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You make a good point. I've reassessed and agree this is shady, and not a good pattern. And should be disabled/abolished.

No need of (2) and (3) - the user can choose to not install/use the app. (1) is the right fair boundary.

Yeah to get any serious attention, publish the 26 tasks, and compare the session and tokens before you make such claims.

Sharing a slice of your internet in a privacy preserving way in exchange for something of value, seems fair, no?

I don't know where you imagine these people to congregate and coin these terms, but I've not come across anything like that.

Is a calculator a slave? Is a car a slave? What a silly blogpost.

We have always been automating away the things we don't want to do, even before AI.

I guess everyone can start a business, but this is such a thin LLM wrapper? how do you justify the cost?

Here's 10 things just starting with "A".

Amateur astronomy

Artistic painting

Audiobook binging

Aerial yoga

Archery practice

Aquascaping

Antique hunting

Acoustic guitaring

Alpine hiking

Astrophotography

.. Need more?

You're asking such a small concession: for one in a thousand engineers. My argument would be happy to grant it, and still be true.

I don't think it'll be useful to get into semantics of the word "solved" now, then!

Whatever's done to chess, the same is now done to software.

Ok, I'll rephrase to be more specific: Software is magnitude more solved now than it was 7 months ago.

And we're seeing the early signs of same in Math as well.

yes. training is a magnitude lower of energy of the lifecycle of frontier models. with current use of opus etc, the math is closer to 1%.

https://libguides.usc.edu/blogs/USC-AI-Beat/hidden-costs-of-...

Software is solved. Significant amount of code written (>90% of engineers) wrote slop. And it would get merged. Overall - both floor and ceiling of quality of software has definitely been raised. Just that it's had a labor scare and impact.

Before it needed you to jailbreak a console. Today point frontier at a console, and it could also figure it out. The console folks also can do that before release and ensure it's unbreakable.

Now that software is solved, we are faced with the philsophical necessity of our vocation.

I dont know what to tell you. I guess - correct your misconceptions?

Carbon footprint of commute is in KGs of CO2. A day's worth of AI, depending on model, is ~15-100g of CO2.

Heck food you eat has more than a few Kgs of footprint everyday.

Your commute is worse for the environment than your day's token usage, by a magnitude.

I won't be as diplomatic as the other reponse to you. You are welcome to your reticence to agentic coding. But as you're no doubt observing, all your peers are saying they're moving ahead leaps and bounds.

Either all of them are wrong, or you will be left behind. Whatever the outcome, it will be on you, and you may make your peace with that.

Long read, but it exactly explains why: https://open-web-advocacy.org/apple-dma-review/

Wonderful. I also learnt about TrollStore today - https://github.com/opa334/TrollStore.

Glad the apple ecosystem is being opened up (albeit unwillingly) by hackers.

The bread analogy is more corrct that they let on. The whole article without the C word.

Saas isn't doomed, but it is going to be Commoditized. so you win on price, volume, execution, and cannot simply sell user seats to scale.

Every blog post has infinite things it does not mention.

"Technical substance" simply requires that some technically substantive things are mentioned. Which was indeed the case.

very actual technical substance

Did we read the same article? I mean it wasn't talking about a specific line of code, but it had deep architecture details, rational for memory safety and bugs, agentic coding patterns for scale. It was full of substance, multiple times.

Care to given an example of the egregious code that led to such a drastic personal shift?

How big are these binaries? the big electron complaint is the large binaries. if these are under 10mb, you have a winner.

Ah you're the cluely guy!

Does it work on windows?

IMO, LLMs came in and made his superhuman coding skills not so special anymore. No judgement, just a hypothesis to answer your question

Then that's a tirade against capitalism - don't direct it at AI. If you don't like the situation, push for socialist policies.

I do enjoy a good stream of consciousness rant, so thanks for that.

A simple rejoinder - The OP is one solution to many households where they can just be "the human tutor". If you can't see that, you simply don't know the average household.

Apparently one where taxing you higher for better teachers does not elicit a "sure, yes".

Any model, including inexpensive ones. It's not a hard problem.