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The "Windows laptop special key" is a bit of a meme. Microsoft keeps changing it every few years to the new hot thing and it never catches on. It feels like "we have Command key at home".

I'll admit I was being a bit provocative with wording there ;)

Yes. In fact, crypto is ahead, because it does have a legitimate use case. Two, actually - money laundering and sanctions evasion.

I think the point that is missed is all of these solved real problems that needed solving. I feel over the last decade we have exhausted the obvious benefits of the Internet revolution and more often than not we were seeing clever technology being developed, that wouldn't solve any problems. Then long and painful search for applications of that technology would ensue. Cases in point: crypto, llms.

Getting stuck

That's an interesting observation. For me the main takeaway is still the style.

(bigheading)The takeaway(/bigheading) The style? Terrible.

> Where is "this crowd" that you are talking about?

In the same room with Illuminati, Yeti, and Chupacabra.

I'm sorry, is this criticism of Z.AI and China or Anthropic and the US? Not that there is much of a difference these days..

That's just sad.

The more I look into it, the more I am convinced, that I don't want any AI generated code in my project. I find the LLM useful to talk things through. It can offer some interesting takes during the design and acts as a decent rubber duck companion when debugging. It is also very helpful when I need some help with syntax and/or feature discovery.

> I reject AI code when I can’t explain the approach in my own words.

I think that's the key problem. LLMs turn code into big, black boxes. Sure, theoretically nothing stops me from reading all that code. I don't, however, because it's wasted effort. The time it takes me to really understand the code is IMO better spent just writing it myself. Once written, I have a very good understanding. Read ten times, not so much.

It reminds me of pen and paper. Journaling the old way remains the best way to learn something, but writing on a computer is much more convenient.

I don't want to hurt people's feelings, so in person I restrain myself from speaking out (it wouldn't change anything anyway)... but every person I have seen so far, who was bullish on building an AI business has followed the same path:

  1) They think the AI can replace them, but in a good way: "it will keep doing my job and people will pay ME"
  2) They assume people either don't notice or don't mind that it's AI. They build businesses, where AI impersonates a professional when that person is not available ("chat with your therapist any time even if they sleep!")
  3) All they do is based on written or spoken words. There is no substance

I expect that sooner than later a great skepticism for anything non-tangible will develop. Personally, I have been highly distrustful of people who don't build things (even the word "building" is now tainted). I think it will accelerate.

Imagine if the first archeological discovery they made was tax forms from different countries. What would they think of us, haha.

you don't know that

You think your life is heavy, huh? You might want to check out this challenge...

Resentment, projection, and scapegoating are all time favorites for concrete reasons.

It's been 19 years. Since then an entire generation has been conditioned to think that saying something bad about capitalism earns them social points. I have seen it so many times - people, who don't even know what capitalism is, saying they are "fighting to bring it down" just because they think it sounds cool. They should read a bit about bureaucracy (Kafka) and gulags (a variety of authors) to get a hint what "bringing it down" leads to. The very same people are happy to be participants in capitalism if it earns them money.

> and saw the perpetrators get off scot-free?

And your argument is that the reason for that is free market and private property? I would suggest it might be corruption in the political system, which happens to be "a federal republic" (since we are discussing the US).

The core ideas of capitalism are private property and free market, not "rich getting richer".

> It very necessarily leads to oligarchy when left unchecked.

Great, let's not leave it unchecked. Unlike other -isms, capitalism does not need to be treated like an ideology to work. Also, maybe let's not attribute obvious failures of the political system to the underlying economic system.

This endless moaning about "capitalism" is lamentable. You are looking at an oligopoly, degenerated through the mechanisms of American-style democracy, but you attribute it all to capitalism, an economic system, not ideology, because it became fashionable to hate on it during the financial crisis of 2007.

> You cannot leave anything to the imagination

I don't know if there's ever going to be a suitable environment to have this conversation, but many people in any society are just not smart enough to experiment with things especially if those things are non-physical or abstract.

Re: cockroaches, I haven't seen them until my mid 30s, when I started traveling to warm countries.

That's great, but did you invest in Eastern Poland?

There is a way, it's called Polymarket.

dumping on it certainly is

Everything is an ad these days. The article was not useless, but for the information it provides, it could have been two paragraphs.

"Casuals" just use the web interface from the provider, which Z.ai also has

> I thought of another one: Messenger. I knew some smart people on Messenger but overall the product and the infra were, again, a dumpster fire.

That makes sense from a consumer point of view. I don't use FB much. In fact, I recently logged on a few times after a few years of a break. It's terrible. You can't even get conversation history anymore. You can talk to someone via the app on your phone, open Facebook in the browser on your computer and not see the messages there. Makes me wonder why is Meta still around?

I'm sorry for stirring up your communist fantasy.

Well, it's a mania, it's stupid now and it will correct itself. There will be pain. There's always pain after stupidity. Then we will see if LLMs are as useful as we were told.

This website is satire, right?

P.S. I agree with you 100%