We saw already around 2020 or so that specialists opinions didn't really matter. Feelings and politicians opinions were more relevant... so "nobody in planet modelling" means nothing if Politicians and Activists tries to create this link..

Al Gore, if I remember correctly, and António Guterres, i think last month, tried to create this link already.. probably others too?

in another hand, i question if we really could rule out, since back in the days, everything that we have was coal.

I just hope that politicians don't jump in and say "we know how to fix it", because unfortunately where they put their hands, they just make things worse (regardless of which country)

if their mother language is english. For my kids, mother language German, is much harder to consume such content. Both are doing well in math olympics and similar contests, but i still miss such evolving kind of content like 3Blue1Brown or Brilliant.com in German...

which one would people suggest? I got two already, both locked. Google Pixel 3a XL 64GB. Cannot root it, Sinlock. Not possible to install postmarktOS. Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T 64GB. Same thing, some lock, need a SIM card, some proprietary BS.. not possible to root easily.. I really wanted to build a cluster of mobiles, but its hard to find cheap and good mobiles for such experiment... and if i have to pay 500 buckets, i can do better with some Mini PC...

My goal is to reproduce the following experiment https://research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-computing-platform...

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For instance, if you earns, 3k/month, your whole life, and a 2% year annual return in a saving account, over 40 years, that's roughly 300k in contributions. Spread over 8 years, that's about 4.5k/month. And no, your pension will never will be even 2k/month with a salary of 3k/month.. At this point, will just make sense to become civil servant.. full pension, private insurance, depending of the job, 40 days+ holidays/year..

OSS was always about collaborative engineering process. Together we bet the system. Hacking for freedom. Now we reduced it to the modern individualism.

The plot-twist here is: The game design is made by Claude too :)

References: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Luckey

At least against as it is now, where everyone with Claude suddenly becomes a software engineer.

Software engineering is more than pushing code to main/master.

It's requirements. Acceptance criteria. Design. Documentation written for humans. Reviews. Operations. Maintenance. Understanding the product. Understanding the system you're changing.

Right now, I struggle with PRs being opened by people who don't fully understand the code they're changing, replying to review comments with Claude generated answers pasted back like a meat proxy...

What I see at work is that we're pushing code faster than ever, while losing the big picture of our product, or the architecture of our own network, even faster.

We're also generating documentation at an incredible pace. The problem is that the people writing it often don't understand it either.

Code has become cheap.

Engineering hasn't.

I'll never vibe-code PostgreSQL. I don't want to maintain my own Kubernetes codebase. I happily pay for GitLab Enterprise and Authentik Enterprise.

That said, these small end-user console apps are just noise.

It's so cheap to build something that fits your exact use case that almost everyone does it instead of contributing to an existing project or reading through their AI generated documentation...

And posting it on Hacker News feels like the software developer equivalent of an influencer posting a picture of their lunch.

Code is cheap. GitHub is free (although I'm betting that free code hosting will start disappearing before the end of the year). And people want to showcase their "skills."

Vibe-code a tool, post it on Hacker News, collect stars and karma, repeat.

It's almost becoming the software developer equivalent of being an influencer...