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New comment by koonsolo in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

koonsolo — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:29:07 +0000

Europe is making big investments in military, there is no denying it. And comparing to the 1980's? Maybe look at how the borders have shifted since the 1980's, and then we'll talk again about how Western Europe is "declining". All those USSR satellite states and plenty of SSR's are now part of us, or want to be part of us.

I agree we don't have high economic growth, mainly an issue with scaleups and regulation. There are also plenty of initiatives there, like EU Inc.

We are waking up, so claiming that we are sleeping at the wheel is plain false.

New comment by koonsolo in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

koonsolo — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:19:28 +0000

We Europeans are very well aware that we need to strengthen our position in the world, both economically and militarily. I would say we are making progress on both. China is not happy with recent EU decision for example.

Let's see how far China and US will go when access to the European consumer market will be resticted.

Let's see how well China and US can adapt to modern drone warfare when Ukrainians have the expertise and can share it with the rest of Europe.

We have to step up our game for sure, and everyone in Europe knows it. But the race is definitely not lost yet.

New comment by koonsolo in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

koonsolo — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:36:15 +0000

Name a single project that has a 10x increase. I mean real production ready code, not some single person hobby project.

New comment by koonsolo in "Various LLM Smells"

koonsolo — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:15:10 +0000

I'm in camp 3, where sometimes I don't really care how good or bad the code is. For internal tools for example, you can let the LLM crunch out code really fast, you can validate output but don't even have to look at the code. These kind of "weekend projects" can get finished in an hour or two, and so are really 10x.

For bigger production ready code, you indeed have to guard the architecture. But for the code, in some corners you can get away with sloppy code, as long as it kind of works.

What I'm saying is, code doesn't always has to be great. You will just have to judge the places where it needs to be high quality, and other places where you can get away with sloppy code.

New comment by koonsolo in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

koonsolo — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:47:15 +0000

Can you give an example of a skill or prompt that would work in Claude and not in the others?

New comment by koonsolo in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

koonsolo — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:46:22 +0000

We have 3 big competitors in the space: Anthropic, Google and Microsoft. I think they can all use the same base configuration. So it's not that we are out of options here.

New comment by koonsolo in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

koonsolo — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:17:07 +0000

I came to the same conclusion. For the amount that a query costs, using Opus all the time is the cheapest option.

New comment by koonsolo in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

koonsolo — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:26:06 +0000

You probably mean you want to take free advantage of what others create, and you offer nothing in return.

But maybe you will pleasantly surprise us and show what kind of valuable thing you create and offer for free.

New comment by koonsolo in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

koonsolo — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:56:57 +0000

My point is that you are unable to understand the difference between GPL and public domain.

New comment by koonsolo in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

koonsolo — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:37:11 +0000

You are not a developer so you don't understand you can compile to a binary without revealing your sources?

No copyright -> No GPL -> anyone can release their own close source version of open source software.

Why do you think GPL was create in the first place? We always had public domain you know.

New comment by koonsolo in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

koonsolo — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:45:00 +0000

You should check out this thing called GPL that is the standard license of open source projects like Linux, and heavily depends on copyright laws.

Or are you suggesting open source software is public domain?

New comment by koonsolo in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

koonsolo — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:41:54 +0000

Linux is clearly not public domain as it has a GPL license. And GPL heavily depends on copyright laws.

New comment by koonsolo in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

koonsolo — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:30:30 +0000

This reminds me of a joke my neighbor used to tell:

If catch a burglar in my house, I will ask them what they are doing. If they respond with "I'm searching for money!", I'll suggest "Let's search together, and whatever we find, we split 50/50"

New comment by koonsolo in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

koonsolo — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:55:36 +0000

They test everything manually and don't have any automated end-to-end tests? That basically proves my point ;).

New comment by koonsolo in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

koonsolo — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:21:49 +0000

> That might be the case, but Simon's case "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" is very different.

When it was new, sure. Right now, models can be trained on that because everybody uses it as a benchmark.

New comment by koonsolo in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

koonsolo — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:15:56 +0000

Being able to work with an infinite amount of dumb interns that work super fast and have a vast amount of knowledge.

New comment by koonsolo in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

koonsolo — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:11:14 +0000

Have you seen the automated tests that QA members deliver? My experience is that they are horrible, and it's not so hard to beat that low quality bar with an LLM.

I have a theory: if they were good at writing automated tests, they would have been developers instead of QA engineers.

Not saying that there aren't any high quality QA engineers, I worked with some. But LLM's raised the bar in a way that most QA engineers can't reach.

New comment by koonsolo in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

koonsolo — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:38:23 +0000

I used to hire people to do photoshop for me. So yes, I kind of get the idea.

I don't hire them anymore. Can you guess why?

New comment by koonsolo in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

koonsolo — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:54:08 +0000

Same experience on my end. It's crazy what the latest version can pull off, with reference images, text, etc.

New comment by koonsolo in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

koonsolo — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:37:08 +0000

I can also switch back and forth between JavaScript and C++. Doesn't mean they are similar.

Conceptually, branches in git and mercurial are worlds apart.