How about moving away from the unicorn model into creating small, sustainable and focused companies that don't explode, but provide sustainable income.
I made a little toy compiler for a university project many years back, and I agree with the article - it's quite a nice way to get hands on with syntax and helps you think a bit more deeply about what is actually happening.
It used JavaCC, which I found to be a pretty simple way to get up and running.
I also worked a job that used yacc to create their own DSL for a piece of software. Same thing, really. Easy enough to get up and running, and messing around with.
Well, maybe, but I think the huge thing missing from this assumption is that Apple are not paying OpenAI anything, and are developing their own in-house and on-device models.
And a lot of what those on-model devices can do are what the average person will want.
And there's going to take a lot to move people meaningfully away from google.
I don't know how fully I agree with this, to be honest. Or, yes, I do - but we obviously outsource a lot to the tools we use. Rightly or wrongly we expect our search engines to source good sources and high quality information. And that has been sort of inbred into people through years of internet use.
Degrading the quality of the output of tools that were once considered reliable and safe is going to create problems, and the onus is not fully on the people using those tools, but on those creating them.
It seems like this is what Rabbit's LAM was supposed to be. It is interesting to see it work, and I wonder how it will work in practice. I'm not sold on using voice for interacting with things still.
Image Generation is gross, I really didn't want this. I am not excited to start seeing how many horrible AI images I'm going to get sent.
I like Semantic Search in my photos.
This does seem like the typical Apple polish.I think this might be the first main stream application of Gen AI that I can see catching on.
I mean, it is a bit of a scam though right? I can pay for an NFT, 'own' the NFT, and still have been scammed.
In the case of this device, it told users it has functionality that, plainly, it does not have. It marketed itself based on these features. That is a scam.
I’m conflicted on this. I pay for YouTube premium - for background playing on my phone and for Ad-less on my TV.
I pay more for Netflix, and I use it a lot less.
So I’m airing on the side of agreeing, but I also think Googles tactics have been incredibly shoddy, and I can understand someone not wanting to support that.
I used to do this on Windows XP to make my desktop look cleaner, all the files were ALT+255 repeated N times, or, more accurately, repeated a random number of times.
Odd, because I actually worry about this. I don't see why you'd want your books read by the author. Trained Voice Actors do a much better job, and can modulate their voices based on tone.
Autobiographies? Fine, but most of the time they are usually read by their authors.
I think Software Engineering attracts neurodivergent people. I am an adhd software engineer, and know a disproportionate amount of adhd software engineers.
I think that level of executive dysfunction and “catchup” is problematic
Albert Heijn does this in the Netherlands, tied to your loyalty card. You can even import your shopping list and show it on the little hand scanners. At the end, you scan your loyalty card and it shows up on the self checkout.
I think it’s great, I get to go around the shop with a little laser gun.
I actually completely agree with you on this. I work as a Solutions Architect, one of the salesy kind. The presentations I care about, that I put time into, I will use high quality stock images. One of my recently presentations about GenAI didn't use a single Gen AI image.
But, from experience, on the more businessy side. People do like them. They flash on the screen for like 20seconds, they look pretty high quality, and are usually adapted to whatever business we're trying to smooch up to.
But they all have this horrible, gaudy, high contrasty and glossy look to them that I think is tacky.
Set two timers, one for 20 minutes, and another for 50 minutes.
or
Turn off the lights in my living room, and my office.
That's about as advanced as I want my home assistants to be though.