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And this is something I’m starting to hear in discussions about AI; the ability of an AI to perform a task is only impressive to people who are not experts in that task.
We’re circling back to the way I started thinking about LLMs back when ChatGPT launched. Brilliant at first drafts and quick prototypes, rubbish for final products.
The only people who think AI can replace developers either aren’t developers or need to level up their engineering skills. AI might seem to be able to talk like a developer but I find it to be very obviously AI generated and it’s not going to replace a human.
On any sufficiently complex problem the detail I get back from an LLM agent is more specific than I’d hear from most senior developers, sure, but the logic and decision making needs more guidance than I’d give a Junior.
Look what they did to their installer icons 😭
(Screenshot of my macOS installers folder - local Sequoia finder below, remote Tahoe finder above)
@daringfireball speaking of chess based puzzle games, if you played sokoban back in the 90s you might enjoy SokoChess
@atpfm polestar 2 is one of the EV models with a paid software unlock for full motor performance. It also adjusts the pedal response curves, adds launch control, and they’ll send replacement stickers to put on the car.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Polestar/comments/uj74gh/polestar_2_software_performance_upgrade_faq/
(Or the official, less useful, FAQ: https://www.polestar.com/au/support/faq/performance-software-upgrade/ )
I have long been a huge fan of iina as the default video player on my mac, but lately Firecore's infuse has been a much better experience.
I was watching a zoom recording download today and realised that seeking with the arrow keys in iina was _slow_. Video pauses for a second or two after seek. I normally only use infuse for plex and jellyfin, but I opened the same video with infuse and seeking is instant.
I don't want to judge too quickly, it's just one example, but good to know for sure.
@daringfireball remember that time zoom was caught running an insecure local webserver to avoid one extra click when opening a zoom link?
None of these big companies can be trusted. It’s no wonder Apple are trending towards sandboxing as we saw in the mac app store only done more incrementally so it doesn’t feel as restrictive.
@daringfireball the beta trick to block Tahoe works on iOS as well! Signing up for 18 public beta stops it asking to upgrade to 26 - hooray!
(I know I’m missing out on security updates, but I’ve tried 26 on other devices and no thank you. Maybe I’ll be able to stomach 27, will see in a couple of months)
@atpfm On the topic of synology drive replacements, I recently set this up as a self-hosted dropbox replacement, and it has an app to act like iCloud Drive too. I've been fairly happy, maybe it will work for Casey:
