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Point not mentioned: it just doesn't work that well! It lies, it reverts to the mean on every topic, it wastes the reader's time. It's toxically positive, sycophantic. It's such a …

Always amazed how spoiled we are with modern hardware! The 8087 was $500 in today's dollars, and delivered around 50 kFLOPS of performance (0.00005 GFLOPS). A cheap mobile phone CP…

This hype cycle is unique in that the tech writes its own hype.

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The effort required to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude more than to create it.

Because AI creates unmaintainable messes in any language, and ergonomic ones help humans clean up.

Not sure how excited I feel about visiting your website and having it auto-download a 8GB model with GPT-3.5 level hallucinations, and then probably crash because I only have 6GB o…

This is just emotional rhetoric. Pretty much any app in the last 20 years has depended on a server somewhere, or a cloud provider. Like an AI provider, they can go down, they can t…

Exactly double the cost of GPT 5.4 - $5 per MTok input, $0.50 cached, $30 output. All the AI players definitely seem to be trying to claw more money out of their users at the momen…

Definitely seems like AI money got tight the last month or two - that the free beer is running out and enshittification has begun.

One thing I don't see often mentioned - OpenAI API's auto token caching approach results in MASSIVE cost savings on agent stuff. Anthropic's deliberate caching is a pain in compari…

Love SQLite and most of these features. On the STRICT mode, I've asked this elsewhere and never gotten an answer: does anyone have a loose-typing example application where SQLite's…

One thing I haven't seen mentioned much, in AI coding and other AI-assisted work, is the sheer needless verbosity of models, the walls of text they spew out for us to read through.…

Fun fact: Copilot gives you no way to ignore sensitive files with API keys, passwords, DB credentials, etc.: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/11254#discussi... So by d…

> everybody who is like me, fully onboarded into AI and agentic tools, seemingly has less and less time available because we fall into a trap where we’re immediately filling it wit…

As a 20+ year Windows user now happily running desktop Linux for about a year - too little, too late. This company has completely lost my trust over the past 5+ years, with all the…

Average dev might be more intelligent, but likely neither will produce something of UV's quality. Either AI coding claims are way overblown and OpenAI can't easily remake UV, or Op…

Not sure I follow - is the car the coding agent, and the developer the driver? Agree with OP here, if AI coding tools are as intelligent and amazing as AI influencers and CEOs are …

Side note, everyone's talking about having AI agents "conform to the spec" these days. Am I in my own bubble, or - who the hell these days gets The Spec as a well-formed document? …

No slowdown that I've seen - my style of freelancing is pretty long-term though, clients I've known and worked with for many years.

As a veteran freelance developer - aside from some occasional big wins, I'd say it's been net neutral or even net negative to my productivity. When I review AI-generated code caref…

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Holy crap. What a dystopia. Guess some of this blood money went into free Llama models and the react.js ecosystem (dubious gift to the world). Is it possible to make money these da…