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You go from one prompt to the final solution, whereas for many of us it is about the experience of iterative, multi turn working.
So anybody may have their own take from their experience of what's happening.
I myself drink much less wine as is my inner circle so I have an opinion.
Not sure how are we supposed to thrive in a world where cars are very simple and our know-how is borderline useless.
Imho cars are a dead race-to-the-bottom business, that was true in ICE world, that will be even more true in the electrified/autonomous driving one.
In my country, Poland, 40'000 EVs were sold last year.
Toyota sold 106'000 cars.
People keep saying that Toyota is doomed since 2019, but numbers don't show that.
If anything, numbers confirm Toyota's strategy was right: play it slow and cool, and start shifting into EVs when a huge EV market will exist.
EVs really need no FOMO. They are simpler beasts to build than ICEs.
Incompetence maybe, but no arrogance.
European governments and companies are like ships that change captains, while the direction of the ships is hard to change due to inertia.
Politically, I'm happy for this, on a business level, not really.
Except Chinese ones, of course.
1. AI is exposing the harsh truth that 99% of the code out there has always been throwaway code. Yet good developers, void of any engineering skill, treated it like the 1% that wasn't and called their hygiene and practices engineering.
2. Way too many developers that have made their careers or internet fame out of their technical proficiency understand that the shift is unavoidable. See Antirez implementation of Arrays in Redis or his Dwarfstar project. Virtually every line of these projects has been AI authored. And yet they are terrific projects with extremely strong architecture. And not a single line was edited in vi (his favorite editor).
It's a strong antidote to those romanticizing crime.
In US it should be available on HBO Max.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomorrah_(TV_series)
The first two seasons are great, watch it with subtitles (fun fact: in Italy it was also shown in tv with subs because most people cannot understand neapolitan dialect).
But nobody asked, there hasn't been a third referendum.
Democracy is just lovely.
Have your citizens answer to a straightforward question on a topic twice, have them reject it, both times.
And the government will still go its way.
I'm not against nuclear per se, I'm just baffled at the "democratic" process.
In the most recent years I feel the same about our lefts.
But imho left/right don't make any sense any more and have very little connection to their historical roots.
Look at how the conservative party went into ballooning the debt and spending, something they have been historically very against. Or how European rights are more financially supportive of the poorest parts of the society than the lefts.
Policies and trends are changing.
Yet we're stuck in this nonsense bipolarism when every other adult has many thoughts on many topics that don't really overlap with either of the two poles.
The 20 euros GPT plan with GPT 6 Luna (and Astra for doing the tough stuff) and OpenCode Go (8 euros) offer me both way more intelligence and tokens than spending 400 euros just at the beginning of the this summer did.
Today I worked two hours with GPT 6 Luna, have been very productive tackling some hard stuff and...my weekly usage went from 57% to 56%?
You really don't need to use the strongest model for everything. And even chinese open models are effectively few months old sota. You can use mimo 2.6 or DS 4.1 flash on 8 $/months OpenCode and barely ever have to worry about consumption.
People that produce slop have to be fired asap, they're just human relays anyway.
There's only 12 countries that do on the planet, the most "relevant" of them being Guatemala and Haiti.
As or the LLM topic: you can download weights of chinese models and remove any censorship and bias. Can you do so with american closed ones?
The reason why he and is peers are calling for it to be implemented by somebody else (a legal framework), is for their own financial benefit and to keep competitors out.
Edit: dug in it, no, because cache isn't addressable and it's directly managed by the cpu.
Bogus nonsense.
1. Manufacturing output in West/America is higher than it ever was in history.
2. What has reduced over time is the number of people employed in manufacturing, not manufacturing output. And that's an effect of automation, same as it happened over centuries in agriculture.
3. West/America did not decide anything, the realities of capitalism did.
You're either a capitalist and embrace efficiency of producing where it makes sense (for many different reasons) or you're fine with inefficient third-tier industries.
The tax payer may help a handful of sectors that would otherwise die survive if they are truly critical for national security, but just a handful, not all of them.
0 churn, nobody has ever left our team, because the amount of money you need to compensate working in such a healthy environment is massive.
We're fully remote, have an average or 2 hours of meetings per week, enjoy lots of freedom and we aren't bound to work any specific amount of time.
Linear is essentially a small subset of Jira.
It's liked and works because it's simpler and covers most of the needs of teams without huge need of defining their own processes.
But be in business long enough and you find out that appealing to small teams and small orgs that don't require flexible and custom process definition doesn't make enough money and doesn't grow you forever.
So they will keep eventually growing in features and flexibility till they cover the reason Jira is so successful: it is more powerful and adaptable.
I'm no fan of Jira, but I've tried and seen enough of these tools to understand why it has the success that it has.
This is even more clear when you go beyond software development and need processes for teams like sales, HR, legal, etc. Jira can fit all of them.
Linear? It's a joke.
It's a practice, it's not the best practice. It depends on the team/org/codebase/feature/etc. It always costs time and money and effort. Lots of it from multiple people.
You can get much better output by shifting that cost into hiring much better professionals, not better developers, but overall professionals.
The kind of people you can blindly trust that the software they are writing will be good, you don't need to get involved.
Of course there are exceptions. The author may actually want a review. Or the piece of code might be touching something extremely critical to the business but also easy to get hard.
But besides that? PRs are just productivity porn, or "we do engineering right because we follow Twitter" porn.
The best performing teams I had you hired individuals that removed work and responsibilities off your shoulders without you ever having to regret it. Never added it.
I laugh off engineers that "no you have to review, because it spreads information, enhances quality" and yada yada yada, while in the real world way more critical decisions are made by a single individual without requiring somebody reviewing their work.
Which is why while HN is sleeping and thinking Google and MS are done in the space, Copilot and Gemini are winning most of the non-tech: it's just an extension of their current teams/cloud offerings that companies were already using.
I have asked most of my non-tech friends: chemicals, banking, insurance, consultancy. They are all on Gemini or Copilot.
There's a very american winners and losers, black and white, narrative spreading in every single field from decades.
We Europeans used to be more nuanced, but are slowly falling for it too.
The two models are in completely different price tiers. Astra costs 5 times as much.
It seems like all you can judge about cars would be their maximum speed on an oval.