christophilus

It’s mentioned on most threads, but their traffic and usage is way up due to AI / agentic programming.

How about, pick a time and stick with it. Then, if it turns out people should be getting up with the sun, we change the stupid school and business hours to accommodate humans?

Yeah. I think we need to get back to a life that revolves around natural cycles and healthy circadian rhythms. It’s stupid that I have to get up in the dark to take my kid to school. Unquestionably, my kid should be sleeping until the light naturally wakes her.

I’ve lived through a few. The internet came and stayed. The bubble just wiped out the speculators, but the internet is bigger than ever. We will be using LLMs for a long time. The only way that’s not true is if a superior replacement comes along.

I suspect it's a curve. If you're raised in a vibrant economy, and it falls apart, you put off having a family because of uncertainty and fears. If you're raised in poverty, and get a good education and better prospects, you have fewer kids. I think the latter is because you no longer need kids as an economic safeguard and fallback, but I'm not sure. I'm not sure anyone is really sure, to be honest.

I've been programming for decades, and I do love vibe coding side-projects. I have a little pixel art / animation tool, a music composition tool, and a little video game builder that agents made for my kids. I haven't looked at a line of code. Instead, I've just focused on getting the UX and features that I want. I did guide it along the tech stack and general philosophy I wanted it to follow, though. I'm sure it's hot garbage, but for projects like this, it doesn't really matter, and it's been a lot of fun.

Would I want to build a business around products that are built this way? Not yet. I'm definitely not comfortable supporting a vibe coded heap of code in a production setting.

Well, this is interesting. I think full stack Elm + Acadia is an interesting proposition. It’d be particularly interesting if the backend could target Go, Rust, or BEAM or something with better concurrency and parallelism than Node.

Right. It was harder to spoof my bank (since banking was an in-person affair), and steal all my money back then. Now, this information is available to anyone in the world, and there aren’t good protections. I don’t know the solution, but the world is a different place than it was in the days of white-pages.

I also think it's overblown. My fear is that this is a special form of the disease, modified by Russian researchers for who knows what reasons, and may therefore be a problem.

C3?

I think you’re right. I’d want to pair this approach with introducing a replacement species that can hopefully out compete the one we’re eliminating. No idea what that looks like, though.

That’s more of a convenient way to distribute and isolate risks than it is anything nefarious.

It’s been 2nd class for a long time, but I loved it back in the early 2000s.

It could live in git commit comments, though.

I’m rooting for open models, but SOL 6.1 and Opus 5.5 are absolute workhorses on a $100/mo sub. I share your fears, though, and really hope an open model catches up and can somehow compete with the subscription prices of the big 2.

Same guy made Into the Breach which is similar and really fun.

My pet peeve is remote controlled fans. I want a physical cord or switch. The remotes are so flaky and annoying.

Been daily driving Fedora for 6 years now. I can’t think of any personal disruptions in that time.

Not the op, but it lets you shape ideas and test them a lot faster, and that does feel (to me) more like art or music.

I have. I know a lot of generous, compassionate poor people. I met loads of them in Honduras and Brazil and Belize. Compassion and generosity need not be a factor of economics.

I hope not. I love Fedora, and it's kind of heavily reliant on Red Hat being a good citizen (as are many other distros). Red Hat is still the (benevolent?) king of the Linux world.

This is my experience, too. It's a great model, but it burns tokens if you use it heavily for work on complex domains.

Edit: others have noted the provider and harness matters. My experience is with opencode.

Slack is what makes me use Brave every day because its stupid huddles feature doesn’t support Firefox. But other than that, yeah. Firefox is fine.

I think part of it is that English speakers say: “2 plus 2” not “plus 2 2”, so the infix notation matches our natural language and mental model.

We are living in a timeline written by The Onion.

> Does every car mechanic need to be able to explain the principles of a combustion engine?

Probably. I’d certainly not want to use a mechanic who doesn’t understand the combustion engine, or who is incapable of giving at least a high-level overview of it.

Yeah. I have my own file formats for music, pixel art, and levels in a little game I’m building with the kids. LLMs are really good at understanding these proprietary formats that exist nowhere else in the world except on my old laptop.

So, what are you arguing? If a group of people like their jobs, society should disallow disruption to that group? Why? It seems to me that we may reach a point where machines can replace humans for most tasks, and I don’t think we should try to make that state of things illegal. We should instead try to solve the economics of it in a way that benefits all.

Yeah. I found it basically useless until around mid 2024. Now, I use it every day, nearly all day.

I don’t know. Niri took the PaperWM idea and built a first class experience around that, and it’s fantastic. I think that’s the way to do this sort of thing. Have a standalone project do the legwork while keeping legacy desktops stable.