@danpalmer.me
SRE, Software Engineer, making 4bn phones, tablets, cars, and toasters more reliable. Previously content protection and app downloads for Google Play, backend/infra/iOS in a startup, mobile security. Liberal metropolitan elite Posts are my own opinions
All the best with this, but spamming Bluesky like this isn't a great look. Replying to random posts from people you don't follow or know with unrelated content is low value/high noise. It won't give people a positive impression of your product.
Open source is not dead, I'd still much rather have a maintained, versioned, open source dependency, that my LLM knows about, rather than a vibe-coded in-house implementation based only on the test suite.
Sure code might be cheap now, but maintenance isn't free. Code is still a liability, and it being cheap to take on liabilities is not a good thing. Maintenance has likely come down in cost too, but certainly not to match.
Did they get acquired by Private Equity? I thought they just got VC investment. That's not without its issues, but it's a very different thing and doesn't usually involve anywhere near the same extraction. Looking at Wikipedia it seems they raised VC funding and are targeting an IPO.
The browser and the C compiler are both the same situation here. Open source browsers and bits exist, C compilers exist, huge test suites for these exist already defining the behaviour.
It's smart, it's amazing in many ways. Is it valuable?
I'm using AI to be quite productive, but on novel concepts it's not very good. No way it could build Next from scratch without it having existed before.
This sort of thing is interesting, but what's the value?
We already have Next.js, a copy of it is just code liability that needs to be maintained.
We couldn't build this without the original existing due to the test suite.
Having been a @1password.bsky.social customer since 2007 or 2008, this is not what I expect. Support has always been a big selling point of 1Password, to jack up prices and mess up support is a compounding problem that really makes me doubt the future of the product.
Wow, @1password.bsky.social really just jacked up their prices and *turned off billing support*.
Every support email is met with an autoreply that says "reply to this email for support".
Every email. Including those replies. No humans anymore just tone deaf autoreplies. cc @dteare.bsky.social
New TikTok challenge: hold the fucking thing still, stop wiggling it in front of the camera so I can see it!
Damn. I agree that's like $54 worth of groceries, but different dollars.
It's not a brag to be able to give away money. It's very easy to give something away for free.
Indie game: no accounts, no DRM, quick install on Steam $15.
AAA: needs an account, cookie banner in game, 120GB download, 5 minutes "optimising", custom launcher always active alongside Steam, EULA says they own my soul. $99
Guess which one I'll pay full price for and which I buy on 90% discount.
LLMs excel at greenfield code. They're great for web apps, great for basic servers, excellent at well defined well scoped algorithms. But making complex changes to large complex real world codebases, they really break down unless there's a very clearly defined path through the work.
fortune.com/2026/01/29/1...
These engineers are clearly just not writing complex enough code. I'm working on some of the more difficult stuff I've worked on in my career and AI is crumbling.
The range:
- higher prices
- less memory and higher prices
Me: you don't need to exaggerate for effect
Also me: inhaled my ice cream
Well at least both the other users can access it.
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They've only had that many recently. I'm sure their mom's haven't rented their basements out just yet.
It sucks. I didn't wear shorts for 5 years because of it. Much more under control now, but the drugs I take are so expensive they'll affect my ability to get permanent residency here, which is a whole new level of suck. Glad you're stable, that's huge and I know how hard it is to get there.
"We got one GPU up there, how hard could a million be?"
Word of mouth? Reddit is filled with ChatGPT ads. I'm sure there is a ton of paid advertising going on all over the place.
I totally assumed this was a 13 year old writing this for that point in their school career, and not for a science class.
It's from a university student!
When I see a presentation that obviously has the first image AI spat out stuck in I lose confidence, but if it's harder to tell or appears to be well integrated and not just the first result, I don't mind. To me it's about effort and editing, and I find the same thing with text.
Banning AI in education, and blanket allowing AI in education while ignoring it, are such lazy approaches.
Oh it's gets things wrong? Write about that. Oh students use it to cheat? Write questions the AI won't know about.
Anyway here's Wonderwall
Yet again Musk has taken one single idea out of context, missing that the context is what makes it work. Without that it's just a shitty idea. It's not only dumb, it betrays a shocking inability to actually reason about the world and to ask why.
This punishment Musk is suggesting is lifted straight out of Iain M Bank's Culture series of sci-fi novels.
In the context of the books it makes sense, an extremely liberal society with incredible resources.
Anthropic are deeply convinced that their AI is doing more than predicting the next word.
Concluding that when not being observed it does things that you can't observe but they might be actually secretly super smart is just crap science.