They knew what they were doing 😏

Get out of my head, Charles

I’m saying I want to make a difference by helping to break the hegemony the country I was born in has on the world. I dare say the only people who would call that a bad thing are specifically the sort of people I absolutely fucking detest in this place.

As a unitedstatesian engineer, reading stories about escaping the infuriating (and now, very obviously caustic and manipulative) US monopoly on tech infrastructure companies makes me want to move to the EU and help break the monopoly on that shit. There are other things that make me want to move too, but the opportunity to build some real alternatives that diminish US hegemony over… well, everything, is frankly more than a bit enticing.

Glad I ditched them a few months ago :P

lol no

It’s two things:

• a machine that has NN-optimized segments on the CPU, or a discrete NPU
• microslop’s idiotic marketing and branding around trying to get everyone to use Copilot

No they do not. They are not algorithmically capable of novel thought or insight.

13% JS? 😬

The em’prah protects 🫡

x86: it’s easy peasy

arm: asahi is where you need to go, and the most recent chips are not really very well supported

No, it’s a figment of your imagination

I mean, if I was a policymaker in the EU:

• do our absolute goddamn best to SIGNIFICANTLY strengthen ties with India, Japan, SK, and other major friendly-ish players in APAC. Ultimate goal: mutual defense pacts + strategic defense partnerships
• have Very Serious Strategic Talks with SK; tell them to stop taking orders, or at least gouge the fuck out of, US companies, in exchange for becoming a core partner in the build out of the EU military expansion (see: Poland; ctrl+c, ctrl+v across Europe)
• nut up and seriously support Ukraine - potentially just completely taking over strategic air defense from, let’s say, 100km from the front lines, freeing up the UAF to focus on offensive efforts
• have Very Serious Strategic Talks with Taiwan; in concert with points one and three (which seriously increase credibility), do their best to become their defense guarantor, as the carrot; threaten to 100% cut them off from ASML if they dig in their heels, as the stick. Note: ASML are the only guys who make the EUV litho machines that are required for bleeding edge chips.
• backstop ASML if the bluff is called - it’s a strategic producer
• get EU countries to start seriously building out advanced chip fabs to compete with TSMC as an emergency industrial program

That’s a strategy that I think would help age EU and its strategic partners in Asia effectively become a meaningful superpower.

conform

consume

obey

I, for one, will be charging absolutely murderous contracting rates to un-fuck the codebases of companies that were idiotic enough to force their engineers to vibe-code everything, and I’m gonna do it with a smile on my face :)

As to the choice between gnome and KDE (desktop environments): Gnome is gonna have more of a ‘macOS’ vibe, while KDE is more of a ‘Windows’ vibe.

It’s even funnier, because copilot is absolute garbage in comparison to a lot of other models. And this is coming from someone who strongly dislikes LLMs in general. There’s bad, and there’s copilot.

As far as I can tell, it’s primary competency is getting C-suite types to sign off on one form of AI integration or another - be it product integration, or “everyday AI” workspace initiatives. Our execs bought into it, and have this huge push to train everyone up on it. And the more technical staff have universally panned it, to the extent that some people gave Claude a test drive, and made a successful internal push to get it approved as a second model/system were allowed to work with. I still don’t like agentic editing much at all, but it at least kinda works when compared to copilot.

The funny/horrible part is that his solution will probably make the problem even worse

Vibe coding as a practice needs to be burned at the stake. It’s actively terrible, in a lot of ways - some subtle, some obvious.

ML can and does do some incredible things. LLMs are not in that category.

Also, vid/imagegen needs to die in a fire, because holy fuck is it caustic to society at an insanely broad level.