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This truly feels like a meme rather than a genuine study or something... If I hook up claude to my car it will probably will be able to drive it, same way it can program a simulated car in a game engine, or even Jev could do it...
This has be some sort of a weird marketing stunt for so called x-bros that I can't understand.
And that's the only solution to UBI, when resources are abundant enough that UBI isn't needed or with UBI we increase resource enough that there isn't inflation risks.
All UBI experiments till now have proven it's not bad for the people, if we just manage the economy part it will all work out somehow.
Something like codex desktop is slightly better but still a horrible interface for developing software in any form of serious capacity.
Sure it works because the friction of manually working is just so damn high. And there aren't good alternatives, the jump from pi to claude to codex being almost negligible for most folks is a very high signal this entire pattern just doesn't really work.
I don't yet know where we will land or will we suffer with the current bad type text in a box ux for the next few years but I am certain this is not it.
I am still trying to work out what is it though, so well we will see when we get there.
Not using tools is a good example of the issue, you give up a lot of control to do that, sometimes it's good enough often it's not, and often it's worse because you don't even realize how much control you have given up.
I don't think we will do natural language interactions with our computers, I honestly feel like we will do something more intent based. If LLMs can know from our words what we want to do, then they can certain infer from what we are doing stuff we are about to do.
Think auto complete but for user actions, without taking away user control and understanding intent almost perfectly. Maybe it would require neuralink or something to get good enough, but until that happens I don't think we are moving away entirely from our UIs/UXs entirely.
Some people will, the low skill, low requirements, but no-code has existed for a very long time for the same reason, visual scripting is a similar example.
A video made by LLMs by using Premiere Pro is always going to be worse than what a professional makes entirely on their own in Premiere Pro not in terms of quality but in terms of control hence intent.
Similar issues with software, you can not perfectly describe what you want to another person perfectly that just doesn't happen, otherwise we wouldn't have had companies with more managers than engineers it seems like.
There is a lot of loss of intent, imagine if every action was something where you lost some of your intent, then after 100 requests does any of your intent even remains in it.?
This might be too hypothetical but I don't see LLMs replacing UI in the short term, but I don't know what happens in longer term.
But I do think LLMs will change how the software the interfaces and tooling works almost entirely.
Today it's much easier to llm rather than sql. It's not even a question of whether it's 10% better or something the cognitive load of writing SQL is high enough in data analysis that LLMs are the only solution.
LLMs enable some pretty interesting ways to query data itself, you can ask the data to query itself, imagine being able to prompt inject the data.
But on a more useful case imagine being able to let data build itself, when ever an incident happens, LLMs can enable flags to collect more data automatically based on incidents add reporting apis and telemetry and so much more.
Incident analysis should have changed but it hasn't yet, a human for some random reason still needs to ask an LLM to do the work, then understand it somewhat and then reply to others.
That's only in post 2010s period, aka post apps and social media.
The boom in 80s/90s/2000s all of it kicked off from the deep technical know-how that rest of the planet just didn't have.
People can feel free to disagree, but they are really lying to themselves if they think anywhere else on the planet there was the sheer amount of tech talent as US until even 2010s.
Things have changed since and US is now largely valued because of it's large market and stuff, hence the off-shoring of so much of the technical and even advanced work.
But this was not the case before. With AI pushing the cost of building stuff to near 0 I don't see why you even need the US market to scale up an idea enough to prove viability. Sure the company might have to move to US, but there is no reason for it to be built in US anymore.
And no one will see it coming except that one person in some remote part of the world (I don't say the US because, post-LLMs, I hardly think there's anything unique to US tech anymore. The best part was the sheer technical talent in the US, but that's worth a lot less with modern models and systems).
So no, I don't think we're anywhere near the end of innovation just yet. These will be some fun times, and I don't think the current way of building stuff will last too long. We'll definitely have better tools and ways of doing stuff, or so I hope. Keyboards have honestly lasted a lot longer than I would've expected, even though we've had STT tech for decades now.
Even today, office memes aside, it's just easier to type things out instead of speaking. For most people, typing is faster or fast enough anyway. Except when I'm on my phone.
I don't think scooping all of the internet and saying rules for thee but not for me is the way to go.
I feel like torrenting is tax evasion now as well in France.
I wish that was the case, but that isn't how startups fail generally, sure very bad user facing breaches could cause something like that, but lots of platforms with too much jank have somehow survived all of these cyber vulnerabilities before, and will probably keep at it.
For a majority startups it's about connections and relationships rather than competence. Very few even consider building actually useful products to be a priority after the initial work of building it.
Anthropic holds the SLA/MSA agreements not this bad actors what happens to your data is unknown if these become frequent and accepted. Given how much data is piped to Claude code via these services/extensions.
So I honestly think they should be under heavy govt regulations or be co-owned by everyone in the supply chain. Or firm regulated to avoid overcharging for useless stuff, everyone loses out including these companies as in needing to compete with eachother they have to offer dozens of benefits offers etc to customers, and customers get shafted when they are the most desperate because making money from the desperate is the best money making formula in the valley atm.
I am considering reverse engineering the entire thing, I honestly don't know if that's worth it given I can connect an rpi to the system and get everything done via my own app now.
And keeping printer off of wifi networks was the best decision I ever made imho. Either way printers suck, but I like them so much as a technology, converting digital to physical is such a great thing.
But if you are telling me I am wasting like a good 10-20% of my tokens on summaries I might as well stop using your service, worst part is claude doesn't let you use something else.
Their Argon limits are the real issue, Flash is ok, but honestly compared to Clause's limits they are all horrid, OpenAI is the next best option if you want Astra, otherwise suck it up and send money to DeepSeek or find a provider for it for cheap.
If it happens 10 times you have already accepted the same cost as the entire session fresh prefill.
People on HN are either too rich or wayyy too rich
Sure if you are building the newer rendering pipelines DirectX 11 leaves a lot on the table but it brought a lot of nice things with it, Debug Runtime alone was worth moving to it, 99/100 times your app written in DirectX 11 even if not optimised properly will perform better than DirectX 9 in my experience.
This holds with OpenGL though the modern OpenGL 4.6 and stuff wasn't bad, but it's a lot of cruft still.
Either way there are no perfect APIs, a truly general purpose API that just gives you basics like Texture handling and io and data mapping would be enough today imho. Fully general purpose compute APIs are the solution with some additional tweaks to make graphics stuff convenient. IMHO
Though it's definitely much harder than plain and simple paint colors and textures on vertices & geometry uv approach of old.
I find this issue small but the choice of these companies to pick the convenient location for them to build a data center concerning, and govts shouldn't be bending over. If these things can be built in space we can build them in places where no one lives and no living being is harmed or logged.. cough.
This entire RCE race is always annoying.
Like did someone vibe code too hard, how do env secrets leak for everyone...
Somehow Meta is making money despite starting to loose DAUs now. So honestly I don't quite understand what's what, also most of the big income is from Ads and biggest Ads spenders are startups and companies heavily dependent on VCs and AI... So it's definitely somewhat circular, and Ads is the most recession affected business so a down turn in markets will cycle through it.
But ngl if all the earnings are this ok then hyperscalers stock might not crash this quarter, well then again I didn't think they would but a person could dream.
I am quite bullish on AI, but would prefer the fluff to get out of the way asap, otherwise don't want it to happen at a bad time, and too many people get caught pants down.
Any suggestions folks, not even my terminally online self can handle all of these.