I still can’t believe people bought those stupid monkey digital photos
I met someone once who had “invested” in these. Like, thousands of pounds. He thought he was super clever, talked down to us because we were so far out of the loop. I do wonder what happened to him. Poor guy.
he learned nothing and is now chasing AI stonks
the only one chasing it is JENSEN.
I still don’t understand the part where some got ‘stolen’ and were held hostage…
They were held in a poorly designed browser-based crypto wallet that only weirdos know how to use, so when normies wanted in on the get rich quick scheme, they would easily get confused and authorize third parties full access to the wallet.
This is the future you don’t want to be left behind do you?
Can they just get in their little fucking bunkers already, and we can seal them off? Not many guillotines required, the stupid fucks can corner themselves and rot… much easier
The Guillotine is a great historical thought, though. Just look at the exemplary oasis of equality that’s France.
zuck did immeasurable harm to vr by trying to dominate the field. utter decimation of expectations. he made a fool out of all of it.
i like what i’ve seen about the steam frame so far and look forward to having one hopefully. never, not once, not ever, shall i pressure anyone else into it; it’s a personal interest, personal to ME and others who choose to adopt it.
Gee, it’s almost like pressuring people into something makes it super not enjoyable for anyone. Anywho, I’m off to Google something only to scroll past the AI generated response I didn’t ask for and can’t disable.
Kagi is right there, bro. You don’t have to keep going back to the abuser.
Yeah, I use ddg, I was more making a point.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/-ai-overview/ this one does a great job on firefox and it’s various forks.
I partially disagree. It got standalone VR much more popular. I dislike all the Facebook stuff but as far as the headset goes, it is genuinely decent. Like I personally use a Lenovo explorer so it’s about as cheap as it gets. But there are times I wish I got a quest because I could get away with wireless streaming from my PC.
It is a good compromise from all angles but I’m betting Facebook/meta is subsidizing the shit out of it.
The moment it was clear they couldn’t figure out what the “Next Big Thing” was they started throwing shit at the wall before going “well if we can’t find the next best thing, we’ll force it on them!”
That’s how we got to where we are with AI.
To be left behind is nothing someone should be afraid.
Actually, can they just leave me alone?
I’m sure they have an app for that.
Oh boy don’t start me on cr’apps. It’s insane how even working at a grocery store requires an andriod or ios. It would be one thing if they provided you a phone or whatever like they did when I worked in JcPenis. I can’t wait to get a holiday job and then ask how do I install that on my linux phone.
Ageing a really funny experience. As a young person being left behind like that was unthinkable. I’d do anything to not get left behind. Now that I am a lot older I couldn’t care less if I get left behind. I’ve found what makes me happy, I don’t need to keep up anymore. It’s so freeing.
FOMO comes along a lot when you’re younger.
Then you MO a lot, for various reasons, and you realize it’s not a big deal.
If you don’t MO, then you never develop the FO, and then next thing you know, you’re in a FAFO loop.
I’m in the ROMO phase. Relief of missing out.
cue Losing My Edge!
If this is the future, yes, please leave me behind.
VR is cool and the new meta glasses that are basically a vr headset in a glasses form factor is the direction that will make it far better. Too bad it’s all ruined because it’s a meta product and they insist you have an account for what is undoubtedly the most aggressive data collection in the entire world
Idk why everyone is so excited about the glasses form factor for VR. Do you want to hurt your nose? Goggles imo will always be more comfortable for VR
Meta are dragging more open competitors along with them though, and showing that a market exists (but not the 80bn Metaverse Zuck promised).
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Even if every developer has a max subscription and uses it to mostly or completely automate their coding activities…how many people is that? A few hundred thousand? Where are these supposed revenues going to come from?
Well, first of all, the max subscription is going to cost 10k a month, so jot that down
Hah, and then nobody will buy it. They tried to up token prices earlier this year and were forced to go back to selling $10000 of compute for $100 in like a month because usage dropped off.
Don’t you worry! AI is gonna think of something…/s
Not arguing your point, but a few hundred thousand…?
If you’re going to be making an argument, at least get the most basic of your facts right.
Globally there are about 40-50 million software engineers. A hell of a lot more than a few hundred thousand. 1/10th of that is in the U.S.
I was guessing, sure, but apparently so were you:
https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-data-playground/
Even if the numbers are what you’re saying they are…and the same number of full-time developers transition to become full-time prompters (doubtful), and every one of them buys a $100 a month subscription that’s only 60 some odd billion a year. They’re projecting revenues to grow into the trillions per year. Literally how?
My clients have accountants, pms, service dept using claude too. for what I do not know. Having said that, I agree I am not sure how this money pit will make money. the plan seems to be nvidia to keep dumping money into ai companies and then the ai companies from nvidia…
It’s painfully obvious to me as a (reluctant) daily user of these things that most people will have no use for it.
Maybe there are some people for whom the barrier to entry for software development was that they didn’t want to learn a programming language but were otherwise very technical and wanted to create software, but that seems like it’s a small amount of people.
Aside from the coding itself, developing software with Claude has all of the same problems developing software without it had.
There are also new risks to developing software with it, because among other things it further siloes developers (into teams of one + chatbot).
I’m also a reluctant user as well. I just got my degree and wanted to change careers. Am now like should I put experience with claude code in my resume or not lol. Its a weird time. Id rather do everything by hand but boss wants things fast.
I don’t think people have figured out yet that the coding was not the hard part of most software development. Maybe it is when you’re really junior or unimaginative, but it it’s more about communication issues, building the “right thing”, testing, etc. etc. forever and Claude hasn’t solved much or any of that (and has made some of it worse).
Software freedom: turns out we can choose our future anytime we want.
who is the first guy? i know the 2nd one is the zuckerborg, and sam altman is the 3rd one.
Is it Will Entriken?
Possibly Jimmy Fallon
That’s a fantastic caricature of Zuckerberg.
and every single time an idea that could’ve been genuinely worthwhile with enough time to gestate got rushed out and smothered by lame ass realization.
Is it still possible to be in the Metaverse? Can I live my xbox360 graphics dreams and walk around the virtual McDonalds headquarters?
Second Life is still online.
College professors from the early 2000s rejoice - your future still exists
your future still exists
future is Mount and Blade!
I know it exists allready for a very long time. But somehow I always forget about that. I don’t think I ever even tried it.
it was kinda cool around the same time OG WoW launched and up until late 2000s. After that it fell by a wayside because it was basically a bunch of chatrooms disguised as MMO. The only thing really worth checking out is the Chris Marker’s space - there’s a Youtube presentation about it
PCVR mods are amazing though
Yep. Just stay away from the Meta headsets. They are cheaper than the competition for a reason.
Yes! Yes, please? If this is your vision of the future then I want to be left behind, playing and laughing outside with my friends and neighbours.
