- chrswArduino was finished the moment it was acquired by Qualcomm.
- Some of favorite desktop environments: NeXTSTEP BeOS/Haiku ChromeOS Raspberry PI macOS CDE I like uniformity, simplicity and consistency, stability, few surprises, little guessing. I want to use the computer. I don't need to become an expert in computer interfaces. Like cars. I just want to drive the car. I don't want to have to build or customize my own automobile ergonomics. Much of my time is spent on the command line anyway, but when I have to use the GUI, please make it very simple.
- Yes, I agree. And you can add security to that too.
- I work on deeply embedded software that doesn't have what you'd commonly think of as a "UI". So, unless there are bugs or we ship faster or something like that, users will never have any idea how much of our code is AI generated.
But it's happening.
- The only reason why you run local models is for privacy, never for cost. Or even latency.
- Real machine learning research has promise, especially over long time scales.
Imminent AGI/ASI/God-like AI/end of humanity hawks are part of a growing AI cult. The cult leaders are driven by insatiable greed and the gullible cult followers are blinded by hope.
And I say this as a developer who is quite pleased with the progress of coding assistant tools recently.
- > Out of curiosity, is yours on gitlab? Something else?
Something else, it's a self-hosted Git server similar to GitHub, GitLab, etc. We have multiple repos well clear of 1k files. Almost none of it is JavaScript or TypeScript or anything like that. None of our own code is public.
- How does this work if your repos aren't on GitHub? And what if your code has nothing to do with backend web apps?
- I think that's just the name they picked. I don't mind it. Taking a glance at what it actually does, it just looks like another command line coding assistant/agent similar to Opencode and friends. You can use it for whatever you want not just "vibe coding", including high quality, serious, professional development. You just have to know what you're doing.
- > run locally for agentic coding. Nowadays I mostly use GPT-OSS-120b for this
What kind of hardware do you have to be able to run a performant GPT-OSS-120b locally?
- How do you know?
- I'm not sure how it is in other countries, but here the US, gas cars and EVs are political statements.
- Tech company leadership sees AI as a shortcut to success. You know how in project planning meetings engineers are usually asked how they can pull in the schedule by x number of months? AI is now that thing. Obviously, this is a mistake.
The cult of AI maximalists aren't helping the situation.
- > LLMs "survive" by being useful - whatever use they're put to.
I might be wrong or inaccurate on this because it's well outside my area of expertise, but isn't this what individual neurons are basically doing?
- I could be wrong but I think a lot of the negativity comes from people who want a modern laptop, with decent port selection, a good screen and a good keyboard, fully supported by Linux because everything is open. Quality hardware with support when you want it and open documentation and open drivers if you want to do something yourself. Like a MacBook Pro but with USB-A ports and built with 100% Linux compatibility from the ground up.
- It will probably take decades for machine learning to transform the way we live and work.
- That sounds like the way nature handles growth and complexity: slowly and over long time scales. Assume there will be failures, don't die and keep trying.
When you bite off too much complexity at once you end up not shipping anything or building something brittle.
- I got upvoted then downvoted in the acquisition thread where I suggested this would happen. Anyone who thinks the old Arduino still exists is simply naive.
- I thought I was just getting old...
- People don't want to contribute to the country that made them rich. I expect that in a place like the USA, where your taxed money can go to helping people who don't look like you or don't have your same values. But I assumed Norwegians don't mind helping Norway.