What a ridiculous position to take.

The repo it links to presents their reasons for tracking and potentially avoiding LLM-supported projects; are all of those ridiculous? Is the technology's track record so amazing as to make the conclusion ridiculous? Or did you mean tar as a replacement to rsync, specifically?

[0] https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware

Yes and Yes and Yes. I’m not an AI maximalist, but this is an extreme position that I believe is, in fact, ridiculous.

Isn't a huge part of the point of developing in the open so that people can assess the entire technology, including how its developed, and choose if they want to use it?

Folks using LLMs will have to accept that that will turn people away from using their software ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Remaining dependent on proprietary frontier models that you can only access via an API makes no sense whatsoever. My hope is that the future is open weight models running on local hardware.

Eventually, yes. ParoQuant is hopefully the future here, 4-bit weights with no real degradation from FP16:

https://github.com/z-lab/paroquant

What’s up with all the complaining that this wonderful app isn’t available on non Apple platforms? Android isn’t worth it for monetization and one of the reasons Flighty is so good is that the developer picked a platform and created a native app. Idgi.

Not that it really matters, but does this article read as LLM authored to anyone else?

I saw signs of both human and LLM authorship, so it's probably at least not slop. It did take me out of it a bit though, yes.

Might I suggest choosing an EV that has more range?

This doesn’t excuse the issues, but the mainstream alternative, Windows 11, is infinitely worse imho.

I have a relatively recent expensive gaming laptop from Asus for the occasional LAN party with friends. I hate it and it’s a huge piece of shit. Windows 11 is necessary for anti-cheat shenanigans. Apple could change the Mac OS wallpaper to a permanent photo of a turd and it would still be better than Windows 11. Also the trackpad and keyboard suck.

FYI, the very recently released Marathon with the BattleEye rootkit works fine on a maximally trimmed down Windows 10 LTSC, which is what I'm running on my PC (personal console).

Windows 10 LTSC is not available outside of volume licencing.

That you pirate an OS they refuse to sell to you to get a better experience is your choice, but it's unrealistic to suggest that it's a solution for the average person.

I’ve come around to Tahoe. Liquid Glass isn’t my favorite, but the tinted appearance setting largely fixes most of my gripes. I suspect this will become the default. They just need to keep tweaking and it will be fine. Most users that don’t lurk on tech forums really enjoy the look.

Good. If you aren’t there to catch me it didn’t happen. The last thing we need is even more of a surveillance state. They should be illegal federally.

As an experienced dev who uses these tools daily at my job and at home, I’m not worried. It seems that good taste, experience, and system design skills will continue to be in demand for the foreseeable future. LLM’s accelerate output regardless of if the input is good or not, so skill still matters imho.