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You think that can be done just as fast as reliable?

Why would that be is own browser instead of a plugin? And his will it accumulate significant market share?

It's possible we will see an "AI first" browser (whatever this means) that gets significant market share. But getting rid of ads will not be a driver for that.

They have been successful for I think around two decades, because it's a private company. If I get the timeline correctly, they were already big when Amazon was only selling books.

They have pushed gaming to new levels, see proton. It's quite realistic they stay successful for the time being.

Makes you think about a works were more huge private companies exist.

No, they have not. They have incentives to do so, but they are only obligated to follow the law and in the US, even that obligation is relaxed by a lot.

Poor rich people, imagine they lose a lot of money, who would want that?

Interesting, I think I don't encounter many bugs, but I also discuss code with AI and don't mentally track the correction I give it.

Which model did you use? I hold Opus 5.5 in quite high regard, finding it very reliable in terms of cider quality.

LLMs reliably avoid whole categories of bugs, some of them the most serious offenders in terms of impact.

To me it has become clear that LLMs will, on average, improve the code quality by a lot.

> We haggle on price, and capabilities, and projected economics, and whatever else.

My question is about that part. I assume in the end it's mostly "I feel it's worth a super-lot of money" and the numbers that are being produced in the process and put on slides to derive the final two numbers are mostly a rationalizing of that fact.

Sure, but where does "10% for 1 Million" come from? I believe they do some math for that, but I wonder if that's more than just some rationalization.

Can also be read as observation, as I have observed that many colleagues haven't started yet using AI on a daily basis and I myself is still using methods from months ago (no agent orchestration).

Is there even a way to professionally decide if a company's value is 1.25 or 1.4 Trillion?

I always kind of suspected that those are somehow derived numbers, but arbitrary for the most part.

> would we deem it acceptable

No, and if you try to refer to Russia attacking Ukraine, it's not acceptable when/if they attack and kill civilians.

That's still not close to what happened on 7th Oct where Hamas went out to murder random people to invoke terror, stop the Abraham negotiations and provoke a severe reaction of Israel.

> Are you sure that the logic of an attack such as 9/11 is that you are directly punishing the individual victims?

Terrorists justify their actions - murdering civilians - by saying that they are all guilty.

> 9/11 was an Israeli attack on the US

I have already realized that for a few people, everything is Israel's evil doing, but this is new and wild.

The whole post is quite off topic, though.

> 1. It was hard to ask any question.

Totally. There were so many safeguards in place, for a newcomer it is quite hard to contribute.

They also never understood a core principle of such platforms. The noise is not noise but what carries such platforms. They even had it quantified, some of their most upvoted questions are off topic because they are opinion based. Bad and good questions (and answers) come hand in hand.

Well, they were the backbone of professional IT/SWE, so of course they did a lot of things right obviously.

Saying that it has become easier or less ugly is quite the counter point, though.

> It's also debatable if anyone living on stolen land can be considered a "civilian".

No, it's not. That's the logic of terrorists, calling all US citizen guilty, and therefore calling terror acts like 9/11 justified.

> Or is the weaker victim expected to play by the rules of warfare and accept its eventual defeat?

You are expected to not murder civilian, children, families.

That's a totally different thing though. That was an operation with a short time frame.

It's not about explosive, the headline just want to give that impression.

That pager thing was a tactical operation with clear goals and a defined time frame.

Spying on other countries on the other hand had always been a thing, the US spying on the German Government is an example that became very well known back when it was discovered here in Germany.

It's constructed consensus. Pretty obvious when you go to r/conservative, 90% are the same 2-3 talking points, over and over again. It's not organic.

It's less about big tech. They are always risk avoiding when it comes to the government. Google renames things all the time all over the world for the population of some gone-wild administration.

Inventing new speech makes it easy to identify loyalists on a personal level at scale and also avoids that people talk to each other.

Such stuff only get renamed for the country with the government in question (WSA - Weird States of America?). To the rest of the world, the real name is still shown.

It's not the information itself that get sold, but the specific composition of information arranged as a book. Work went into it and people who do it sell that rightfully.

People really still buy into that framing? I think it's pretty clear that it's generally just about money as it has always been.

Less than Chinese citizen were kidnapped in China, that's for sure. People just generally care much less about it.

You also don't hear much about corruption in Russia, because it's just everywhere and completely normalized.

Such countries play in a totally different league, at least for now. Takes a few years to reach dictatorship level. Current administration is trying hard, though.

I think the point is that it doesn't "just work" of you don't know what you are doing.

In general I got the feeling that AI saves a lot of work, avoids a lot of big category, but also introduces new but categories that you need to account for.

> I'd like to live in a system where the interest of the nation and the people are above your or someone else's ROI.

Democracies are much closer to that than dictatorships as they don't need to care about the people and never did.

Crazy that you like a system where somebody can just get kidnapped. It never just affects the "right" people, but also a lot of other people. China is jailing and kidnapping a lot - easily tens of thousands of more - of their citizen to sustain control.

Nothing and nobody rises above the authority in a dictatorship, that's kind of the point.

The CEO of Alibaba was kidnapped after he publicly criticized the government.

It's generally no surprise that there are not that many critical voices in a dictatorship.

Many companies currently struggle to come up with a lasting strategy.

They need to figure out what make sense here in terms of a product. I rather have a somewhat fragmented ecosystem right now than no relevant product from JetBrains whatsoever.

It's quite long, what's the problematic part in your eyes?