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"BREAKING: Alaska Airlines' website, app impacted amid Microsoft Azure outage"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJVkLP57yvM

The Internet is supposed to be decentralized. The big three seem to have all the power now (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google) plus Cloudflare/Oracle.

How did we get here? Is it because of scale? Going to market in minutes by using someone else's computers instead of building out your own, like co-location or dedicated servers, like back in the day.

the original idea of DEI "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" is good but it got twisted. it became the rally crying for the other side.

LLMs are just a tool, though. Humans still have to verify them, like with very other tools out there

The cloud has made people forget that the internet is decentralized.

In the past, software and computer engineers would tackle problems head-on, designing algorithms and finding creative solutions.

thanks to the US restrictions on semiconductor industry (Chinese), Chinese engineers are being forced to innovate and find their own ways to overcome challenges like the old school engineers (What Silicon Valley used to be)

>AI bubble worse?

Is it worse than the dot-com bubble? I remember everyone and their mom who knew HTML could get hired, and there were way more companies that went IPO during the dot-com bubble, like theglobe.com.

AI is a bubble, but is it worse than the dot-com bubble or the real estate bubble in 2008?

It's hard to believe this happened. South Korea has tech giants like Samsung, and yet this is how the government runs? Is the US government any better?

what's the point of a storage system with no back up?

I'm vibe coding using GitHub Copilot and JetBrains AI Pro on a Blazor web app that tracks my investment in like index funds, stocks, ETFs, etc. It's a simple CRUD web app.

The app is nearly completed, and Grok (preview in Copilot, currently free) wrote most of the CRUD pages with Entity Framework. Of course, it does get things wrong, and I use Claude 4 to fix the issues. (i'm a C# dev, I review code generated by Grok sometimes.)

AI is pretty good on CRUD web app for me. I worked out a web page for create something and if the next page is similar. i just told AI to use the previous page as template. it cut down a lot of typing.

AI is just another tool, use it or turn it off. it shouldn't matter much to a developer.

>We are way past peak LLM and it shows

The dot com bubble saw crazy deals and valuations, followed by a crash.

some companies emerged from it and went on to be a giant company like Amazon. Let's hope this AI boom have some similar outcomes.

Many comments focus on Trump, but I think the deeper problem lies with America itself. After all, America elected Trump twice.

I don't agree with Peter Zeihan on many of his views, but I think his point about the collapse of the global order set up by America is what's happening.

Trump is dismantling the global order/rule of laws established by America after WWII and the Cold War. I find it ironic that Ian Bremmer said the Chinese care more about the rule of law (established by America) than Americans do in this interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvvzx-ecTrw

>everything in writing

Agreements on paper doesn't mean anything to Trump.

Despite negotiating the USMCA with Canada and Mexico during his first term, Trump still threatened to impose tariffs on both countries.

What is the point of having an agreement like USMCA?

this year's job market is really bad. my manager landed a new job last year but he have spent 5 years causally looking for a job ever since my employer got bought out. i have been looking to jump ship but gave up.

For those who've been unemployed for over a year, how do you manage financially?

>This open source purism only benefits the leeches.

I don't understand what open source purism even is.

You pick a license for your software, and now you're mad because people are making money off of it. Then why even go with an open source license?

Do what Bill Gates did tell people to pay up for using Microsoft software, because Microsoft software isn't open source.

What are you crying about?

I've been vibe coding a couple of personal projects. I've found that test-driven development fits very well with vibe coding, and it's just as you said break up the problem into small, testable chunks, get the AI to write unit tests first, and then implement the actual code

Why doesn't Apple make their own iPhones instead of contracting them to Foxconn?

>When I do care about the result, I have to read every line myself.

isn't that the same as delegated task to jr developer but you still have to check their work as sr?

agree. i have two synology NAS. i just set them up and forget it since i don't open for outside access.

its a great backup for all your important files.

Isn't that just delaying the inevitable? Yangshan Deep-Water Port in Shanghai is one of the most automated ports. Considering there are more people in China than in the US, China still automated their port.

Kamla isn't the only case. You look at history and there are many examples.

just google kamala harris campaign fundraising vs trump. 2024 election just happened not too long ago. she got more money than trump and yet lose.

money is not the only factor.

> It’s anyone’s guess if someone trusts intel to manufacture on their behalf instead of sticking with an established player.

Intel also designs its own chips. Thus, it's hard for fabless players to buy in without worrying about their IPs being stolen. One of the strengths of TSMC is they only make chips. They don't do anything else. TSMC is highly trusted by its customers.

I've done a vibe coding hobby project where I simply give AI instructions on what I want, using a persona-based approach for the agent to generate or fix the code.

It worked out pretty well. Who knows how the software engineering landscape will change in 10 to 20 years?

I enjoyed Andrej Karpathy's talk about software in the era of AI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ

"No More Offshore. Startups Look to Spend and Hire in U.S. Due to Trump Tax Change."

https://www.wsj.com/tech/tech-startups-hiring-us-workers-30f...

I don't understand how Trump is allowing anything with headline like this.

LOL. I just want to try out vibe coding on something small with a persona based appoarch described here: https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2025/06/persona-based-approac...

At the end of the day, all tools are made to make their users' lives easier.

I use GitHub Copilot. I recently did a vibe code hobby project for a command line tool that can display my computer's IP, hard drive, hard drive space, CPU, etc. GPT 4.1 did coding and Claude did the bug fixing.

The code it wrote worked, and I even asked it to create a PowerShell script to build the project for release

>he doesn't hesitate to get out his checkbook

He bought Instagram for $1 billion. If I remember correctly, people thought he was crazy to pay that much. Then he bought WhatsApp.

Facebook might be on the decline, but both of those two apps are still going strong