I think that LLMs should not be allowed to say "I". It should always be in third person. Instead of "I can write this for you" it should say "This machine can write this for you" or with a store front name "Google can write this for you". To operate on a given text or while generating texts it should divide what is meta from what is direct. This generated text "quote" should be styled different, a bit boring: smaller text and maybe monospace. There should be a clear divide between the machine conversation part and its workable output. If one converses with the machine it should not answer in the first person, because it is not a person.
Of course it wouldn't be bullet proof, but it would help in general to not let people personify the machine. Just a step into a better thing. At the same time it should be relatively easy to replace unquoted "I" and "me" with "This machine". At least it should be easier to find where it falls off the rails.
I think that I and all non-technical folks around me experience issues with applications performance daily. I think that sometimes "making it work" should include some particular performance metrics. If it is not fast enough it doesn't really work. Now "fast enough" is something to be defined and different depending on the application part.
Far too often I see applications that assume low latency and unbreakable Internet connection. They seem to do almost no caching at all. For example thumbnails.
Also many of applications will be almost unusable (or trigger OOM) when you try to work with a big file. Sometimes a big file has merely tens of MB, sometimes problems start with a 3MB file. Those are the issues that occur without thinking about performance from the start - memory is free, you can copy things around, everything will fit in RAM.
One more thing. When your application consists of a client and a server it may turn out that you will put yourself in a corner when not thinking about performance early on. Everything will work without any troubles at first and then it turns out there are some latency issues with more data and you can't easily upgrade the client for example. Or you had an architecture that allows to spin up more servers and handle the load closer to the client, but it can cut your margins.
I am sure that there will be a successful counter-culture. I do not have Suckless folks in mind or others that are minimalist and Unix philosophy above all. Don't get me wrong - I like most of their software, but I'm too lazy to be a purist. I would love to see more GUIs augmented by command line, but with a bit more GUI and mouse then the latter. I think I'm not alone, but a movement or a desktop environment that unites people thinking in that similar way is not there yet. I'm sure it will come.
I have some of my code BSD0 licensed (in practice public domain). One thing that I'm vary of regarding Copilot is: what would happen if my code would become a part of some proprietary code by a big multinational corporation and then they would DMCA me out? I'm a bit in the middle of a digital housekeeping and I think I will move my code somewhere else, because of it.
It's interesting how one of the best sources of information are sites providing the information as a side dish to their core business.
For example I was searching for a lease termination letter template. There are sites dedicated to documents, letters, forms and templates. Many of them are pretty spammy or messy. Then I found a page of a real estate portal. They had just what I needed, without superfluous ads with nice UX. It's in their interest to help people to do this, because then they will probably search for a next apartment. They, of course, are fast to offer additional services on top like searching for the move services. But nevertheless, providing this service is something on edge what they are doing - a marketplace for real estate. Only then they will get some money, so the side experience should be as smooth and painless as possible.
Another example is a tax/salary calculator on a job board. Or... most what Google is doing to some extent, but with different trade-offs.
I know it's nothing new, but it was interesting for me to notice it recently so directly.
Of course it wouldn't be bullet proof, but it would help in general to not let people personify the machine. Just a step into a better thing. At the same time it should be relatively easy to replace unquoted "I" and "me" with "This machine". At least it should be easier to find where it falls off the rails.