, media, automotive, cloud, space ...

it's not enough that they have the largest headcounts on the planet (outside India / China).

they always need to do more and bigger the next quarter.

no morals, no core market, no other guideline, simply more, and I have to do it because else someone else will.

I really hope the Chinese keep killing everything that gets too big to fail.

endless growth is the same as cancer. unnatural destructive.

yeah digital infrastructure is more achievable, more important and can produce revenue more reliably compared to AI.

if sovereignty is the goal, drop Microsoft, aws and adapt / develop open source / EU alternative.

once serious progress is made there, more resources can be redirected into AI after all it's already too late to join the race.

wow and here I was thinking that I lost my attention span and can no longer read AI output any more.

come to think about it, of course I did become lazy and pay less attention to walls of text.

but I often catch myself asking AI to explain itself in plain simple English or ask it to confirm does that mean xyz ... because the wall of text often uses language that's not even present in the project itself (despite having similar concept in the project, for example users, permissions, access, encapsulation ...)

this is problematic because it becomes more difficult to humans to intervene in long running tasks / long chains of tasks because language becomes alien down the road (I have seen it often in semi-autonomous setups I have)

this is what I mean by distributed, unconcentrated change.

you will never make meaningful progress by those initiatives, there should be an echo of the US investment in data centers or china's investment in EVs.

bigger, systematic, with immediate impact on the software / cloud stack in the EU first and globally.

The crazy thing is that there is a model where governments / states / localities can migrate away from windows / Microsoft 365 ... and use part of the savings to fund open-source

if this was done across Europe we'd have sovereign open-source tech stack that is strong, well funded, and used by 10s of millions in the EU alone.

I have no idea why simple ideas like this are not persuade instead lots of incoherent, almost desperate distributed efforts are preferred.

ultimately I do believe that the bureaucrats in the EU are insanely disconnected from reality.

I like rovo -.-

The amazing thing is that there is almost always an open-source alternative that is 10x better in many ways, in the case of slack https://mattermost.com/

I'm looking forward for AI to make it very easy to deploy your own tools and walk away from all this SAAS.

slack, jira, notion, even google suite

AI makes the cost of software development much lower, which means you can have a very good alternative that you can self host.

I'm thinking of companies that has 1000+ employees that pay millions annually in SaaS subscriptions.

SaaS is a tax on b2c business that will be reduced.

I think there is a huge shift in hackernews as of late (as other mainstream media as well) where such discussions happen, not necessary encouraged.

I'm shocked to see the difference between 2023 and today.

No one is doing it as much as Israel does, Russia's influence campaigns are well documented, often weak, lack the "forcefulness" you see when it comes to Israel.

The thing is that messaging from Russia, China, Arab countries ... have to be very subtle else it's visible and immediately gets called out.

Israel on the other hand sees itself as part of the collective west and think they have the right to be as laud as they want and everyone has to listen.

it's fundamentally about who's talking and who's the audience.

for example Israel does run lots of influence campaigns in Arabic as well, but they're also more quite and more understanding that it's not their main audience.

This whole house of card is very modern, there was no such thing as "Reserve currency" not even the British pound, it was the most traded currency. but holding a currency's (debt) as a foreign reserve instead of gold is very recent phenomena, even central banks reserves or their function is also rather modern phenomena.

while Yuan usage in trade will reduce the US influence, the amount of assets held in dollar nominated investments is so so much bigger, and this will very slowly change if it will at all.

soon with the age verification laws, the mass surveillance laws coming

we'll have a great wall of Europe ... my guess is that they're following the Russian / Chinese model.

banning of VPN is a matter of time.

then the days of free or anonymous internet is behind us.

I still remember the 2015 alexa 100M$ fund and the buzz around everything voice first.

https://www.geekwire.com/2015/amazon-makes-echos-alexa-avail...

of course it wasn't as big as this new AI push, but since the 80s AI over promised and under devlivered, it's not the fault of AI, but the greed of the business people.

I'm always confused by the need for humanoid robots in heavy industry.

isn't it always easier to build factories machine first ?

same as the idea of building self driving cars enabled tracks with sensors and all instead of trying to resolve self driving cars in the wild.

maybe it's a generational difference ? I personally feel burned out by all the generetive AI stuff, the internet was already ruined with bots, and now generitive AI took the garbage to the next level.

very far from exciting or even "right"

that's why you give credit to investors not just compnaies.

This also blows my mind, instead of adding more berucracy to apply for funding to review funding to give funding.

just give tax credits based on innovation / investment criteria, to both companies and employees, Europe needs digitalization so badly, yet they find more complex ways to enable it.

regex is useful but chatgpt is amazing at it, so why spend a minute keeping such useless knowledge in mind.

if you know where to find something no point in knowing it.

As far as I know it's also the only company in the world where the US goverment has a major stake in (25% I think).

Good news is that China has delivered their 8mm lithography machines and are promising 3mm sometime in the next two years. maybe this will introduce more competion down the road