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Re:Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update) by glitchc on Sunday July 20, 2025 @11:04AM (#44625864)
I'm certain these are advertorials masquerading as personal opinions. These people are being paid to promote the product, either through outright cash, credits on their platform or just swag.
Re:Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update) by tptacek on Sunday July 20, 2025 @11:06AM (#44625884)
So, just so I have this straight, you think antirez is being paid by Google to hype Gemini.
Re:Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update) by Herring on Sunday July 20, 2025 @11:24AM (#44626055)
A lot of people are bad at change. See: immigration. Short of giving everyone jazz lessons at school, there's nothing to be done.

To be fair, change is not always good. We still haven't fixed fitness/obesity issues caused (partly) by the invention of the car, 150 years later. I think there's a decent chance LLMs will have the same effect on the brain.

Re:Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update) by simonw on Sunday July 20, 2025 @12:28PM (#44626741)
I recommend readjusting your advertorial-detecting radar. antirez isn't taking kickbacks from anyone.

I added a "disclosures" section to my own site recently, in case you're interested: https://simonwillison.net/about/#disclosures

Re:Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update) by amirhirsch on Sunday July 20, 2025 @01:43PM (#44627450)
It started out as an innocent kv cache before the redis industrial complex became 5% of the GDP