Coders will abandon AI
I secretly wish for it, but that will probably never happen. But the ridiculous excesses - like running hundreds of LLM agents in a loop to write your software - will go away. They’ll be way too expensive to run for most companies after the subsidies run out.
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In this economy?
Wir gehen erst wieder, wenn ihr Anschluss läuft.
Hack the Planet!
I get the feeling Microsoft often starts modernization projects and abandons them halfway through. That’s why we still have the modern and the classic control panel. Even their web apps have this problem - there is an old version of the Exchange administration panel and a new one. And it’s been like that for a decade.
They’re just piling new junk on top of old junk and it shows.
I’ll just block you here too.
Oh no, don’t threaten him with a good time.
The Steam machine would’ve been amazing if it was affordable. You can hardly blame Valve for the AI bubble and current RAM pricing though.
You’re trusting unsigned, reverse engineered, and amateur developed drivers in ring 0
Up until 2025 most of the software for controlling your periphery like mice and RGB controllers used a driver called WinRing0 which had been discontinued for years. Its author even actively discouraged people from using it, but due to convenience and cost cutting it was bundled with software left and right.
I rather trust a Linux kernel developer developing a WiFi driver than some shady manufacturer selling cheap mice and bundling it with closed-source software that never gets an update.
You can just do CTRL+R (in bash at least)
I’m at a point where I gladly pay for my search engine just to get good results.
One could argue we were always paying, with our data. But now we get less in return.
From the guy that brought us: “All the CPUs in the past were built for humans, this CPU is built for agents.”
Dude just invented fictional customers by selling directly to the AI. 😅
I’d say this whole case is way more than just mildly infuriating.
The existing options for portable gaming all suck
I have a GPD Win Max 2. 64GB of RAM, Ryzen 7, RDNA3(.5) GPU…it’s a beast. Fits in my jacket pocket and can run Cyberpunk with raytracing.
It’s expensive as hell, but it’s a really good handheld machine. They even mention emulation on their own site and put up some benchmarks and I can confirm it - I regularly play games with rpcs3 and pcsx2 at a stable 4K60fps.
From a lot of posts here I get that working as a dev in the US is now a total shitshow. But to give you my European perspective (I work in Germany): AI adoption hasn’t been as rapid here. People and companies are more skeptical about it, compared to the US.
I work as a web developer for an employer that is cautious about AI. I can use it, but I am not forced to. Tried it excessively for a few months (agents writing my code, playing a glorified manager and all of that jazz), but I noticed my own skills atrophying and me losing the general grasp of what my code actually does. And even though everyone and their dog claim that the models get better with each new release, I still run into hallucinations way too often. If you are very experienced in a field and you’ve been doing it for over a decade, you notice all of the small inconsistencies and bullshit answers - much quicker than a junior dev who didn’t have that experience yet.
So nowadays I only use Gemini for tool and library research or really simple boilerplate code. For everything else my own brain is the better solution. I am not actively against AI as a technology, but extremely opposed to paying a subscription to some techbro billionaire’s company to keep doing my job. Fuck Altman, Elon, Jensen and the Zuck.
If Ed Zitron is correct in all of his calculations, the frontier models will get so expensive they’ll become unprofitable for a lot of companies, so it would be a stupid decision to rely on them. I am looking forward to one day host good models on my own machine - though that day is not today, when capable GPU’s still cost thousands of dollars.
my project is not inherently dangerous.
It is not “your” project - it was generated by a glorified chatbot. Since you lack the experience to judge its output, I cannot trust you to verify the security of the project.
Updates are painful on modern Windows, to me it feels like they haven’t overhauled the updating system since the Windows 7 days.
It’s ridiculous that you have to restart just to update .NET and they take way too long. The major update from the last patchday took 20 minutes on my Ryzen 7 with 64GB RAM and gigabit internet - from downloading to installing and then doing three reboots.
Fedora on the other hand recently had 153 updates for me and the whole process was done in 3 minutes, with only one reboot.