How are they preventing public release then?

Look it’s either skynet or it fucking isn’t.

It seems clear to me that cloud LLMs have the same scaling problems and demand concerns that cloud gaming did.

Oh well, maybe regular people will have to still run software locally after all. 🤷

This is fine IMO, because you shouldn’t use the smart features in the first place. Just get a 3rd party streaming box. The ONN one is like $25. (Or if you’re a giant nerd hook your computer to your TV.)

Reading this made me notice it again so thanks I guess.

I thought about lying on my last report but decided to not. At this point they’re going to have to fire me if they can’t accept the truth. I’m not lying to save my skin.

Yeah, I don’t get too deep into that game. I do have some higher-ish quality headphones and speakers though. I also find that subwoofers are largely underrated by audio snobs.

Not here to argue I can hear the difference, because I can’t. But in audio collecting where the size and burden of even large lossless files isn’t much different from lossy files, why care? I download the flac files and compress upon delivery to the client where the space might be of a larger concern.

I don’t care if AI is useful, it’s not this useful. And it sure as shit isn’t going to see the returns they expect.

And how. Making coders slightly more efficient really just isn’t worth this much. There’s also going to be hell to pay when software created by all of the vibe-coding is found to be full of security holes.

They want to pitch this as unemployment causing efficiency gains, but this shit clearly can’t do anyone’s job that wasn’t already automatable through regular software.

Between this and what they’ve done to Windows they’re proving daily that you can shit exactly where you eat when you’re a tech monopoly.

People looking to make an airfoil out of their laptop or some shit?

It’s still the same fucking Tiktok guys.

Honestly, though this is the definition of “widespread backlash” when it comes to red pilled garbage. So I’ll take it.

They should make a new chatbot called “healthy” that gives you pointers about how vaccines cause autism or tell you to enhance your immunity by swimming in super fund rivers and eating rotting, severed whale heads.

Just kidding, they should all go fuck themselves.

Sounds absolutely fucking awful.

IMO the best way to use this crap in software development for projects that already exist is to have the fucking things write up or amend docs.

Developers mostly hate writing docs, and in corporate software I’ve found that the docs are usually added once and then never verified again.

Writing up profuse gibberish that contains some amount of useful information is what these bullshit machines were made to do. Have it write up some docs, read them and make sure they aren’t completely insane and get a pat on the back from your boss for working with “agentic AI”.

Framework laptops are about as upgradable as you’re ever going to get. The 16 now even has a video card upgrade.

That’s great we really need to get the AIs playing the game for me so I’ll have more time to spend on things I enjoy: like standing in the bread line.

It’s obvious that Windows and Microsoft remain as evil as they were in the 00s when they basically singlehandedly held back web development with ie6 for a fucking decade.

A key difference here is that Framework is trying to build a “community”. At least some of their value depends upon community if you think about it for a bit (e.g., if nobody uses the marketplaces, they’d be empty of goods and a lot of the point is lost).

If they center assholes as being representative of what the community is about, they naturally exclude others by doing so.

It’s easy to take the “can’t we all just get along?” stance with this, but some things require a little more reasoning and philosophy than platitudes.

What good is a big tent if most normal people left the tent because you platformed assholes at its center?

To use another example, a musician might be known to be an asshole during their lifetime. Then they die. Is it harmful to listen to their music if you’re not contributing anything to their estate or their estate isn’t run by similar assholes? It’s debatable and a gray area, but I’d probably say no in most circumstances.

How about if they’re known to be an asshole and you buy their albums anyway, you go to their concerts, and you loudly pronounce on social media how you support them and that their work is great? That’s a much easier case to make to say, yes, you’re being harmful.

You’re supporting someone who is an asshole, and you’re doing–at least–two types of harm:

(1) you’re demonstrating tolerance for shitty behavior which does not provide a good negative reinforcement to correct the shitty behavior, and

(2) you’re positively reinforcing the shitty behavior through your support

It might be more nuanced if there were higher stakes involved, such as if the good belying this debate was of crucial need to help along a much larger good cause. But that’s where particulars matter. The contributions these assholes are making are not solving world hunger. They’re nerdy little Linux bits.

Use the bullshit all you want, but for fuck’s sake stop materially supporting and going on a promotional tour with the assholes that made it.