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I suspected as much after their first use case for cloud services was cricket results.

Perhaps the limitation to whatever express chat is isn’t a dealbreaker in India.

How would an OpenAI employee know what Apple's security processes for departing employees are?

The openAI employee in question is also a former Apple employee.

What user privacy? There would be no chat logs to subpoena if users had privacy.

Companies are already shipping everything to Microsoft or Google and 17 other companies, just the cost of doing business.

Article is from February so that tracks

You can do that, in the US at least.

Dealing with the alien coworkers has always been the job, that is what software is to most people.

Software developers get paid big money because they can speak alien, the only thing that is changing is the dialect.

I can easily anticipate how an inexperienced engineer is going to mess up their first pull request for my project.

Isn’t this just because you have seen a lot of PRs from inexperienced engineers? People learn LLM behavior over time, too.

That is definitely the case, they cover this and many other interesting things about Spotify in the book Mood Machine

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214151728-mood-machine

You can do whatever you want with your phone too, it isn’t illegal to jailbreak an iPhone for example.

Massive job loss from AI requires one of two things: actual human-equivalent AGI or no increase in demand.

Focusing on option 2 and software development, teams and companies will only downsize if the demand for software doesn’t increase. Make the same amount of stuff you do now but with less people.

What I think will happen is that enough companies will choose to do things that they couldn’t afford or weren’t possible without AI (and new companies will be created to do the same) to offset the ones that choose to cut costs and actually increase the amount of people making software.

I am pretty sure these are well known economic ideas but I don’t know the specific terminology for it.

Just curious, how was SQL Server perceived at the time compared to Sybase and Oracle? I know it originated as a port of Sybase.

I highly recommend the book “How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)” if you are interested in this subject.

My understanding is that students are very hard on school provided laptops, I don’t think many of them that have been in use for a year will be in good resale condition.

The surface laptop is a competitor to the MacBook Air, the cheaper Surface Laptop Go was the low cost attempt from MS.

Also, there are plenty of good laptops from HP, Asus, Lenovo, Acer, and others, the market is not that dire.

How are you going to reach out to someone first if all communication is blocked because they don't already know you?

You can upload custom emoji to teams, most businesses just turn it off

I don’t think it is that widely available due to Snapdragon chips not supporting some feature it requires.

Good option for Pixel owners or phones with MediaTek chips though.

I never really understood that angle - do you think the Germans would have thrown their hands up and not killed anyone because they lacked accurate data on who was Jewish?

Programs can’t want things, it’s no different than running any other program as your user

They already have a modern copy on write file system (ReFS), you just can’t use it on desktop Windows for some reason

They already do that for Azure

I know language evolves over time, but I can’t help but be irritated when people refer to anything non-computerized as analog.

If it isn’t representing something with a continuously various signal then it ain’t analog!

To be fair, downloading and running random executables from the internet is a genuinely terrible security model when the OS (like Windows, Linux, or (to a lesser extent) MacOS) does nothing to prevent it from doing anything you can do.

"Why is Claude writing TypeScript I'm supposed to read?" 40% of code is now machine-written. That number's only going up.

How much of the code is read by humans, though? I think using languages that LLMs work well with, like TS or Python, makes a lot of sense but the chosen language still needs to be readable by humans.

Do you debug JVM bytecode? V8's internals? No. You debug at your abstraction layer. If that layer is natural language, debugging becomes: "Hey Claude, the login is failing for users with + in their email."

I debug at my abstraction layer because I can trust that my compiler actually works, LLMs are fundamentally different and need to produce human readable code.

making mandatory perpetual payments to be allowed to use tightly-controlled devices that they must manage their entire lives through

This is the mainframe experience for companies that run on z/OS, the licensing makes Azure look simple by comparison

https://ibmlicensingexperts.com/ibm-mainframe-licensing-z-sy...

The old context menu can get slow as hell too, there have been third party tools to manage it for ages, like https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

This is the fault of whoever is administrating your Windows machines, Teams and Outlook are perfectly capable of opening links in your configured default browser.

How would rebuilding Windows on top of Linux help anything? Nobody is complaining about the NT kernel and none of the Linux DEs are clearly superior to the Windows userland, they all have at least as many bugs and warts.