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.

We’re seeing applications that can generate fully-built websites in seconds

That’s definitely true. But a lot of them are purple and almost all of them have a myriad of small glitches and rendering errors between different browsers and screen resolutions.

What’s really funny is that they asked a bunch of random CEOs and one of them is Harry Roper, a dude that seems to almost exclusively build his stuff with Lovable and claims to make $100k/month (source: himself). Of course this guy heavily drank the AI koolaid and produces horrible takes like these:

It allows you to create custom pages for people in a matter of seconds, helping to deliver a more unique experience for each customer

There’s nothing unique about websites designed by LLMs. For example: Two containers inside of a row with an image and some text have been built a million times, so of course the LLM can just reproduce this design. If you ask an LLM to create a button it will always look like Bootstrap. Tell it to build an accordion and it’ll also look like Bootstrap. Depending on how many tokens you’ve spent (or are allowed to spend) it might not even include the aria tags for accessibility, making it worse than Bootstrap.

So they cite some random CEOs - i.e. the people who don’t actually do the work - to prove that designers absolutely must adopt AI into their workflow to not get left behind - which is classical fearmongering.

In their minds, AI is “helping to deliver a more unique experience” or utilizes “frameworks and methodologies that we can run our teams and ourselves through”. But the matter of the fact is that the most unique designs are not built by talking to a chatbot and shoddily gluing components in a framework together. They are built by humans, by hand.

P.S.:

“As costs come down, this will become a by-product of marketing"

Are they, Harry? Are the costs really coming down? You’ll be up for a rude awakening when Lovable inevitably turns to token-based billing, just like everybody else. I hope you haven’t spent all of that cash already.

Marvel star Evangeline Lilly attended anti-vaccine-mandate rally in Washington to support ‘bodily sovereignty’

The demonstration, which took place on the National Mall, appeared to be the same event where political scion and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. referenced Anne Frank in a speech to imply that Jews had more freedoms during the Holocaust than unvaccinated Americans do today.

my project is not inherently dangerous.

It is not “your” project - it was generated by a glorified chatbot. Since you lack the experience to judge its output, I cannot trust you to verify the security of the project.

Ghost Rider. First one was goofy action, but still kinda cool. Second one was boring, confusing and lame. But at least it had an exploding bucket-wheel excavator in it, which was the only good scene.

It’s amazing to see how far they’ve come. Rewriting the graphics engine three times is insane. And awesome.

Updated to the beta today, everything went fine and just works. I love this distro.

You can now watch it here for 20USD: https://kinema.com/films/ghost-in-the-machine-pvxg4p

There are also some upcoming free streaming events listed there, graciously paid by some people upfront.

I posted this, because Pivot to AI talked about this documentary today and it looks very interesting - and highly opposed to AI.

Just what we need right now, I’m tired of all the hype.

Were you homeschooled? That’s the only way I can imagine a kid could escape homework

Disclaimer: I’m from the EU, I don’t know if it’s more difficult in the US. But I escaped homework by simply not doing it. I got yelled at, there were a lot of talks between my parents and the school, teachers made fun of me in front of the whole class…but that just made me more angry and more unwilling to do them. :)

Ultimately, there was nothing they could do, except giving me bad grades, but I didn’t much care about those. I’ve been a little shithead.

What also helped was my parents not giving much of a fuck either, they trusted me to do what’s best for me.

I’ve been running some Linux servers for fun, at my last job we also had quite a few. The only admin quit, no documentation. Guess who got a big salary increase because he was the only one with the knowledge required to keep this shitshow running? Yep, that’s me.

Thanks to past me for installing every distro under the sun and sinking years into the commandline, shell scripting, web and mail servers just for the thrill. Linux is awesome.

Hell yeah, brother. I’m in the same boat. Sunk myself into my computer instead of doing boring tasks after school and now it’s my job.

Yes, it’s an older model that still uses those old lamps. I will probably switch over to a laser projector when it gives up the ghost, but so far, it works well.

Thankfully, I never had a lamp explode on me. That sounds absolutely terrifying.

Same here, but I run a projector and watch movies and play games on one wall of my room. The bulb sucks 330 watts to project that large of an image.

I love being an irresponsible adult so much sometimes. :D

Nope

Found one video from fourteen years ago.

Did you just pull a random infographic out of your ass without even mentioning the source? I reverse-searched it and it comes from Anthropic, of all places - the guys that run Claude Code.

Forbes took a look at that study, I love this money quote from it:

These flaws turn Anthropic’s dataset into an overstated labor-market conclusion. The study’s findings do not have the level of reliability required to sustain the breadth of the headline framing, because each conclusion rests on an exposure measure whose scope (1), construction (2, 3, 4, 5, 7), and interpretation (6, 8, 9, 10) remain contested.

So yeah, an AI company telling us that AI will theoretically replace our jobs, based on their own study with flawed data - damn, that’s trustworthy! /s

I’m not going to argue anymore. It’s pointless.

At least on this point we agree.

I’ve built things that used to take 20 weeks in 1 week with Claude.

That’s ridiculous. You’ve either been a bad coder even before the AI hype or you’re simply lying. I have used these tools and they’re not that good or make you that fast - except when you’re just merging all of the proposed code blind and hope for the best. I fear for the future colleagues who will have to work with the raging dumpster fire you have created for them.

The company with the strongest coding LLM is Anthropic and it doesn’t sound like they’re having financial difficulty

Oh yes, they have the same problems OpenAI has. Just look into the vibecoding subreddits, you can see many people complaining about excessive rate limits and their models getting dumber. A healthy company wouldn’t try to put a cap on the token useage and introduce peak-hour throttling, that’s a big warning sign that they’re overspending as well.

its hard to deny the reality at this point

I only see one person here denying reality. You will be effed in a major way when your employer one day decides that the subscriptions are too expensive or tell you to limit your token useage.

It sucks, but this is the new reality.

Sorry mate, but you drank the AI koolaid from Sam Altman and the other tech oligarchs. The reality is that all of the major AI companies are deep in the red, OpenAI isn’t even making a profit with the 200$ subscription.

The only reason people are able to burn thousands of tokens to vibecode their apps is that they don’t have to pay the price for that, the companies are. This money will run out soon and then we will see the real cost for the bigger models.

If a subscription for Claude Code costs 500$ or even 1000$, will companies still pay for it or let actual humans do the work? We will see. I seriously doubt it, and I don’t want to depend on a subscription-based service to do my work while my skills are atrophying. Thank god my employer doesn’t force me to use AI.

Engineers are definitely going to lose their jobs

This kind of fear-mongering is what I despise most about the whole bubble.