> Craft isn't about writing beautiful code. It's about having developed judgment for which corners you can't cut - something that comes from having been burned by the consequences.

That's why I'm of the opinion that for senior developers/architects, these coding agents are awesome tools.

For a junior developer? Unless they are of the curious type and develop the systems-level understanding on their own... I'd say there's a big chance the machine is going to replace their job.

This is great. I hate LLMs fiddling around with logging calls to get some debugging capability.

Now they can be promoted from junior coders into mid-level coders :)

That's why I keep using Gentoo and X11 to handle my three GPU setup. An Intel iGPU, an AMD dGPU on the same package as the Intel CPU and a RTX 4060 Ti eGPU connected through Thunderbolt.

Usually PipeWire handles these situations better than PulseAudio, which is still the default audio daemon in many/most distributions.

To properly support Pro Audio you have to completely switch the audio stack to JACK - which I also used in MacOS a few years ago because Apple's audio stack wasn't up to the task as well.

It's more that Mac and Windows do better at auto-switching to mono+mic mode vs stereo audio mode than Linux in practice. If I don't manually switch in the audio settings it's problematic... I usually just use my webcam mic and keep my headset on stereo despite the reduced quality for others hearing me.

I bet most hammers (non-regulated), spray cans (lightly regulated) and guns (heavily regulated) that are sold are used for their intended purposes. You also don't see these tools manufacturers promoting or excusing their unintended usage as well.

There's also a difference between a tool manufacturer (hardware or software) and a service provider: once the tool is on the user's hands, it's outside of the manufacturer's control.

In this case, a malicious user isn't downloading Grok's model and running it on their GPU. They're using a service provided by X, and I'm of the opinion that a service provider starts to be responsible once the malicious usage of their product gets relevant.

If the personal accountability happened at the speed and automation level that X allows Grok to produce revenge porn and CSAM, then I'd agree with you.

I've been saying for years that we need the Internet equivalent of speeding tickets.

I’d be very happy if we returned to the Brushed Metal era, when they actually followed their own UI guidelines.

I’m learning Croatian as a native Portuguese speaker, and I find out while the grammar itself is easier to think coming from Portuguese, I prefer to deal with sentence construction as if thinking about it from English.

Oh, this is great! I do have this exact camera and another one that’s on the list!

I’m more than happy to ditch the scrappy RTSP setup that I have to support these cheap cameras!

Not sure the Chinese taxpayer is footing the bill though - of course, it might not be net zero, there might be secondary effects, etc.

A few days ago I read an article saying the Chinese utilities have a pricing structure that favors high-tech industries (say, an AI data center), making the difference by charging more the energy-intensive but less sophisticated industries (an aluminium smelter, for example).

Admittedly, there are some advantages when you do central and long-term economic planning.