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If you follow this logic, we get to the true "AI-native" engineer which is ecstatically floating in a bath of dopamine-stimulating liquid, while AI reads their brain pattern and instantly builds everything they didn't even form a full thought about.

"If that sounds outlandish, that's because it is. We don't have such capable AI systems yet."

I'm not tired of work per se, but I'm definitely tired of what Internet is becoming: AI generated articles on AI generated websites, AI generated videos about AI generated products, AI generated emails inviting me to test AI generated features. AI generated movies and games coming soon. At work it's all AI generated presentations about how AI solves everything, AI on AI for AI with AI by AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI...

M5 MBP owners, did Apple finally manage to fix the permanent "keyboardprint" on the screen?

I had it very badly on Intel MBP, and now on my M3 Max. I tried some screen protectors, but none of them stuck (pun intended).

I suppose touch only makes it worse?

At this point they should rename into just "Jet".

Even before the whole AI BS, my goal was to build and live in a self-sustained (as much as possible) homestead. We don't have kids so schooling doesn't matter. Also not very social.

It was always more "nerdy" dream than "independence" dream, as in, I'm more interested in the process than the result. We plan to build a fully DIY WikiHouse on a fully DIY CNC machine. Many planned furniture pieces are also CNC. I also like the idea of Farmbot, or some kind of automated aero-/aqua-/whatever-ponics container, though not sure it will work out. Of course, DIY solar.

I also enjoy growing things and cooking. We used to can, salt, cure and otherwise preserve stuff when I was a kid. I know it's all tough work, but tough work makes a man. I don't want to be a levitating fat puddle from Wall-E. You also need to build a good muscle surplus in your 30s and 40s to be able to work into 60s and 70s.

Ironically, AI helps a lot to lay down plans, find things I didn't realize etc. I'm sure it will break against reality in many many places ("You are absolutely right! I made a mistake."), but it definitely works for more mundane things. For complex financial simulations as well.

Before all came to this, I've been promoting reviews at $dayjob not as gatekeeping but as method to exchange information and build more team spirit. We are an internal service team working by "projects", which makes us a very disjointed team with barely any communication. (Part of it is also German work culture.)

And now this. Suffice to say, my efforts did not bear fruit. I feel more isolated than ever before.

I might be a bit pessimistic but not extreme.

It's not "AI bubble that will crash" but definitely some kind of deflation or correction that will damage a lot of investments. As always, common people will be most affected.

It's not "rogue ASI will kill us all" but advancements in cyberattacks, skill erosion, job loss that will damage us all. Again, common people will be most affected.

It's been 5-6 years with these things, how does anyone still believe that this will usher a new era of prosperity? Maybe for Sam and Dario.

I meant it as a thousands separator.

Per working hour would be €157,680.

I find Google AI Studio / Dev Platform / whatchamacallit one of the worst in this.

When video models just came out, I wanted to make a short clip. Gemini didn't have enough control back then, so I started in Studio. I had $10 on my account. Try, try, try, not good, retry, altogether maybe 20-30 retries with 4 choices for a 10 second video.

Wake up next morning to an email from Google - my Studio account is frozen because of negative balance.

I check it, it's at -$160. Not financial ruin, but a painful sum for a 10-second video I didn't even use in the end.

I don't think there was (or is) a setting in there that says "stop everything when I'm in the negative".

Almost a year later, it's still as bad. Trying to make some music via Lyria, I need to wait 10-12 hours for the API charge to show in my costs. Now I had the bitter lesson, I wait after every major novel experiment to see how much it costed me.

Coding is solved, my ass.

These days it's all like "$200 plan has more usage than $100 plan" and "$500 plan has even more usage".

Do you need a license on something 100%-vibe-coded?

So far I mostly see a metric sh.. ton of meta- and meta-meta-projects re-wrapping AI wrapper tools, with sloppy slogans like "One Model, Five Harnesses. Combined." or "You run in the park. Rrrunnnrr.ai runs your AI." Looking inside, out of 250k it's often 200k of verbally incontinent self-explaining comments; or "smart" redesign of builtins.

No new browser, no new iOS clone than runs on Android, no new easy to use DaVinci, no new CAD suite, no $5 SolidWorks clone, no redesigned K8s, no 10x performance speedup in Linux kernel.