I do agree that there are "social interactions" that are greatly devalued by people wishing not to be interacted with. But for me the earbuds are usually in to block annoyances, not avoid human contact.

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Seems most of the open weight models are from outside the USA (shocker), going to be interesting to see how THAT shakes out.

(Sorry, couldn't resist.) I could be the lone dissenter here, but to me well-written comments are a lot more fun to read than near-gibberish.

I wished more people tried harder to be better communicators, but it is what it is. If AI can decipher these comments and produce a much more coherent statement, then I'm for it.

LLMs may be accelerating the process, but definitely not the cause.

If you want a career in technology, a durable one, you learn to adapt. Your primary skill is NOT to master a given technology, it is the ability to master a given technology. This is a university that has no graduation!

The biggest obstacle is that there are just too many 4-way stops in urban areas where there is no space left to make a roundabout, you would have to tear down buildings. I don't think that is a valid argument in that scenario.

Any details on privacy and data sharing surfaced yet?

Astonishingly ignorant hot take. Music is what MUSICIANS DO. Some of them are also performers, many are not. What they create is the same as what a painter does, or even a chef or architect. However it is not a physical good so people with tiny brains think that means "iT's FreEEe!!1!" when each musical instrument used costs money, the recording cost money, the distribution cost money, the filing/registration costs money, and then there's all the years of time and effort spent learning how to do all of this.

The fact of the matter is that right now music is treated very similarly to software. There is ownership and copyright, and being able to make a digital copy for minimal cost/effort does not magically remove that ownership.

If you don't like it then you should change the laws. It's like being mad at cops because of the speed limit, when the likely culprits are your local city council.

Some companies are holding their breaths due to political instability, others are in sectors that are already getting decimated (likely from the same instability above), yet others have reached a point where they (and "they" appear to be in a majority in their respective industries) are more centered on efficiency than headcount.

I'm employed and I'm grateful... I know plenty of people searching and are getting nothing but silence in their search. I think both sides of the hiring equation are getting a hard reset right now.

How can it be AGPL and not provide full source? AGPL is like the most aggressive of the GPL license variants. If they somehow circumvented the intent behind this license that is a problem.

For new projects, I find Claude Code extremely helpful, as I start out with a business document, a top-level requirements document, and go from there. In the end (and with not a lot of work or time spent) I have a README, implementation plan, high-level architecture, milestones, and oftentimes a swagger spec, pipeline setup and a test harness.

IMHO pointing CC at a folder of a big typescript project is going to waste a ton of compute and tokens, for minimal value. That is not a good use of this tool. I also have a pretty strong opinion that a large, complex typescript codebase is a bad idea for humans too.

Point CC at a python or go repo and it is a whole 'nother experience. Also, starting out is where CC really shines as stated above.

For a big complex typescript repo I would want very specific, targeted help as opposed to agentic big-picture stuff. But that also minimizes the very reason I'd be reaching for help in the first place.

Absolutely NOT going there again.

* points at numerous scars and trauma

That said, they have always been behind the curve with AI, and recent product releases/updates have been, uh, suboptimal. Latest Logic Pro is a disaster (e.g. unstable/crashing, removed key shortcuts killing productivity) and don't get me started on the dumbing-down of iOS.

They are for sure headed in the wrong direction, but they are just too big to fall overnight.

I can tell you that as soon as you download Chrome and login to any Google account of yours, the captcha tests are suddenly and mysteriously gone.

Use firefox in full-lockdown mode, and you will be clicking fire hydrants and crosswalks for the next several hours.

My crazy conspiracy theory is that Google is just using captcha as an opportunity to force everyone out of privacy mode, further empowering the surveillance capitalism engines. The intent is not to be effective, but inconvenient.

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Been playing around with this for a day and found it intuitive and fun to use. A little scary on the "but how much will this cost me if this becomes a frequently-used tool?" question. Can't wait to point this at local models, too!