> Turns out, the friction I felt around picking one thing may have actually been beneficial. Perhaps it was actually helping me stay focused. Even if it cost just a bit of extra time before I sat down and worked.

They regretted it.

Now if that information is BS and cannot be relied upon, that’s really bad. Leading people on and not delivering? Honestly, Google themselves should have been on it and not the German government. It’s a bad look for them.

Aside: I’ve noticed their AI mode is pretty pathetic for troubleshooting something. 50% of the times the first response is riddled with inaccuracies and mistakes. Repeat prompting is absolutely necessary (so do not expect to one shot anything).

Also I will admit that I still find myself using it because I’m lazy, and it’s easier to talk to AI to get the right answer. Searching organically is hard these days with the volume of content having gone up exponentially.

Another one: AI voiceovers on videos taken from Asian apps, with some made up emotional story, followed by “if you love your mom, like and subscribe” - which kids (< 8yrs) actually do![2]

Or for that matter that YouTube makes it so hard to block channels and impossible to unblock specific channels (at least for kids). The platform has been unwilling to do anything about it for years. I suppose maybe this isn’t the best example but it’s definitely along the lines of a corporation prioritizing profits over all else, especially disregarding the wellbeing of their users.

1. https://youtu.be/VF4V7bRjjdo https://youtu.be/UoGuLabqgrk

2. https://youtube.com/shorts/B2ZNFiix8JA https://youtube.com/shorts/0eYYKRRcYrA

> Once the chip shortage from AI datacenters bubble pops, we could see even better SoCs from Intel, AMD, and even Qualcomm and Nvidia could join the ARM laptop battle in a serious way.

EPYC (the 2nm AMD chip being produced at TSMC Arizona) is still going to support the datacenter demand, not consumer devices. You and I are still screwed. Apple is the only behemoth, IMO, that wields significant power against other trillion dollar companies. Not Acer, not HP, not even Dell (I don’t think). This is my personal opinion, I don’t have specific facts at hand to back it. Just a strong intuition.

But hey, govts might step in at some point and say - we need to put a cap on how much supply data-centres can buy. Since computers and phones are the backbone of modern society. There may be some rationing happening down the line.

“Independent open-source project · not affiliated with DeepSeek”

I never said, or even implied that they are creating a new product. They are dropping the “free tier” or licence, if you will, because either a) they are starting to see this tier being used for commercial applications b) they are maintaining a completely separate code base/product for free users and don’t want to support its development anymore.

If it was b) they could have chosen to open-source it.

Any other reason that I can think of is probable but unlikely - like, there’s a non-zero chance they could be trying to beef up the revenue on paper, before selling off the FPGA unit, to focus on servers and GPUs.

If it’s any consolation, it wasn’t and still isn’t available on macOS. Also the part about Linux having a “small user base” made me chuckle.

That’s the opposite of what I’m observing. If they wanted to save costs, they would have dropped Linux support altogether. But instead, they are making it a paid benefit. It can only mean that their Linux user base is growing, ie. more commercial operators are turning to Linux. Still, there are much better ways to handle this without alienating your user base.

They try to give you the vocabulary to be expressive, then get the hell out of your way. You can still shoot yourself in the foot with them, of course.

I think that has more to do with the design goals of the language. C was designed to be raw and simple, and it does that well. Ruby was designed to read almost like English prose, and it does that well. Rust was specifically designed to make it hard to shoot yourself in the foot, and it does that well too.

I don’t think that was ever a major React design goal. PropTypes helped a bit, but these days TypeScript carries most of the burden of saving developers from themselves.

Anyway, React is far from perfect. But JSX was a neat invention that alleviated the tension between

    `
something
` and

    let el = document.createElement(‘div’);
    el.innerHTML(‘something’);

Most of these customers would already know the meaning of RPA, if they are researching companies for it. In a way, it self qualifies their leads into higher quality ones, that are more likely to convert.

Don't get me wrong, it's a stunning car. But I miss the screaming reds and yellows most of all. And the interface, polished as it is, feels almost too intuitive. Ferrari shouldn't feel effortless!

Now, if this were badged as an Apple car with a sticker price under $100k, we'd be having a very different conversation.

It would be much better if they just gave up on Gemini for coding and exclusively adopted Claude models. Even Deep Mind folks themselves prefer Claude over Gemini[1].

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-deepmind-ai-tool-divi...

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