Were you homeschooled? That’s the only way I can imagine a kid could escape homework

Disclaimer: I’m from the EU, I don’t know if it’s more difficult in the US. But I escaped homework by simply not doing it. I got yelled at, there were a lot of talks between my parents and the school, teachers made fun of me in front of the whole class…but that just made me more angry and more unwilling to do them. :)

Ultimately, there was nothing they could do, except giving me bad grades, but I didn’t much care about those. I’ve been a little shithead.

What also helped was my parents not giving much of a fuck either, they trusted me to do what’s best for me.

I’ve been running some Linux servers for fun, at my last job we also had quite a few. The only admin quit, no documentation. Guess who got a big salary increase because he was the only one with the knowledge required to keep this shitshow running? Yep, that’s me.

Thanks to past me for installing every distro under the sun and sinking years into the commandline, shell scripting, web and mail servers just for the thrill. Linux is awesome.

Hell yeah, brother. I’m in the same boat. Sunk myself into my computer instead of doing boring tasks after school and now it’s my job.

Thanks for confirming! That’s the box I saw as well, after clicking on it it said I will get an email in five business days - and it really took the whole five days.

I don’t see it anymore either. Might be they’re testing out this feature and not all users get to see it.

I also think they’re more cautious about the EU. There are less consumer protection laws in the US, so they get fucked first.

If you want to try it out yourself: This is the book where it happened. Despite that email I can see all of the reviews again, so maybe it’s a feature they’re testing out.

It’s really shady to have a rating system and hide ratings within that system. Why have it at all then?

Did you just pull a random infographic out of your ass without even mentioning the source? I reverse-searched it and it comes from Anthropic, of all places - the guys that run Claude Code.

Forbes took a look at that study, I love this money quote from it:

These flaws turn Anthropic’s dataset into an overstated labor-market conclusion. The study’s findings do not have the level of reliability required to sustain the breadth of the headline framing, because each conclusion rests on an exposure measure whose scope (1), construction (2, 3, 4, 5, 7), and interpretation (6, 8, 9, 10) remain contested.

So yeah, an AI company telling us that AI will theoretically replace our jobs, based on their own study with flawed data - damn, that’s trustworthy! /s

I’m not going to argue anymore. It’s pointless.

At least on this point we agree.

I’ve built things that used to take 20 weeks in 1 week with Claude.

That’s ridiculous. You’ve either been a bad coder even before the AI hype or you’re simply lying. I have used these tools and they’re not that good or make you that fast - except when you’re just merging all of the proposed code blind and hope for the best. I fear for the future colleagues who will have to work with the raging dumpster fire you have created for them.

The company with the strongest coding LLM is Anthropic and it doesn’t sound like they’re having financial difficulty

Oh yes, they have the same problems OpenAI has. Just look into the vibecoding subreddits, you can see many people complaining about excessive rate limits and their models getting dumber. A healthy company wouldn’t try to put a cap on the token useage and introduce peak-hour throttling, that’s a big warning sign that they’re overspending as well.

its hard to deny the reality at this point

I only see one person here denying reality. You will be effed in a major way when your employer one day decides that the subscriptions are too expensive or tell you to limit your token useage.

It sucks, but this is the new reality.

Sorry mate, but you drank the AI koolaid from Sam Altman and the other tech oligarchs. The reality is that all of the major AI companies are deep in the red, OpenAI isn’t even making a profit with the 200$ subscription.

The only reason people are able to burn thousands of tokens to vibecode their apps is that they don’t have to pay the price for that, the companies are. This money will run out soon and then we will see the real cost for the bigger models.

If a subscription for Claude Code costs 500$ or even 1000$, will companies still pay for it or let actual humans do the work? We will see. I seriously doubt it, and I don’t want to depend on a subscription-based service to do my work while my skills are atrophying. Thank god my employer doesn’t force me to use AI.

Engineers are definitely going to lose their jobs

This kind of fear-mongering is what I despise most about the whole bubble.

It was great!

The Expanse and For All Mankind. It already feels a bit like FAM is a prequel anyway.

I once shat my pants at work after drinking too much coffee and left a little stain on the chair. After my shift I swapped the chair with one from a morbidly obese coworker, who was absent that day.

Either everybody knew or nobody knew.

PHP pays my bills, so I’ll continue using it. Sometimes I even have fun while doing so. There are more important things to get angry about.

Skyrim.

“Experiencing interruptions? Find out why” - Naah I’m fine dude, just take your time.

I use the TVTime app. It’s a bit shit (mainly the atrocious loading times), but it works.

That Wizard of Oz movie is really weird. They put the original movie into a tiny area and generated a whole load of surroundings with AI.

The original framing and artistic intent get totally lost, it’s a novel idea but a shit product as a movie. “Be Kind Rewind” watched it live and made a lengthy review about that slopfest on YouTube.

Singapore put one of the first full AI movies into cinemas last year: “Madam Zheng”. It is absolute garbage, got a 1.6/10 on IMDB and barely anyone watched it. I didn’t find any news articles about it at the time, but the YouTuber Pinely made a video about it with some details and horrible shots.

Yes, by being able to feel the controls so can focus your eyes on the road in front of you.