I just made a LLM recreate a decent approximation of the file system browser from the movie Hackers (similar to the SGI one from Jurassic park) in about 10 minutes. At work I've had it do useful features and bug fixes daily for a solid week.
Something happened around newyears 2026. The clients, the skills, the mcps, the tools and models reached some new level of usefulness. Or maybe I've been lucky for a week.
If it can do things like what I saw last week reliably, then every tool, widget, utility and library currently making money for a single dev or small team of devs is about to get eaten. Maybe even applications like jira, slack, or even salesforce or SAP can be made in-house by even small companies. "Make me a basic CRM".
Just a few months ago I found it mostly frustrating to use LLM's and I thought the whole thing was little more than a slight improvement over googling info for myself. But the past week has been mind-blowing.
Is it the beginning of the star trek ship computer? If so, it is as big as the smartphone, the internet, or even the invention of the microchip. And then the investments make sense in a way.
The problem might end up being that the value created by LLMs will have no customers when everyone is unemployed.
Even if that were accepted as fact (it isn't), tech complicity in fascism and genocide shouldn't ever be among such issues.
> There is value in having sanctuaries.
There is, and there are many. But this isn't your sanctuary.
Never was, and never should be.
> If people from Kyiv, Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Congo, Venezuela or Rwanda can come here and contribute to topics of tech and curiosity without making it about their situation, then so can anyone else.
Imagine seeing 9 of your 10 children get blown up with the aid of Microsoft and Google and Amazon tech, then reading the above sentence on HN.
Really. Imagine it.
Imagine it. Imagine how you would feel. Imagine the rage. Feel it.
As I understand it, this place is about technology and curiosity, not fascism and genocide,
There are plenty of other places talking about fascism and genocide, this is not one of those places.
>There is, and there are many. But this isn't your sanctuary.
Since the story has been flagged I still feel it's my sanctuary. And I think it's right to flag it.
>Imagine seeing 9 of your 10 children get blown up with the aid of Microsoft and Google.
I would feel no rage, as I don't believe anyone, ever in the history of Google or Microsoft, intended to blow up any children, anywhere. Not once.
I want to discuss dotnet, dart, gmail, visual studio, android, and whatever else from those companies, without having to deal with what horrible people do with their technology.
I want to emphasize that the topics you mention are important too, just not here.