We've been on this merry go round before with the "outsourcing to the cheapest programmers in india" boom.
That slopfest ended with a new executive dogma of "hire only the best programmers" as so many of those projects were humiliating disasters which had to be junked. I do not think that was coincidental.
Executive fashions can remain remarkably consistent and irrational for years as they try to make reality conform to their expectations before doing a complete 180.
Weird. Ive seen the exact opposite. The LLM drones talking endlessly how to write fairly basic code using LLMs in a way that is not actually solving problems any quicker or more effectively but is doing it in a way that they see as "more modern".
Ironically I don't think software engineering has progressed much at all since vibe coding got fashionable. Real, meaningful engineering advances are being drowned out by the AI coding religion.
At that level it becomes hard not to surround yourself with obsequious yes men who will instinctively agree with all your harebrained ideas about virtual reality or AI.
>The critical clue people miss is that everyone claiming that has very clear financial incentives to convince people that's the case even when they know it isn't.
Social media is flooded with bots pushing this narrative - coding is dead, engineers are all cooked, the latest model is scarily good, "what am I for?", etc.
A good rule of thumb is that if it's a human being and not a bot, they'll use the word "slop" at some point.
If you find a topic where reality lies outside of the overton window for western elites at the time theyll reliably get it wrong.
There are a number of examples of this (e.g. the Afghanistan and Iraq wars).
They usually use a lot of hedging language to cover their behinds when they make predictions, though, so their predictions are usually more nudges and winks than they are commitments.
Im wary about having my PII hosted on vpses which I suppose makes me a privacy nut. I just host immich on an old laptop and use the VPS to establish a wireguard tunnel.
I think it's ridiculous to expect immich to rearchitect everything in order to make it better able to run on untrusted hardware. It should stick to doing what it is good at.
>Are you sure? It's about the only place in the world where the philosophy of degrowth ever managed to get a toehold
Yes, I'm sure. I think you might be confusing something some obscure academics have discussed and something the politicians with actual power in Europe have acted upon.
systemd desperately needs competition. it isnt just that it became a dependency for every low level service and a potential vector for privacy invasion, it's also janky to use.
This is quite normal. Most billionaires spend their life surrounded by people who flatter them and indulge their every whim and agree with their every prejudice.