I don’t think it has anything to do with vibe coding, the problem with MCP is just it needed to be done fast (because otherwise another protocol would appear and get all the hype) and needed to be very easy to use for hobbyists (again: to get hype, Enterprise software is boring)

Lack of a single standard way of installing and removing software.

Some software on my computer comes from APT, some are installed using deb file, some from Flatpak, some from Snap, some are AppImages, some are installed by a random shell script, some are Progressive Web Apps and finally some have custom installers (like Jetbrains). If I want to uninstall an app, I often don’t know where to even look.

All of that happens despite Linux Mint (the distro I’m using) have an app for installing software. It makes things a little easier, but still doesn’t cover every possible option.

Can I use it? And if not: when can I use it?

thanks

All modern cars are either bloated/proprietery/unneccessarily complex. Pretty sure walking can do it all

Alternative title: “Reddit plans to make sh**load of dollars from data we’ve all left there for free”.

What’s interesting is that people learning to code are more likely to say “I’m not using AI and I don’t plan to” then professionals.

Sounds counter intuitive to me because I expected professionals to be more conservative in that matter. They already have some habits developed, as opposed to new learners that in theory should benefit from AI because it makes doing simple things easier and can quite well explain basic concepts.

It’s like you bought a car and deliberately hit the wall to make a headline “cars make you disabled”. Or bought a hammer, hit your thumb and blame hammers for this.

Guys, it’s a TOOL. Every tool is both useful and harmful. It’s up to you how you use it.

I’m reading comments on arstechnica and seeing people mad at… what exactly?

The reason I go to web search is to answer my questions. Now it’s given to me at once, without need to go anywhere. Is it sometimes hallucinating? Of course it is, but have you really 100% trusted information on the Internet before anyways? I haven’t.

You say that ads driven websites are going to stop receiving money. But have you really liked ads driven websites? The same ones whose main incentive is to keep you on the website as long as possible or, in fact, wasting as much your time as possible to sell it to ad companies? The ones that were really worth visiting already changed their business model.

State-of-the-art LLM agents do not perform calculations, they call external tools to do that.

To be fair, not all knowledge of LLM comes from training material. The other way is to provide context to instructions.

I can imagine someone someday develops a decent way for LLMs to write down their mistakes in database and some clever way to recall most relevant memories when needed.

Everything comes down to proper function naming. If it wasn’t clear what function should return, then it was not named properly.

That hits me like something a teacher tells you in a coding class that turns out to be nonsense when you get to the real world.

In a company I work in, we have “no comments policy” for at least ~10 years now and we are not planning to change that. It’s not just theory, we work like this in practice and purpose of each part of code is perfectly understandable just from variable names, file names, namespaces, function names.

The biggest problem with comments is that they can become outdated. If you change code but forget to change comment you introduce very dangerous situation where they become not only not useful, but also misleading.

If you rely on variable names, you’ve got a single source of truth, one thing to change at a time. Information updates itself.

To that end the company is developing a “Pay Per Crawl” system, which would give content creators the option to request payment from AI companies for utilising their original content.

So Cloudflare is not as much “saving the Internet”, as just becoming a middleman between LLM training companies and content creators. Which I believe has a potential of being a true goldmine in the future.

+1, I came here just to paste a link to it

Honestly, I thought Meta talking about Fediverse integration was just marketing bullshit. Are they really doing it? 🤔

I’m ok with auto generated content, but only if it is clearly separated from human generated content, can be disabled at any time and writing main articles with AI is forbidden

Wikipedia is not made to teach people how to read, it is meant to share knowledge. For me, they could even make Wikipedia version with hieroglyphics if that would make understanding content easier

I love being in EU