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Bugs are ever present. And beta software should be treated with charity. But Photoshop, let alone the entire suite, is a beast. An effort, like this says it is, aiming for parity fundamentally misunderstands the reality of both the software they’re trying to replicate and the capability of AI assistance now and in the foreseeable suitable future

He’s flogging a paid newsletter.

What surprises me is that they had the mini subs door open and bright lights on inside. This seems like surprisingly poor light discipline.

There are kind of a lot of errors in this piece. For instance, the problem the author had with Gemini CLI running out of tokens in ten minutes is what happens when you don’t set up (a free) API key in your environment.

That’s a complex encoding. I wonder if current models could decode it even given your explanation.

There is a time and a place for everything. Software development is often about compromise and often it isn’t feasible to work out a solution from foundational principles and a comprehensive understanding of the domain.

Many developers use libraries effectively without knowing every time consideration of O(n) comes into play.

Competently implemented, in the right context, LLMs can be an effective form of abstraction.

With a few prominent exceptions, the Wikipedia Foundation has been wise enough to enjoy the perks parasitism and not get in the way. However, their stated fundraising goal is amassing a large enough endowment that they can exist perpetually on it’s interest.

I sometimes worry if they ever achieve their goal they might not be wise enough not to kill the golden goose.

This new plan really highlights the need for open models.

Individual users will be priced out of frontier models if this becomes a trend.

There are lots of cases in businesses where there are integrations with other software that are difficult to port.

Can you talk about what book you’re trying to digitize?

It’s extraordinary!

Perhaps how quickly we become jaded should be taken as evidence of how quickly the world is changing right now.

When I looked at the examples they seemed like the kind of one off scripts, of limited complexity, that we’ve seen many times in the last year or so.

That’s a rather idiosyncratic interpretation that doesn’t align with current views or legal structures in the Western world (look up ‘publicity rights’)

‘Ownership’ isn’t a property of the universe. It’s a value imposed by human society and philosophy. The physical reality you describe is true but irrelevant