That's basically all countries

Cyberpunk created a beautiful city and world but it feels so empty with no real interactions possible with the NPCs. Not unlike the GTA games.

I don't see how this is a meaningful statement, as it implies there are games that cross this threshold. GTA V and Cyberpunk are some of the most critically aclaimed and beloved games ever made?

Baldur's Gate 3 is much better on this front.

What's "real interactions"?

Care to provide counterexamples?

OpenAI is close to Microsoft so I assume that they have preferential and cheap access to the Bing search index.

Claude is independent.

Gemini should have Google search.

Interesting, I used to work quite a lot with triples from ontologies.

Since the release of LLMs, do you still see use cases for ontologies and triples (RDF, OWL or otherwise) compared to simply feeding it to an LLM?

They specifically cut access to said gas pipelines at the beginning of the Ukrainian war.

Unlike ChatGPT which depends on selling the full data straight to the US.

What you are describing is not bad software, it's complex, performant and software with a long lifetime.

It is quite shocking how you over generalize one massive codebase of a working product that has been in use for decades to a couple of projects you did with your single human in the loop process while projecting that experience onto every other project that uses ai to write code regardless of scope and scale. I don't understand your train of thought here.

Not sure what's so confusing here.

I don't like the stigma towards AIs and the people who use them, which is what a post titled "TEMU-Fication of software" is ultimately all about. Call me a misanthrope if you want, as some people have done in the past.

Since I don't like it, I go out of my way to post counterexamples whenever I think people are deluding themselves into thinking human work is somehow magically guaranteed to be better. I cited that example specifically so you wouldn't have to take my word for it.

Working product? With this argument, you're basically admitting that it's all fine as long as it works. What does it matter if the database needs a billion special case flags not to fall apart? What does it matter if it's some AI slop? So long as it ships and people get paid, it's all fine.

I mean seriously, would you work on that Oracle thing if they weren't paying you serious money as compensation? You can literally feel the suffering through that person's words. Whoever they are I hope they're doing alright now.

And it is equally shocking to me that people think it's fine to thoughtlessly generalize and dismiss projects that use AI as slop and AI users as incompetent vibecoders.

So I don't think I'm generalizing at all. I'm trying to dismantle people's generalizations. People act like every human programmer is a deeply caring code artisan or something. Reality is far more cruel, of course.

Reality is that this is how a codebase evolves naturally when these requirements are expressed.

Asking an AI to create a database or something similar would not match the difficulty level of adding new features to Oracle.

These flags are needed because your many versions need to be supported combined with many configuration options. This is true no matter if the code is written by humans or AI.

Honestly, you have a fair and balanced point here, I agree

The best spot (imo) was Leon, just in the south of Asturias where the sky was clear.

I live near Lisbon. Checked windy yesterday for cloud forecast, topography, within the center of the totality area, and night sky quality (for the perseids after), and quickly decided on that area. Rented a small commercial van, drove around 6h30 and ended up in a tiny village named Abia de Las Torres, in the top of a small hill surrounded by sunflower fields with a whole bunch of people, with perfect weather (other than some smoky haze from forest fires)

I live in Osorno la Mayor and had to travel to Abia to see the eclipse because of the huge crowd around the town. I watched the eclipse from the hill with the geodesic point. In the total dark phase I heard the crowd in Abia cheering and also in the villages around. Did you looked north to the suddenly towering mountains of the Sierra Palentina. What a sight!

Social media has been protected by the Safe Harbour rules because they had millions of users creating content which was difficult to monitor and moderate.

If they start producing their own content they might get considered like a news organisation with a whole different set of rules being applied to them and Safe Harbour being inapplicable.

Safe Harbor should never have been a thing. Newspapers and other publications accepted "user content" without any safe harbor -- and they exercised judgement over what they would publish. If a reader sent in an obscene rant as a letter to the editor, it wouldn't make it any further than the nearest bin.

If an online platform can't figure out how to do that, it's really their problem to solve, not one they should just get to shove on society with some lectures about "parenting" or other nonesense.

We should stop paying people for work, that's also an incentive.