I’ve been spending the day playing with Claude 3.7 trying the vibe coding approach and I’ve been able to build some complex audio synthesis one off applications.I have no understanding how any of it works. That sparked a lot of fear in me, not so much of job loss but knowledge loss.As these models improve I’m worried we are going to build larger systems we do not understand. It’s hard enough as...
We can all agree security updates are essential, but a lot of libraries are “done” from a functional perspective for a majority of their existing use cases.
Yes updates can be needed because interfaces break between other programs, standards evolve in backward incompatible ways, performance improvements can be made, etc. But much of the updates I see are changes for the sake of changes.
You could use a 5 year old version of React for example, and modulo some set of security fixes if any, you could have a robust application.
Sometimes software is just done. We are better off for accepting that idea. Get us off the update hamster wheel and stop the enshittification.
I still believe that investing in work is necessary and rewarding, and indulgences are a somewhat important part of life, but those alone are all kind of meaningless for me in the end. It’s the endless chase of another dragon.
With my children, I feel a greater sense of joy and accomplishment when I watch them grow. I’ve had higher highs raising kids than I ever did finding the next excursion I could go on or the hottest new company to work for.
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* Recession will happen that will affect the global economy causing at least a 30% decrease in major world stock indexes.
* China will stumble in a major recession but the Communist Party will maintain power.
* Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft will still be the biggest tech companies by market cap.
* A new company that hasn’t been started yet will be in the top 10 tech companies by market cap.
* The duopoly of cloud computing services will be AWS and Google Cloud. Nearly all Fortune 500 companies will use one or the other.
* Big Tech will not be broken up because of their large value decline during recession, with focus being diverted to prop economy back up.
Bold:
* Breakthrough battery technology will make electric vehicles better for consumers than than their fossil fuel counterparts.
* The breakthrough battery tech will allow a very affordable manned mission to Mars.
* Solar will be the dominant form of energy creation in the United States.
* HIV vaccine available to nearly all healthy adults.
* Netflix will be bought by Disney.
* DeepFake technology will be used to create an entire feature film by a major studio.
* Donald Trump will win the 2020 presidential election despite being unsuccessfully tried during impeachment.
* In the United States, majority of people will eat synthetic meat over animal-based meat.
* San Francisco Bay Area will not be globally in the top 10 areas of funding for new technology startups.
Crazy:
* A state in the United States will successfully secede.
* Glaciation will increase in parts of the world with their albedo effect predicted to offset most of the temperature increase from man-made climate change.
* Major disease epidemic will kill at least 20 million people. Will not be noticed at first but will rapidly kill after long incubation.
* Artificial general intelligence (AGI) will be achieved, accidentally.
* Despite AGI, self-driving cars will not be the majority of vehicles on the road.
If the Federal Reserve raises interest rates, what will the effect be for startups trying to raise money?
As it is, both are definitely useful for better handling upgrade process with users. A couple drawbacks with mobile apps are that it's harder to hotfix errors, and you sometimes have to support older APIs for longer. With a web app, a user can visit the site and the entire app bundle can be downloaded after a cache bust.
Perhaps 4148 is testing something out related to that or a new project and the script went bad?