I never slept as bad in my life as when I had a single can of coca cola at 8-9 pm and went to bed at 11-12pm

I did this for a while working nights until I caught on. The nights I didn't have a can were much better.

As a movie consumer I am not interested in AI movies. You don't get to just keep the existing market and switch to AI. You are creating a new market of AI video consumers and hoping it's big enough.

I see this as an extension of the Netflix model: content for people who aren’t actually watching the movie

Why spend the effort making a show for people on their phones? Will they even notice if it’s slop?

It's considered polite in American culture.

Why lament it? I've been using Inoreader for over a decade after Google Reader went away. And I gladly pay for it year after year.

I had to run Jenkins to build my code. In the snow. And uphill on git pull and deploy.

The markets seem to agree with you and are pricing accordingly.

I've worked with a type of (anti?) developer in my career that seems to only be able to add code. Never change or take it away. It's bizarre. There's some calculation bug, then a few lines down some code which corrects it instead of just fixing the original lines.

It's bizzare, and as horrible as you might imagine.

And it's been more than one or two people I've seen do this.

Now they have agents.

People need to understand that code is a liability. LLMs hasn't changed that at all. You LLM will get every bit as confused when you have a bug somewhere in the backend and you then work around it with another line of code in the front end. line of code

They can always generate a new backend prototype from scratch.

This sounds like some kind of learned risk aversion, like they don’t want to assume the responsibility of altering whats already there.

Not if you can split that group further into people that you can convince to change and people you can't convince.

Not a chance, all of our actions are disconnected from our mental conditions and have been pre-decided for us.

Or, for many things, a VM with hardware passthrough could work.

Very good point! Different busses are capable of different things. USB is great for that. Windows drivers, especially. Unfortunately laptop hardware is pretty hardwired in, so there's no escaping that there.

I would expect WiFi to be either usb or pci attached, so VM passthrough would work.

It also doesn't matter if AI is involved - you save yourself trouble either way.

I was thinking of the laptop that isn't waking up from sleep that I'm trying to get working when I wrote that. Although, hmm...