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Anyone selling software components is going to get cooked by LLMs. People have been talking about that since ChatGPT 3 landed. It's just sad to see it actually playing out.

I'd look at this as a new income stream. Failing to honor a DMCA request means Google is no longer in the safe harbor.

It's time to find a copyright lawyer that will work on contingency. Document your communication and take screenshots of pirate links every day.

It's worth noting that the Claude Code team themselves add corrections to their CLAUDE.md file. So as long as you curate the corrections you're probably fine.

I hate to say it, but Zuckerberg is right about where online content is going. The future is just an endless feed of personalized short form AI brain candy.

AI code generation has something important in common with 3D printed houses. Both optimize the easy part.

3D printed houses can only manage the underlying structure of the house. It doesn't cover finishing work which is much harder on the nerves and pocketbook.

Likewise, AI code generation is only useful for the actual implementation. That's maybe 20% of the work. Coordination with stakeholders, architecture, etc are much harder on the nerves and pocketbook.

> "The first function call looks a whole lot like a function call today..."

Only superficially. What's actually happening varies radically by language. See for instance tail call optimization.

Except that it kind of does. I can horizontally scale a distributed storage system until we run out of silicon. I cannot do the same with a cargo airplane.

"While hardware folks study and learn from the successes and failures of past hardware, software folks do not." Couldn't be further from the truth. Software folks are obsessed with copying what has been shown to work to the point that any advance quickly becomes a cargo cult (see microservices for example).

Once you've worked in both hardware and software engineering you quickly realize that they only superficially similar. Software is fundamentally philosophy, not physics.

Hardware is constrained by real world limitations. Software isn't except in the most extreme cases. Result is that there is not a 'right' way to do any one thing that everyone can converge on. The first airplane wing looks a whole lot like a wing made today, not because the people that designed it are "real engineers" or any such BS, but because that's what nature allows you to do.

Well then you should have no problem proving what you are now only insisting on. This is HN, not Reddit. Where's the citation? Prove what you said or I have no reason to take you seriously.

Citation needed

Voting is what got us in to this. This is supported by a majority of the US. You do not live in the country you think you do.

> the income from selling access to the model has overcome the costs of training it.

Citation needed. This is completely untrue AFAIK. They've claimed that inference is profitable, but not that they are making a profit when training costs are included.

Independent farmers in less-than-rich countries rent large harvesting machinery from common pools.

Source: me. I live amongst them.

If you want to find who started the rumor, look for who took the 60 tons. That requires machinery which requires planning

No. Also, irrelevant.

I figure it's at least a couple of years until the Great Disappointment sets in. When you've been investing half a trillion a year with no realistic hope of a descent ROI, you'll do anything you can to not admit your error.

Because you don't have unlimited attention

No seriously this time line really will go up forever guys.

Most of these data centers are built with special purpose vehicles to make the balance sheet look better. Imagine the gnashing of teeth when those get written down

This. If you really think you're a couple of years away from building Digital God, and today have virtually unlimited access to capital, you are not going to spend time shipping a sexy mode.

Hey LinuxCNC Plasma fans of HN. I created this CAM application as a replacement for dxf2gcode and Inkscape. Now that SheetCAM has jacked their prices up nearly 3x, I'm targeting completely replacing SheetCAM for the serious hobbyist.

It's not at parity yet, but it's love to hear your early feedback if you've got any. Thanks!

Fixed headline: "How Israel caused famine in Gaza".

There is an editorial voice reserved purely for blunting reporting on American and Israeli state crimes that drives me nuts.

Chimneys feared him

Strongly disagree with "AI Was Supposed to Help Juniors Shine". It was always understood that it would seriously push down demand for them.

That wasn't prerecorded, but it was rigged. They probably practiced a few times and it confused the AI. Still it's no excuse. They've dropped Apollo-program level money on this and it's still dumb as a rock.

I'm endless amazed that Meta has a ~2T market cap, yet they can't build products.

The benefit is real, but the profits are not. Companies ability to eventually make money off of this is what will decide if it stays around or not.

I desperately want reconciliation available with an integration for Sevdesk. Any plans?

The very definition of exemplary cruelty.

This isn't just the state throwing a tantrum because they're embarrassed by their own incompetence. It's a warning to all immigrants that the state can do anything it wants to you, no matter how deranged, for no real reason at all.

So they're worried about (easily removable) solar eating up farm land, but not (impossible to remove) suburbs. OK.