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Ed will get his 15 minutes of fame when the market finally corrects. But he'll still be completely wrong. It's hilarious how outdated his views on AI are. He literally doesn't know what people are using it for. He seems to have no clue that 50% of radiology and medical imaging labs in the US now heavily utilize AI. 40% of dental practices in the US are currently utilizing AI. Programming went the complete paradigm shift at least 18 months ago, and this buffoon still thinks it's vibe coding.
Most Arc users have long since migrated to Zen. I personally have never liked either of them. It's hard to step away from Vivaldi. Although Vivaldi runs Chromium, it in 2026 is basically what Opera 12 was in 2016 (before they crippled the browser with the Chromium re-write). Vivaldi just has too many features. The only browser I've found that is comparable to Vivaldi's feature-set and customizability is Floorp.
I emphasize most, not all. Most companies using VMWare even 5 years ago could have achieved similar infrastructure using Proxmox. It's been a viable alternative for years. It's always intrigued me how easily big companies get pulled into licensing nightmares because their execs get bullshitted into believing a sales pitch at a seminar. Anyone who has worked with Oracle's product lineup instinctively knows what I'm talking about.
The sad part is that most companies using VMWare could have been using Proxmox all along without any of the licensing and fee nightmares.
I'm a SWE and use AI all day every day. I also acknowledged the very real rollout of AI in other facets of the economy besides SWE. But a market correction is inevitable.
We are in the wild west of AI. No one truly has agentic workflows "down pat" yet. We have no idea which AI workflows, pipelines, architectures, and platforms are going to stick around long term. For all we know a kid in high school can be the one who comes up with a SWE workflow that FAANGs and the rest of the tech sector ends up adopting.
Recent numbers from Google suggest that Ed Zitron might very well be wrong about the data center build-out, which is the single biggest crux of his argument. But even if he's wrong on that, he'll still get his 15 minutes of "see I told you so" (while still being wrong) because even if the data center rollout doesn't implode from assets depreciating too quickly, a correction will still need to happen on the dirt end of the shovels. Even if you don't have too many shovels (which Ed thinks we do), you still need to be digging in the correct patch of ground to strike a gold vein. There's going to be winners and losers in this thing, and the market correction will happen once the biggest investors and hedge funds have correctly identified who the losers are.
What I can't do is provide a timeline. I don't claim to be a prophet.
Ed Zitron is right about the need for a market correction, but he's fundamentally wrong on AI itself. He'll get his 15 minutes of "see I told you so" when the market corrects, but over the long term he'll be proven wrong.
Ed's primary gripe is that he thinks the business models aren't viable for profitability. But Google's AI infrastructure buildout is already spending less then the depreciation value of the hardware, meaning it's inevitably going to become profitable - at least for Google. Microsoft has since adopted the same approach that Google is using, focusing on faster and more efficient models in order to reduce costs.
Ed won't acknowledge that the paradigm shift for programming and SWE has already happened. He won't acknowledge that roughly 30% of radiology labs in the US and 40% of dental practices have adopted AI.
I personally think Ed is digging a hole he won't be easily able to climb out of.
If it needs a remote hooman operator at any point, it's an absolute no go for me. Dead on arrival.
It'll be a wonderful crow feast to anyone who agrees with Michael Burry on this.
The red flag for articles like this is the author's obsession with the failed ideals of democracy. It's as flawed as all other forms of horizontalism - including fascism and Marxism.
"The excessive increase of anything often causes a reaction in the opposite direction; and this is the case with freedom, which in a democracy often descends into anarchy... The excessive liberty of the individual in a democracy eventually leads to a desire for authoritarian rule, and out of that desire, the tyrant arises." - Plato's Republic
Let the enshittification commence!
Ahh yes. AI is polling worse than ICE. Doesn't mean much since ICE would be polling quite well with much of the country. Typical low-quality journalism.
> No unsolicited suggestions. Do exactly what was asked, nothing more.
> No safety disclaimers unless there is a genuine life-safety or legal risk.
> No "Note that...", "Keep in mind that...", "It's worth mentioning..." soft warnings.
> Do not create new files unless strictly necessary.
Nah bruh. Those are some terrible rules. You don't want to be doing that.
Lots of PRC butt-kissers on here.
Ironic article considering this website's 3D parallax effect with music and animation was all made with AI. /s
It depends on whether your API provider is HIPAA compliant and what sort of disclosures are provided. If you're running inference in house then it's not an issue provided you're following all the other guidelines.
With FormKit you'd still be using a predefined deterministic flow where all the conditionals are accounted for in advance. FormKit wouldn't be able to generate a truly non-deterministic UI that changes based upon how the user answers. If you're wanting to sue your neighbor for their tree falling onto your house, an AI powered UI for a law firm could be giving you form fields on what type of tree it was, how old the tree was, hot tall the tree was, how close it was to the property line, and what room in your house the tree landed in... All generated from how the user responded to an initial "what's your grievance?" question.
I'm not advocating for or against this type of approach - I'm just pointing out a few potential use-cases for it since that's what you asked for.
Thou art living under a rock.
It's like beating a dead horse. React is the literal worst of all the modern JavaScript frameworks and yet that's what everybody insists on using. Vue is light years ahead of it (and will be even further ahead when the new Vapor mode is released in 3.6). Svelte is ahead. Solid is ahead. Heck, even Marko is ahead.
I could see this being useful for client and patient onboarding in the services and medial sectors respectively. For example:
A potential client providing information for a law-firm regarding their grievance.
A patient filling out the medical questionnaire prior to their first visit to a medical practice.
Rather than having a fully deterministic form, you'd be providing them with forms that adapt to their specific issue. The data can then be intelligently stored both as JSON and a more generic record in an RDBMS.
That's just my initial thoughts.
Google has a similar project called A2UI: https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-a2ui-an-open-p...
Europeans really need to get their heads out of their butts. Their solution to every problem is nanny state regulation.
You get what you vote for.
With respect, the author sounds too fickle for me to ascribe value to their "first impressions" of a distro.
The moment I read something in which the author is accusing someone of "spreading misinformation," I'm naturally inclined to take the accuser less seriously. Reckless use of that term is the real pattern of behavior.
So FOSS is bad and commercial software is bad? What's left - going outside and touching some grass?