I've been using it a lot in recent months, even though I was very critical about this in the past.
Of course, asking it to give yes/no answers or specific numbers is asking for trouble, but finally I can let something else read the SEOed garbage, point me in the right direction and let me browse the search results in a much more pleasant way than before.
It's kind of funny when I open some books nowadays and the writing style and formatting just immediately scream LLM sometimes. Not because the book was AI-generated, most are too old, but because LLMs were simply trained on these exact books and are now reproducing their style, which I guess was either popular or selected during training.
Anyways, really hard to push through and I need to remind myself to judge the text by its meaning. But if it's some random blog, my "tolerance" is lower and I don't want to spend my time reading nonsense, I just can't stand the writing style anymore either.
I’m gonna keep my expectations in check, but this would be a good opportunity to get back to live presentations. I just watched a 1997 Macworld recording and the audience has really been something that I missed since COVID.
Very cool story. Now I’m wondering if this event happened sometime during this section from one of Carmack‘s own posts:
> I was brought in to talk about the needs of games in general, but I made it my mission to get Apple to adopt OpenGL as their 3D graphics API. I had a lot of arguments with Steve.
Also people probably have more of a problem with MS accounts because they don’t really have an ecosystem that provides clear value.
An Apple account together with an iPhone and MacBook let’s you share clipboard, passwords, notes etc., a no brainer.
Windows laptop and iPhone? I guess an Apple account still is more useful here too, actually. So the average user does not really need an MS account, hence the annoyance.
Last I've heard Valve makes use of a lot of contractors however. So the number of people working on their projects is a bit higher than their employee count suggests. Anyone's guess how many though.
I know they're sponsoring a bunch of ARM and Linux projects as well.
And this is, in my opinion, why support at Hormuz shouldn’t even be on the table. How can you possibly hold joint patrols when you were just months ago planning full scale war between each other?
Well at the current trajectory I'd expect him to release his own OS or something by end of July, his own AWS competitor by October and to close YC applications indefinitely at the end of the year.
But for now I'd be fine with him making his repos public.
Gonna bookmark that article for tomorrow, craptop duty is such a funny way to put it.
Similarly, a colleague I had before insisted on using a crappy screen. Helped a lot to make sure things stay visible on customers’ low contrast screens with horrible viewing angles, which are still surprisingly common.
I had this opinion for a long time, but only recently was I personally affected, but that made me even more convinced.
I was listening to my new releases playlist on Apple Music and listened to a track that sounded nice, but also a little generic. I don’t know exactly what prompted me to check, but it had all the signs of something fishy going on like generic cover image, the artist page showed a crazy output of singles last year (all the same generic images), unspecific metadata and - to my surprise - I found other Reddit posts about this artist being AI.
Now, a lot of music is generic and goes through so many hands you can hardly call it a personal piece of art. But even then, there’s always some kind of connection.
I guess that’s why I felt betrayed.
I thought AI generated art was wrong before, but I didn’t expect to feel this mix of anger and disappointment.
Didn’t look at it too closely, but the whole article as it stands is almost completely copy-pastable from a llm chat. Another comment pointing out that there’s some code that doesn’t do anything is another clue.
(Not saying it was, but if I’d ask the llm to create and annotate a HTML manipulation poc with code snippets, I’d get a very similar response.)
Edit: Pretty sure the account itself is only here to promote this page.
I believe for the next Half-Life, latest rumors indicate it is actually back to 2D. During the press event last month, they were also pretty clear that no VR game is currently in development at Valve.
A huge missed opportunity imo, but maybe playing HL3 on a theater sized screen is nice enough.
Seems though as if the WPT score is not super meaningful in measuring actual usability. The growth of passed tests seems suspiciously uniform across browsers, so I guess it has more to do with new passing tests being added and less with failing tests that got fixed.
Imagine an IKEA robot, they could redesign their kitchens to fit it, as well as all of their other products. I'd never step into my kitchen again so why would it need to be made for me anyways?
(They could give the robot instructions on how to set up their furniture as well, the business plan really writes itself)
I got access to Kiro from Amazon this week and they’re doing something similar. First a requirements document is written based on your prompt, then a design document and finally a task list.
At first I thought that was pretty compelling, since it includes more edge cases and examples that you otherwise miss.
In the end all that planning still results in a lot of pretty mediocre code that I ended up throwing away most of the time.
Maybe there is a learning curve and I need to tweak the requirements more tho.
For me personally, the most successful approach has been a fast iteration loop with small and focused problems. Being able to generate prototypes based on your actual code and exploring different solutions has been very productive. Interestingly, I kind of have a similar workflow where I use Copilot in ask mode for exploration, before switching to agent mode for implementation, sounds similar to Kiro, but somehow it’s more successful.
Anyways, trying to generate lots of code at once has almost always been a disaster and even the most detailed prompt doesn’t really help much. I’d love to see how the code and projects of people claiming to run more than 5 LLMs concurrently look like, because with the tools I’m using, that would be a mess pretty fast.
It's infuriating how slowly we're moving towards more open platforms on mobile, when you can just look at the desktop to see how much freedom has been lost.
I always think of Steam as a well done digital store. Apple meanwhile is absolutely disinterested in providing anything beyond the most basic features. Whishlists, shopping carts, curators (which could in theory provide actual quality suggestions, like real stores), more granular review data and so on would improve the experience immensely. The App Store can vote soon, but developers can't even offer paid upgrades to their apps, or do sales.
Apple always says they are necessary to ensure the safety of their users. But the App Store right now keeps app quality down and makes it as intransparent as possible.
Sometimes I wish VS Code had something like Code Bubbles, where it becomes much easier to see how pieces of code are related. I think it would make AI assisted coding much easier as well, since often the main challenge is having to piece together how changes across multiple files work. There has to be a lot of potential for better interfaces aside from a chat sidebar.