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Definitely the latter.

especially since apple customers are more likely to shell out $$$ to buy the developer's wares.

an AI can be just as good a prompt monkey as you are

I was mainly doing architectural work as a coder long before LLMs came along. So was everyone else who wasnt slopping out boilerplate.

It took a while before the MBA hivemind woke up to this happening because of outsourcing two decades ago.

The economics of code and carpentry are different though. A really good piece of code to, say, calculate taxes can be written once and used by a million people. Or, a million peopl…

I don't think you do get it. Caring about craft and wanting to write things like compilers are two very distinct things. One is liking a mental challenge - like a crossword puzzle.…

Yea there were layoffs blamed on AI even when GPT 3.5 couldnt write a line of code to save its life. That's public relations for you. No exec wants to chalk up a layoff to a falter…

The patient with heart disease doesnt give a shit about exercising and eating healthy they just want the doctor to make them better. No business has ever appreciated my craft direc…

The culture of the tech industry started going to shit in 2022/2023 after rates were hiked and before LLMs were capable of anything much. There's more toxicity, more waterfall, mor…

>For people I know who are in tech for the tech nothing changed. Yeah it did. The environments became a lot more toxic and the decisions became a lot more stupid. I also miss worki…

>I sense there is this air around of "demand our jobs keep being relevant" I sense the inverse: a demand that we make ourselves irrelevant to satisfy interest rate inspired demand …

The collapse did take about 1,000 years.

Spewing out tons of boilerplate has always been the hallmark of a bad engineer.

Apple used to be the standard bearer for that. These days I'm not so sure.

>Now there is a plagiarism machine built on top of decades of this work that seemingly solves 3 and promises to solve 2 (badly, but usually this matters little I think people under…

well, it is over 2 years since July 2024

Empire

If there is a way China or Russia could theoretically use it to compete with western propaganda there is often a hamfisted crackdown.

>In july 2024, Zitron wrote at length about how the economics of OpenAI were likely to collapse in the next 1 to 2 years [1]. One of my clearest memories of the first tech bubble w…

It's like having a bunch of walmart sized pets.coms.

"Our allies pushed our gas prices up 1000% how dare you not cancel your pre-scheduled maintenance!"

They installed it and then they took the pipeline down for planned maintenance. it's a little rich to accuse them of playing games with gas after the stunt Canada pulled and most e…

Germany was shamed endlessly for not shutting down coal plants fast enough by the same nuclear fans who didn't make a peep about Poland making a decision to be 80% coal for ages. I…