LucidLynx

> Slop is not a distinct style, it can be overlaid on top of many others. Even when I got it to make a page to look like X, it looked like X with slop.

Today, I can visit a website and instantly tell it was generated using LLMs and agents from A to Z:

1. Everything is in blue or mauve gradient, with a white background, and a single JavaScript-heavy page that lags as soon as you scroll a little.

2. There are always a ton of 404 pages.

3. Third, the HTML comments often expose credentials and to-do lists—sometimes even right above the login page (true story...).

This kind of website is a hard pass for me, and I add the company (and its founders) to my personal blacklist of people and companies I’ll never use anything from.

Then I would prefer the 20% that pay less, but do something good for humanity.

Thanks, but I don't need this 3x more. I just need ethics.

I am very very sad reading that, indeed.

It is absolutely not what I think about "job" and "contributing to society": I would prefer to be paid less but work in an ethical company than the other people of this thread...

This is maybe why I am feeling so "disconnected" with Tech and devs today.

Yes, and I found one. It pays enough for having a very stable life, and in a company with ethics!

No reason to be that sarcastic, the job market is not dead (at least not in Europe).

I have a serious question to anyone working at Meta and reading this: HOW can you still work at this company!?

Why don't you quit this very toxic company, and start working at another place or even on your own? I genuinely don't understand...

Let just Meta die!

As an European: 100x YES!

I really like the direction and the transparency of Mistral, among those players.

Is this really the state of "software engineering" today? :/

The winner in the long term will be the one that will deliver the best performance and low-memory ratio for local models.

Anthropic, OpenAI and Mistral are just companies that are making money right now (still not profitable), but will lost their tractions and values in the long term.

However, I am more appealing to see how OpenCode Go subscriptions will go in the future: cheaper than big techs, more tokens, and they don't train on our data to (try to) improve...

Demis Hassabis is the only AI CEO I trust to use its skills for a better future. The work (leading and engineering) he and his team did with AlphaFold is astounishing, and deserve way more visibility than all those chatbots and weird experiments today.

Unfortunately, more and more it is coming and more and more I see him as our future Oppenheimer.

"Attention is all you need"

Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468685

you can find all of those things for any major software release

Maybe it is because you were using Windows all the time and you can't judge outside (no judging), but the quality and the (legendary) reliability of macOS was true. Everything was well engineered, well designed, and had a purpose.

This is not the case anymore, and this is why people are so upset too. People are also upset because all those annoying things have been reported since betas and Apple did not really listened to them (except most absolute valid points).

It is not only for the corners.

Do some searches and you will find a ton of bugs, bad performances and bad battery life for laptops, random crashes, ...

The issue is not only on the lack of good design ideas, but also on the quality of what Apple provides since a few years now.

Not gonna lie, this year has been exceptionnaly disappointing for every product and every OS (more generally: software) from Apple.

The battery life first: I lost 6 to 8h of battery life EVERY DAY because of iOS 26. The battery life of my macbook is worst too, even after all the updates and a fresh install of macOS 26.2. The interface is very ugly, and not easy to use at all. I am oftenly loston both systems (iOS 26 and macOS 26) because of all those glass interfaces on top of each other. The performance did not improved either, and the gaming ecosystem that I was very optimistic is becoming a mess. Again. To finish, an exceptional high number of annoying bugs that are not solved yet, despite my feedbacks since the first Beta versions. It seems nobody care.

It’s infuriating that I can’t downgrade the OS on both devices. Especially on my mac.

This pushed me to re-try a Linux distro on my old laptop, and re-try Android on an old Google Pixel phone. Both are great for my needs, and the phone has way more battery life than the iPhone (despite the phone has already 5yo).

I did not expected at all that 2025 would be the year of Apple pushing me out of it ecosystem... Very nice job guys.

I remember organizing Linux install parties at my university (University of Lille (1), in France), each year for like 3 to 4 consecutive years.

It was always a pleasure to meet new people and explain how basically "their computer is working" and how they can free from Windows.

