jeppester

I'm also getting tired of this. But I don't know where to go instead.

What is the best drop-in OSS replacement that has support for skills and mcps?

In the case of Xbox, you'd get something comparable to Xbox Series X (or S in some situations). So it's hardly comparable to a multi-thousand dollar rig.

In my experience it's really good at making you feel that you understand things.

Then when you actually dig into the code, there are many things that are not like you'd expect.

When you've experienced that a few times, you stop trusting that the agent gives you the full picture - for good reason.

When I review AI generated code I generally find so many flaws that it makes it hard for me to believe that those who are not reviewing their output are not just fooling themselves. Maybe not all the time, but quite often.

One such recent example was an SSO simulator for a local env. Instead of using a cookie to remember who was logged in, the agent remembered the last log in a variable, assuming the the next requests would come from that login.

This snowballed into our tests, where later agents had created helper tools for working around the SSO simulators statefulness.

What exactly would make those systems 100x more maintainable?

Exactly. I feel that agentic programming is largely turning what would have in the past been actual understanding into some kind of fluffy superficial pseudo "understanding" that's only barely good enough when assisted by AI.

They will paste it to their agent and ask it to live up to those requirements

Second hand SFF office PCs are super good for this. Machines like Lenovo Thinkcentre or Dell Optiplex.

Because there are so many of them (at least in Denmark where I live) they are pretty cheap and it's easy to get one with an I-processor.

My current machine's idle draw is also very low at 5-6w.*

*Based on some quick research it does seem that I was a bit lucky with mine, so I guess it's fair to mention that mileage may vary.

My boss tried to make me interested in agentic programming by showing me how "productive" the creator of OpenClaw is.

All I see is a fast food factory. Sure it's interesting that you can produce so much so quickly. But what is produced is endlessly uninteresting to me. It doesn't help that all the harness building is just SEO in disguise. Trial and error.

I don't doubt that agentic programming makes it possible to produce faster, but it also comes at a great cost for me, which is that I largely don't enjoy my job anymore. If I was given the choice between that and halving my salary I would have chosen the latter.

Xbox is ahead of Sony on this path. Their studios often, if not most of the time, release physical games that require a full download to play.

I doubt that they will go back to where Sony are now.

I don't disagree that this device is very likely too expensive to sell well.

But! The price is not insulting. You can built a slightly faster PC for a little less, but that PC would be ~10 times larger, it would be louder, it would lack features like HDMI-CEC and good wifi/bluetooth. It really wouldn't compare for living room usage.

In order to get anywhere near the size of the Steam Machine, you'd have to exceed its costs.

Yesterday Claude wanted to add a position column to what is a slightly extended many-many relation table. It did this to "make ordering stable".

An average enterprise developer would never add bloat like that up-front, unless if the ability to change the order was a requirement.

Obviously a stable order can be easily derived from the ID or a creation time (if available).

Setting a position however requires extra steps to ensure the integrity of the sequence.

I see things like that all the time, and it's always stuff that grows the code base and adds unnecessary complexity.

I'm sure there are at least two in the world

> Watching movies on OLED (or at least on this particular OLED) looks crap, because if you turn motion interpolation OFF, the image looks stuttery, apparently due to OLEDs ultra-low response time, which produces zero fading between adjacent frames. (By the way, why didn't this happen with 35mm movie projectors? They couldn't blend adjacent frames either, because they are just shining light through individual pictures on a sheet of celluloid, yet I don't remember seeing this kind of stutter in movie theatres back in the day!) And turning motion interpolation up a notch already produces the well-known soap opera effect. No, thanks.

My guess would be that it's not so much a difference between projectors and OLEDs as it is a difference between old movies and new movies.

Personally I think that slow pixels is the wrong way to "fix" poor motion blur in movies.

How are the rules broken? How does Temu fix then?

We have rules that should prevent companies from selling broken and dangerous crap. Should I not be upset that Temu ignores those rules deliberately and floods the EU with exactly that?

If it was that simple, surely someone would undercut all the retailers that follow the rules - while also following the rules.

Temu is just deliberately ignoring any rules.