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Got it, but those are more Ubuntu specific qualms that you have, not arguments against Linux in general.

I use NixOS and I don't have UX problems because my UX is fully customized to work exactly how I want.

Plus, for every but of friction you may experience in Linix, the cons of Microsoft are much greater. They have no concern for your privacy, and exploit their workers and the environment.

Last time I used Microsoft (~8 years ago) I couldn't get that malware OS to stop forcefully suggesting and using their cloud services automatically.

There are many things that MS does that are just unacceptable.

Linux has UX problems isn't quite a correct statement because Linux has many, fully flexible user interfaces that can be customized however you like.

It's possible that you are just experiencing friction moving to Linux because you are used to MS.

Easily writing and launching software is something Linux excels at.

I know this upsets some HN people (for some reason), but all these things are possible with linux.

Edit: lol, I got down voted. Do you think these things are not possible on linux?

I really thought the metaphorical electric fences were going to be more profound than "you can text old friends". You can radically change the world for the better if it weren't for that broken electric fence.

The main problem was that it exploded

I was thinking along the lines of, for example, a mobile phone company that controls the worlds most popular open source smart phone operating system. In theory, since they are guiding the development of the mobile OS, they should be the first to be able to release hardware that takes advantage of the newest versions of the software. They could tailor their hardware to perfectly fit the future of the software.

"Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead."

-- Gummo

I have a feeling that soon, proprietary software won't be a business moat at all. No mater the complexity of your software, it will be too easy to replicate. That could be a good thing for open source. One way of staying ahead of your competition is to control the most popular open source repo.

I found the answer to this question here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-EG3B5Uj78&t=237s

"Run Deepseek R1 at Home on Hardware from $250 to $25,000: From Installation to Questions"

You can run Deepseek R1 with over 671B parameters at 4 T/s for ~$25,000 (USD). With AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO 7995WX 96-Core, 192-Thread Processor and PNY NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000

That's one way of looking at it. A bit of a cynical view I might add. People are polite to each other for many reasons. If you hold the door and smile at an old lady, it usually isn't because you dont trust her.

Service industry in America is a different story that could use a lot of improvement.

It's common for foreigners to come to America and feel that everyone is extremely polite. Especially eastern bloc countries which tend to be very blunt and direct. I for one think that the politeness in America is one of the cultures better qualities.

Does it translate into people wanting sycophantic chat bots? Maybe, but I don't know a single American that actually likes when llms act that way.

I agree with that idea. For more business development areas, AI slop can slow things down.

I do think that these kinks will eventually work themselves out and actually increase productivity in these areas. People also need to learn that it is not acceptable to just generate some BS and send it to your boss or colleague. That just transfers the real work of understanding the generated content to someone else.

I would disagree. I would argue that if you aren't seeing gains in your productivity, you're either using the tools incorrectly, or you are in some ultra specific niche area of coding that AI isn't helpful on yet.

I'm talking about 100% net gain in productivity.

100% productivity gains on coding tasks are absolutely within the realm of possibility

Awesome. Great info, thanks

Is this just a fun project for now, or could I actually benefit from it in terms of software production like I do with tools like claude code?

I am interested in carefully tailoring it to specific projects, integrating curated personal notes, external documentation, scientific papers, etc via RAG (this part I've already written), and carefully chosing the tools available to the agent. If I hand tailor the AI agents to each project, can I expect to get something perhaps similar to the performance boost of Claude code for $2000 (USD)?

If not $2000, then how much would I need? I'm pretty sure for something like $75000 I could do this with a large deep seek model locally, and certainly get something very close to claude code, right?

This is awesome. I love emacs and I love integrating AI into my coding work flow.

What I really want is to be able to run something like this locally for, say, less than $2000 in computer hardware. Is this feasible now or any time soon. Anyone out there using agents with local models for coding?

A lot of people and companies use local storage and compute instead of the cloud. Cloud data is leaked all the time.

I thought this would be another AI hate article, but it made some great points.

One thing that AI has helped me with is finding pesky bugs. I mainly work on numerical simulations. At one point I was stuck for almost a week trying to figure out why my simulation was acting so strange. Finally I pulled up chatgpt, put some of my files into the context and wrote a prompt explaining the strange behavior and what I thought might be happening. In a few seconds it figured out that I had improperly scaled one of my equations. It came down to a couple missing parentheses, and once I fixed it the simulation ran perfectly.

This has happened a few times where AI was easily able to see something I was overlooking. Am I a 10x developer now that I use AI? No... but when used well, AI can have a hugely positive impact on what I am able to get done.

Freaking Gen Z. They always want transparent pricing and limitations on corporate greed.

Yeah

It's a strange looking pelican just overlaid onto a mechanically illiterate version of a bike and the comments are like "the world isn't ready for this".

I read their comment as saying that we shouldn't expect every subtask to be fun, but the overall task can still be fun. Do I want to sand wood? Not really. Do I want to grab sand paper from the drawer? No... Do I want to use a saw? A little bit. Do I want to build a chair? Yes! But if I break it down too much the overall big picture gets lost.

Perhaps. There is also more to life than your job, family, friends, and finding love. There's things like grocery shopping, washing dishes, and going on vacation. That doesn't mean we should settle into occupations we don't like. Like it or not, your work is going to consume a lot of your time, and we should strive to do something we enjoy and find meaningful if possible. In the parent comment it sure sounds like it is possible for them to pivot, and that they might find much more happiness and meaning if they do.

I think your story is about a person who wouldn't take their dream job because they want more money and don't want to change.

Really cool idea that I hadn't considered yet. If true, seems like a big plus for open source and not having a few companies controll all the models. If they all converge to the same intelligence, one open source model would make all proprietary models obsolete.

"And guess what's the de facto programming language for AI? Yep, that sneaky one."

He's referring to Python in general

"Not only because the syntax is more human-friendly, but also because the Python interpreter is natively integrated in all Unix distros."

I think he means that its available or readily available in many major linux distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, NixOS, etc. I don't think native is the right word.

I use bash too but Python is amazing. You're right, there are problems related to packaging and speed, but it is still very often the right tool for the job. It's powerful, easy to use, and open source.

Currently, llms are allowing people to code at level of the overall architecture of the project, while doing most of the smaller details almost automatically. I've adjusted to this new paradigm and will continue to adjust as it changes.

That's a very dark point of view. Many countries have severely underdeveloped (or overbooked) healthcare systems. A tool that might help people get answers when they otherwise couldn't is a great thing.

I know of nowhere where it is normal to replace your human-to-human contact with a chatbot. In my society people would call that pathological.

People have always resisted change in favor of maintaining some idealized version of the past that probably never existed.

I think what scares people who code for a living the most is the loss of their craft. Many of you have spent years or decades honing the craft of producing clear, fast, beautiful code. Now there is something that can spit out (often) beautiful code in seconds. An existential threat to your self worth and livelihood. A perfectly reasonable thing to react to.

I do think, however, that this is an inevitable change. Industries and crafts being massively altered by technology is a tale as old as time. In a world that constantly changes, adaptation is key.

I also think that almost all of you who have this craft should have no problem pivoting to higher level software architecture design. Work with an llm and produce things it would have taken a small team to do in 2019.

I find it to be a very exciting time.