When Peter first got me hooked on Claude, I did not sleep. I spent two months excessively prompting the thing and wasting tokens. I ended up building and building and creating a ton of tools I did not end up using much.

So where is all this code? Where are all the great tools everyone is building? So far all I’ve seen are some bad web games, parody projects and mentions of mysterious tools for personal use. If it’s so easy to code now why we don’t see explosion of projects everyone needs? Just use AI to make Servo based browser, make PostmarketOS run flawlessly on modern phones and give me open source apps for all the shit IoT products sold everywhere.

It’s a rhetorical question. We all know why we don’t see it.

I’m working on a app now and I’m spending half of my time on thinking about the UI/UX, trying different options, selecting/designing icons, perfecting minor details in user flow. Other half is mostly trying to make the code clean and maintainable and learning new tools. AI agent would probably make a prototype in a couple of hours and then I could dump it on github and forget about it.

That being said I would like to use AI for couple of project I had in mind for a long time. Translate some github actions into gitlab CI/CD so I can migrate my projects, translate some JavaScript APIs into Rust (WebAssembly). It’s boring work and AI should be able to handle it. It would be nice if some of the vibe coders did things like that but my guess is they don’t really touch real projects people use (or don’t understand them enough to contribute anything useful, just flood them with shit quality PRs), just generate bunch of slop that no one cares about.

You know you don’t have to reinstall the OS just to change desktop environment, right?

The same as your “we”. I assume you have some group ready to go.

You should target their internet connection. Fiber cables are easier to damage and harder to protect. It’s also easier to fix so longer, organized campaign would be needed but I think it would be possible to avoid capture for longer.

Obviously he just picks the one he hates the most.

Meh. So realistic attack would be that you know someone you want to track has one of those 17 models (which is hard to tell by just looking at the headphones) and never paired it with Android and he carries them everywhere. You force-pair and now you can track them. It’s pretty silly as a random attack because why would you track a random person. It’s silly to use it to record conversations because from 15 m there are easier methods to do it. I would say the risk that this will be used to actually track/record someone is low.

Windows: for clueless people!

No, from what I’m reading they just pump money into it senselessly. VR/AR devices are $1B a year market and they pumped like $18B into it in a year. They just don’t care because they make so much money they can burn it.

You’re right, a lot of it probably went to the devs but from what I’m reading the cash burn is so bad because it’s extremely chaotic in there, lot’s of bad decisions, canceled projects, lot’s of directors swapping places. No idea what part of it went to low ranking devs and what went to consultants and building useless prototypes.

Yeah, but why ask Gemini about it’s priorities? I can just lie about it.

If a company can dump $100B into failed project and still be profitable they have too much money. Jesus, imagine would would happen if this money went to the workers instead…

deliberately misleading humans

Yeah… You dumb.

So you think Gemini told you the truth here? How do you know it’s not just scheming?

Here’s some documentation: https://developers.googleblog.com/under-the-hood-universal-commerce-protocol-ucp/

What this does is if offers a API for agents to communicate with online stores: check products, apply coupons, process transactions and so on. And the critics say that this will be used to funnel more data about the user to the store so it can “adjust” prices. Which is nothing new. Companies already are using all the data they can get their hands on to screw you. If you’re naive enough to give data about to you AI bot controlled by a corporation and then send this bot to a store controlled by another corporation to do shopping for you then yeah, you will be screwed.

chatbots are not agentic AI so it’s a bit unrelated.

Over the years I tried Kino, Kdenlive, cinerella, openshot, shotcut and lightworks. Not buecause I wanted but because every couple of months some bug would make one of them crash constantly and I had to look for a new one. I think it’s more stable now and all/most of them are usable for simple editing. No idea which one is the strongest now though.

Fuck Chrome.

What was his point? He just repeated the same position that in my opinion is ignorant and antisocial. From the beginning he didn’t say anything beyond “AI companies can take any data they want” and avoided many direct questions. There’s nothing to respond to.

Wow, you have some anger issues. Relax.

Nobel Committee repeatedly awarded the peace prize on political basis like for Obama and now Machado. Multiple war criminals, genociders and segregationist received the award AFTER they committed those crimes like Elihu Root, Woodrow Wilson or Henry Kissinger. Some committed war crimes after they won the prize like Aung San Suu Kyi or Abiy Ahmed and the prizes were never withdrawn. Like, what the fuck are you even comparing? An award for a book author that went transphobic 15 years after she received the award. By your logic awards should be only given to dead people or they will be political.

What are you saying? That the prize is politicized because they gave Rowling a prize 15 years before any of her transphobic comments? They should predict the future and not give it to anyone who will do something bad in the future? If they take the prize back will it stop being politicized?

I asked them if they considered taking the award back. Let’s see if they respond.