Said it as soon as the money came in in: it will be a year or two before the first popular fork.
Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent
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Re: Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent
#112When the early adopters start pushing neural implants they'll be ad-free. Not long after your boss insists that everybody needs neural implants for the sake of productivity, they'll be ad-supported but moneyed developers will be able to opt out. The terms of the ad-free service will continue shifting, so nothing is ever really ad-free for long, and ads for better neural implants are promotions not ads right? But y'al…
The real problem here is capitalism. The system needs consumers to spend more and more. A system where nobody profits from you consuming more of something wouldn't have this particular failure mode
I don't know why you're being downvoted.
So, lately I've been trying to decouple AI from Capitalism, and it's starting to explain a lot of things, like:
* excessive hype
* doing layoffs, and scapegoating AI
* pushing AI into everything (Copilot)
* etc.
Re: Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent
#113Taylor's response to a similar thread on Reddit[1]: Hey all! Kinda surprised this has "taken off" haha It has nothing to do with raising money. It has everything to do with the fact that based on the data we have, there is a large increase in the number of people trying Laravel who haven't coded before or are getting deeper into web development for the first time. That is a good thing! The previous guidelines would h…
The fun fact about PHP is that, there is no Pipeline problem at all. You can serve your scripts the hell you like to do. You can scale as you wish, either with vertical or horizontal. You can use Apache, nginx, etc, no one cares.
I think you're conflating a talent pipeline with ease of running PHP. Those are not the same thing at all
Re: Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
My LG dryer was using wifi to advertise an extended warranty for itself. Then it broke, maybe I should have bought the warranty? I bought a simpler model without wifi this time.
What are you talking about, in what way is this supposed to be an argument about ads? It sounds like your dryer broke
The "buy the extended warranty" thing is clearly an ad.
Re: Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent
#115I think it's debatable whether or not it's an ad. I also think it's debatable whether or not the title of the post is sensational.
BUT
It truly warms my heart to see the level of mistrust the comments in this thread show towards (a) venture capital funding and (b) anything even resembling an ad.
Re: Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t do laravel but which bad practices are you referring to?
In addition to what /u/bakugo already said, they also have custom global magic functions all over the place. The code discipline and patterns they encourage are so bad that they had to wrap PhpUnit into their own version of the unit test framework named Pest, because PhpUnit intentionally discourages those patterns natively.
Pest is just phpUnit syntax sugar. Claude will happily switch between the two syntaxes in seconds.
Re: Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've never seen an ad delivered through any of these things. On smartphones I mean the phone/OS itself It would be very easy to deliver ads via electricity. The utility could require you watch an ad before using more
> It would be very easy to deliver ads via electricity. The utility could require you watch an ad before using more. That does not sound very easy to me. That sounds barely possible.
It's trivial
Lots of poor people have in residence electricity boxes that require prepayment for usage. In the olden days you put a coin in to turn on the power, but nowadays they have apps and digital payment solutions!
They might already have ads in those apps...
Re: Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent
#119When the early adopters start pushing neural implants they'll be ad-free. Not long after your boss insists that everybody needs neural implants for the sake of productivity, they'll be ad-supported but moneyed developers will be able to opt out. The terms of the ad-free service will continue shifting, so nothing is ever really ad-free for long, and ads for better neural implants are promotions not ads right? But y'al…
You'll never see a neural interface ad. You'll just have always been a Pepsi drinker. It's right there in all your favorite childhood memories, after all.
Re: Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It would be very easy to deliver ads via electricity. The utility could require you watch an ad before using more. That does not sound very easy to me. That sounds barely possible.
It's trivial Lots of poor people have in residence electricity boxes that require prepayment for usage. In the olden days you put a coin in to turn on the power, but nowadays they have apps and digital payment solutions! They might already have ads in those apps...
This is all news to me. It seems like it would be tough to prevent people from just using the power that's going to that box.
I guess I'm out of touch, because I've never heard of anything like this. I've had my power turned off for non-payment before, but I had to talk to someone at the utility to get it switched back on.