I can't understand how anyone can do this in good conscience.

No, pick one. If it's the former, it's essentially the same as saying they warped society.

I agree that these traits are human and were there before social media, but amplifying, gamifying and exploiting addiction is reprehensible.

The LLM descriptions are terrible though :) here's the one for Windows 98:

> Windows 98 refined the 95 formula, folding the web into the shell with Active Desktop while keeping the familiar look. Its Display Properties carried over the same grid of basic swatches and named schemes — teal still the Windows Standard default — with the classic reserved system colors tuned to their canonical values.

Instead of this, maybe find some copy related to the os (some quotes from the media / internet archive / something)?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166874

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How do you know it's actually better? I'm not trying to be condescending, but this reads to me like vibes :)

I find your reaction strange, do you read news to be angry and/or afraid? :)

But it was subject to regulatory approval, that's been completed now.

Who are comfortable releasing systems with horrible security, while proudly stating they never read the code? And with metrics that can be gamed by anyone, but that got reported to literally the entire world?

> The lesson here is to spend less time focused on doing what you think is the right thing and spend more time tinkering.

I'd say the lesson here is that clown world keeps on giving, but hey, maybe I'm just jealous ;)

Are you saying that kids now buy their phones with pocket money without their parents knowing?

> It's obvious we're moving in a direction where we are going to get these restrictions in one way or another

It’s not obvious, it’s just sad. I still hope reason will prevail in this.

IMO this take is naive :)

It's much less sexy if it's not autonomous, if this was a person the thread would not get any attention.

Steve Yegge's a famous developer, this is not a joke :) You could say he is an AI maximalist, from your options I'd go with (b) serious with the idea, tongue-in-check in the style and using a lot of self-irony.

It is exaggerated, but this is how he sees things ending up eventually. This is real software.

If things do end up in glorified kanban boards, what does it mean for us? That we can work less and use the spare time reading and doing yoga, or that we'll work the same hours with our attention even more fragmented and with no control over the outputs of these things (=> stress).

I'd really wish that people who think this is good for us and are pushing for this future do a bit better than:

1. More AI 2. ??? 3. Profit

Shift to what? This? https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...

Does everything stop or it's mostly business as usual minus some things?

I would imagine hospitals, tax offices etc need the internet to work?

This startup didn’t spend the trillions he’s referencing.

I listened to bits of it and I was disappointed by the lack of push back from Lex who was supper excited because he got to hang out with Durov for a couple of weeks in Dubai - the tl;dr I got from what I heard is that Telegram is amazing and Durov is a visionary freedom fighter. Lex's recent history I'm not surprised though.

Here's the transcript of the section about encryption: https://lexfridman.com/pavel-durov-transcript#chapter15_encr... I'll let you judge for yourself.

I'll comment on another section though because I'm somewhat knowledgeable having followed the subject closely in the media and by knowing the country: https://lexfridman.com/pavel-durov-transcript#chapter7_roman...

He claims: 'So, by the time the head of intelligence services met me to ask about Romania to help them silencing conservative voices in Romania, I was already wary of what can be going on next.'

I call bullshit on this. The 'conservative voices' are muppets doing Russia's bidding who broke all sorts of election laws. There was nothing serious happening on Telegram in Romania that would warrant any foreign intervention, it just doesn't make sense.