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> I would expect Google to maintain this and other tooling around this for years to come

The same Google that pulls plugs on a whim?

You sound like my boss! I'm not really into the whole "burnout" thing though.

I LOVE Kurzwheil! Thank you for the compliment, I'm very far from having his writing skills. But yes sci-fi is looking more and more like, well, sci.

Perhaps you're the one making it work well?

I've spent a day fixing a feature my very junior colleague pushed, and which was merged by my should-have-known-better colleagues who have almost as much experience as me.

We have access to the same models. Why did her version suck and my features don't need fixing?

There's still something there, thankfully.

Did you use chatjimmy? It's somewhat terrifying to use when you think of the potential results with a better model.

Ok, real life example: I now spend most of my time, as a developer, waiting for the agent to do its thing (after careful prompting, I'm also thinking about work stuff, don't worry I'm not useless). What if it gave back the same excellent results, but instantaneously? Why, then, I certainly would become the bottleneck. So, quite possibly, my last work task would be to plug this agent directly into the ticket system where the domain experts input their feature requests. Maybe we still need 1 developer out of 100, to coordinate releases and all that (ok, say 1 out of 10).

But that's not taking things far enough: why do we need these domain experts at all? Our pitch is clear, and all software-enabled, though it took years to develop. We can just have the clients express their concerns to the AI, directly or indirectly. Have multiple lighting-fast agents with different roles (refactoring agent, new features agent, debugger agent, domain expert agent, etc.). So we fire everyone, maybe keep 1 product owner / devops to keep the trolls out. The cost is still probably 100 times less than it used to be (beyond the initial cost of acquisition of the magic machine or whatever).

But one of these clients, surely, will realize that these 10 years of manual and slowly-automated development can now be emulated in very, very little time. Why not just, say, take screenshots of the entire app and feed them into the magic machine? Why, this way, they could have the service for a tenth of the yearly cost, forever!

And then the economy implodes.

I'm not saying it's THE most likely version of things, I'm saying that at a certain level, quantity (or rather, speed) is a quality all its own. And this new quality might change the world. Let's hope it's for the better!

Possibly the dumbest take I've ever seen on HN.

Like politicians are going "without the homeless, I won't have anything to do anymore!". Like the street workers are thinking "shit, what'll I do if this goldmine dries up"?

Ridiculous.

This is like speciation but for languages: there's no "ah-ha!" moment, but we know a lemur can't produce viable offsprings with a zebra. Likewise we know Italian isn't French even though some words are kinda similar. If you want to be technical about it, it's a spectrum: I understand British people and people from the American deep South, but it's far from certain they will understand each other. Hard to be precise with social sciences.

That said, two people who understand each other are, by any reasonable definition, speaking dialects of the same tongue (if not, obviously, the very same dialect).

"and all Canaanite dialects are mutually intelligible": That is the definition of a dialect.

Also, I don't know how you can claim Hebrew is phonetically represented by its alphabet rather than the other way around, as a revived language the pronunciations are largely a matter of convention based on Yiddish. It would be more accurate to say that modern Hebrew uses an ancient writing system, which happens to be closely related to the ancestor of modern European alphabets.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revival_of_the_Hebrew_language

> literal sarcasm

As opposed to the usual, figurative sarcasm. (Just kidding.)

It's been pretty obvious for a long time that Youtube doesn't want you to have an objective view of anything. It wants you to trust in the Algorithm to spoonfeed you content. Even the subscription page now displays some arbitrary shit first. I'm absolutely sick of it.

Is Anthropic matching OpenAI's announcement schedule or is it the other way around? It's strange how it's so often the same day.

Thanks! I hope I didn't come off as too dismissive, I'm hearing a lot of good things about Jujutsu. As a developer though, I've never wanted to build from source (probably in the minority on that front).

I did check that page, as far as I can tell you still need to run Cargo which I don't want to do because I don't care about Rust.

I'm not complaining for the sake of complaining, I'm saying if they want to play in the Big Boy leagues, they need to do things right.

I did! No apt install jujutsu. I also did 'apt search jujutsu'.

Don't ask me to care about yet another language's package manager, I already know way more than I wish to.

> $ cargo install jj-cli@0.23.0 --locked

I won't install Rust just to test your software. Make a debian package like everyone else.

I'm not vouching against WordPress per se, just wish people would use the best tool for the job at hand rather than the one tool they know. Sometimes that's Jekyll and sometimes you need comments.

Counter-point: static sites are unhackable, require no maintenance and are free to host. Now that I've migrated the website for a local (volunteer) event, they will never have to worry about their site breaking on them again.

Multiply that by every nonprofit without tech knowledge and that's a lot of potential Jekyll fans.

And how do you draw the line between feeling progress and actually making progress?

Kind reminder that Twitch is owned by Amazon, which is a monster of a company. Check out Owncast and Peertube for alternatives.

So custom implementation, then? How very Microsoft.

I remember back when Anubis came out, some naysayers on here were saying it wouldn't work for long because the scrapers would adapt. Turns out careless, unethical vibecoders aren't very competent.

Not sure why you're talking like OP pissed in your cheerios. They are a victim of a broken system, it shouldn't be on them to spend more effort protecting their stuff from careless-to-malicious actors.

I'm always fascinated by these growth charts. Isn't everyone who needs GitHub already on GitHub? Are people migrating from GitLab? I don't get it!

This is only true if you weren't paid for your work all those years (which, then, it was just a hobby).

But more importantly, this is only relevant for vomiting boilerplate code. I don't know about you but I always did a lot more than that.

Well, we do need taxes. Land taxes are fine too I guess, but I doubt they'll catch on in North America (too many politicians own real estate).

Sales taxes are regressive and nonsensical, why punish people because they contribute to the economy by buying stuff? Just do income tax.

hahah what are you talking about, there's no such thing as long term!

Surely you mean managers, right? Most developers I interact with would love to do things the right way, but there's just no time, we have to chase this week's priority!

Jesus I just had flashbacks from my last jobs. Non-technical founder always telling me I was being pessimistic (there were no technical founders). It's just not that simple Karen!

Is there a way to ban specific users in your GitHub project?

(I prefer GitLab, I'm sure if it had projects that are as popular it would be similarly inundated.)