This doesn't seem that surprising to me? One is tasked with a simple very narrow task. The other has a corpus including billions of other images and pieces of information. It'd seem to me that instinctively one would outperform the other, regardless of age.

The AI is incidental to the story. The fraud is the fake streams for money.

Tech has always been like this. On the building side, it has been Cargo Culting for years. If it's not AI, it was microservices, or NoSQL, or the newest front-end framework. The nature of tech meant that we always had to keep up with this stuff, because it helped you land another potential future job.

On the business side it has always been a series of perverse incentives that go counter to needs of the customer.

God I hate Uw Zorg Online. The app recently had a 500 issue with retrieving my medical history, and looking into the API it's because it can't retrieve my (completely unrelated) allergies history. Of which I have none.

The people who make that app earn more money than the average nurse.

Not for long. Ai has truly made effort and time put in more weighed in terms of pay.

Bad for tech, but good for equity.

The point wasn't the loader. It was the phrase the loading screen uses. It leaks the context. The context being that they were merging apps together.

You do realise that’s really common marketing speak when merging apps even before LLMs?

This actually sums up a lot of what I feel about AI. For everything. For flyers, menus, all the rest of it.

It always only took a few hours. And yeah, whatever, sure it adds up. But now you've got this dogshit looking flyer outside your restaurant, and it would have taken you like 45 minutes to adept a Canva template.

For AI, the skill loss and all the rest of it, the lack of control, the lack of knowledge of the codebase. It doesn't feel like saving the few hours is ever worth it.

You know your app just immediately crashes to a blank screen the minute you enter a name, or finish a lesson right?

Firefox had an unsupported missing WebAudio. It should be fixed now, and I've updated my workflow to also test on Firefox. Let me know if the crash was in a different browser (not Firefox).

Firefox?

I have a feeling this is going to end up in the same place where a lot of AI generated projects end up.

There has for sure been a reduction in the amount of effort to create software. But that friction that existed before helped in determining what was WORTH making. There will be a subsection of tools that are now creatable, that are needed. But there'll be a lot of tools that get created that will be abandoned precisely because they didn't solve enough of a problem.

Having a gating mechanism, in the past the friction and effort, was good.

I'm still searching if somebody else made something for tiny tooling before I start throwing something together. Getting something just working is easy nowadays, and makes things that we considered not worth the effort before viable, but making sure it actually is good, doesn't have unintended side effects, and has good documentation (which I'm still typically writing by hand) adds quite a bit of extra effort on top, which still makes sharing the better option than just doing everything yourself for a lot of things.

My problem with AI is never going to be "It replaced Squarespace for small websites"

Were those actual complaints? Maybe the first, maybe the brick and mortar? Who was saying we will never use planes??