You’re argument seems like Suresh’s to me, in that making working software is just laughably easy for a competent engineer.

This begs the question why noone is exploiting this market gap. But there’s a couple explanations…

It can be a coordination problem, in that there are just barely any competent software organisations with enough engineers. The problem can also lie in how software is bought, since customers seem completely unable to determine the competence of vendors. Perceptions on what kind of software is a safe, respectable choice may even be anti-helpful in this regard.

I don’t think you have to be hypercritical of that part. Sure, rose-colored glasses could play into it but he calls the bad stuff bad and doesn’t justify it via the good stuff.

Also the stuff he describes seems plausibly achievable through buddhist spiritial practice:

In many ways MAPLE delivered: life-long friendships, freedom from past addictions and limiting self-narratives, strengthened character, and, for many of us, profound spiritual openings and realizations.

This Soryu figure seems fairly well accredited in that department. He just also happens to be a megalomaniacal control freak.

(Also, why does he have to share a name with Asoka? I’m dying a little.)

edit: I knew I spelt megalomaniacal wrong…

Of course there’s a class element to this, but you give them too much credit.

This isn’t poor people being exposed to stupid AI so rich people can reap the benefits of actual AI. This is poor people being subjected to stupid AI so AI company shareholders can pretend that their stupid AI is worth anything for another quarter.

2 fictional men and a depiction of a typical AI booster

Die faulste Variante überhaupt ist aber der Mähroboter, dieser Rasen-Roomba. Solche Gärten sehen aber total langweilig aus für mich.

Wenn man einmal im Monat mit Mäher & Motorsense drübergeht, haben Klee & Wildblumen auch ne Chance sich auszubreiten. Golfrasen ist für mich nix.

This apparently a reccurring April fools joke by @killedbygoogle on Twitter, that had me utterly punked.

thx. I’m thinking about making a PR to open-slopware once they’re back from vacation. The non-tainted section is scarce enough and could use more entries.

I once listened to a talk by a guy from german OSHA that hit a lot of the good points. Perceived productivity opposed to actual productivity from the METR studies. Mental load of alien code review. (This was a company-internal IT-expert exchange thingy.)

A question in Q&A (submitted anonymously on slido like a sniveling coward) was deadass “Have you ever coded with a frontier model?”

My bad, I only had half-information from some screenshot. Don’t really know or care what Google Keep is.

If you could get a ukranian drone unit to spray paint “TRANS RIGHTS” with the trans colors on a Flamingo FP-5 before they send it to blow up a refinery, that would make a good post.

They killed Google Keep btw. Not that I needed more reason not to tango with a corpo app again. All criticism here is based on failure to realize my utopian visions of spiritually pure notetaking.

The notes are just for me, but I was really hoping for a more conventional editor. No shade to emacs/vim enjoyers. (Heck, I use 90% NeoVim at work.)

The SSL stuff is finicky, but I got a template that is quite satisfying now.

I got a wildcard cert using acme.sh (works with both Let’s Encrypt and the API of my DNS registrar INWX), automated renewals scheduled with systemd. Internet facing proxy is Apache httpd, for every new service I just copy a conf template and update the URLs and ports. I can stand up a containerized service in 15min, provided it runs without issues.

It was on my shortlist before I settled on Flatnotes. Since I found out the AI stance of the dev there and encountered some technical issues… well I’m running a Silverbullet now.

It seemed a little too heavy on the customization front for me, but I guess I’ll figure it out.

Ah fuck me. He admittted he’s using AI for development: https://github.com/dullage/flatnotes/issues/365

Notes apps man. They’re cursed.

This gives me strong Belter drinking bulb vibes.

Das rasterisierte Ex-Kanzlerantlitz kommt gut aufm Schein.

Jährlicher Umsatz 402.8B$, davon wird die Strafe ca. 0,2% sein.

Sieht wie ein cooler Stapel aus, das kommt gleich in die Lesezeichen…

Nutzen deine Kollegen auf Winzigweich damit immer noch den Rausguck Schreibtischoberfläche Klienten?

Yeh, I’ve been complaining about noncritical german news for a while. DW is not much better on tech issues.

Although sometimes, a critical piece slips through. E.g. on the fact that chatbots are turning brains to mush in a measurable fashion and that a lot of businesses and professionals are telling whoever is asking that this shit just doesn’t work.

Still, the big-tech-press-piece-to-reputable-news-story pipeline is going strong.