Also, the way models are evolving (thinking process, llms waiting for interactions with external entities via MCP, mixture of experts, ...) are making "useful chatbot responses" way way way more expensive than they used to be when you were pretty much hitting an autocomplete. To a level where these are starting to be prohibitive to run locally at a decent tokens/s speed, and we're being tied to using their models.
Readit Newsktzar commented on Tokens are getting more expensive ethanding.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/admp
Tried it a few times, and I feel I'm paying to become a worse developer for a maybe 30% speed increase in total.
I still think that fountain pens are the pinnacle of writing stationery. One lasts generations and there's no consumables that need recycling or disposing of, if you use a rechargeable cartridge and buy ink bottles.
ktzar commented on How Anthropic teams use Claude Code anthropic.com/news/how-an... · Posted by u/yurivish
> When Kubernetes clusters went down and weren't scheduling new pods, the team used Claude Code to diagnose the issue. They fed screenshots of dashboards into Claude Code, which guided them through Google Cloud's UI menu by menu until they found a warning indicating pod IP address exhaustion. Claude Code then provided the exact commands to create a new IP pool and add it to the cluster, bypassing the need to involve networking specialists.
This seems rather inefficient, and also surprising that Claude Code was even needed for this.
They're subsidizing a world where we need ai instead of understanding or, at the very least, knowing who can help us. Eventually for us to be so dumb we are the ai slaves.
ktzar commented on I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files anuraag2601.github.io/gem... · Posted by u/anuraag2601
This reinforces my narrative of AI being a terrible thing for humanity. It's not only making us forget how to do the most basic things, but it's making people with not a clue about what they're doing think they are capable of anything...
ktzar commented on Experimenting with no-build Web Applications andregarzia.com/2025/06/e... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Not trying to sound like an asshole but articles like this always confuse me. "Experimenting" with no-build web apps makes it sound like web apps require build steps by default. The opposite is true.
The idea of building/compiling in web development is (and has always been) totally alien. HTML, CSS, JavaScript. None of these require a build step.
It also further confuses me when authors talk about simplifying their web tooling but instead of using the actual web languages mentioned above, they resort to using some weird framework which just introduces another learning curve and more cognitive load.
As a web developer of 20 years, you know what I build web apps with? HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
I've interviewed "Front end Devs" who don't know the difference between a class and an id. We're becoming dinosaurs
> I think there's a huge huge space of software to build that isn't being touched today because it's not cost-effective to have an engineer build them.
That's definitely an interesting area, but I think we'll actually see (maybe) individual employees solving some of these problems on their own without involving IT/the dev team.
We kind of see it already - a lot of these problem spaces are being solved with complex Excel workflows, crappy Access databases, etc. because the team needed their problem solved now, and resources couldn't be given to them.
Maybe AI is the answer to that so that instead of building a house of cards on Excel, these non-tech teams can have something a little more robust.
It's interesting you mentioned accounting, because that's the one department/area I see taking off and running with it the most. They are already the department that's effectively programming already with Excel workflows & DSLs in whatever ERP du jour.
So it doesn't necessarily open up more dev jobs, but maybe fulfills the old the mantra of "everyone will become a programmer." and we see more advanced computing become a commodity thanks to AI - much like everyone can click their way through an office suite with little experience or training, everyone will be able to use AI to automate large chunks of their job or departmental processes.
If we shiver at the sight of some of those accounting-created excels, which we only learn about when they fail and they can't understand them anymore, wait for them to hand over a vibe-coded 200k loc Python codebase "which is not working anymore" and nobody had ever reviewed a single line of code.
ktzar commented on Japan Post launches 'digital address' system japantimes.co.jp/business... · Posted by u/jmsflknr
funnily something similar exists in the UK since the post-WWII postcode change. Addresses can be "minimised" to 10 characters, or less. Obviously there's no way to change the real destination once something has been sent
ChatGPT and LLMs have had a significant impact on my wife's life. She's a second language speaker, and having ChatGPT available to draft and proofread professional sounding emails and text messages has drastically increased her self-confidence and ability to communicate with colleagues. I think that's amazing.
That's also the only use of LLMs we've found.
It's helped me incredibly to proof-read a novel I wrote in Spanish and translated myself into English to make it sound more native. I review ever single suggestion an LLM provides (as I would do with a native proof-reader!).
I think this type of job suits LLMs perfectly... At the end of the day it's just a statistical NLP tool.
on the contrary, it's accelerating since they unlocked a new paradigm of scaling
I don’t think they’ve improved much for common use since GPT-3.5, to be frank. They’re cheaper and more ubiquitous, yes, but when it comes to summarizing and generating basic text, they’re pretty much the same as they were back then
Maybe we're just getting more used to make it part of our workflow.