I get the feeling Microsoft often starts modernization projects and abandons them halfway through. That’s why we still have the modern and the classic control panel. Even their web apps have this problem - there is an old version of the Exchange administration panel and a new one. And it’s been like that for a decade.

They’re just piling new junk on top of old junk and it shows.

I’ll just block you here too.

Oh no, don’t threaten him with a good time.

The Steam machine would’ve been amazing if it was affordable. You can hardly blame Valve for the AI bubble and current RAM pricing though.

You can just do CTRL+R (in bash at least)

I’m sure A24 doesn’t care, but I feel better now. “New workflows” is just corpo-speak for getting rid of people.

A bicycle will transport me in the same manner every time I use it. A calculator will always give me the correct result of 2+2.

What was your point about AI again?

This is preposterous! Now the techbros have started worshipping fictional characters on their digital platforms! Know that only one cosmic entity is worthy of being adorned - the almighty Ç̵̛͔͛ť̵͈h̴̜̪̃̎ũ̴̹͗l̵̥̒̀h̵͓͕̓͒u̴̬̎. He makes me build great web apps without AI.

I doubt anything will actually happen, though - everyone with a brain already knew this. Although it is nice to finally have it on paper, now.

Investors are so insane, they’ll still believe they can make a profit off OpenAI, until it inevitably crashes and burns.

It makes me happy to see that Ed’s finally started his redemption arc after being laughed at or ignored by mainstream media for years.

Bloomberg had him on a few days ago and he didn’t even swear once. :D

they have been saying the same kinda of thing about AI for months

Definitely true, but this grift has been going on for years, someone has to cover it.

it’s only a matter if time til hardware gets really good at it and it becomes very viable to run open source models at home that make theirs irrelevant.

I have a small netbook with 64GB of RAM and a Radeon 780M. I can use 55GB of the RAM for running local models (since it’s shared VRAM I can put all of that into the GPU and even combine it with an external one). So I’ve tried qwen3.6 and it’s just as useable (and often shitty) as Gemini or ChatGPT, but without the instant response. Depending on the task, I have to wait from thirty seconds to five minutes for the reply.

That was pretty eye-opening for me. If the big players didn’t buy up all of the RAM and make GPUs with high VRAM extremely expensive, all of us would already be able to run these models by ourselves.

I’m really waiting for the falllout after the crash, when those Blackwell GPUs will land on eBay for fifty bucks and we can get adapters on Aliexpress to use them at home. It will bring computing back into our own hands and out of the corporations emptying our pockets with subscriptions. And hopefully, it will open up discussions about the actual capabilities of LLMs, because what we’re having to endure right now in the media is not based in reality at all.

I don’t trust them. They just put a feature into the YouTube app that remixes YouTube shorts with AI without the creators’ consent. It’s useless and nobody asked for it.

You can’t bring in more AI and fight it at the same time.

I’ll never understand why some people desperately try to have an NPC face. Beauty comes from being different.

LinkedIn is the definition of this.

It’s basically an older version of the website, without the AI features.

From a lot of posts here I get that working as a dev in the US is now a total shitshow. But to give you my European perspective (I work in Germany): AI adoption hasn’t been as rapid here. People and companies are more skeptical about it, compared to the US.

I work as a web developer for an employer that is cautious about AI. I can use it, but I am not forced to. Tried it excessively for a few months (agents writing my code, playing a glorified manager and all of that jazz), but I noticed my own skills atrophying and me losing the general grasp of what my code actually does. And even though everyone and their dog claim that the models get better with each new release, I still run into hallucinations way too often. If you are very experienced in a field and you’ve been doing it for over a decade, you notice all of the small inconsistencies and bullshit answers - much quicker than a junior dev who didn’t have that experience yet.

So nowadays I only use Gemini for tool and library research or really simple boilerplate code. For everything else my own brain is the better solution. I am not actively against AI as a technology, but extremely opposed to paying a subscription to some techbro billionaire’s company to keep doing my job. Fuck Altman, Elon, Jensen and the Zuck.

If Ed Zitron is correct in all of his calculations, the frontier models will get so expensive they’ll become unprofitable for a lot of companies, so it would be a stupid decision to rely on them. I am looking forward to one day host good models on my own machine - though that day is not today, when capable GPU’s still cost thousands of dollars.

I was able to read it by simply providing a fake email. The usual archive sites also work. It’s not rocket science.

You’re right, but sometimes it’s funny how deliberately stupid people present themselves just to “win” an argument on the internet.

If you don’t know how paywalls work, then yes. Sure.