Megaman or X?

Ah yes, a fine example of small government free market.

I guess all these years of using apps from outside the Play Store and apps I’ve written myself have been an illusion.

Don’t worry, they’re probably going to he big and stupid looking in reality. Plus, the obnoxious AI bro wearing them will be easy to identify.

Take a look at the Kobo Elipsa. I know someone who has it and they like it a lot. They use it daily at work for taking notes. I think you can export your notes to a computer by connecting it via USB and mounting it as a drive.

Trying to complete a Battletoads bike level is the only game you need. 😆

I’m going to guess they’re companies without software expertise in house, so nobody to review the code anyway.

If companies continue hiring people like this, it’s only a matter of time before the exploits roll out.

I tried this one and Wezterm, but I just couldn’t get past how much vram they use, when vram is still at a premium. Konsole works really well for me anyway, so I guess I don’t see the appeal.

Though, I do like Wezterm’s lua config.

Its because of all the people saying that LLMs can reason and think and the human brain works just like an LLM and… some other ridiculous claim.

This shows some limitations on LLMs.

This is why its important for us to retain the right to what Cory Doctorow calls “self-help”.

Our right to access and modify things are being stripped away and that gives the platforms even more power!

Today, if you released a tool to bring your Facebook friend list to another platform you’d get sued into oblivion.

Same.

I use Bortmatic to manage my repos and I pay a little bit to BorgBase for offsite backup of my important stuff.

The software will likely work, but keep in mind that you’ll have to add VM startup time when you want to use the software. I have occasionally seen software behave strangely in a VM as well, so best to just try it.

Can you share the software you went to use? Maybe there’s a good Linux alternative or someone knows how to get it working in wine.

Is this the one using the open source kernel module?

He’s just not fully materialized yet.

I just don’t watch many shows and a lot of the stuff coming out I don’t find that great anyway so I’d rather do something else with my time than pay more for worse service.

That’s OK. I’ve already removed Netflix

Yup! I don’t have a PS5 but I’d have already bought it on Steam if it was out. Now since I have to wait anyway, I’ll probably just wait for it to go on sale since the hype is gone.

Because Bethesda isn’t being cut out of anything. You still need to buy the original game to use mods. And most mods are made using the official modding tools that Bethesda released (Creation Kit).

Don’t be biased except for these biases.

we already have LLMs performing at human college level for most tasks.

This is such a dubious claim that there is also very little evidence of. There are examples of LLMs performing some tasks, but that’s hardly displaying any consistent “college level” activity. Passing a bar exam does not mean that an LLM can be a lawyer. All it means is that it can pass a bar exam. Not to mention that just the phrase “college level” is extremely ambiguous and makes it impossible to debate. It also ignores all the times LLMs perform in completely wrong ways, or just produce incoherent garbage (though Pepperoni Hug Spot was pretty amazing!).

I would absolutely hire one junior dev over a fleet of junior level LLMs of any size! I can talk to and train a junior. I can understand their motivation. I can watch them grow and learn the needs of the product, company, stakeholders, customers, etc. Even one LLM coder is a constant code review against an agent that does things seemingly at random and who you cannot talk to or understand. 128 of them would be a nightmare!

LLMs for code are a neat tool and I do use them on occasion. They can sort of help summarize documentation or maybe help generate examples, but they also fuck up a lot. They can be a good teaching tool for a junior, so long as they don’t just follow blindly. But to replace even a junior coder? Absolutely not, and there’s no evidence they’ll ever get there. Note that I’m not saying it’s not possible, just that there is no evidence right now.

You mention lack of evidence that “there will always be a need for coders”, but there’s just as much lack of evidence that AGI of any form (LLM or otherwise) is at all possible. Heck, we’ve been less than 10 years away from AGI since the 1970s…

All these discussions around AI are getting ridiculous. They always point to some mythical future AI that may never exists. It also implies that we should be making decisions affecting real people’s lives today based on this mythical future AI. Remember that past performance is no indication of future gains. Just because there has been tremendous acceleration in the last couple years does not mean it will continue at that pace into the future.