Especially when trying to buy something. I much prefer to have a longer initial load and then have everything just work instead of waiting as I navigate between pages, the multi stage checkout, confirmation etc.

But yeah, if I'm just trying read a single article on a blog, preloading everything is pointless. A hybrid site with the initial page being server side rendered + progressive enhancement afterwards is theoretically optimal in my opinion.

Mostly for things that I know are possible and have a vague idea of how I would do it, but it would take me longer. Some examples in no particular order:

* Made my wife's travel blog/site

* Chrome extension for Crunchyroll to allow multisubs + local translation for unsupported languages (so my wife and I can watch and she doesn't need to focus extra hard reading English)

* Same as above for Netflix

* Setup multi subs with mpv (some Lua plugin shenanigans)

* Setup proton for warcraft 3 + wc3 champions (unofficial ladder) on Linux

* Setup a bunch of xrandr aliases for my different monitor uses (I'm still on x11)

If you need a custom chrome/firefox extension or to create some bespoke Linux QoL stuff, it works great. This was all Gemini Flash 3.5-3.7 (been using it for a while). I suspect pretty much anything would succeed at these tasks, but I just stick with antigravity because it works for me(and I'm on some discounted plan).

Now people think I'm just parroting what Claude said. It sucks. I want my catch phrases back, I guess this is how em dash users felt

And I also agree that you could use GitHub actions in a similar way to how I talk about Jenkins. I also think you could use Jenkins in a way that is similar to GitHub actions with an extremely convoluted Jenkins file that relies on Jenkins plugins etc.

But nowhere I worked did that with Jenkins, whereas everywhere I worked with GitHub actions does create extremely complex pipelines relying on 3rd party actions (with many being vendor supplied). I'm sure(hope?) the DevOps folks looked at what each action actually does by going to wherever it's pulled from and read it (and the actions it pulls in).

I'm not necessarily arguing that things are worse now. Just that you don't get a "free" understanding anymore by just having a good familiarity of the Linux userland. When there's a problem, I stick my head in the sand and let the DevOps people handle it.

I also haven't worked anywhere that uses Jenkins in 10+ years, so maybe if I went back, it would be the same as Github.

Take CI for example, it was Jenkins and it ran a csh/bash/zsh whatever script and captured the output. Nice and simple (even if the scripts sometimes got insane).

GitHub actions is nothing like that. Weird home grown extensions to YAML with their own idiosyncrasies and dynamically pulling in plugins from god knows where. You can't just take a workflow and execute it locally like you could with a bash script.

Or with just not using these services.

That sucks, may as well auto approve with a script.

> Sure it is, but it may not cost what you think it should cost.

You can go on open router and see what 3rd parties are hosting open models for. There are some pretty capable models (not frontier, but probably opus 4.5 level) for pretty cheap.

Those companies have no incentive to lose money. They are nameless, they are making a profit just providing the service, and it's cheaper than the frontier models of today.

So I think we have a pretty good idea about what the price can be, even without VC subsidizing.

The time I previously spent writing code is now spent reviewing code and giving feedback so that it gets written differently if don't like it.

The skills required have changed completely imo. You need to be able to context switch efficiently and review "better". Also identify which tasks require lots of supervision of what the AI generates and which don't.

I think AI is here to stay. Open models keep the costs at a certain level. If hosted solutions get too expensive, people will selfhost. Even if models never improve beyond today, the open ones are good enough at this point to provide immense value.

Just my opinion of course.

LLMs in 2023, from what I remember, were slightly better auto complete. It's pretty different now.

[0] https://gwern.net/creatine

> If you've never seen truly dark skies, do yourself a favour and go see what they look like during true night

I think I went from only ever experiencing Bortle 5-6 to Bortle 1 when I visited Merzouga and Erg Chebbi. Blew my mind, made me really appreciate the extent of light pollution almost everywhere else I've been.

This is my biggest issue as well. It's actually the one "real" thing I use the iPad for. It still gets the mobile app interface whilst being on a bigger screen and being almost usable.

It's the epitome of science, comparing it to a generic vim vs emacs flamewar which is pure subjective opinion is pretty baseless.

I guess my usage falls into two categories:

1. I have reliable wifi, and don't need to use mobile data for work

2. I don't have reliable wifi and I have to use mobile data for work.

If I'm in situation 1, then I don't really care too much. The cheapest junk esim works. If I'm in situation 2, I need a large amount of data and need a local plan.

I've saved your site though, never know what situation might come up. I don't know how esimdb chooses who to index, but I would try to get on there (I'm assuming it's free?).

I've spoken to quite a few travelers and they mostly fall into two groups. Those that use airlo or some other big provider or they use esim comparison sites to get the cheapest offer.

I travel fulltime and constantly buy new esims. Normally I just go on esimdb and buy the cheapest one. Then when I get to the location I'm staying at, I chat with folks to figure which network works best there. Normally it's cheaper to get a local plan as well.

You are quite a bit more expensive than the no-name folks I buy from.

[0] https://esimdb.com

The final level was their product and it was impossible. But it was also impossible to get the LLm to do _anything_.

May as well just echo "prompt injection attempt detected" at that point and never send anything to an LLM.

This isn't really a good example, assuming both can be used to represent the same thing.

The problem with the wrong abstraction is when your abstraction doesn't let you represent something. Then, because of you've already invested so heavily into it, you start contorting the problem to fit your abstraction and it becomes a shit show.

Your suggestion to using coding benchmarks doesn't really capture the whole picture. I haven't seen a benchmark using kubectl.

> AFAIK, none of the major players do. That's a sign to me these don't work in general.

It's a lose/lose for major players. If it works well, it will lower their revenue. Also there's a high risk it'll significantly worsen results for some people, even if it improves results for others.

There are a few, with varying degrees of residency time (and possibly other conditions) required. New Zealand requires being a resident for a year.

The UK is particularly interesting, if you're a citizen of a common wealth nation you can vote in national UK elections if you're a resident.

Personally, I agree with you though. I didn't vote in the UK despite being able too. Let the citizens decide the future of their nation, I have the privilege to leave (and have done so already). Feels wrong for me to influence the nation when I'm not fully invested in the outcome.

Kids eventually grow up and "start producing capital". It's definitely beneficial for the "elite" in the long term for people to have kids.