LLMs often fail at the simplest tasks. Just this week I had it fail multiple times where the solution ended up being incredibly simple and yet it couldn’t figure it out. LLMs also seem to „think“ any problem can be solved with more code, thereby making the project much harder to maintain.

LLMs won’t replace programmers anytime soon but I can see sketchy companies taking programming projects by scamming their clients through selling them work generated by LLMs. I‘ve heard multiple accounts of this already happening and similar things happened with no code solutions before.

With lots of new EA titles requiring invasive kernel level anti-cheat, I don’t see what could go wrong here _/s

I‘m one of them. I already only used Windows for gaming and seeing where this OS is going, made me try Linux again and this time might be the first time I might stick with it, thanks to Bazzite.

Games run incredibly well and compatibility is surprisingly good at this point. The only exception are games with invasive anti-cheat like the new Battlefield. But I guess it’s just a pro that I won’t buy a game that essentially has malware included with it.

A few months ago the CEO tweeted that he supported Trump and his policies. The most ironic part was that he’s an immigrant himself but lives in Switzerland.

Not sure if anything else happened since.

That’s quite an interesting take. I also noticed that it’s magnitudes better at coding with common frameworks and often sucks with more niche applications.

Meta is also planning to drop its native WhatsApp Windows app in favor of a web wrapper version soon, in what looks like a move to simplify WhatsApp development.

So they are just going back to what they had before, probably to save money.

But don’t they have AI now which makes development so much faster, easier and cheaper? It’s these things where you can see these companies are full of bullshit.

I didn’t try this yet but why the fuck would Reddit even need an ai. Does anyone care? Will anybody pay for it? Or is it just because Reddit is a public company and stonks need to go up?

This is satire… right? I hope it is

I was wondering about that with some of the recent removals as well: Why not just a PWA?

Something like Voyager or Phanpy runs excellent when installed as a PWA and especially with Phanpy I‘m not even missing a native app or „wrapper app“.

Why outside the fediverse? What are you hoping to find that the fediverse does not allow for?

For when you really want to blend into the crowd and not be bothered by possible employers or recruiters. Fuck yeah, I might do that then.

Can‘t wait for a new US trade deal to soften that up.

Let meta write the laws and get only 60% tariffs. Von der Leyen will be enthusiastic about it.

Maybe more of a US bubble but American software never considers that people might be multi lingual and public transport is always disregarded.

Examples include: Google knows that I speak German and English since I put it in my settings and yet it tries to auto-dub German YouTube content and auto-translates German comments in Maps.

Public transport stops only appear in Google Maps when you zoom in quite a lot despite being some of the most important points of interest when using public transport. Public transport navigation is also very lackluster.

Those are just examples, there are many more examples in software where you can notice some 20 year old US tech bro came up with it who has never been to a different country.

I thought you must be wrong but it seems there really is no explicit law about it and current freedom of expression laws have been introduced by the EU in 1998.

I started by going from full time employment to part time employment / part time freelance. When I had too much to do with the freelance job plus a few clients ready for new projects, I quit my job and went full time freelance. That’s the safest way if you don’t wanna risk your savings.

So far it’s working out quite well. I got a steady stream of work from about 10 clients and some odd projects without follow-up work every now and then.

It can be stressful sometimes but once you manage to be more selective with projects, it’s all right.

Reminds me of people who described themselves as „no code developers“ before the whole AI hype when they were using stuff like webflow. This job title always bothered me and made me think they were afraid of code or something since making a similar site with a good CMS is not complicated and scales much better and I couldn’t see why you would wanna go full no-code.

I also had an account that made it to the frontpage once with a gif that I illustrated and animated myself. Shortly after, the account got shadow banned an I never learned why. Didn’t post anything illegal or even weird with it. Reddit moderation is such a shit show.

„We use end to end encryption but we kindly ask you to provide your full messages to our AI“.

Using AI to write personal messages also seems like the worst use of it.

What happened last November? I quit when they turned off the API

I prefer „corporate social media“ or „legacy social media“ as a differentiator from the Fediverse. If anything in the Fediverse ever becomes truly mainstream, that’s completely fine