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MCPs and complex CLI tools running locally/native via graalvm might be a great usecase for Java. https://quarkus.io/blog/mcp-server/

I am patiently waiting for LARP AR glasses that have all kinds of these filters.

Sorry, did you read this https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2018/12/14/SJWJS.html?

I personally associate Prism with [Silverlight - Composite Web Apps With Prism](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2009...) due to personal reasons I don't want to talk about ;))

A fun tendency is that Claude kept getting distracted by topics of secrecy, conspiracy, and hidden systems - as if the task itself summoned a Foucault’s Pendulum mindset.

I really appreciate you mentioning this. I think this is the nature of LLMs in general. Any symbol it processes can affect its reasoning capabilities.

Lego Duplo is the best. It is a great creative toy at least from 2 to 10. Especially when you have it from early on and it is just "part of the furniture".

It's much easier to collect from the ground than Lego.

Newer Lego stuff also has so many tiny parts.

A good XSL-FO impl with docbook or something like that?

Nah, package managers are always the "civilization" moments of programming.

Great article!

At least on desktop screens I think chronostasis might make animations seem more sluggish depending on where you looked before.

I wonder if this leads experienced users of the app in question to not like any animations, because they know click paths better and place their focus in an anticipatory manner.

Maybe one could measure click speed and reduce animation times based on that.

Tech people, I suspect, tend to assume that AI brings "full creative freedom" to artists the same way a patron does when they say "you can have full creative freedom".

I think you introduce a rather arbitrary separation here. I spoke of the artistic communities in the sense of a normative force which establishes cultural acceptance and means of valuation for AI in artistic processes. Similar to what happened to photography and computer graphics.

Do you really think there is a distinct arch type of a tech person and an art person? If so, I would consider myself as an art person. I am by no means a professional artist, but I am a creative person who sees powerful tools emerge.

I work on video games as a hobbyist since I am 10. But I am not a good artist in the sense that my imagination and feature creep lead me to failure. These new emerging tools might bring me the freedom to pursue more of my ideas. When I started, I learned DirectX programming in pursuit of artistic freedom, now there is Unity3D and other engines that could have made the difference for me in what I would have become.

I am sure there are many more like me, who lost themselves in unattainable visions, and also many professional artists, who have ideas in the back of their heads which seem unrealistic to pursue.

Gen AI will hopefully enable many of those previously unattainable visions to come true.

Of course, but AI shouldn't hinder art either. I can understand the sentiment, but if GenAI can help somewhere, it is creative endeavors.

I totally see that. But I think it's time for new constraints that are less tied to money and more to the imagination of the creators.

It will hopefully lead to a democratization of previously expensive settings (e.g. historic, fantastical, large scale events) etc. Many indie movies still have huge budgets and need some kind of sponsor. Now we will hopefully see a wonderful mix of hobbyist, semi-professional and professional fully independent setups that tell stories without worrying about financial risks that are connected to certain forms of artistic expression.

I don't think it is helpful to gatekeep movie making with arbitrary requirements regarding AI usage nor do I believe that the requirement for patrons or state sponsorships that is prevalent in indie movie making are a good thing regarding the current neo-feudal and authoritarian currents.

Well, at least I assume that currently indie movies are also somewhat defined by budget and technical limitations. With GenAI you will be able to film an action scene with your smartphone in an empty warehouse that will later look like an authentic full street in Medieval Bagdad. GenAI will remove constraints. Constraints that may have led to creativity by themselves, but those constraints also led to constraints in audience and artistic outcome. Imagination will be the limit. And I don't think we will need labels like "organic" to make collaborative efforts with actual actors more accepted than AI only productions, because good actors bring more to the table than just their face and stature.

You seem to have an agenda here. I am sure there are many many visions of special effects and story arcs that could never be realized because of not being able to pull it off. This will change now. Green screens and sophisticated SFX tech will not be necessary to create fantastical images. You may call these kind of movies low brow entertainment but I am very curious to see indie movie interpretations of my favorite litrpg books.

I think the author addresses this, but dismisses it as fantasy, which constitues the bubble.

Great article! I share the experience mentioned in the article, LLMs facilitate a head-on interaction with any topic. It is similar to instructional YouTube videos (that imo were already transformative) but with the ability to ask detailed questions. And this is what becomes better with each iteration. When creative communities finally settle down on generative AI there will be not just a plethora of AI slop, but so much highly creative never seen before content. It might lead to a new golden age of indie low budget movie productions.

Vibe hacking is much older than vibe coding.

I agree. It seems pretty apocalyptic :(

Some disorders more or less require tracking to make them diagnosable and their symptoms managable (e.g. PMDD). Managing tracking with paper is ofc possible, but apps allow for reminders and gamification that help on challenging days.

Sure, but it is dangerous to expect anything else than what the study makes clear. LLMs make manipulation just cheaper and more scalable. There are so many rumors about state sponsored troll farms that I guess this study was a good wake-up call for anyone who is upset now. It's like acting surprised that somebody can send you a computer virus or that the email is not from an African prince who has to get rid of money.

Exactly

Are you serious? With services like https://anti-captcha.com/ the bot free anonymous discourse is over for a long time now.

It's in bad faith when people seriously tell you they don't expect something when they make rules against it.

With LLMs anonymous discourse is just even more broken. When reading comments like this, I am convinced this study was a gift.

LLMs are practically shouting it from the rooftops, what should be a hard but well-known truth for anybody who engages in serious anonymous online discourse: We need new ways for online accountability and authenticity.

I don't understand the expectations of reddit CMV users when they engage in anonymous online debates.

I think well intentioned, public access, blackhat security research has its merits. The case reminds me of security researchers publishing malicious npm packages.

yeah, I totally agree.

It's like there was a shift in goals after the author made the title. Maybe explaining the basics was so much fun, that the initial idea got lost... I also don't think knowing how a crt monitor works is instrumental for people who want to make software. The domain is cool, but it doesn't match the content. whatissoftware.com might be better.

when it is explained how pixel, gpu or llm work, I would at least expect some intro to Von-Neumann-Architecture.

Yes, but only for internal stuff. I prefer traefik at the moment. But my point is more about how people use wix over free webspace and so on. While I don't agree with many of Jonathan Blow's arguments, but news like this make me think of his talk "Preventing the collapse of civilization" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko

I agree, but I think the pendulum just went too far on the tradeoff scale.

Ofc, but you have to be quite techsavy to know this and to set this up. It's also cumbersome in many low-tech situations. There is certificate revocation, I would really like to see the threat model here. I am not even sure if automation helps or just shifts the threat vector to certificate issuing.

It makes end to end responsibility more cumbersome. There were days people just stored MS Frontpage output on their home server.

I dunno. Self-hosting w/o automation was feasible. Now you have to automate. It will lead to a huge amount of link rot or at least something very similar. There will be solutions but setting up a page e2e gets more and more complicated. In the end you want a service provider who takes care of it. Maybe not the worst thing, but what kind of security issues are we talking about? There is still certificate revocation...

I guess the main reason behind this move is platform capitalism. It's an easy way to cut off grassroots internet.