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Somehow I'm paying more tax and getting worse services. I'm getting pretty sick of it, and the only way it's going to change is a reform of the public service.

I'd want to see quarterly budgets and funding vs yearly, penalties for any department executives that spend just so they use their entire budgets, and efficiency dividends implemented for any department that has been caught spending on pointless crap. We have the tech to move fast in ensuring funds are being used responsibly.

I always found them too chatty and verbose. I'd get a wall of text and miss things because it was lost in garbage about load bearing and blast radius

Yeah, ollama has it up for free at the moment. I'm fairly nonplussed about it.

Got it to do a code review on a couple of codebases where I knew roughly what the problems were and it underperformed even with a prod in the correct direction. Its code output is average, and it's more expensive than glm-5.3-flash, I don't see myself using it when it comes off free.

Cool, no reason for them to drive up the cost of hardware anymore

Even just one of the smaller models is good enough for the grunt work I use them for 90% of the time. Currently doing most of my home hobby projects with OpenCode Go and Qwen 3.7 Plus, it's not great at diagnosing issues in the code, but if I can clearly articulate a test suite or boilerplate refactoring it works fine.

I think you're missing the point OP was making. He's saying it's profitable but not optimal, those who recognised that quickly outstripped the slave owners in wealth.

I could ask you about your spending habits and why you don't pump all your money into an S&P 500 ETF, but that's ignoring time and consumption preferences you have, as well as perceived opportunity cost. It's not a useful observation to make at an individual level.

This reeks of the start of enshittification. Very doubtful it was a "test"

Who's at fault when it suggests feeding someone cyanide?

I'm working on moving as much as possible to self hosted options. Have forgejo, Authentik and Nextcloud set up so far. Slowly finding alternatives for things, I think my next goal is Nostr

I think it's awesome that AI is enabling this. I think the the future of software engineering is in helping make this kind of thing resilient and removing the fragility that AI generated code always seems to inject

Must have just been the ones I liked that died. Will have to go looking

I miss the decentralized web and phpBB forums. If you didn't like one community, it was super easy to find one you did.

I always liked reading about it in uni in the mid-late 00s. It made me feel smart in my OS tutorials when I could rattle off all the design choices and how they differed from Linux and Windows

My observations match this. I can get fresh things done very quickly, but when I start getting into the weeds I eventually get too frustrated with babysitting the LLM to keep using it.

Last place I worked had long running end to end tests that would take 30 minutes on GHA (compared to maybe 5 locally) on every PR. This is going to make that a very expensive endeavour