is ultrasonic scanning completely harmless for developing baby? when my wife was pregnant, I remember they wouldn't recommend too frequent ultrasonic scans...
if there're some specific tests/evals to satisfy that an agent can test by itself, it can easily iterate for hours. And this time also includes running those tests/evals, which may not be small.
imo, it really depends on what you enjoy doing. Regardless of AI, choose software development if you like to build complex systems that no-one has built before, and have enough patience to dig deep / debug things to make them work exactly as you expect.
For some of us here, it's just what we love to do, no matter what tooling is available. When I first started building my own software long time ago, it was a very slow Basic and fast raw machine codes (in octal system, PDP-11 like CPU). I enjoyed it not because of tooling, but despite of it.
Over the years, the tooling was getting better in general, which allowed us to build increasingly more complex systems.
With AI, we will still be creating & debugging. It's just that before AI, I had to spend 90% of my work on mechanical not-so-fun things to get things to work, and only 10% on fun algorithmic-intensive parts. But with AI tools, this ratio seems to change, and all kind of boilerplate code & algorithms can be written much faster by AI, hopefully leaving more time for us to work on creative part of the work.
I heard they do CS exams on air-gapped machines at UC Berkley. Use of AI to do CS homework is strongly discouraged, and if someone cheated, it shows up at the exam...
> First git itself is distributed and built for scale.
there're different dimensions for "scale" - like handling large monorepos, orders of magnitude more commits, tighter requirements for latencies (for agentic use, e.g. for agentic history navigation)...
There're tons of ways to fine-tune WebRTC that it wouldn't corrupt audio in poor network - it has all of the controls to smoothly trade-off latency vs quality. Not just NACKs - FEC, disable PLC/Acceleration/Deceleration, larger JB (tons of parameters) etc.
Most of the glitches I heard with OpenAI's Voice were not WebRTC related - but rather, to my ear, they sounded more like realtime issues with their inference - which is a very different component to optimize.
it doesn't necessarily have to be tied to monetization & privacy directly.
It may just be that ROI doesn't make sense: very few user out there truly care about (or even understand) E2EE, for quite some users it creates an inconvenience & support incidents (harder to move from device to device, forgot your passphrase - lost your history, new joiners to a group chat don't see previous history, etc), it requires a significant additional engineering effort to just maintain it, many new features get shipped much slower because of it...
building new features on top of E2EE is genuinely hard, and I've seen many companies struggle to keep innovating while staying strictly E2EE.
Having seen multiple leading messaging/VoIP stacks from inside, the amount of engineering spent to work around various limitations of E2EE in real prod scenarios is insane, and even for simple every-day-use features metrics don't compare to the metrics of the same feature running without E2EE.
amazing to see Claude Code top models still way above all other models for C++ & Java, while GPT 5.5 is higher in Python & JS and others. Shows the skew in the training data sets, and maybe the go-to-market focus - with Anthropic focusing on enterprise customers much more than OpenAI?
Matches with my experience with Opus for C++.
C# results are empty - @gertlabs - any ETA for those?
For those in the USA - if you never tried brunost (brown cheese) - look at specialty cheeses of a larger grocery chain (Whole Foods, Safeway, …) - it’s called “Ski Queen” here, and is sold as a perfect cube in red/brown plastic pack.
It’s very delicious.
I was ecstatic when I found it quite a few years ago in a regular store. A Norwegian friend of mine used to send me a brick of this cheese once a year for Christmas, when I was a student, and I treasured it as one of the most valuable possessions :)
Also, fun fact - the reason this cheese tastes sweet is due to caramelization - the milk gets boiled for a long time (hours) to get the brown color and sweetness. So it’s completely natural, zero added sugar ;)