you really have to catch the moment to do this, and there must be someone else who is supportive of this idea.
my mother recently got served a quite... disturbing video on Facebook. I won't get into details of the vid. what I can tell is that she was so dazed that she didn't even immediately understand me when I asked her, "delete Facebook and Instagram immediately or else they will think you like it and will serve you more." she kept replaying this video in her head. in a moment, I thought I wouldn't make her snap out.
for context, she is a damned Reels addict with war-induced traumas. (Ukrainian here.) she agreed to delete Facebook but decided to keep Instagram. we frequently pick bones about her sending stupid Reels and me hating them with passion. and every time I said "delete Instagram and your life will go up," she brought up scandals until she talked to a therapist.
EDIT: to quote a sibling comment, this is, indeed, like dealing with a drug addict.
depends. I, for one, take control of what I consume on social media. Bluesky's design allows this. YouTube also, if you turn off recommendations, lose watch history, and vet your subscriptions
well, for me personally, "the" Zig project is not Bun but Ghostty, and it always has been.
yeah, Mitchell is very pro-AI, but he is thoughtful, and he sometimes highlights the difference between Zig's and Ghostty's approaches to LLMs (outright ban vs taming)
moreso, it's the only harness that maps close to Neovim philosophy of "everything is a plugin." heck, I took a bite at it and it seems fun to build plugins! especially if it's something as silly as warhammer.pi :) (shameless plug, npm: @bpavuk/warhammer.pi)
that thing makes Pi talk like Adeptus Mechanicus. what's more fitting to a machine than voice that's associated with machines?
well I'm using mini models and GPT-5.4-mini is better than Gemini 3.1 Pro (considerably faster in exchange for less broad world knowledge) and 3.5 Flash (that one's trash by itself)
1. I recently got hired, then fired and paid $100 for two weeks. I'm tired of people telling me that I'm now useless thanks to AI. I think about switching to offensive cyber - at least no one is going to give access to Mythos to anyone in Ukraine, so I'm safe from the death wheel of hype :)) I have some achievements on that front, such as annotating the entire VMProtect VM (it's the bedrock of very early Denuvo implementations), but man, I also "have some achievements" in the Kotlin and JVM ecosystem. those automated filters just won't get me anywhere because I don't have 10+ years of experience with Claude Code.
2. lots of stuff. there are games, there is Warhammer lore, also family business. I'll likely stay in tech as a hobby, but shit, feeling burnt out at 17 is one of the worst feelings imaginable. I'm feeling like I'm 40 actually, and I'm tired of staring into the abyss. I'd rather stare into some assembly. who knows? maybe, I'll drop that Chromium CVE and watch the world burn.
yeah but you also have commercial licensing with Qt specifically :))
or we are going to see an explosion of vibe-coded GPL apps.
anyhow, the likes of Linear and Notion ain't gonna abandon web and go Qt. or!! if we are very lucky, we can see a native app framework that ticks all the boxes of a modern UI framework and is permissively licensed, but we need this crunch to stay there for years.
turns out things are not that bad! we just rolled back to 2010.
oh, wait, now every app is a browser instance. shit.
EDIT: so, how did I arrive at 2010, you ask? I looked at DDR5 pricing and found the closest pricing per GB in the past. this turned out to be DDR3 memory. I think it's totally fair since it was the latest and greatest thing back then, much like DDR5 is now. although, if we compare DDR3 to DDR3, we still roll back pretty far - a very close to current price was spotted in 2018, '17, 15, '13, and '11.
believe it or not, but pirated copies can be better a thousandfold than what paying customers get.
whenever I want to play Deathloop, I download it from torrents despite "owning" it on Steam, all because Denuvo really likes my SSD, and whenever I want to go online, then, well, yeah, I have to suffer. still, not regretting the purchase, cuz this money went to Arkane.
if computers themselves are bicycles for the mind, LLMs are cars. or even motorcycles, if we talk smaller models.
- they require specific roads being paved for them. for example, if your tooling is proprietary and not accessible from the CLI, your agent is pretty much fucked. if your tool is not represented in training data (think, `jj` VCS or your proprietary/tailor-made tooling), you require duct tapes such as "skills" and "memories". a bicycle (that is, your own mind + computer) handles such off-roads much better.
- they get you from A to B faster, sure, but along the way you may encounter something curious - a different road to take, an interesting vista. not to mention, bicycles are actually good for your health, and professional drivers suffer from all the sedentary job diseases we programmers do, unless they actively counter it. with LLMs, we get a "sedentary job disease" of skill atrophy, on top of all the other atrophies us coders should counter with a proper exercise set at least three times a week.
- finally, when you crash in a car (Opus/Sonnet, GPT-5.5) or, worse, on a motorcycle (smaller Qwens, DeepSeek, Haiku/GPT-5.4-nano), you crash very loudly and with a high chance of irrecoverable casualties.
this is obviously a way to try and get someone hooked, younger people and nonprofits alike. much like their Claude for Open-Source program, which gives a one-time 6-month Claude Max credit for maintainers of some super-popular open-source projects.
for reference, I've been using JetBrains All Products Pack and spent substantial amount in IDEs available under free non-commercial license, such as Rider and RustRover. if RustRover made things worse and I fell back to rustacean.vim, Rider and its ReSharper backend is fucking black magic and I swear I will outright refuse an employer who bans Rider and Visual Studio ReSharper extensions.
another theory: Adobe didn't hunt down pirates much because piracy bred new professionals whose companies would just have to pay for Creative Cloud.
previously, mugging through docs to turn them into serializables for some API took weeks of grueling work if you wanted to cover an entire API surface that's as big as, say, GitHub's. nowadays, just "copy Markdown" from the very same GitHub, put 10-12 data classes, and let LLM extrapolate from there. with Gemini's 65.5k max token output, that is just several prompts and about two hours. that's the boilerplate. there is practically no way to automate this unless GitHub adopts OpenAPI spec in a way that's not buggy, so that we can just hit an endpoint and point procedural source generators at them
well, I can usually think for myself or hit someone up in Discord (or Teams, if it's for a living) and in a worst case (that person just deflects to AI anyway) just save some token budget for myself