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in 10-15 years, we are going to have consumer PCs (and phones!) running models doing pretty much anything that frontier models can do right now.

The way things are going with regards to RAM/storage prices, I highly doubt that anyone but the richest among us will be able to afford them.

I think they're not testing Fable as much as they're testing guardrails which they can later apply to anything they want.

That's where the free marketing comes from.

Static typed languages had been around a long time before Python, JS and Ruby gained popularity. All three of the latter now support some form of type hints.

Why did people switch to these languages in the first place and what's driving the current back-to-typed-languages trend?

His Apple keynotes conveyed a sense of magic, for example demonstrating pinch to zoom on the iPhone and pulling a MacBook Air out of a manila envelope. And something he'd be angry because things didn't go as planned.

These pre-recorded keynotes we get nowadays are just bland and AI-generated.

I got to use it for a couple of days on Pro. Feature implementation actually fit into subscription usage, but then it went on chasing its tail fixing bugs it introduced and burning through about $15 in credits. It got the job done in the end, though. I'd say it's good, better than Opus, but I found that both GPT 5.4 and 5.5 are way better than Opus.

So Fable is as good as GPT 5.5, if not better.

Might never replace completely, but those remaining will be expected to pump out a lot more code so companies won't need to hire as many.

I'd say 2015-2016.

C'mon developers, stand up to marketing for a change and stop writing these software nags.

Only things they ever stood up for were social issues (that's why you see banners with Ukraine and BLM, etc). Google kinda put an end to that when they fired 28 workers protesting Israel.

I never saw any banners protesting dark patterns.

Now, with (perhaps) most developers in the shadow of the AI-layoffs boot, there's really no hope for change coming from the inside.

I know Ed Zitron is a divisive figure

The main counterarguments to his claims are "but Sam/Dario/Satya/Jensen said X" and that we should treat them as gospel.

We're all grownups, why should we care about RAM prices? /s

This is insane. We've built our apps and websites to require ungodly amounts of memory and now AI scrapes away said websites while pricing us out.

Fast apps and websites need to make a comeback.

I wonder if River is a reference to the Firefly character, which was known for being unstable and unpredictable.

KDE 3.5.x really was peak desktop at the time, especially when all the K* apps were working as intended. As a Windows user discovering Slackware 10.2 back 2005, I was really blown away. KDE 4 just didn't feel the same.

Can't directly outlaw VPNs? No problem, we'll have the the few corporations powering the internet block anyone who even thinks about anonymity!

This. What even is the point of blocking scapers if Google consumes your content anyway and serves it as an AI answer?

These are sad times we're living as far as openness of the web goes. People would have less of a scraping problem if their websites didn't ship with 20MB of JS.

"speed" in Swedish and Norwegian. Probably Danish as well.

Alternative search engines are popular with the tech/HN bubble. Other than Bing, they have no palpable market share. Google does not care about said bubble because it mostly overlaps people who would use an adblocker anyway and who are capable of finding their way around other for-profit restrictions (i.e. downloading videos with yt-dlp instead of paying for YT Premium).

DDG has <1% market share, so +28%, while encouraging, means nothing for the monopoly. I use it. I use Brave Search as well. Paid for Kagi for a while.

But getting people to use anything other than Google (or the default Bing for on Windows) is nearly impossible at scale.

Musk is in favor for 12-hour days 7 days a week and no unions.

Have you ever looked at the browsing history of a non-technical, non-tech-addicted older person?

Search-wise, all they know is Google. I've seen people open Internet Explorer, search 'google' via a Bing search box, then click on google.com where they finally searched for a website they basically opened every day. IMO had they known Bing is also a search engine, they would've skipped searching for Google, so I'm a bit skeptical to people changing search habits. If anything, AI could be the replacement.

I was a paying customer for a few months. Good service, but severely limited by the 300 quota.

Yes, but at $5/300 searches they're trying too hard to squeeze $10 out of you for the unlimited plan. 300 searches is ridiculous.

That and vendored HTMX. Nobuild. JS on the backend looks more and more like a very bad idea.

I found it actually thinks about architecture and tests and not just spit out code with TODO in it like Claude.

Every single word domain seems to have become some new AI company.

So we're supposed to believe that removing humans from customer support will lead to better outcomes?

Ensure you only pay for the value Sierra delivers with outcome-based pricing.

Yeah... that won't last.

The domain name is ripe to respawn as the name of some new AI company that no one really knows what it does and that has nothing to do with search. Agentic something something.

Because the same rocket man the same crowd here was worshipping a decade ago is bad now. And by extension everything anyone that works for him does must also be bad and evil.

ChatGPT would conveniently throw an error when asked about allegations against Sam. Claude doesn't like openclaw, refusing requests or charging extra if it sees the word.

IMO Elon's manipulation is nothing compared to that.

Also Grok saying it's Mecha Hitler is somehow worse than OpenAI/Anthropic's use by the DoD.

What is the newer data?