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Even with locally runnable small "open" models you are relying on scraps of others. They are much worse at the LLM game and you don't know when they stop releasing the weights. How…

I think it's appreciation of the world and people to look and think, "some people did that". So many people working together globally to produce anything you see, sometimes over de…

In the story they spend months to build the MVP and people don't like it. This clearly is first point where they could "fail fast", but they believe they can improve and they do. I…

Usually no. And I have to say that no one tries to build a failed business. Founders can be really earnest about their intentions, work harder when they see the cracks, but often i…

Only functional startups I've seen solve actual customer problem and don't try to solve all problems. Usually they have tried several things before they found one that actually is …

Isn't any camera with low enough angle good for license plate reading with additional software?

I noticed that gameplay speed depends on the window size. I'm assuming that larger canvas takes longer to render. It seems too fast at small window sizes and maybe too slow at 4K, …

I think it's more abstraction problem. You could write more code, but you also could abstract code more if you know what/how/why. This same idea abstracts to business, you can perf…

That doesn't sound like ban, you have to disclosure yearly the amount of stock you have demolished, but there is no mention of penalty or anything like that.

This is a big deal and it's not just code. Any decision maker can be cyberbullied/threatened/bribed into submission, LLMs can even try to create movements of real people to push th…

Communities also evolve and devolve with time even without large external event. Maybe you don't feel the same belonging in the friend group after ten years or community grows to b…

I think it's the loss of control. Even if you can achieve awesome things with LLMs you give up the control over tiny details, it's just faster to generate and regenerate until it f…

Good point, sales is the winning factor in most cases. Why is Microsoft one of the largest software companies? Sales.

Yes and that is exactly why they are losing. They have hostages not customers.

Yes, many don't like Sharepoint, but still they use it. It's the tool they can use. Customers don't care if Sharepoint uses LLM, they just want to share ideas, files, reports, page…

I see that Software as a Service banked too much on the first S, Software. But really customers want the second S, the Service. When you sell a service, it's opaque, customer don't…

I'm constantly reminded how software is all around us, we don't even notice it. Operational excellence survives, no matter the origin.

I think we will use more tools to check the programs in the future. However I don't still believe in vibecoding full programs. There are too many layers in software systems, even w…

Skills.md will in time have same problem as MCP, they will bloat the context. I wonder if we could just have the scripts without the descriptions and LLM would have been trained to…

I like the idea but the example doesn't make much sense. In what application would you load all users into memory from database and then filter them with TypeScript functions? And …

I think LLMs are best as learning tools, explaining code and producing something that can be then iterated.

You don't need blockchain for that. Total BS.

I think chatGPT is like porn, it suppresses the urge but it doesn't give the resolution.

Neat, but how do you close the message blocking the calendar?