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> I'm a software creator

Are you? Seems like the model was the thing doing the creating.

I agree with you on principal but also think that from a practical point, that ship has long sailed.

It's always been a possibility that when you sent an email to someone their provider could be building an ad profile on you. Any third party tool someone else uses to manage their personal files and communications could always have some arbitrary privacy policy that let them do what they see fit.

For the most part, you never know what random SAAS someone on the other end of a relationship is really using.

I don't believe the 10x claims, but since when has salary been any indication of productivity?

The problem is, who is moving “society on” and what is their agenda.

I don’t think it’s healthy to encourage an attitude to just accept all change without any sort of reflection or push back.

How do you do "due diligence" on an API that frequently makes undocumented changes and only publishes acknowledgement of change after users complain?

You're also talking about internal technical implementations of a chat bot. 99.99% of users won't even understand the words that are being used.

Surely you jest? The software industry is in its current sorry state because of multiple generations of human developers happily producing an endless stream of shady features.

There is no shortage of game dev talent or adjacent creatives. It’s doubtful they will go on to find roles in the industry given the current climate and they presumably don’t have the capital to gamble on multiple years of game dev for potentially no return.

Get where faster? Get what over with?

Aren’t you talking about destroying livelihoods? Pushing people into poverty and/or homelessness? What is the benefit exactly?

I think this is a relatively unique outlook and not one that is shared by most.

If you use a tool to automate sending emails, unrelated to LLMs, in most scenarios the behaviour on the receiver is different.

- If I get a mass email from a company and it's signed off from the CEO, I don't think the CEO personally emailed me. They may glanced over it and approved it, maybe not even that but they didn't "send an email". At best, one might think that "the company" sent an email.

- I randomly send my wife cute stickers on Telegram as a sort of show that I'm thinking of her. If I setup a script to do that at random intervals and she finds out, from her point of view I "didn't send them" and she would be justifiably upset.

I know this might be a difficult concept for many people that browse this forum, but the end product/result is not always the point. There are many parts of our lives and society in general that the act of personally doing something is the entire point.

What part of universal health care, higher minimum wage and lower housing costs sounds like "utopia" to you?

That's just the system we have, but slightly better and completely achievable.

> As mentioned, my past experience with GUIs was with WinForms, and so I wanted to see what had changed or improved in the intervening years.

They didn’t need to because they already had WinForms as a baseline experience for Windows UIs.

What is an example of a "high-end page-layout program" referenced in that document? I mean, of course I assume they exist for professional type setting, book publishing and such, but I have never seen or heard of the actual software.

I envy the type of career you’ve had if you find this sort of behaviour unbelievable.

Every entertainment market is saturated. Even if every creative endeavour stopped now, there would still be more freely available content to last more then any individual human life span.

Unless you’re the type of person that actively considers them a fan of something and goes out of their way to consume a specific niche, there isn’t much reason to pay much, or anything for entertainment.