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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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    Vino is a driver that lets the Linux kernel talk to DisplayLink docks directly. It is meant to replace DisplayLink’s closed-source software and the open source EVDI kernel module that sits beside it.

    Mike wrote it with help from Claude Code, and the first version reached the kernel mailing list in June, unfinished.

    This, among many other projects is why I think it’s just smoke and mirrors, and overhype.

    The AI does its AI thing in all contexts : smears the average of various things together and if it sticks, it sticks. It “assists”. Fucking great.

    The AI is not a fucking genie, which is what this way of thinking or speaking implies it is. If you want to, you can contort this crap into giving workable results.

    If it was “good in translating crap from one language to another” as in software langauges, it could take source code in Actionscript and turn it into Javascript. They are both derivatives of ECMAscript. The project above wouldn’t be “unfinished” the guy would have finished in over a week (giving time for testing, etc)

    But it’s not. You need to coax it into manageable chunks, test and assess, etc etc.

    By doing this, you are giving up fine grain understanding and control over the system architecture. Great, you achieved The ThingTM and it’s an unmaintainable mess.

    The magic happens in between analysis and performance. The actual strength in AIs ARE the hallucinations/emergent behaviour, because that’s the part it specifically brings to the table.

    Learning Metaprogramming is hard and takes time. Paying god knows how much money to Anthropic is cheap for now.








  • Pick any. Anything that makes the bubble pop.

    MFs are getting 1.2x faster tickets that need to be re-done anyway because the shithead managers are passing the financial squeeze onto the devs.

    AI is basically to shell scripts what WYSIWYG is to HTML.

    I worked with salesforce, and the entire motivation for their shitty UI based flow tools are to get rid of the need for a developer, and let the business take charge of maintaining systems.

    Business can’t take charge of maintaining systems, because they don’t know how to think analytically.

    Who works as salesforce administrators? Programmers. Programmers that would rather be writing code instead of fucking around with flow diagrams and have to pull down shitty xml files and commit it to git.

    AI is the same fucking thing for creation, but it comes with a subscription that is volatile,. as soon as anthropic et al need to actually deliver the cash.

    When you need to break something, sure, go to the AI and beg it fifty times in a row to steal bitcoins for you. No problem.

    The reason Linus torvalds can fuck around with AI and get ridiculous output is because he already knows his shit. Average company that’s trying to cram features out the door are basically creating a mountain of tech debt and busting through a pile of subscription cash. If they aren’t, they could have done the shit they are doing without the AI anyway, since they’re already following best practices.

    It was actually really fucking easy to not be in this shitty situation :

    1. Have an evergreen product
    2. Create a userbase < most companies are here
    3. Keep on top of tech and infrastructure debt < Most companies fail here
    4. Allow programmers to innovate to come up with new products or features. < Most businesses cannot even dream of this step.



  • I put my personal site through the "fire"fox page profiler. Get rektum.

    Technical breakdown

    Frontpage :

    
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    1 html   2.08 kB   2.40 kB      1.81 s 0.76 s
    Cached responses: 0
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    Transferred Size: 6.15 kB
    Time: 2.58 seconds
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    Page with images

    
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    4 images 79.16 kB 71.65 kB     2.01 s 2.01 s
    1 css    3.82 kB  1.24 kB      0.28 s 0.28 s
    1 html   1.38 kB  1.70 kB      0.75 s 0.75 s
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    Transferred Size: 74.59 kB
    Time: 3.04 seconds
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    JS application demo

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    6 js     43.65 kB 10.48 kB     1.58 s  1.59 s
    1 css    3.83 kB  1.06 kB      0.30 s  0.30 s
    2 images 0.51 kB  1.03 kB      0.50 s  0.50 s
    1 html   0.39 kB  0.71 kB      0.73 s  0.73 s
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    Lol said the Skullgrid. LMAO.