As a dev who’s been unemployed for 18 months your last sentence was pretty much my first thought when reading the article.

Moo-ose …

Moo-ose …

Moo-ose Moo-ose MOO-OSE MOO-OSE MOO-OSE MOO-OSE MOO-OO-OSSSE

I’ve been a software developer for over 15 years, I’ve never used one. It’s not necessary at all.

The fact that you think it’s bad at one thing in your list but adequate at the others is part of the problem. It’s bad at all of those things, because it’s a chatbot. Admittedly a very advanced chatbot, but still just a chatbot.

The most important take away here is what of your list was impossible before LLMs? Because the reality is that absolutely everything that you mentioned was possible before LLMs. All that LLMs have added is the chat interface part.

Granted, the technology that allowed LLM’s is likely to be very useful and already has been in places like protein folding, but that happened before LLMs.

You didn’t actually say what you think LLM’s are enhancing. Just that you feel that they are. Honestly I think that’s the biggest part, they’re big shiny things that look like they’re doing a lot. But they actually aren’t. LLMs are chatbots and they will never be anything more than just chatbots.

The number of times that I have been downvoted into oblivion for pointing out that the Internet is not the World Wide Web is too damn high.

The case in the picture looks cool, but it doesn’t have an optical drive. I have a a Fractal case too though, but it was one of the only ones I could find that had an optical drive slot.

There is no model that can be trained in real time currently, and one instance isn’t going to offer anything to the model as far as new training data goes.

Well now at least you can say you know of me, I have 4 years left before 40.

Those of us in the second half of millennial aren’t that different than the first half, the biggest difference is things like YouTube and Facebook were high school things for us instead of college things.

Because the software doesn’t understand the concept of anything. It’s been fed a bunch images of keyboards and programmed to output an average of the images. It has no concept of a pattern or a keyboard in which to conform to something recognizable.

I am from a very humid place in parts of the year and I still disagree.

I don’t know anything about tarot cards so I’m not sure I get the joke, but it looks cool.

I also feel that 68° F is still jacket territory.

We are talking about a user base that had a panic attack when the Start button stopped saying “Start”. To say nothing of the button moving to the middle of the task bar. The main tools have already agnosticized though. People are already using Google Docs or other collab versions instead of Office. Given that KDE can already look and behave almost exactly like Modern (the current Windows interface unless they changed the name again) I don’t think companies are as locked in as you think. The last place I worked for had upped their Red Hat licensing from server only to site licenses specifically so they could start switching some machines to RHEL.

Honestly given that a large part of their customer base is corporate and uneasy with the changes being made to Windows 11 it wouldn’t surprise me if they did something exactly like that but also kept Windows around to go back to having separate corporate and personal versions.

Also, ARM laptops were Steve Jobs’ last big idea. He put in place Apple’s last 10 year plan before he died. The first M series laptop came out nine years after his death.

The reason being that Apple is actually considered to be one of the founding members of ARM so they have unique access to the core. Moving to ARM was always the plan after moving to Intel. Apple was the first company to produce a portable ARM device, the Newton back in the early 90s before Jobs’ return.

So even that innovation isn’t exactly new.

For the record, the iTunes Store is actually like 6 months older than Steam.

It’s already been pointed out in multiple threads that the terms of service specify that even if it uses the on board model it still sends your queries to Google.

Fair enough. Best of luck to you!