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Why should I convert COBOL to Java? LLM can write COBOL just as fine.

Why don't cooperatives of IT professionals exist? It's a business with low capital entry and high dividends.

Workers should prefer to own their company as risks are really low (in contrast to other industries).

Never thought about it.

But now I can't unsee it.

ASML is one of the bigger investor of Mistral

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ai-raises-1-7-b-to-accelerat...

It's a very peculiar way to flex.

It's okay, nothing exceptional, but any news from non US and non Chinese models is still good news.

I had to check the date because this sounded so much like 1996 advice.

While meetings have their place, they're not how you convince people to work on your project. Meetings are purely a reporting and sharing method and don't work as a shame-based incentive to get work done.

After a while, people simply don't care about you or your project because they have other projects that their manager values more, and they have no problem telling you so, even during the meeting.

I have a GitHub Copilot subscription and this really sucks.

I subscribed two months ago, frustrated with Claude Code and their tight session limits.

The Copilot offer was unbeatable 100 dollars for a 12 months plan, if I remember correctly.

It was pretty clear they were losing money, but hey, it's Microsoft and they need customers, so a competitive push on pricing is expected.

Let's see what these limits look like and I'll decide whether to cancel my subscription or not.

Still a terrible move from them.

100k is a lot of money for a software agency where I come from.

Nice release from the Qwen team.

Small openweight coding models are, imho, the way to go for custom agents tailored to the specific needs of dev shops that are restricted from accessing public models.

I'm thinking about banking and healthcare sector development agencies, for example.

It's a shame this remains a market largely overlooked by Western players, Mistral being the only one moving in that direction.

Employee costs vary greatly depending on where the factory is located. Here in Italy, a line operator costs around €60,000–70,000 per year, and half of that goes back to the government for public welfare redistribution.

Robots costs have a fixed CapEx that humans don't have. If they become expensive you can move the factory to a cheaper nation.

People keep saying that a humanoid robot will cost around €30,000, but is that just for the hardware, or does it include all the additional services required to operate it? Will they be as interchangeable as humans, who can be reassigned to a different task in 30 minutes without notice?

Honestly, it still doesn’t make sense to me; to use an analogy, it's like you're building and "horseless carriage" instead of a car.

I still don’t understand how this can be considered cheaper or more productive than using a human.

I’m all for automation in industry, but the "human simulation" approach (where a robot mimics a human on a production line instead of using a process optimized for machine operation) just doesn’t make sense to me.

I think it’s still a bit too early to draw the conclusion.

We need to get past the hype first and let the cash grabbers crash.

After that, with a clear mind we can finally think about engineering this technology in a sane and useful way.

Supabase? https://supabase.com/

The naivety behind this vehicle is really fun; you would expect that by 1934, there was enough experience with tires and snow to know that it could never work.

Yet, they still built it and delivered it to Antarctica. Only to fail there.