LeFantome

I was doing dark magic on my Linux distro the other day and borked it terribly. I had no desktop. I knew my system would reboot. But I was able to get into a TTY and, from there, I was able to run OpenCode. With a little AI help, I get my desktop back and fully recovered. I did not even have to reboot.

That is quite the quote

More than GNOME?

Ironically, the best text editor for *nix may be Microsoft Edit.

Where I live, hydro is the dominant power producer.

My electricity costs 40% less from 11 pm to 7 am and 30% more from 4 pm to 9 pm.

A hydro dam can also be thought of as a battery. When you are not using it, the dam fills up (charges).

My utility buys inexpensive excess power from the NA grid when electricity is cheap and drains the dams when third-party electricity is expensive. Adding other renewables to the mix plays a similar role. The pricing incentives shrink peak demand as you suggest.

One of the reasons residential solar is a tough sell for me is that electricity is relatively inexpensive and likely to stay that way.

Totally agree. But this does not take away from his point that maximizing screen space is the motivation in Firefox. In fact, all you have done is demonstrate why they are driven to do so.

I have been using DS Flash 4.1 pretty heavily. It runs for hours and hours and is pretty cheap.

I realized the other day that I had a $30 a month Claude subscription. So, I fired it up all excited and tried Opus 5.5 on a codebase I was already in with DS. After about 30 minutes I hit a 5 hour limit. The next day I tried again and the same thing happened. And it felt much slower to boot. I was super disappointed.

I agree with this perspective. There will be lots of local distortion but the “competition” for anything AI has commoditized will drive profits down. So, who will be able to afford the AI?

Add to that the fact that the AI itself is going to be more or less a commodity as well and you wonder where all the profits are meant to come from.

LLM makes may make more money before their tech really works than after.

Things are getting crazy. I could pretty much just start with ReactOS at this point and just pull up an LLM every time my hardware did not work or an app did not run. Within a week, I would have an Open Source windows that did everything I personally needed it to do.

The 100 companies would only be valuable if they made money. And their valuations would be based on normal metrics and expectations.

In other words, it is far more profitable to milk the enthusiasm of AI investors than it is to try to make money directly with the AI.

This should tell you everything you need to know about AI valuations.

It is very interesting that they believe AI will find different bugs than people. That is, if you found a bug with AI the expectation is that others could find the same bug easily. But if you find it yourself, it is somehow more of a sensitive secret.

I do not imagine that things divide so clearly along these lines.

The BSD ones also work on Linux.

Be the product manager. Just like real iterative development, you have to take time occasionally to reduce technical debt explicitly.

Adding unit tests, increasing modularity, reducing duplication, and the like are all things you can tell the LLM to do explicitly. And it is happy to do it.

And you can have coding standards as part of your design criteria. Set and document these early in the project and audit the code at least enough to see they are being enforced.

This is all very bad timing. Given that I can use AI to create completely alternative software stacks, it is the wrong time for proprietary software providers to start pissing off and exploiting all their users.

I could make a full macOS clone. I could fix all the little warts that bother me and break out of the walled garden where I want to. Then I can port it to whatever hardware I like.