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How does such a system sustain itself?

The majority of the content on the internet is supported by ads with the expectation that you, a human that has money, will consume something and spend money on them.

If people are replaced by some synthetic representation of themselves, what is the incentive to sell advertisements on the internet if there are no humans?

Fake/artificial traffic is a big problem today, it will be harder and harder to detect but its presence will be more and more obvious.

If you are in charge of that tooling, how do you ensure the correctness of the work? Or is it that at this point the responsibility goes one level higher now where implementation details are not important or relevant at all and all it matters is it behaves as described?

Betteridge's law proven correct once again. The answer to the headline is: no. Perhaps it will be true in the future, nobody knows.

I'm skeptical the extent to which people publishing articles like this use AI to build non-trivial software, and by non-trivial I mean _imperfect_ codebases that have existed for a few years, battle tested, with scars from hotfixes to deal with fires and compromises to handle weird edge cases/workarounds and especially a codebase where many developers have contributed to it over time.

Just this morning I was using Gemini 3 Pro working on some trivial feature, I asked it about how to go about solving an issue and it completely hallucinated a solution suggesting to use a non-existing function that was supposedly exposed by a library. This situation has been the norm in my experience for years now and, while this has improved over time, it's still very, very common occurrence. If it can't get these use cases down to an acceptable successful degree, I just don't see how much I can trust it to take the reins and do it all with an agentic approach.

And this is just a pure usability perspective. If we consider the economics aspect, none of the AI services are profitable, they are all heavily subsidized by investor cash. Is it sustainable long term? Today it seems as if there is an infinite amount of cash but my bet is that this will give in before the cost of building software drops by 90%.

It's fun to watch and somehow more approachable to me than a big program with lots of menus and virtual knobs.

This article was posted a few days ago, it was flagged and removed within an hour or two. I don't know what is different this time.

True for any Spanish speaking country.

That's a big number.

I likely did something wrong but according to my hastily put calculations, Stripe has to improve favorable dispute result chance by 40% for this option to begin making sense. Or it could be lower but the value proposition of producing the evidence to dispute must cover for the gap.

That’s a myth. In many parts of Mexico, if not everywhere, water treatment is bad and drinking tap water is not advised, so you buy purified water.

It cost around 10 pesos (50 cents) to fill a 19 liter (5 gallon) jug. That’s cheaper than a single 12oz can of coca cola

I read all entries about Rebecca last night after reading this one. It is such a visceral and devastating chronicle expressed in a beautiful way, it left me deeply moved.

I wonder how he felt after writing those words. I wonder if that beautiful ability to write what he feels so that many can feel a tiny glimpse of what he felt, helps to keep moving forward, even if a little bit.

Maybe a big assumption, but perhaps one of the founders is a fan of Malazan Book of the Fallen. Karsa Orlong is a character in the book series. A solid character, not sure if I would name a company after him though, so maybe the name is from somewhere else.

I'm from a Spanish speaking country. In the 90s one of the ubiquitous pencil brands had on their pencils the phrase "Sin plomo" or "No contiene plomo", can't remember which one, these phrases translate to "Without lead" and "Does not contain lead" respectively.

I never understood where it came from but it probably came from some English label translation perhaps? Where the distinction and labeling where the disambiguation of the word "Lead" made more sense and the label was simply translated at face value on a Spanish speaking market.