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Why should I convert COBOL to Java? LLM can write COBOL just as fine.

Recently I built an ensemble of synthetic persona agents for a client in advertising. It turned out to be a much better brainstorming tool than a single chat, because the differenc…

Why don't cooperatives of IT professionals exist? It's a business with low capital entry and high dividends. Workers should prefer to own their company as risks are really low (in …

Who doesn't love the 90s app style? All those hard edges and flashy colors. I surely do.

Never thought about it. But now I can't unsee it.

ASML is one of the bigger investor of Mistral https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ai-raises-1-7-b-to-accelerat...

It's a very peculiar way to flex.

It's okay, nothing exceptional, but any news from non US and non Chinese models is still good news.

I had to check the date because this sounded so much like 1996 advice. While meetings have their place, they're not how you convince people to work on your project. Meetings are pu…

I have a GitHub Copilot subscription and this really sucks. I subscribed two months ago, frustrated with Claude Code and their tight session limits. The Copilot offer was unbeatabl…

100k is a lot of money for a software agency where I come from.

Nice release from the Qwen team. Small openweight coding models are, imho, the way to go for custom agents tailored to the specific needs of dev shops that are restricted from acce…

Employee costs vary greatly depending on where the factory is located. Here in Italy, a line operator costs around €60,000–70,000 per year, and half of that goes back to the govern…

I still don’t understand how this can be considered cheaper or more productive than using a human. I’m all for automation in industry, but the "human simulation" approach (where a …

I think it’s still a bit too early to draw the conclusion. We need to get past the hype first and let the cash grabbers crash. After that, with a clear mind we can finally think ab…

Supabase? https://supabase.com/

I love Claude Skill, but the UX for creating and modifying them is pretty bad. So I decided to vibe-code a local-only, privacy-focused editor for skill archives. Note: this is a qu…

The naivety behind this vehicle is really fun; you would expect that by 1934, there was enough experience with tires and snow to know that it could never work. Yet, they still buil…