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LinuxAmbulance commented on Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode   developer.apple.com/docum... · Posted by u/zora_goron
fx0x309 · 4 days ago
In other words, the vibe coders of this world are just redundant noobs who don't really belong on the marketplace. They've written the same bullshit CRUD app every month for the past couple of years and now they've turned to AI to speed things up
LinuxAmbulance · 4 days ago
I think the majority of coders out there write the same CRUD app over and over again in different flavors. That's what the majority of businesses seem to pay for.

If a business needs the equivalent of a Toyota Corolla, why be upset about the factory workers making the millionth Toyota Corolla?

LinuxAmbulance commented on Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode   developer.apple.com/docum... · Posted by u/zora_goron
kennywinker · 4 days ago
Off by about 33,999,998 users, but still a decent dunk.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/06/06/apple-now-has-ove...

LinuxAmbulance · 4 days ago
34 million developers? That number doesn't even pass a basic sniff test. Are there 34 million people that have Xcode installed? That I can believe.
LinuxAmbulance commented on "Python for Those Who Cannot Even", a Book by Claude Code   github.com/cloudstreet-de... · Posted by u/DavidCanHelp
LinuxAmbulance · 11 days ago
This is hilarious, I love it.

And the advice looks pretty decent at first glance too.

LinuxAmbulance commented on A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes   statsignificant.com/p/is-... · Posted by u/m463
lordhumphrey · 11 days ago
The idea that something like a movie's "good"-ness (or whatever) could be measured accurately, reliably or even usefully, by experts or laypeople, should be absurd on its face to any right-thinking person.

What a movie does or does not do for you will depend on a host of things which couldn't possibly be blamed on the movie itself - there's no objective experience of a movie.

The lighting, what you had for dinner, the comfort of your chair, if the baby starts crying, who you're with in the room, how they're feeling, whether you actually really have time for a movie or should be doing something else, if you're 16 and just had your first break up 3 days before, whether you saw the original movie 30 years ago or totally missed the boat, if you've smoked a few spliffs with your friends in the car in the parking lot of the cinema beforehand, etc etc.

People who think differently are, I think, simply going along with a very peculiar recent trend.

It's a general effect the Internet has had on our aesthetics. We no longer think our experience matters or even really exists, instead we think our take on the thing in its social context amongst all the other people's takes is all that matters and exists.

Liking something means liking it exactly how the average person liked it, and sharing a "take" means describing how we deviated, ever so slightly, from the agreed-upon-reading of the agreed-upon-thing. In reality, if you watch a movie ten times, you've had ten different experiences. If one hundred people watch a movie, there have been one hundred different experiences.

It's a great shame that we've forgotten this fact, and lost ourselves in a culture of "reacting".

LinuxAmbulance · 11 days ago
There's truth to that, but the vast majority of people can figure out that a movie is bad, no matter what they had for dinner or what's going on in their lives.

We're not looking for the Platonic form of the movie review, but just a simple "Is this movie trash? Is it amazing?" aggregated reaction from viewers.

LinuxAmbulance commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'   theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS
devmor · 11 days ago
It's refreshing to finally see CEOs and other business leaders coming around to what experienced, skeptical engineers have been saying for this entire hype cycle.

I assumed it would happen at some point, but I am relieved that the change in sentiment has started before the bubble pops - maybe this will lesson the economic impact.

LinuxAmbulance · 11 days ago
Yeah, the whole AI thing has very unpleasant similarities to the dot com bubble that burst to the massive detriment of the careers of the people that were working back then.
LinuxAmbulance commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'   theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS
ninetyninenine · 11 days ago
Even the highest ranking engineers should be experts. I don’t understand why there’s this focus on juniors as the people who know AI best.

Using AI isn’t rocket science. Like you’re talking about using AI as if typing a prompt in English is some kind of hard to learn skill. Do you know English? Check. Can you give instructions? Check. Can you clarify instructions? Check.

LinuxAmbulance · 11 days ago
> I don’t understand why there’s this focus on juniors as the people who know AI best.

Because junior engineers have no problem with wholeheartedly embracing AI - they don't have enough experience to know what doesn't work yet.

In my personal experience, engineers who have experience are much more hesitant to embrace AI and learn everything about it, because they've seen that there are no magic bullets out there. Or they're just set in their ways.

To management that's AI obsessed, they want those juniors over anyone that would say "Maybe AI isn't everything it's cracked up to be." And it really, really helps that junior engineers are the cheapest to hire.

LinuxAmbulance commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'   theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS
Martin_Silenus · 11 days ago
I can't wait for that damn bubble to explode, really...

This is becoming unbreathable for hackers.

LinuxAmbulance · 11 days ago
It's already exploding.

The hype train is going to keep on moving for a while yet though.

LinuxAmbulance commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'   theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS
JustExAWS · 11 days ago
I very much believe that anything AWS says on the corporate level is bullshit.

From the perspective of a former employee. I knew that going in though. I was 46 at the time, AWS was my 8th job and knowing AWS’s reputation from 2nd and 3rd hand information, I didn’t even entertain an opportunity that would have forced me to relocate.

I interviewed for a “field by design” role that was “permanently remote” [sic].

But even those positions had an RTO mandate after I already left.

LinuxAmbulance · 11 days ago
There's what AWS leadership says and then there's what actually sticks.

There's an endless series of one pagers with this idea or that idea, but from what I witnessed first hand, the ones that stuck were the ones that made money.

Jassy was a decent guy when I was there, but that was a decade ago. A CEO is a PR machine more than anything else, and the AI hype train has been so strong that if you do anything other than saying AI is the truth, the light and the way, you lose market share to competitors.

AI, much like automation in general, does allow fewer people to do more, but in my experience, customer desires expand to fill a vacuum and if fewer people can do more, they'll want more to the point that they'll keep on hiring more and more people.

LinuxAmbulance commented on So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork?   lostpixels.io/writings/th... · Posted by u/cosiiine
LinuxAmbulance · 19 days ago
I always thought of plotters as legacy tech, but considering the variety of marking tools you can attach to the head, I'm wondering if I should get one.

Does anyone know of an inexpensive plotter you can buy or build?

LinuxAmbulance commented on How to teach your kids to play poker: Start with one card   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/ioblomov
Western0 · 20 days ago
Poker is banned in my country. You can't even play with your friends.
LinuxAmbulance · 20 days ago
Which country is that?

u/LinuxAmbulance

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