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My bet:
In a years time the discussions on using CC, Opencode, Pidev etc. will be redundant as we will be building our own tooling with whatever programming language and tooling you want.
Some will repurpose a popular opensource tool or harness, others will build it from scratch in an hour or so.
Check out Paul Stamets' research using Mycelium to give honeybees an immuneboost.
No idea,
Anyone from Anthropic here who could answer this?
I have been using Claude code for a while and have recently migrated to Pi
Migrating my skills/agents and config was fairly straightforward.
Pi's agent harness seems to be more responsive and quicker than CC (perhaps with the prompt caching and squashing it does behind the scenes)
Tempted to do a write-up on migration.
I am only using Pi with Github Copilot as I am scared I will get my Claude account banned if I use the Oauth with Pi.
pi.dev
If you are averse to the Daily Mail, you can try this article instead..
The irony of this though is that you just become bucketed in another consumer group.
Resist the packaging of yourself by media firms and marketing.
Try and consume news through the sources like AFP or Reuters (unfortunately not free anymore)
There's always been absurdity though, right?
These are some I can think of or have witnessed since starting my dev career in 2010:
- 4GL business languages making developers redundant
- Big data
- Cloud computing
- DevOps
- LLMs
For those about to quit, I salute you.
Why do I hear this music every time I see Red Alert being mentioned?
Why stop there?
I am considering adding Bell Labs, Xerox and Skunkworks Lockheed Martin to my work experience
Keir along with Theresa May and John Major were true bureaucrats but they all had no real charisma.
Sadly charisma is valued more by voters than other qualities of the political leader of a country.
A lot of the comments on here are a bit unfair on what is great work being done and even more awesome work (JEPs) in the pipeline for the future.
If Java was a child, imagine it being brought up by loving parents for the first few years (Sun) then it was thrown in a garage with some other children and neglected by its evil guardian (Oracle)
Neglected and unloved till JDK 8, its basically been playing catch up.
So when people say "oh so its now got structs or value types of X", yes it has but that's because it has been stunted in its development due to big bureaucratic and hostile corporate processes, but its free now and is getting love through the OpenJDK family.
I will continue to enjoy writing once and deploying anywhere!
It feels like 10 years ago for me :D
Thanks for making me feel older now
What a time to be alive, I remember 10 years ago as a poor student waiting to buy a ATI Radeon X1600 Pro with 256mb, yes 256mb of RAM.
It cost about £190 in 2006.
Now we have GPUs that are in tens of thousands of pounds with insane performance, but what would their price be without the AI and Datacentre squeeze?
Check out TNG on huggingface
They are a consultancy in Germany, but I watched a presentation on them tuning and removing bias from Deepseek models. It was quite interesting.
https://www.tngtech.com/en/about-us/news/release-of-deepseek...
(I upvoted your question as I agree)
Its not just code we need to worry about, its also subliminal messaging and other things.
"T800"
Do you have your agent say things like "Hasta la vista baby", or "I'll be back, after I clear my context" ?
Not a criticism, but why would I use this instead of locking down my Claude using the allow/deny permissions list?
"permissions": {
"allow": [
"Bash(npm run lint)",
"Bash(npm run test *)",
"Read(~/.zshrc)"
],
"deny": [
"Bash(curl *)",
"Read(./.env)",
"Read(./.env.*)",
"Read(./secrets/**)"
]
},How useful is spatial data over time, does it decay or age much?
Is the geographical data more useful, or are buildings and other structures more important?
Genuinely don't know much in this space.
Agreed, I have been trying to get back into blogging on my site.
I found LLMs good for spitting out a structure for my posts but if I ask it to write for me I end up just fixing or correcting it and then lose motivation and never finish the posts.
After a bit of soul searching I have come to the conclusion and reassertion that I want my blog to be about random stuff I like or do, not just a content piece of things I can say that I am a "thought leader" or "I live, eat and breath tech" during an interview.
Maybe in years to come people will just be better evolved to detect AI or slop and by then writers will have ways to show legit writing and captivate readers.
"You have 20 seconds to comply"
Anecdotal but I find people in the tech world hostile to ex or serving military, at least in the UK.
It might just be the liberal bubble of London, but the sentiment I saw with some colleagues was.
- "Why would I want to serve, I am not a robot"
- "You have to have a screw loose to be able to kill someone"
This was in more eCommerce and design industry stuff in London, the defence sector could be more supportive of exmilitary, but I don't know.
When Agentic browsers become the norm, surely we will go back to the days of super plain HTML pages?
Nice story, I don't personally agree with your choices but you are now back on the straight and narrow, big kudos to you and your wife.
Always thought it would be cool to make an RTS or simple city builder game in the browser.
Would you recommend this for hacking around or not?
That's cool, I just tested it out and it is fast but unfortunately its accuracy is not great.
LLMs cannot think, they just guess with some magic with the help of things like softmax (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmax_function), that makes it seem intelligent.
We aren't enslaved or at any risk just yet with this form of "thinking machine", but we do need to culutrally and emotionally come to terms with them.
Let's not have any other "jihad" just yet, there's plenty of other jihads going on right now.
Fair play to the chap, it was refreshing to read a scan of a letter typed from a typewriter.
<joke> I just hope he doesn't start mailing packages to people in the tech industry in the next few years.</joke>
A UH60 Blackhawk with DEVGRU is heading to your location now </joke>
Yes as BenjiWiebe said.
I was meaning more removing your reliance on Google in your life for search, photos, entertainment.
You can start small with Duckduckgo etc.
The paranoia is completely warranted, but there is a solution.
Just root your Android phone and put a custom ROM like LineageOS etc
If you want a stretch goal try and de-Google yourself, I have tried but failed twice now.
Strong disagree.
How many times have you written a boring CRUD endpoint that returns a list of results?
Half the stuff I lose time on is the boring boilerplate code (despite using frameworks). Now I can focus on the fun stuff like determining an optimal algorithm or even getting the LLM to walk me through using kubectl on the terminal
Now I know some kubectl commands off by heart, which I didn't before.
- kubectl get namespaces | grep "foo"