whstl

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by whstl 3d ago
> LLMs will enable some people to run a whole business on "real" applications without hiring a "real" programmer SaaS, and before that a lot of shrink wrap software, has been allowing this for several decades now.
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by whstl 3d ago
I've seen a few people already descending into pure AI madness, not able (wanting?) to do their work anymore, and just repeating everything the AI says, going to it for every single decision on the job. A few of those were fired. Anoth
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by whstl 4d ago
It was announced in December and took a while to catch. https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/393332200/you-can-...
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by whstl 4d ago
In Germany I like the "OK" brand from Saturn/Mediamarkt. They're Ok. The dumb models are very cheap and the picture is faithful due to lack of framerate-doubler and other picture-enhancement shenanigans.
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by whstl 4d ago
I remember transparency was handled with gifs back then, which had their own problems and limitations. Alignment was either done via position: absolute or by using a table. The animated background here would be a bit more complicated with a
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by whstl 4d ago
I wouldn't be so negative. Maybe to cheer you up: we're doing a few tests at our org, and we found that product-minded engineers still have a tremendous leg-up compared to other people when it comes to actually shipping products.
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by whstl 4d ago
100% this. Pirating in Germany is probably the stupidest thing one can do, because enforcement is done by individual lawyers via a process called Abmahnung. Courts (and therefore providers) are very friendly to those. Everyone knows someone
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by whstl 4d ago
Being outside of the US, most Google ads I see are some kind of finance scam, or scam-adjacent. And in smaller websites it's mostly Malware and health-related scams. The reason you don't see these on every website is purely becaus
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by whstl 4d ago
I know a company that spends >15M per year on Google ads, and Google blocked one campaign on a Friday night claiming it was fraud, in the middle of a hot sales season. Took the rep two weeks to actually find out what happened. It's
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by whstl 4d ago
If you can't see craft in programming, then you're most certainly fully replaceable by LLMs. And I mean fully. The "no, but you see, the important part is what I do!" replies get really tiresome after a while.
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by whstl 4d ago
That's beautiful, and true.
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by whstl 4d ago
I hope the 100 new SaaS churned by AI gets swallowed by 1000 internal SaaS churned by AIs. I'm frankly tired of SaaS.
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by whstl 4d ago
If so, people can just pay Anthropic or OpenAI directly. They are great toolmakers.
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by whstl 4d ago
> There are 1000s of those tasks. Yep. Plenty of products attacked this tedium from different angles, from Ruby and Rails to Supabase. And half of NPM. Heck, more than half. LLMs are doing it a bit better, IMO. I don't have to rew
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by whstl 4d ago
I think the IK comment is interesting. Tedious animation is something that animators I worked with also hated doing, and they were always after tools to accelerate their workflow, so they could focus on the high-level decisions. I've a
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by whstl 4d ago
Someone once told me "Some people like writing books. Other people wish they had written a book." People who don't enjoy the craft are not bothered by AI and will replace manual labour with AI. There's nothing with that,
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by whstl 5d ago
Where I work: Developers very rarely blow their limits, except when they're experimenting on purpose. Most non-developers are out of tokens by the half of the week, and need to use usage credits for the remainder. To me there is clearl
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by whstl 5d ago
My team experimented with re-writing from scratch the prototype of complex functionality made by a non-engineering vibe-coder from another team. We didn't look at the code, and barely looked at the result. It took about 4 days to get a
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by whstl 5d ago
Also there is also category C: they are not developers and they don't care about the code at all, but also not really much about the product. They just want to tick the boxes. They blindly accept that LLMs "take time" after t
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by whstl 5d ago
Funny, it's not that different in the web-space. Most of AI is being used to generate procedural content. It is impressive on the first video or first image, and it might look useful on the surface, but it gets grating quite fast.
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by whstl 5d ago
This is an instruction by the harness. It re-injects the prompt every other message, so that's why it "forgets" to use the Edit tool.
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by whstl 5d ago
It's a grey area. App Review Guidelines §2.5.2 says: "Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code which int
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by whstl 5d ago
I don't disagree at all, I'm just mentioning why I don't think people are gung-ho on a web alternative.
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by whstl 6d ago
Another factor is design. A lot of companies go to React Native, etc, because they want one single non-native design on both platforms. Which IMO can be a mistake most of the time, especially from the POV of a user.
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by whstl 6d ago
It can download Javascript (or other interpreted language, or config data), but you generally can't download and execute new compiled native code on iOS, due to iOS code-signing/executable-memory restrictions. Also keep in mind Ap
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by whstl 6d ago
That's a great point. Something I forgot: I brought a couple DVDs when moving between countries and had a player block a couple of them... :/
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by whstl 6d ago
I think the more likely reason is that there's nothing wrong with the web per se, but rather with the way people use it. Even the argument against the Javascript/CSS/APIs explosion and browser complexity... all that can be &q
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by whstl 6d ago
If you want guaranteed future access, then this is probably the only online option that actually fulfills this guarantee... other than that, physical media.
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by whstl 6d ago
But that’s half of the fun!
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by whstl 8d ago
When Jimmy Wales launched Fandom, then called Wikia, a shit-ton of (actually encyclopaedic) content about fictional stuff was deleted from Wikipedia to be moved to Fandom, with the excuse that it was a "sister project", that it wa

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