Korkki

idk, code was always written only once, but it will always be read many times. Writing code with LLM centric way and just focusing the high level gets hazardous pretty quickly, since somebody actually needs to understand the codebase deep down (or at least the relevant part) when something goes wrong. When you have 100k+ line codebase with multiple contributors with LLM it can very quickly turn into a black box, which nobody understand anything deep down anymore and everybody are more and more incentivized to use LLMs to interact with the thing to get anything real done. Then it's couple hallucinations away from turning into a fragile mess, where things break unexpected and nobody knows why.

Youtube and X is basically a private monopolies. They only care about the profit margins. Any and all extra expenditure to R&D or consumer satisfaction is just a cut to their profits today and since they don't have any real competition, so why raise quality of service above the bare minimum? Their only real selling point is that everybody uses them, so everybody will have to keep using them, if they want to be seen or access most things. they don't care if they serve slop, because you and me and the wider masses are going to eat it up anyway.

The bastard child of all marketing stunts...

The whole US economy rests on the promise that their fancy autocorrect will become a god. Of course they will grab onto anything that they think will keep them afloat

Pleasing stock traders on the side really is poison for anybody that even remotely works in anything creative.

it's really inefficient to pursue such a massive research endeavor if ASML was just normally open for business. To do all that work was only justified by it opening a chance in domestic semiconductor production which is the real price for China. Now they are probably also wanting to compete in DUV machines in the future, to recoup the development costs, even if the real price is the self-sufficiency that they bring.

ASML is a victim of US sanctions and Dutch/EU spinelessness. China would never had bothered to pursue lithography as serious as it did if US wasn't continuously trying to stop China on every technological front. The Europeans let US do it in the hope and under the promise that China would never succeed.

Doesn't change the fact that US stock market was already massively overpriced. Ai companies can't make good on the promises of astronomical profits, but neither can Apple. This is just lose less option, but now it's apple that is getting overvalued.

physical media from a preservation angle... If I want to replay my old games in 50 years

And don't forget bitrot. The modern bluerays are scarecrow and wind chime material in like 2-3 decades after manufacturing.

Yeah... for global gaming market disk sales are like under 5% of total sales, even for consoles it's like 10%. It's a nice option for you and me, a collectors item, aftermarket sales, a hedge for digital "ownership" rugpulls? For publishers and devs it's just a cost that doesn't even justify itself, because nobody is buying or putting their money where their mouth is. How low would the marketshare have to go for them to be justifying pulling the plug. Nobody really gave a shit about physical until few days ago.

Plus 90% of the games that come with disk option these days are irredeemable AAA slop anyway. Digital distribution enabled the indie scene where all the innovation is these days. if we had disks we we wouldn't have indie studios. Companies like EA, Sony, and Ubisoft would dominate totally and act as gatekeepers, because only they would have the resources pay for the upfront cost of publishing to make the damn things. Digital won, accept the caveats and be happy about the upsides.

This is poison for every American AI company's business model. They want to have the best model that they can then cash in with. Chinese just provide the world with models that are as good, better or good enough, but always for the fraction of the price.

Slap "AI" into a business name or a plan and watch the investors roll in. It doesn't matter if it's a good idea on paper or not.

Who the fuck even pretends these packages even make a difference now. They just pass the N:th package on habit every couple of months, because not passing one would mean that the sanctions and the people who lobbied and forced them down on everyone's throats were wrong about sanctions all along.