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Yes it does sound like a value judgement made by someone who "fits in", probably after drinking several pints down the pub.
However I think the poem may be deeply ironic, given Robert W Service was probably a member of the "Lost Legion" himself:
I don’t want to be sold the same thing over and once again.
I don't want to be sold the same music, algorithmically recreated again and again to maximise profit while circumventing copyright law.
A lot of people like analogue music. I certainly do, and I wonder if Korg are anticipating a reaction to the slop.
I wonder if this is this just the law of diminishing returns at play?
My thinking being, it's been a few months since I thought the code generation machine was the problem, rather than my interactions with the machine. A month is a long time in AI.
What I mean is, these things are about as smart as they need to be already for the average SWE. I don't think this is true for those solving the really big questions like curing cancer.
Also on a macbook, it took me a while to realise pinch to zoom doesn't do anything except zoom the page, pan is click and drag, and scroll is zoom. Cool project except for the controls, surely scroll should be to scroll up and down?
Looks like Apple are making an effort to get agents to create decent code with Xcode skills, which someone has extracted here [1] but there is near zero mention of accessibility. Worth a read though I think, I learned a few things.
Vim is a bad example to use here. I certainly have no hacker-vibe pretensions, I use Xcode almost exclusively, but with the Vim key bindings which have been integrated very well. The productivity gains with Vim commands are impressive.
Yes. I'm not sure whether Amodei's motivation for attempting to ban open-weight models was for safety or to strengthen Anthropic's position though.
I do hope Anthropic are better with IP, and I think they may be. Given Dario Amodei hasn't been sued by OpenAI while building Anthropic this seems likely.
I think Amodei may actually be quite a good human, despite my trust in big tech being at an all-time low.
This is a really bad look for a company that has vast quantities of our IP stored on its servers.
Can you provide a source? Otherwise your comment is useless.
I loved his Algorithms course on Coursera which I did during the brief moment Stanford MOOCs were all free. So useful for a non-CS grad doing any kind of algorithmic programming.
Those were good days.
Yawn. So people are discovering SWE hasn’t actually changed in its basic principles. Is this going to be the new “how I use LLMs” article? Good night
Cool. I wish I could choose British English as an option though, I failed to get words like Humor or Color because they’re just not in my lexiy.
Well quite. So why are we living in this surveillance hellscape?
In the same sense that a blockchain can be forked by using software that only accepts certain types of block, is it possible to fork the WWW in a similar manner? e.g. with changes that neuter the ad-mongers.
For example coming up with a way to get rid of these god awful cookies. Maybe ad-monger sites could be allowed in the same way an insecure connection is allowed behind a series of warnings?
Not really. Every activist that made a real difference for the good caused some kind of havoc.
Are you aware of any projects to replace the current web implementation?
I've noticed the current version is largely accessed by Chrome which appears to be a trojan.
Hard to say without hearing what the product is, but personally I'll avoid anything that wants to lock up my data and charge me for it.
20 year GIS dev here. Looks pretty useful for data exploration. I'd say one of the more compelling GeoAI things I've seen.
The problem is there's really a lot of data out there and it's a lot of work to move it around, e.g. between S3 buckets. There's also a ton of GIS SAAS vendors who are pure rent-seekers: I'm looking at a newer offering charging $23 per month for 10GB storage. This has more utility than their offering in my opinion.
The good thing here is that it could keep data provenance because it's SQL over known datasets.
Nobody is questioning the longevity of AI. The internet itself wasn’t affected by pets.com but a lot of retail investors got burned. It’s going to happen again, I think perhaps in a different way.
For example many are treating vibe coding like slot machines and the app monetisation gamble is unlikely to pay off.
Is there any way to get raw digital numbers from a phone camera sensor that can be verified as reality, e.g. though a hardware provided hash of the image?
Personalization will grow right at the vendor offering
I think so. There will be a short period, like now, where many will attempt to build their own products and the five good ideas out of five thousand will be incorporated into products built by those who know what they’re doing.
An absolutely technophobic friend asked me what agentic AI was today. I think Charlie Munger said “When even your barber is talking about it, sell and run”
Developing apps in SwiftUI it’s extremely useful to have SwiftData, an ORM that can act like a system of records. For my own use case this is basically metadata for large scale datasets in Parquet or similar.
That said it’s still my most frequent cause of crashes, however I think mostly it’s just because this is simply a hard problem that SQLite just isn’t cut out for (although it did take Apple until macOS 27 to supply a codable decorator grrr).
Ideally databases could evolve to fit OR mapping more closely, which incidentally is what Arrow and Parquet have done to an extent.
Instead of employing an engineer for a year we burned an obscene amount of resources to generate code which will enable vibe coders to burn more resources.
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In computing, a trojan horse or trojan is a kind of malware that misleads users as to its true intent by disguising itself as a normal program. [1]
Google is Trojans all the way down. What is the true intent of almost every Google product? Data harvesting.
Every single product is spyware of some kind. They've even managed trojanize TVs by subsidising manufactuers to ship their spyware.
I don't think you followed the thread. I began discussing the OAuth privacy nightmare, then the counter point was that the with email auth providers know anyway, but they don't know the login times necessarily, unlike with OAuth.
True they'd know which sites you've signed up to, but not the login times, unless the service emails you every time you log in.
What I don't understand is why OAuth is rarely talked about in a privacy context, however your OAuth provider knows all the sites you log into and when.
It's a privacy nightmare.
Hope folks will always keep that in mind as they develop software for proprietary platforms they don't own.
You're right of course and "The Other Road Ahead" was very prescient, but I think the desktop vs web-app divide is marginal nowadays, excepting one huge difference: desktop apps can offer a guarantee of privacy which browser based apps cannot.
Note that a guarantee is just that, Apple offer privacy guarantees, but there is is of course no such thing as absolute privacy or security.
It's perfectly possible to write desktop apps that are thin clients for web apps, so there's no real divide except where the code executes: in the browser sandbox, or in the OS sandbox.
The current issue with desktop apps is mainly UI framework related. The browser based programming model has had so many resources thrown at it that somehow JavaScript and a bunch of divs is probably the best UI framework there is, and it pains me to say that.
That’s a lot closer-to-the-ground truth. It would be interesting to compare Xona’s map with this, if they provide the actual data.