The most interested person at that time was a 55 years old woman who knew nothing in computer. I installed Ubuntu on its computer and she came the next year with strong system knowledge for a linux-newbie, and the same laptop... with Debian in it!

I agree that those were not actually "promises" but "directions", and I apologise for that. Those directions were mainly cited in different conferences by some Rust-head-members at that time (Alex Crichton, Niko Matsakis, Ashley Williams, or even you), and during conversations I had with severals during Rust Fest or RustCon.

For example, I remember talking that with you at the Rust Fest 2017, in Zurich actually, especially about the *very early version* of Async/Await.

It is ok for the community to move on different directions than the first one, and I don't blame any of you for that.

Tensor G5 and the latest version of Gemini Nano work together to run Magic Cue privately and securely on your phone.

YES! Here we talk.

The fact we can now host a version of an AI model, and make sure everything is processed locally and is not sent to the cloud is the best feature of those phones. I just hope that data do not leave the phone OR are encrypted to be stored in Google servers...

Thank you ChatGPT!

What is the difference between Pangolin and NetBird, which is also a self-hosted and fully open-source solution?

https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird

Unfortunately you're right... Microsoft's stocks hit big again despite its evil background.

It is depressing to be a software developer now. Especially if you have a good heart.

I really hope the founder to have his career f**ed now, and other "founders (of nothing)" as well.

Is it me, or "founders" are actually FREAKING dumb?

Why people continue to give them money, and praise their "work"?

Instead of making (indirect) ads for them we should publish their name and the company's name into shame publicly, and let their reputation die slowly...

I have no respect for them, and you should not too (if you care about justice).

So, genuine question here: do companies have to pay full price in order to finance a technology that is used by 5% of their daily users?

Of course this is a "devil advocate" question, but I would not consider Valve as "safer" than any other game / tech companies to be honest...

Let me be honest here: I spent time to get a 'hey, nope.', and I should write an email to ask why?

If that's not a waste of time, I really don't know what else to call it...

The main issue in the room is that the feedback *should* be present with the rejection email, especially if they spent 5 minutes for a review and 3 minutes for the rejection email...

I applied early last year, and got rejected by a Senior from CodeWeavers but without any insight...

Just:

"The senior reviewed your work and it's a 'no'. However you may want to consider submitting patches to either Wine or Proton. Developers that get patches into either of these projects tend to be sought out and offered developer jobs."

I found it gross, and thought that it was actually an ad to contribute to both Wine and Proton first, and not hire someone.

I know I am not the best C programmer in the world, but I think that if you spend two hours of your time doing a test to have a chance for an interview, you might have a feedback of what was wrong instead of a "nope dude".

The test was composed of two things: 1. reviewing a bad C code and make comments, 2. you have an is an unimplemented string sorting API and you have to provide the implementation, the unit tests, etc.

First time and last time I applied to CodeWeavers.

Unfortunately it is not the first time a good developer leaves the project for a famous "Linu(s)x shitshow", and it will not be the latest...

I don't believe in the Linux project since a few years now, especially as "the bearded ones" are not interested in moving the project to a certain future, but only jerking on their old own code.

Good luck for the futur Hector, and thanks for what you managed to do until now with your team.

As they are linking with proprietary SDK they seem to have violated the GPL indeed. I would be interested to see if this game is part of their "Carbon Engine" solution to release old games (with extra price)...

As AI is everything right now, did they asked to Llama how to solve the situation...?

I am personally « happy » to be in EU for regulation, and taking time to check if the technology is okay.

Theranos, FTX, … should be examples for US to learn from their mistakes… but it seems they (VCs) will never learn.

I suspect Canonical is one of those.

I regularly see positions near to my position (France, sometimes in villages!), and when I apply I receive from 8 to 12 minutes after an email that says "Sorry but your resume is not relevant"... except that my resume has *exactly* all the requirements.

When I talked to my friends about this they tries to apply too and... same thing: 8 to 12 minutes for certain positions, they have been rejected with the exact same response.