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Ya'll have junior devs? I haven't seen one of those in almost a decade.

this works fine for like 2-3 small instruction sets. once you start getting to scale of a real enterprise system, the AI falls down and can't handle that amount of context. It will start ignoring critical pieces or not remember them. And without constant review AI will start priotizing things that are not your business priority.

I don't agree they have solved this problem, at all, or really in any way that's actually usable.

You could be right, I am much older and much more jaded than I was in those bright-eyed years. I could just simply have different perspective now.

Although, you made me think of the last time I felt that feeling was the first iPhone release. Going from our Nokia's with snake to the iPhone was also quite the experience. I remember my uncle getting one very, very early, maybe even pre-release and we went out for a big family dinner and there was like 15 of us just crowded around my uncle watching him use random apps. No one had ever seen anything like that before.

The problem/challenge w/ LLM's is we've been building interactive chat bots since the IRC days, probably earlier so the interface doesn't feel new. And no one really understand what's going on behind the scenes other than "it does stuff" and "sometimes it get's it right and sometimes... not so much". It's a weird technology lol

yikes. didn't know about any of that.

lol, we also did that. And we a Cyrix chip so our computer was pretty slow (but fast for the time) and you had to shut down absolutely everything, even the screensaver, that damn thing coming on is probably responsible for at least 100 coasters haha. Any sort of PC stutter and you were presented with that damn buffer underrun error message.

I was like 12 or 13 and wanted to install linux, like slackware 2.0 or some shit lol. But I didn't know about iso's, just FTP. So I was trying to download every single file from a unpacked linux distro on a ftp site with a 14.4k modem. Then I'd burn them and try to install. I think it took me nearly 500 cds before I got a working install. The install would get like 60% and die on some corrupt package/file, I'd redownload that file, burn it again, run the install... 61% crash, repeat... I did get that sucker installed though. insanity lmao

Microsoft went crazy with Windows 95 marketing and release.

They also spent 3m (reported between 8m-15m at the time though -- which was massive for its day) on licensing Stones' Start Me Up.And they actually sent some shitty live version which would have avoided paying their old bassist. Jerks.

The hype was real though. I can still remember installing the floppy version on one of my first PCs. The first start up was like Star Trek level awe. It was so radically different and cool. Imho, Windows 95 is probably one of, if not, the most important software release of all time. Shaped how PC technology was used for the next 4 decades and still going strong.

I miss the 90s where every next iteration or release of hardware/software was generally a huge improvement. Like going from a 120mb hard drive to 1.6gb disk. Or getting your first CD-ROM after only having floppies, or CD-Writer (parents bought a 1x SCSI CDR the first year consumer ones came out -- made lots of coasters). Dial up to cable internet. The feeling of experiencing those new technologies was unmatched. It created such a since of awe, inspiration and wild imagination of possibilities. I don't get that feeling much these days.