It’s possible he means “copyrighting” and is also an idiot.

Return-with-a-v for Yahoo! Directories.

Basically the locals with flashy suits in fuckoff-nowhere central Africa, flexing for strangers who might believe they own two of anything.

Thanks to the internet, they don’t even need gas in their clapped-out third-hand Bentley. It can sit in their garage that for some reason is also their living room.

Cutting-edge JS is for boring stuff anyway. We’ve gone from formalizing the best bits of jQuery to ‘click thing to make box appear.’ So you’re only avoiding tutorial-ass boilerplate, and quite frankly, boo hoo.

Meanwhile CSS is still in the “Jesus Christ why wasn’t it like this to begin with” phase of feature adoption.

“Okay, that was always an option.”

Gradual adoption is fine. It’s so much better than seeing StackOverflow answers from like 2013, and knowing not a goddamn one of them works anymore. It’s massively better than having to write separate code for IE and Netscape.

There’s a photo of people surrounding the car holding signs.

‘Which things motivated this?’

‘You can’t say it was one thing.’

Suspects reportedly wore clothing and had ethnicities. Several held cardboard rectangles decorated with lettering.

Pointedly avoiding saying any damn thing about why.

“How do I?” is a question. “How to” is an explanation.

Compare XKCD.

Oopsie.

Prelude.

The proliferation of handles has made doors minor obstacles for medium and large breeds.

And is probably why that panicky retriever we dog-sat broke a toiler paper hook.

Downvoters have absolutely fucking nothing to say, but sure are mad about something they can’t defend.

It’s almost like buying things means you own them.

Not sure whether you’re being sarcastic here

Jesus.

“Name a publicly traded company that generated significant profit as a result of buying llm services from a provider.”

This at least is just a problem of relevance. Utility is not measured in money - especially for open-source non-profits like Zig - and people selling shovels and promises are obviously not the best place to look for success stories in mineral rights.

But I’ve seen several Youtube channels hand-wave complicated software for devices they’ve just built from scratch.

And several copyleft projects are caught in philosophical arguments against permissive rewrites with completely different code, structure, and/or programming language.

And a few ultra-niche projects simply typed “rewrite this in Rust” for an order-of-magnitude speed boost.

The kneejerk insistence that LLMs are never useful is wishful thinking. It’s less defensible than equally glib promises of institutional value, because even some of the people loudly distancing themselves do so because it worked. ‘I didn’t recognize my own codebase!’ Yeah, because you didn’t write it. The chatbot did. It’s not Inception-ing the experience of making it yourself; it’s inventing exactly the Github dead-end you’d like to find.

The linked Asimov story is only dimly related. You’d expect a culture relying on other minds, kept simple, somewhere between Brave New World and HG Wells’s Eloi. But it’s about the method of learning, not capacity or demonstrated ability. Like Bowie: “the fingerprints will prove that you couldn’t pass the test.” Your typical mid-century sci-fi civilization where The Committee has dictated how everything works, and obvious criticisms could be resolved by doing things very slightly differently.

The twist is even less relevant, because it treats originality as some vanishingly rare thing that must be tricked out of people. Hard left turn into YA protagonist syndrome. Even though the main character just got done describing the simplicity of learning incremental improvements.

Meanwhile the reality of LLM programming is, here’s an idiot robot that will do its best for literally anything you ask… and you are expected to spot where it has fucked up. The only way it’s better than letting project leaders run it themselves is if you are putting in the effort to babysit and second-guess the chatbot.

Thinkin’ about LLMs? That’s a paddlin’.