My own suspicion is that LLMs are not becoming more general-purpose over time, as these companies had hoped, and ongoing development in that direction is stalling. They will likely need to move in the direction of more specialization and train LLMs for specific use-cases. However, this would also be admitting that they are not on a direct path to AGI.

I agree on ORMs, but that would apply with or without AI for me personally. ORMs and ActiveRecord are an obvious and well documented anti-pattern at this point in time.

"Make no mistakes"

> Not so fast. A 2025 paper(opens a new tab) from Northeastern University and the University of California, Berkeley on frontier open-source LRMs showed that between 30% and 60% of their “thinking steps” had “minimal causal impact” on the answers the models produced to benchmark math questions. Chop half of them out, and a model’s performance barely suffers. “We want to be careful when we review these chain-of-thought prompts because they may not be linked to the final output,” said Weiyan Shi(opens a new tab), one of the study’s authors

Daylight savings time changes, can't be globally banned fast enough really.

I have reported this to Toyota multiple times with videos detailing the problem and they have denied the problem and ultimately when faced with the evidence simply refused to fix it.

I've been a big fan of Toyota's Production System and their management culture, but this experience has really diminished the brand for me. I realize these problems exist with all cars today. The pattern seems to be to foist low-quality hardware and software on their customers and take no responsibility for the results. Software bugs aren't what they consider a "typical car problem" so they simply don't fix them.

https://www.chaotropy.com/why-jeff-bezos-is-probably-wrong-p...

Otherwise OSS is pretty much as-is, where-is, with the exception of very widely used and corporately supported projects.

AI may be overhyped but the actual use cases and potential ones seem very clear.

ORMs, like all abstractions, are a leaky abstraction. But I would argue because of the ubiquity and utility of SQL itself they are a very leaky one where eventually you are going to need to work around them.

After switching to just using SQL in all situations I found my life got a lot simpler. Performance also improved as most ORMs (Rails in particular) are not very well implemented from a performance standpoint, even for very simple use cases.

I can not recommend enough that people skip the ORM entirely.