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Yep, I always expect 2-3 months to get an app onto Samsung TVs and those are just variants of a white-label base which already passed their QA multiple times. LG is even worse for the initial review but they accept redirects to hosted apps so at least there's no need to ever deal with them again after launch.

Sure, I've been part of "in-sourcing" failing projects too, but it was always a sign of management incompetence rather than anything else. It's easy to shift the blame to an outsourcer when it's been GIGO; constantly changing requirements, feature creep, no budget for maintenance, the usual stuff that kills codebases.

They're right about everything, but at the same time it actually has become useful.

Sensible not to depend on it and create a vibe-coded mess, but keep everything modular & review the generated code closely and you can go back to humans-only in future with no problems.

If someone offered a whole team of devs in India for an unknown number of months basically for free, one would be a fool to turn that down even knowing it wouldn't last forever. Claude etc feels like the same kinda deal.

I'm simply defining serious artists as people who are serious about their art, whether they're award winning filmmakers or amateur photographers. Roughly nobody out of all those people wants to use AI.

(If you want to define it as professional artists instead, then I don't even see much of a conflict of interest. Professional programmers tend to be cautiously optimistic about the new tool and are finding uses for it, why wouldn't professional artists? But, they largely do not see it that way.)

Given that all serious artists seem to be extremely anti-AI, I strongly suspect that you may be wrong.

I've been trying Fable for coding in the past week and while it's incrementally better than Opus sometimes, what it's churning out is still far from art - and I do think it's possible for code to be art.

Great, I just tried #7, comparing against the average is definitely better, thanks

I like it! #6 in 5 mins, but I have no idea if that's good or not. A percentile score at the end would be nice!

I'm pretty sure more people would read it to the end if it didn't seem like AI output, yes.. At the very least you would have fewer (maybe not 0!) comments here saying it's AI slop.

I think the point people are making is that when the text has an "AI smell" (it does), we immediately lose trust in the veracity of any claim being made and feel like continuing to read what is possibly a hallucinated fiction is a complete waste of time.

At this point we're all used to skimming through thousands of AI-generated sentences every working day and constantly thinking "this is likely to be 20% bullshit", it's hard to turn that off even if I try.

Well, if it looks cool and it nearly works that is totally on brand for Alessi!

Yep. For years we've been telling people to 'just fucking google it', and now when they do they're getting bullshit AI answers.

Worst thing is, some of these bullshit answers will be medical, some of them financial, it seems pretty certain people are being harmed.

In case you (or others) didn't know, Galen has his own podcast: www.gdpolitics.com

It feels a lot like the 538 one, with lots of familiar contributors. The latest ep is a live show with Nate & Clare, might be to your taste.

They didn't say "nobody can replace the battery themselves", and "you" here was probably intended to mean "a normal consumer". Relative to items with replaceable batteries (a TV remote control, a camera, a pre-iPhone mobile phone), the batteries are extremely hard to replace.

The batteries are also not safe to replace, relative to items with replaceable batteries. There is a very low chance of me accidentally damaging my TV remote control while replacing the batteries.

None of the information you're responding to is false, and it's perhaps worth asking yourself why you're here defending Apple.

There's an easier argument that is simply "But Samsung!".

That was a Windows laptop, local SSD, about 200gb of raw files (fuji, pentax) from this year so far. Plenty of ram, plenty of spare storage, but no discrete GPU which might have been the issue. I might try it on Linux at some point.