- Less power, less heat. Less heat, less cooling required. At some point that allows you to go fanless, and that's very beneficial if you have to share a room with the device.
- Groundwork most often is the work.
Just yesterday I was helping a family member install roofing. The roof was done up to slats, the roofing was big metal sheets, should be done in an hour. Except we spent good five hours on various little details before the first sheet was going up. And you cant exactly not do those, at least if you want the roof to stay there, and the weather to stay outside.
- Wait, it really does say that in the article. Wow.
- Off the top of my head, I can't think of an EU country that does not have some form of advance voting.
Here in Latvia the "election day" is usually (always?) on weekend, but the polling stations are open for some (and different!) part of every weekday leading up. Something like couple hours on monday morning, couple hours on tuesday evening, couple around midday wednesday, etc. In my opinion, it's a great system. You have to have a pretty convoluted schedule for at least one window not to line up for you.
- That's the case if said employees have nothing better to do and are currently twiddling their thumbs. Usually the server maintenance hours come out of project development hours.
It's precisely why we moved from a self-hosted demo environment server to heroku - the developers that had both the skills to manage a server and enough seniority to have access accross all the different projects could bring in more by building.
- Glad to hear grandmas approach of "just give them a bit of everything" has now been proven correct :)
- The issue is that the field is still moving too fast - in 20 months, you might break even on costs, but the LLMs you are able to run might be 20 months behind "state of the art". As long as providers keep selling cheap inference, I'm holding out.
- Here's an article - even Tour de France riders regularly use those: https://7seizh.info/tour-de-france-tales-quand-une-affiche-v...
- There are times I do envy people living in stick houses with hollow walls.
- Isn't that magic called "mouse cursor emulation"?
- I think the most apt comment I saw on the announcement was "Looks like they brought it from 2000 all the way to 2003".
- All the while foxes, deer and birds can still develop their dwellings there. Blatant disregard of the law, I say.
- Worldwide, maybe. But in the "western world"? Couple weeks ago my mother asked me to compare the main LLM providers. And then for tips how to best use it. She is over 80.
- Came here to comment this. Most of the flakey tests are badly written, some warn you about bugs you don't yet understand.
Couple years ago I helped to bring a project back on track. They had a notoriously flakey part of test suite, turned out to be caused by a race condition. And a very puzzling case of occasional data corruption - also, turns out, caused by the same race condition.
- Hah, I know, been around forests since childhood, seen (and done) plenty of sketchy stuff. For me it averages out to couple days of forest work a year. It's backbreaking labour, and then you deal with the weather.
But man, if tech goes straight into cyberpunk dystopia but without the cool gadgets, maybe it is the better alternative.
- Every now and then I consider stepping away from the computer job, and becoming a lumberjack. This is one of those moments.
- Where contributors are the audience, yes. For things like libraries, I care about those things only if I run into a bug, and have enough resources to attempt a fix.
- It would. And some projects will manage to stay within the bounds of what AI tools can do, and require precisely no programmers.
Who knows, maybe couple years down the line the bounds expand, and "some" transforms into "many", maybe even "most" way, way later.
- I had an epiphany about this couple days ago.
You know how the average dev will roll their eyes at taking over a maintenance of a "legacy" project. Where "legacy" means anything not written by themselves. Well, there will be a lot more of these maintenance takeovers soon. But instead of taking over the product of another dev agency that got fired / bankrupt / ..., you will take over projects from your marketing department. Apps implemented by the designers. Projects "kickstarted" by the project manager. Codebases at the point antropic / google / openai / ... tool became untenable. Most likely labelled as "just needs a little bit more work".
These LLM tools are amazing for prototypes. Amazing. I could not be anywhere near as productive for churning out prototypes as claude code is, even if I really tried. And these prototypes are great tools for arriving at the true (or at least slightly better) requirements.
Prototypes should get burned when "real" development starts. But they usually are not. And we're going to do much, much more prototyping in very near future.
If I post AI generated images to twitter, and those get amplified by my followers (that might or might not be real people) enough to surface on some rail engineers feed, well, that's just me showcasing my art, no harm intended, right?