“Cloud giants” sounds a lot cooler than it actually is.

No way, millennial grey carpets (brand new, mind you) all over the house and clashing vinyl in three bathrooms. The choice was really, replace all the brand new carpets AND the 30 year old vinyl, or just replace the vinyl.

Really? I had to add flooring like that to match the horrible millennium gray carpets that were installed by the family before me. It is horrible with dirt. Dirt is more brownish than gray and it stands out like crazy.

Antebellum

What about domestic propaganda?

It’s probably a legacy code quality issue too. If your code is a mess, the only fix it can find is a kludgy one. The first thing I had it do, once it was good enough to do real work, was a legacy refactor to get architecture up to best practice standards. Heck, even OpenAI’s Harness Engineering specs say that this is essential to do first. I suspect that many of the people saying it comes up with shitty solutions are the same ones that always complain about over-engineering.

You’ll also get subpar results if you just have it start coding without fully architecting its solution first. Just like a real developer.

Maybe it’s just because Anthropic is so many more miles ahead than OpenAI, but I have not had the “it doesn’t work” experience that people are talking about here. I’ve set up agentic pipelines with code architecture guidelines, the orchestrator calls the implementer, tester, reviewer when needed. If the developed code isn’t up to standard or the work item isn’t fully captured, it’ll reject it and send it back to implementation. It invokes the architect if it runs into something unanticipated. The pipeline can run a feature with high accuracy and very little input.

I’ve even used it to run batteries of frozen experiments on self synthesized data using its own simulation harnesses to discover novel techniques that work in the real world. If it isn’t helpful, I feel like you are doing it wrong.

sad face

lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower.

I don’t think “recently” even applies anymore.

our descendants

That’s optimistic of you.

It’s easy to see the effects of users moving to the fediverse. Reddit has been sad since it nerfed /r/All. In fact, it seems like a thinly veiled attempt to control what its users see under the guise of providing a more tailored user experience. For me, the overall effect is that it’s homogeneous, boring and I don’t want to be there anymore.

Only if you have coin.

What did we collectively buy?

By their own logic, they don’t have a right to tariff refunds either.

Smart TV’s are such a dumb idea. Get an expendable side box that you have control over or can be disposed of when it enshitifies.