These are still valid concerns given that people become less and less tech savy with actual computers

>If you're in solar, battery, power electronics — international buyers actively seek out American suppliers because of quality and supply reliability.

LOL. Not even american companies buy these from american companies.

I quit all social media, cancelled Spotify and whatnot and I am hella thankful for the Strawberry media player as a desktop app as it allows me to play all the music i actually own. I love desktop apps.

Which means they can allow themselves to blast money left and right? Its still a big investment.

they can't allow themselves NOT to blast money left and right

Yes

No, they have a fiduciary duty to shareholders to not make obviously bad investments.

This really should be a basic concept every human needs to understand. Public communication in 99% of cases is fabricated to please the masses, but usually hides a lot of the actual intentions of the communicating party. Whether it be advertisers, politicians, CEOs, certain news channels and whatnot. You can not trust public speeches without digging for some info yourself.

Why would you brag about something that dystopian while also ensuring people know that you don't know how your product looks from the inside?

Replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804804

And I don't really mean new businesses that are entirely built around LLMs, rather existing ones that pivoted to be LLM-dependent – yet still have non-LLM-dependent competitors.

Yea that would've been extremely short sighted from your competitors. Thanks for linking the response!

same as Uber… in the beginning everyone pretty much new that the cost of rides cannot possibly be that cheap and that it is subsudized. once you corner the market etc people just got used to “real” prices to the poibt that now there are often cheaper alternatives than Uber but people still Uber…

Its also quite interesting to read about Uber exploits their drivers and discriminating algorithms. Cory Doctorow mentioned it in his latest book, sadly cant link the direct sources.

Yup, closed source software is a huge pile of shit with good marketing teams. Always was.

Yes please ban alcohol/make it hard to get.

Been tried. Not possible to ban something that can be made in a basement.

Such as gambling.

Very easy to find a basement Casino compared to a basement moonshine brewery. Don't know how you'd run a major gaming title with loot boxes from your basement.

Over my dead body.

Less is more, its not a hard thing to understand. These companies are accumulating record level tech debt.

I use these tools a lot, and one thing that has stood out to me is that they LOVE to write code. A lot of it. And they're not super great at extracting the reusable parts. They also love to over-engineer things.

I've taken great pains to get by with as little code as possible, because the more code you have, the harder it is to change (obviously). And while there are absolutely instances in which I'm not super invested in a piece of code's ability to be changed, there are definitely instances in which I am.

Yea, by my less is more logic its sometimes also difficult to do. With that approach people try to become clever and write shorter code thats unmaintainable due to mental gymnastics other people have to go through when reading it. What LLMs are doing is probably going for some kind of overengineered "best practice" solution. I personally only use them for simple Laravel CRUD apps and they are admittedly pretty good at that.