Plot Twist: With more AI.

Thinkpad L390 Yoga. They crammed a 4.6 GHz CPU into a cooling system that was not designed for it, so the machine ran hot and throttled all of the time. The keyboard keys rubbed off after a few months of use. The Thinkpad logo was just a sticker that one day decided to stick to my hand because Lenovo used really cheap glue. It had a MicroEthernet port with a passive adapter that did nothing but break it out to a regular ethernet jack. The adapter cost 30€ and its cable turned into oil after a year.

I was able to undervolt the CPU and make it barely passable, then Microsoft released a Windows update that prevented undervolting. Gave it to a friend afterwards and got myself a GPD Win Max 2.

I was able to read it by simply providing a fake email. The usual archive sites also work. It’s not rocket science.

You’re right, but sometimes it’s funny how deliberately stupid people present themselves just to “win” an argument on the internet.

If you don’t know how paywalls work, then yes. Sure.

We’re seeing applications that can generate fully-built websites in seconds

That’s definitely true. But a lot of them are purple and almost all of them have a myriad of small glitches and rendering errors between different browsers and screen resolutions.

What’s really funny is that they asked a bunch of random CEOs and one of them is Harry Roper, a dude that seems to almost exclusively build his stuff with Lovable and claims to make $100k/month (source: himself). Of course this guy heavily drank the AI koolaid and produces horrible takes like these:

It allows you to create custom pages for people in a matter of seconds, helping to deliver a more unique experience for each customer

There’s nothing unique about websites designed by LLMs. For example: Two containers inside of a row with an image and some text have been built a million times, so of course the LLM can just reproduce this design. If you ask an LLM to create a button it will always look like Bootstrap. Tell it to build an accordion and it’ll also look like Bootstrap. Depending on how many tokens you’ve spent (or are allowed to spend) it might not even include the aria tags for accessibility, making it worse than Bootstrap.

So they cite some random CEOs - i.e. the people who don’t actually do the work - to prove that designers absolutely must adopt AI into their workflow to not get left behind - which is classical fearmongering.

In their minds, AI is “helping to deliver a more unique experience” or utilizes “frameworks and methodologies that we can run our teams and ourselves through”. But the matter of the fact is that the most unique designs are not built by talking to a chatbot and shoddily gluing components in a framework together. They are built by humans, by hand.

P.S.:

“As costs come down, this will become a by-product of marketing"

Are they, Harry? Are the costs really coming down? You’ll be up for a rude awakening when Lovable inevitably turns to token-based billing, just like everybody else. I hope you haven’t spent all of that cash already.

Marvel star Evangeline Lilly attended anti-vaccine-mandate rally in Washington to support ‘bodily sovereignty’

The demonstration, which took place on the National Mall, appeared to be the same event where political scion and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. referenced Anne Frank in a speech to imply that Jews had more freedoms during the Holocaust than unvaccinated Americans do today.

There isn’t much info yet, besides the trailer. A24 is pretty vague in their video description (and in the newsletter).

I’ve added the synopsis from Wikipedia:

In 1976, a 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain wants to be a writer but takes a summer job at a Cape Cod restaurant, learning under the tutelage of a Brazilian-born restaurateur.

my project is not inherently dangerous.

It is not “your” project - it was generated by a glorified chatbot. Since you lack the experience to judge its output, I cannot trust you to verify the security of the project.

You can now watch it here for 20USD: https://kinema.com/films/ghost-in-the-machine-pvxg4p

There are also some upcoming free streaming events listed there, graciously paid by some people upfront.

I posted this, because Pivot to AI talked about this documentary today and it looks very interesting - and highly opposed to AI.

Just what we need right now, I’m tired of all the hype.

What did you just say?

Yes, it’s an older model that still uses those old lamps. I will probably switch over to a laser projector when it gives up the ghost, but so far, it works well.

Thankfully, I never had a lamp explode on me. That sounds absolutely terrifying.

Same here, but I run a projector and watch movies and play games on one wall of my room. The bulb sucks 330 watts to project that large of an image.

I love being an irresponsible adult so much sometimes. :D

Thanks for confirming! That’s the box I saw as well, after clicking on it it said I will get an email in five business days - and it really took the whole five days.

I don’t see it anymore either. Might be they’re testing out this feature and not all users get to see it.

I also think they’re more cautious about the EU. There are less consumer protection laws in the US, so they get fucked first.

If you want to try it out yourself: This is the book where it happened. Despite that email I can see all of the reviews again, so maybe it’s a feature they’re testing out.

It’s really shady to have a rating system and hide ratings within that system. Why have it at all then?

Did you just pull a random infographic out of your ass without even mentioning the source? I reverse-searched it and it comes from Anthropic, of all places - the guys that run Claude Code.

Forbes took a look at that study, I love this money quote from it:

These flaws turn Anthropic’s dataset into an overstated labor-market conclusion. The study’s findings do not have the level of reliability required to sustain the breadth of the headline framing, because each conclusion rests on an exposure measure whose scope (1), construction (2, 3, 4, 5, 7), and interpretation (6, 8, 9, 10) remain contested.

So yeah, an AI company telling us that AI will theoretically replace our jobs, based on their own study with flawed data - damn, that’s trustworthy! /s

I’m not going to argue anymore. It’s pointless.

At least on this point we agree.

I’ve built things that used to take 20 weeks in 1 week with Claude.

That’s ridiculous. You’ve either been a bad coder even before the AI hype or you’re simply lying. I have used these tools and they’re not that good or make you that fast - except when you’re just merging all of the proposed code blind and hope for the best. I fear for the future colleagues who will have to work with the raging dumpster fire you have created for them.

The company with the strongest coding LLM is Anthropic and it doesn’t sound like they’re having financial difficulty

Oh yes, they have the same problems OpenAI has. Just look into the vibecoding subreddits, you can see many people complaining about excessive rate limits and their models getting dumber. A healthy company wouldn’t try to put a cap on the token useage and introduce peak-hour throttling, that’s a big warning sign that they’re overspending as well.

its hard to deny the reality at this point

I only see one person here denying reality. You will be effed in a major way when your employer one day decides that the subscriptions are too expensive or tell you to limit your token useage.