The only field I see LLMs enhancing productivity of competent developers is front end stuff where you really have to write a lot of bloat.

In every other scenario software developers who know what they’re doing the simple or repetitive things are mostly solved by writing a fucking function, class or library. In today’s world developers are mostly busy designing and implementing rather complex systems or managing legacy code, where LLMs are completely useless.

We’re developing measurement systems and data analysis tools for the automotive industry and we tried several LLMs extensively in our daily business. Not a single developer was happy with the results.

That might be the case. But more often than not it’s WAY too easy to see that a decision is bad to argue that we can’t implement any measures against that.

In this case we “just” need laws that prohibit that any infrastructure can be dependent on few foreign entities and had to be completely independent if reasonably possible. Diversification or elimination of dependencies as a law.

You can’t rely on foreign proprietary software like Teams for public facilities and infrastructure if there are reasonable alternatives.

You can’t rely only on Russian oil if other countries are available for trade.

We should start making laws and frameworks that prevent us from making bad decisions in the future. Using Microsoft and their products was always a bad decision and fixing that now is way more expensive than whatever the arguments were against Linux and FOSS software in the last two decades. It was just easy and convenient at the time.

Being dependent on Russia for oil didn’t turn out great either.

But I just see people talking about how to change things for the better, never how to prevent silly things in the future. I’d rather be in a situation were we don’t have to fix things.

But it’s 2⁵² addresses for each star in the observable universe. Or in other words, if every star in the observable universe has a planet in the habitable zone, each of them got 2²⁰ more IPs than there are IPv4 addresses.

Why would I need AI for that? We should really stop trying to slap AI on everything. Also no, I’m not that big of a fan of wasting energy on web crawlers.

“americans” is a bad name but it’s more specific than “united statesians”. But I would fully support dissolving that country and founding a new one (or multiple) with a better name.

No, because forking a distro and updating some hundred thousands of PCs is not done in a week.

Edit: and why would we go with Ubuntu…