ActionHank

They've spent more than a decade cratering their OS. I doubt they will be able to turn it around with one code-named project.

No one is doing serious work on Windows anymore, those who are have yet to realise the clownshow they are collectively a part of.

"Why don't you just say that this store is selling pants that smell of poop, it's irrelevant that someone pooped in them because they also sell other pants that no one pooped in. Aren't you upset that they also sell you pants without poop in them?"

I believe we've settled on AI bros gargling all the stocks.

I think your ignorance is showing.

There is far more to it than all that.

I've interviewed far too many nextjs experts who couldn't do anything else. That's not a skill, that's just knowledge, which at this point is freely available.

Believe me when I say that I am totally aware of this degree of functionality, but the reality is that the world is not burning trillions of dollars so you can generate side projects that never quite get good enough to go to market.

The sales pitch is as good or better than if someone with full understanding did it themselves. Maybe that's true for the first one or two rounds, assuming it's something that isn't novel. Beyond that it's just not true.

The premise of why AI will change the world is because Jill from accounting is going to make a custom reporting app.

Thing is Jill always could do that, she just didn’t leverage the information available.

Now Jill can make the reporting app, until it is sufficiently complex that the code collapses under its own weight or she finds that the numbers don’t actually mean what she thinks.

It's genuinely strange to me that people are acting like anything is possible now, because AI.

We had the internet for decades, with the sum of human knowledge largely available, no one used it.

Now those same uninspired masses are going to use to use the magic knowledge box to produce what they could never bring themselves to learn or research? No.

Just because the LLM can spit out code that looks good to you when you know what to ask for, does not mean that it is doing the same for everyone else.

Possibly Playstation as well.

OP is lucky they aren't getting ads while the agent is working.

Wait, are you saying you don't handcraft svgs of pelicans riding bicycles?

Fair enough, but now imagine that the code is slop too. You're getting slopped from both sides, do you still care?

Now imagine that your work specs are generated by an AI agent that the EM is using.

Do you still care about the work?

Ok, but why though?

More expensive, as good or worse at the job, and it runs in the terminal, because that's cool?

It could also be that much like most large orgs now you've made LLMs your entire personality, so you don't see the inherent bias.

Most LLM users who are not touching code are certainly not going to be using a harness. They're going to take all the documents, slam all those tokens into the context window, see they have only used 500k out of their 1M tokens and say "summarize".

> a human will DO worse then a 25% degradation.

* than

This is why I uninstalled Notepad.

They are convinced it needs to be a worse vscode when all I want is something to edit plain text files.

Consequences come later friendo.

I personally love the idea that they think people are so desperate to logon to facebook or tik tok that they will use some government vpn to access advertising laden slop.

The books were likely in the training data, I don't know that it's that impressive.

I heard the other day that every time someone claps another vibe coded project embeds the api keys in the webpage.

I wonder if this will continue to be the case.

Also, it is my experience that exec and boards favour safe and well known B2B partners over in house. It's a more publicly defensible approach that gives them an out if things go wrong and shareholders get upset.

All they need to do now is slap AI on it and they'll have bags of cash delivered to their door.

Throw in some docker workloads and it's a party.

I recently started a new role and have to use Windows for work.

I am seriously thinking of looking for another role because it is such a HOG.

It not pattern matching, it’s literally two things happening at the same time… in a business… that strictly budgets everything…

It’s not a pattern it’s a plan.

You forgot to mention the case where the US economy craters because of political missteps leading to Google and Apple being distracted leaving it open for Chinese or other models to surge ahead.

To be fair Softbank really likes to invest in lemons, so you know, let them do what brings them joy.

Love this for them.

The world already relies on them for drones and batteries, often cars.

See my earlier point that this article is meant to read like fiction for a demographic that are not actually involved in using any of this tech on the daily.