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I guess that means no IDEs doing refactoring or automating common code. Not linters altering code, etc... right ? Because that's the same thing.

How about if AI generates code in a file, then I copy/paste bits... like stack overflow ?

It's been mentioned by some that using the wan2.1 vae instead solves this. I haven't personally had time to try yet.

The other 'side' is playing the same power games.

None of this is truly about the people (even though the sentiment is) - it's the elites vying for power against each other.

The internet is not tribal, but humans are. Those seeking to divide are pushing their hardest right now, because they know division will empower them more.

I have been using a similar skill (built over a few iterations) that builds whatever I ask, through a series of milestones, and then creates a full tutorial to follow in markdown and uses zola to turn it into a full static site.

90% of my Claude usage is getting it to write me guides, that I can then spend most of my time following to build the end results.

Keeps the brain healthy and also provides bespoke learning, rather than a generic course off the internet. Definitely a great use of AI.

I would like to see the inline images that Claude suddenly tries to show me, until I remind them that I can't see images in the CLI.

Other than that, I am happy with the CLI.

If you mean England, it still does. It just seems to sell them to overseas investors all the time. The pride was replaced with greed.

Software engineering today is almost nothing like the role it was 30 years ago.

Maybe if you somehow stick with the same company for your entire career, it could feel somewhat similar... but I doubt it, as 'best practices' and many other things cause it to change.

The days of 'lifetime career' had already gone for most people, way before AI arrived.

It can use local/oss models, but it doesn't make it simple to do (easiest with ollama) and it's not clear what else you 'lose' by making that choice.

If you had a really good (big) local model, maybe it's an option, but on the more common smaller (<32b) models, it will have similar problems in looping, losing context, etc. in my experience.

It's a nice TUI, but the ecosystem is what makes it good.

I'm having the same issues, the more I use it. The repetition penalty doesn't seem to help.

I get some really amusing 'reflective' responses, but I think it needs a bit more cooking. Maybe I'll try another variant.

Convenient and Cheap. That's all most people care about.

Privacy was already lost when everyone adopted mobile phones and gave them everything with constant location tracking, and used the free email accounts.

It's interesting that age-verification is the straw that breaks the camels back, but I guess porn has that power.

Absolutely this.

I'm sure Palantir will volunteer

Senior/lead software engineer (generalist; 3+ yoe): £75k - £90k

For London. Maybe higher for Remote US.

For the rest of the country, it's a fair amount lower, typically around the £60k region.

Also in the UK and can also see it fine.

I wonder if it's blocked simply by DNS manipulation and therefore only people using the ISP DNS have issues.

For many of us, we took those jobs because they aligned with our existing identities... we went into coding jobs because we enjoyed coding.

Unfortunately, most of the jobs (and the industry as a whole) evolved into something else that was all about money and growth and image, and not at all about the craft of programming or the creative nature it provided.

Can those agents get my company legal team to approve the use of AI so I can at least try these modern things that make everyone's life better ?

Because for many of us, AI is "not approved until legal say so".

The more AI is used in development, the more it will have to be used for on-call and similar troubleshooting, as nobody will actually understand how it works, or certainly the few engineers that prompt it won't be able to cover all roles.

I don't think that's true, at least for everywhere I've worked.

Agile has completely changed things, for better or for worse.

Being a SWE today is nothing like 30 years ago, for me. I much preferred the earlier days as well, as it felt far more engineered and considered as opposed to much of the MVP 'productivity' of today.

No big tech or government wants capable models to run locally, even if they could.

There will likely be some local devices, but the majority of power will be gated behind money and control.

That certainly seems what he believes he will be.

This is awesome. Brings back so many memories, but with a modern 'feel'.

I would love a local/offline version of this, with a BYOM variant.

This reminds me of PoVRay... in a good way.

How did we get to a place where Cloudflare being down means we see an outage page, but on that page it tells us explicitly that the host we're trying to connect to is up, and it's just a Cloudflare problem.

If it can tell us that the host is up, surely it can just bypass itself to route traffic.

Do you honestly believe most people would let one of these in to their house ?

So now Quest owners are providing more multimodal (and likely personal) data for Meta to train AI on.

There is an easy answer. Give employees two computers.

One is the 'business' one. Mostly locked down, with checks in place.

The other is on a different network, isolated from all business functions, and they can do what they want but must never use it for work data, just like their phones (that everyone knows they use for social media etc. in the day).

Sure, you still have to deal with copying from one to the other (but there are solutions for that if critical, and much easier to secure).

It sounds crazy, but air-gaps are largely proven and it also means that employees feel less oppressed.

Now I realise, even ignoring the cost, businesses won't want this, as perish the thought their employees may do anything other than work. But I suspect it would actually stop more attacks and issues than otherwise and maybe... just maybe.. employees feel as if they're actually human.

If an election were called tomorrow your next government would be Reform with a massive majority of 339 seats. It is the most popular party in the country by far. It would collect 33% of the vote vs Labour's 18% and the Conservatives would get only 17%, translating to their near-total destruction (only 35 seats).

Only if you believe propaganda. What is the sample size of this poll projection, and what are the election policies being put forward for this election ?

It's clear that Labour are unpopular, but an actual election is not something that anyone is thinking about right now, because it is so far out. Reform would like to suggest they are, but they have yet to show any actual policies other than the usual right-wing rhetoric that may be populist but doesn't fix anything.

Shouting loudly like certain Americans, and pretending you have answers, may be good for headlines, but doesn't convince many real voters.

"ChatGPT, come up with a list of ways that people can save water"

But "It's not about the bike" ...

It gets difficult in the teenage years, as not having a phone (or access to) effectively isolates them from their peer group and they become outcast.

Whilst this may be good to avoid brain-rot, it eliminates much of their social needs in many cases.

A balance is required, but that needs parents to actually pay attention and not just leave them to isolate themselves (with their phone) into their room.