> I don't really see what damage this would do or why you'd have to apologise.
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> I didn't learn these libraries. Hell I barely know which libraries I've built on top of! Open source development used to run on attribution, how can I attribute what I barely know I've consumed?! Why would those developers continue to work on these projects when they now go even more unappreciated than they used to be?! I assume many have stopped.
> And those are just the libraries. The code it is generating is synthesized from being trained on code they have sucked out of the public (and perhaps not so public) internet. Code like my own from my own Github page and many many others, all without attribution or compensation. I could have paid someone to build it, freelance software development used to be a thing, but I didn't. I bet that market is pretty dry these days.
Even pre-LLM: I've found a lot of colleagues (mystifyingly to me, both seniors and juniors) who really want to be able to turn their brain off when doing investigations into complicated cross-system behavior (feedback loops abound), and they don't like hearing that it can't be collapsed into a runbook. If a drinking bird (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_bird) on an Enter key could do it, I could rig something up so I wouldn't need you!
To be fair, that is often a reasonable tradeoff when there’s higher priority things the business needs to focus on.
I sometimes suggest timeboxing investigations for this reason. Spend 4h on this - if root cause is not found, just throw more hardware at it. Although I expect a writeup of what was investigated and ruled out, so that it can be used when someone returns to it.
Yes, one of the primary dysfunctions I see in business environments is a culture that doesn’t create space for timeboxed and clear discussion of tradeoffs. Everyone must have both the _appetite for_ and _implicit or explicit permission to have_ a reasonable discussion of option A vs option B and the long vs short term costs and benefits of each. There must be enough discipline to not rabbit hole or scope creep and decisions must be captured somewhere in a concise way so that everyone who is impacted is informed, and everyone who will inherit the downstream consequences can understand and articulate the decision chain that led to current state.
This is rarely if ever done in a sensible way. Instead you find Managers, Engineers or PMs avoiding troublesome stakeholders, hallway convos or Slack DMs that are never properly written into public record in a searchable/readable way, last minute overrides from higher ups based on limited context of the problem space or their own unaligned career goals, poor recordkeeping, panic mode bandaid fixes when systems break, etc...
IMO a lot of the “meat proxy” and “loop obsession” behavior we’re seeing is simply people using the sense of short term productivity gains as self-soothing against anxiety from corporate dysfunction that they have no control over.
I've seen it too, and it seems to be getting worse as companies move more and more communication onto Slack, ticketing systems, Confluence, etc. Modern channels are a huge high velocity dumping ground. The only way anyone can even pretend to keep up with all the - frankly - spam is arbitrary sampling.
Oldschool periodic reports and memoranda weren't perfect, but they did encourage taking time to curate one's message. And gave others somewhere to go for a properly curated message.
Yeah. It took me a few paragraphs until I checked out, but spending flair points on unimportant stuff is still obvious. If everything is highlighted, nothing is.
There is also this weird incoherence - a long series of statements that don't seem to build to anything. It's like a story without intention or dramatic arc. That is what makes me check out - I rarely lose interest like that except when reading LLM slop.
> If you don't want your content to end up in some database/archive don't publish it for the whole world to see.
This principle somewhat reminds me of the line that "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product", and it seems to me similarly misleading - my data gets harvested and sold by companies with which I have non-paying relationships and by companies I have to pay for things (I am made the product in both cases). As you note - the AI companies are ignoring copyright law and pirating everything that seems useful to them regardless of whether it was published for free access.
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
I think parent is within bounds to complain here.
This is a pretty horrendous font that is an accessibility issue not just a “tangential annoyance”— this is also a uniquely nauseating multi color font with flicker effects that is both interesting in its own right and hardly common.
you shouldn't take it into consideration, they aren't a mod and clearly have nothing better to do with their time. the pedantry on this site sometimes...
My take in this case is to learn incrementally. Like the pebbles in the shoe, I remove the more painful one first (the shortcut for the action I do the most), get used to it, then remove next more painful., and so on. Usually I begin to get a little comfortable with 4 or 5 shortcuts.
I doubt it - AWS hasn't added any non-western models since GLM 5 and MiniMax M2.5 in February, afaik. Might be a deal with OpenAI (GPT 5.4 was the first to be available via Bedrock, in April) or might just be that there isn't a lot of demand due to corporate skittishness around models trained in China.
I definitely agree with your sentiment in general. However, I'll note that I find this sans serif to have a nicer feel than many I see these days (even among humanist ones) and it's cool that they've managed to achieve that while being acceptably inoffensive for mainstream use
This seems directed at people who are angry about Things In General. AI as a whole. The Industry. In reality, I think a lot of folks who are the most angry are angry about specifics they observe - tokenmaxxing policies impacting performance reviews, leaders encouraging binning hard-won best practices, coworkers shoving slop in your face, managers seeking funding for crazy AI things everyone knows will fail but look good to VPs while actual critical stuff gets no headcount... It's not looking for "someone to blame" to recognize this stuff around you, and it's by no means "a comforting story".
Maybe there are lots of people out there who are so vague about what they're angry about that this isn't just massively condescending to the rest of us so much as mistargeted. At the same time I've found that folks who really don't believe in these downsides sometimes don't hear you when you bring specifics.
It's interesting to think how nearly-e-waste level hardware could combine with something [home-cooked](https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/) to be really cool, especially for folks who might have been intimidated by this kind of development before.
I’ve started doing this for myself with a productivity app. I’ve tried a bunch and they just were never exactly what I wanted. Now I can just have the robot vibe code me exactly what I need to help with the challenges I personally face. I don’t think I’ll ever make it public bc then I have to care what other people want. It’s refreshing to have an app just for me like a luxurious dish I don’t have to share
there are hardware mods iirc that let you use first gen iPads as external displays. Obviously the quality is late 00s , but better than just throwing it away.
FTFA:
> I didn't learn these libraries. Hell I barely know which libraries I've built on top of! Open source development used to run on attribution, how can I attribute what I barely know I've consumed?! Why would those developers continue to work on these projects when they now go even more unappreciated than they used to be?! I assume many have stopped.
> And those are just the libraries. The code it is generating is synthesized from being trained on code they have sucked out of the public (and perhaps not so public) internet. Code like my own from my own Github page and many many others, all without attribution or compensation. I could have paid someone to build it, freelance software development used to be a thing, but I didn't. I bet that market is pretty dry these days.
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