dontlaugh

Sure. But the results are definitely better with better models.

GLM 5.3, Minimax, Sonnet, etc. I find are definitely worth using. They need handholding and prodding and you have to carefully review the output, but I almost always end up faster than doing it manually.

The handholding takes time and energy too. The actual task can be infinitely fast if explaining what to do takes longer than doing it.

I haven’t been able to be faster with Qwen than doing it myself. Even with GLM & DS Flash variants it’s not always worth my time.

AI is maybe a 10% productivity increase for the entire job, even for the most enthusiastic users.

It’s useful, but it really doesn’t matter that much.

It’s so poor for most tasks that you’re faster doing it manually.

DeepSeek and GLM are useful, though. Even the flash variants.

YouTube Premium is a terrible deal.

It’s certainly sad for long it took for IOCP to be copied in the form of io_uring.

Having seen faster screens, I find 120 is where the diminishing returns ramp up for me. I wouldn’t bother with more.

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I'm not familiar with whatever strawman you're invoking here.

By "everyone" I mean game studio owners. They're desperate to not pay 30% to Valve / Sony / Apple / whatever.

The vast majority of people that work at game studios don't really care about that, they see a shrinking fraction of the profits of their employers and worsening conditions.

Having worked in the games industry for long time, everyone is constantly trying in vain to escape the 30% tax.

There’s nothing wrong with them going out of business either, though.

Plenty of games (especially MMOs) have lots of gameplay logic in the server. In many cases that is intertwined with the rest of the intrastructure, like databases, logging, deployment or even subscription services. Lots of games simply wouldn’t be functional without the publisher’s infrastructure.

Of course that is regrettable and could be changed, but it would require a significant change in incentives.

Python is worse, but not by all that much. After all, PyPy has been several times faster for many years.

It does actually help. All heat radiated into the aluminium isn’t in the copper, so makes it to the environment. The copper remains cooler overall.

Gmail was free, undercutting has always worked. Amazon does similar.

Using market success to excuse poor UX is pointless.