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"Search for the small web" is interesting. I think the closest thing we have of "the Internet that doesn't suck" for me is HN.

The Usenet vibes, "let's talk about the stuff we geeks love before people come to spoil them". A much higher quality than average chat room, even if imperfect and undoubtedly biased to our left brain personas.

So searching on HN is a bit of the "Search for the small web".

Most successful companies and innovative ideas come from middle aged founders and inventors. Silicon Valley loves the romantic notion of a contrarian young adult or even teenager "seeing what nobody else sees" , but they are the exception and not the rule.

Why didn't Claude detect the hack and prevent it from affecting customers using its superhuman AGI reasoning?

The word "open" is misleading and dishonest in this context. Just like "OpenAI".

Call it free, available, downloadable etc, but not "Open".

Either way, Mistral is a failing company with little relevance in the AI space and that's not going to save them.

Sure, but you could also have used this dollar to buy oil, gold, stocks, bonds etc

At least they are safe from governments and their "fiat money"!

For someone to kill New Jersey's reputation, it needs to be alive to begin with...

Once upon a time there were "developers" known for doing their work by basically copying code from Stack Overflow without caring to understand it. Building applications as a sort of legos where stack overflow answers were the pieces.

Today they are vibe coders and no longer need stack overflow.

These guys started with the conclusion and then tried to find a way to "prove" it.

Valve's take of 30% is astronomical. The company is pure profit and the absolute dictator of how people should market and sell games. It's Valve's way or the highway.

They created the AI ghetto with their forced disclosure banner but are doing nothing about AI otherwise. They must do better than to basically tell developers that AI cloning is their problem. How about using a bill or two from their huge pile of cash to build a coherent strategy to handle the post-AI game industry?

I have a few acquaintances who smirked when I last met them: they love how AI saved them a ton of time in their non-tech jobs while pointing out that "they wouldn't want to be a software engineer today".

They were always a bit resentful about how I made money "so easily". And they were right in a sense. Before retiring I'd make more money browsing reddit in a boring meeting than they would make in a day.

We made incredible improvements to society but we also destroyed the livelihoods of millions. I believe our profession was/is a massive net positive to the world, but many got hurt while we steamrolled others without hesitation.

I'm actually very positive about AI in general and I don't think it will end our field. But if that's what happens, we can lament the bad luck but not really complain that we've been wronged.

This was a good example where a talented engineer worked hand in hand with AI to get the decomp to work.

I think some people are brute forcing it through a lot of agent time and expense, but they used 6.1 Sol Medium, a great but not a top capability AI model+effort.

This matches what I've been hearing regarding talent and experience making a big difference in task speed and cost when using AI. When prices stop being subsidized, this will be a key factor when evaluating engineer performance: "you've used a lot of tokens and don't have much to show for!"

Who knows where this is going to end, but Talent+AI still beats Vibe work by a lot.

Layoff severance isn't great and it's very common for companies to use the performance system to get rid of people. Suddenly someone stops meeting expectations and are gone within weeks.

Hey! I was there and my kid is still a teenager.

I was programming already in the mid 80s and helping my dad figure out 20MB "Winchesters" in the late 80s/early 90s.

I've never used LLMs for C++ but I notice that it likes to use every available feature on other languages. Is Claude-generated C++ incomprehensible as a result?