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I thought we all knew infrastructure was going to be the product, not the models.

Spoken like someone who hasn't really done drugs.

This might be taken as hyperbolic, but the EU seems to have trouble building anything.

Thanks for sharing. I made a post earlier on bluesky describing my random setup on 32gb M2 studio. I'd love feedback. I'm a monkey and if I don't see I can't do.

https://bsky.app/profile/mooresolutions.io/post/3mliilyf2i22...

1. I don't want to use Jira. I don't think this is complecated enough to justify it.

2. That might not have been a bad idea. There is a registration link and the app is fully functional. If you don't trust that though you can spin up a local with docker in 3 minutes. (check the readme)

Just for my own understanding, you're not insinuating China isn't violating international sanctions to purchase oil at a discount?

Unless china is importing sanctioned oil from.... Iran, Russa, and Venezuela at discounted rates.

I think this has been the crux of many allegations against China. They don't operate fairly in global markets.

Depends, I just want to point out that the US is a net exporter of Oil. They also secured oil imports from Venezuela while at the same time in 2 strokes seriously hurt Chinese oil imports.

If the goal was to hurt China / BRICS and kneecap Iran it seems on point.

It's always hard to predict how the USA will vote when "war" is happening.

No

The real victims here are going to be the graphic designers who worked for firework importers.

No parameters with their unpleasant ?&= syntax.

I'm sorry what? URL params are just a thing.

we're talking about the threat of regulation not "must abide by their laws" thing.

It's common in the EU that if you don't do what they say they threaten to put regulations that compel you, but it's still different. it's a threat not a reality. That's the issue my dude.

Of course they do. We gave the DHS (and any other government agency) far too much power and they flex it.

We have so many agencies that can regulate businesses to death without any congressional intervention that it would be beyond idiotic to stand against them.

Not to mention that it's been proven again and again that the American populations attention span is far too short to do anything meaningful about the aforementioned powers / abuses.

Maybe it's age, or the attention I've paid to the erosion of liberties post 9/11. but is this headline a surprise to anyone?

source or evidence of this?

I love that you're lamenting a CIA website closure as a step toward dystopia... 10/10

It could be as simple as budget changes.

My current boss is an ex CTO of IBM, and tbh he's proof that more people should have been fired for buying an IBM.

Unrelated to the convo you make some very valid points. I just absolutely detest that saying xD

This is what I want to be true, but as someone’s at the middle of their career I’m terrified.

You’re forgetting the companies that already had developers.

Whose job had been maintaining a single internal system but had never had the bandwidth to expand their focus.

Companies like that are the ones spending millions a year for large one size fits all SaaS products.

Tbh I think you’re fundamentally misunderstanding the issue (or I am).

It’s not about some single dude disrupting the saas market. It’s about largish companies who already have internal dev teams, slowly weening their company off these ginormous one size fits all saas products and building local, tailored solutions.

It’s death by a thousand cuts from the erosion of their highest paying customers.

It’s remarkably easy to tell others not to do what you did.

I really want to know other's opinion on this, but the critique that Ai pushes spaghetti / barely maintainable code doesn't carry a lot of weight because that's all I've ever seen in production anywhere.

If I can spin up in a week what used to take me 6 months and it kind of works. That's absolutely insane. I really wish we could all step back and acknowledge that. Instead, I only hear people talking about how bad the code is.

Honest question, so what? If I can monetize a bad product in a miniscule fraction of the time it used to take. Then optimize it while funded, what's the issue? I get this may upset purists but for product companies it's always been about the MVP.

Make it work

Make it pretty

Make it work well

While you're correct. I truly believe the velocity offered outweighs this consideration for 90% of the application teams and startups. I've personally never worked in a clean codebase, and I've been convinced long ago that they're mythical. I don't see an issue with an LLM spitting out bad / barely maintainable code because that's basically every codebase I've ever seen in production.

I ask a LLM to do it :'(

The piece I think people are missing is for years the biggest bottle neck for development has been time. These services have just ripped apart the time barrier, and the industry is still trying to wrap their head around that.

To me the next obvious barrier will be size (context) barrier, and I can easily see a place for a human in that process. Sure, anyone can prompt an agent build a codebase, but as those code bases grow / evolve It's hard for me to believe a non-specialized person will be able to manage those projects.

edit: I had another thought after posting this. To all the smaller company devs just building and maintaining internal tools. Users always want more features. The difference is now you'll be able to deliver them.

The biggest disruption I'm seeing is in estimation. It's a skill developed with experience, and it just went poof

... do you have any evidence to back up this claim?

Are you surprised? there's money to be made.

My argument is that he contributed to a ballot initiative that passed (meaning the majority supported it), but he was still targeted and lost his job because media platforms targeted him.

To quote Andrew Sullivan > "McCarthyism applied by civil actors".

When people with large platforms target you, you're just as screwed regardless of their status as elected officials. To be outraged by one and excuse the other is laughable.

I invite you to google for news articles reporting on his donations prior to his removal from Mozilla.

this is my favorite (mainly because they also call out donations to Ron Paul.) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/02/controver...

While no politician commented directly, acting like it was just his peers and not part of national political conversation is silly.

It didn't start when it was people losing their jobs on the right?

Brandon Eich's political donation comes to mind.

How is that different from how it worked without LLMs?

I won't lie and say "That's a great idea" when it isn't.