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> The software companies aren’t going to start doing this because the media companies aren’t interested in doing that.

I'm not super familiar with Nuke, but isn't ComfyUI the open-source version of that? If true, that's like saying Blender is making Maya obsolete, and maybe true, but Blender has its own community and so does Maya.

Just to be clear, this isn't generative AI in the same way something like Nano Banana or Seedance is. You don't prompt anything into existence. However, this is using all of the latest SOTA techniques that the slop generative models also depend on.

I think it is an amazing example of how labs should take all of their fundamental research and turn into products entirely designed, limited and scoped only to empower artists instead of obsessed with trying to bypass them.

The way these companies are run so cut-throat while also being worth a trillion dollars is such a fundamental systemic failure.

To say that it's because Microsoft overhired is a gross mis-remembering of the last 20 years.

For starters, I remember way back in the late 2000s meeting an engineer from the office team. Their entire job was focused on making buttons. Microsoft also used to employee engineers focused soley on testing software, though I've heard that has changed.

Anyway, this is a company with decades long cultural roots for enormously large teams where each person is hyper focused on tiny little pieces of a much larger product.

Also, let's not forget that they bought up 1/3 of the gaming industry.

I don't mind that Microsoft is hurting, because it makes mid products, that always seem to fail-up. However, I do mind that the people are okay that the answer is to lay people off instead of, maybe, breaking the company back up into smaller companies that preserve the stability of the workforce.

Californians get paid more on average, and car prices are mostly constant, so the higher price of electric cars is less of a barrier than in other places.

I want an electric car that has tactile buttons, an instrument cluster and doesn't put the entire brain of a car in a mobile app controlled by a remote server.

That car costs $200k in the US.

Outside of North America, the cars are really good and affordable. So it's out there. We are clearly doing something wrong here.

One of my favorite hobbies used to be to explore GitHub and see what interesting projects were created or updated. I loved to checkout and learn from others.

Everything is weird now.

There is this belief amongst software engineers that humans are always part of the process and that AI prompting is just the new IDE. Yet, every new model release is even more optimized to replace programmers and is pushing us one more step closer to that reality.

Right now (Fall 2026), we focus on empowering agents and LLMs and that's the current challenge facing software. However, once we solve that, the LLM really can kind of take it from there.

I know I'm being dramatic when I say this, but it really is how I'm starting to become jaded from all of this AI tech. It looks more and more like we're becoming a world full of really brilliant humans who are bored because there aren't any intellectual problems left to solve. That is not a utopia. That seems like a dystopian nightmare.

Games aren't like old movies getting remastered that can be done in a rented-out storage container for a weekend. Video game ports are generally a skillset that takes time to master. Plus, getting a 20-year-old game running well on a new system isn't free. I'm on board with copyright protection incentivizing all that initial hard work, the years of blood sweat and tears will get to live on as long as possible.

Looks like software is having its Napster moment now. Except, instead of one entity dictating the rules of engagement and deciding to sue Napster and its clones out of existence, we have 100s of entities with competing interests.

IP has been a good source of revenue generation, that social contract is now broken. I've got my popcorn bowl ready though, the industry that just fought Google and Apple for better revenue sharing is about to take all that legal infrastructure they acquired and make a big mess of everything. Here's to the next decade hah.

I agree 100% on your take that this is destroying community spaces.

AI makes this so extremely efficient in all kinds of domains that, even if you try to continue to collaborate, I'm not even sure what the collaboration would be for.

At work, I've already noticed we aren't working together to solve hard ambiguous problems anymore. The whiteboards are filled with jokes and random notes people never bother to erase. Since everyone is tasked with their own project, unless you make a real physical effort to check-in, it's just way too easy to disassociate from everything else around you because you're able to just keep going.

Digital hobbyist projects of all shapes and sizes are becoming lonely little islands with people dreaming up all kinds of things, that everyone else can now also do, so there's now, no incentive to share or seek out experts.

I would be curious how real-world hobbies, that require patience and physical skill might start to see upticks in participation.

Isn't this the same argument that opponents took in the early 2010s when iPhone photos were much more accessible, and celebrity nudes were constantly being harvested? I am not saying Apple should go nuclear on the mac and lock it down like iPad OS and I don't think it's headed in that direction either. As long as people can disable sandboxing and YOLO it, then this is definitely a step in the right direction.

Apparently mammal DNA lost its ability to self-repair adult cells somewhere along the way, maybe when we evolved to evade threats post-dinosaurs.

I think mine must have desperately wanted to stop being knees to stop all the abuse of sport and years of working out they had to endure.

It's definitely not for me.

From where I'm sitting, it's just turning python functions into boxes and instead of write the function yourself, you drag from the output of one box to the input of another. For 2 or 3 boxes, this is cool, but I opened up a professional workflow and was taken into a view with 100s of boxes and wires all over the place. Uhh, ok?

For myself, I'd rather just create my own python environment, write some quick pytorch or mlx calls, wire up some cli to it and share that in a GitHub.

You really shouldn't build software with rust if your workflow involves 10+ agents. Why aren't you using Python or Typescript for things like that?

Rust is what you use when you want to maximize on the runtime performance. It will build software that requires significantly less memory and maximize the CPU that will save time and energy. It's a system language for writing software meant to access the hardware.

What blows my mind is that the homo-lineage was around for a million years, and they're finding we interbred many times throughout that time.

It was only in the last 10-20k years or so where farming emerged.

I don't know, but I think it's incredible how little time has passed relatively compared to our long history, of us being domesticated.

They rode the gaussian splat hype train and their demos look sick. I suspect they had a big marketing push the last 6 weeks because they were looking for an exit.

Apple and Meta are the only two big companies really pushing the frontier of this space, and everyone else is trying to figure out what to do with the technology. World Labs had the best marketing demos and showed the world what you could do with it, but it's all been vaporware from where I've been sitting.