Its often backups signed with Google or Apple keys that are uploaded to Google or Apple that would be vulnerable to a warrant from Law enforcement. Even today, you need to enable end to end encryption on the backups to plug that hole (apparently).

Well I only do manual backups, but my point is that if your data would be avail to LE, we would already know through some criminal cases which majority is unsealed. Up to my best knowledge, we don't have such example, although I be the last one to trust Mark Lizardman.

Using Renovate can be one of those processes.

Hugo is great. I had Claude make the framework for my wifes site using Hugo, Netlify free tier, and Decap CMS. And I forced Claude to avoid any Javascript for the non CMS parts.

Eagles nest 1.

I think the large studios who have the willingness and resources to do that are also willing to contribute to the ongoing enshittification of our digital experiences. I think small indie studios will continue to flourish.

Really? How? Marketing became impossible because of you show your work before it launches, and gets popular enough, script kiddies might use AI to clone it (poorly) and put it on the store before you can even finish the game. Demos are becoming dangerous too because of decompilation. I don’t know, man!

I wonder how AI handles stuff like Denuvo DRM? I've been building alternative clients for some software I regularly use, and AI is a master in using gdb to find keys, understanding how to construct signatures, hashes, etc.

Have you not seen the mass layoffs from Microsoft and other major publishers? And the toxic work environment they are often associated with? AI has nothing to do with that. I hope we see a resurgence in Indie studios and studios that care about their community and customers and not pulling rug pulls like Ubisoft do. Or the union busting Rockstar did.

The industry needs a shake up.

> AI is kinda motivating everyone to do everything on their own instead of gathering up and contributing to one (or two) projects, which is something I'm worried about in Open Source software as a whole.

I think the people who are relying upon AI the most, might not contribute to OSS anyway. I can certainly say I am in that boat because I do not have software development skills and I do not want to learn how to do it. However I am very much using AI to write alternatives to some software I use like Kodi, because I can have something bespoke to my needs and perform "better" in terms of metrics that I care about, which may not align with metrics the contributors care about.

Have you tried making a skin for Kodi? Awful experience, poorly documented, and something only a handful of the community can do. They tend to perform poorly because of an over dependence on python plugins, have many foot guns, and can feel sluggish and unresponsive. But I can say make me a media player that looks like Netfix and pulls trending from trakt, and in one shot have something working on Android TV that performs far better for me.

There maybe arguments that AI couldn't have done that without OSS like Kodi to train on but I dont think thats accurate.

Hopefully this will cause Denmark and its banks to issue more Dankort cards

I think you are being too harsh. Even before AI, software and games would often work great on one computer and poor on other computers. I believe that isn't because they understood the programming less or their standards were low, but because there is so much variance between computer hardware, the firmware inside, and the software running on it that you can't guarantee software to run identically across many combinations.

Similarly it's not unusual for one website to behave differently across browsers.

Sure, to some extent. What I really took issue with is saying "I couldn't have caught this", which is a sort of learned helplessness. It's very often the case that, independent of inscrutable platform differences, LLMs just produce extremely shoddy code that obviously does not scale, and there is a whole class of problems you can solve before they become problems if you actually know how to program.

My intent was not to be harsh, though. I was trying to make a point that one can learn and do better. Coding is very much not solved.

I agree that couldn’t is a tad too far, you could always have tested more. But even with more testing you could’ve missed this, completely irrespective of the use of AI.