> we'd be going back to writing code by hand

Well, as as SWE who writes code by hand and has no intention to outsource their intelligence to any entity, I felt slightly offended by "back".

Are you a member of a team? Then you are the outsourced intelligence. Your manager is not writing everything by hand, they are outsourcing it to you. Just understand that may change (I mean I am already mentally prepared for it to be a thing of the past within years). If you are purely writing software for hobby/fun then disregard, nothing will stop you from doing that.

I have no problem with other people outsourcing their intelligence to me, I've been doing this for years. But I prefer not to outsource my intelligence, at least not for things I care about, for various reasons.

Do you use an operating system? What about databases? Or the myriad of other software used which we build upon. I can't imagine a professional coding context where we don't outsource intelligence to some degree, if not a major degree. We stand on the shoulders of giants as they say.

It's not a problem at all. It's only for the things I care about and I consider important for a couple of reasons (maintaining and developing mental models etc.).

> Microsoft to instantly get your full name, address, email, phone number, and any other data associated with your Microsoft account.

Provided you bent the knee and created a Microsoft account.

I was forced to create multiple as part of the mojang migration - truly a nightmarish experience to use their AuthN, haven’t seen something quite as bad since

Maybe you were "tricked into", but probably not forced. We are free to refuse, at cost, but free.

They used dark patterns to trick me into signing up. I do not know how anyone can trust them, at all, ever.

The cost is that you can never play Minecraft again

It might be small cost in retrospect.

Nah I sunk many thousands of hours into these accounts; definitely not a small cost. Sure I could get a new account and pay twice for the game I already purchased multiple times - that would’ve ground my gears too

I think the new account would have to be a Microsoft account also, so you wouldn't have even gained anything by not migrating.

Some servers allow joining without a Microsoft account even these days, but probably can't play on any of the servers you regularly play on, if you don't have a Microsoft account.

Including old pre-enshittified versions.

Never play online

That's half the game.

Not even. They log the IP and your ISP (or VPN provider!) knows the name/address of the person using that ip at that time.

Assuming you are on windows, you probably have

LOL. A thief accusing someone else of theft.

Also, I love their choice of words. Like "distillation against", "stealing proprietary technology" - it's all aimed at certain people.

> People want to get spoon fed all information they need, especially since AI - no?

It's definitely true to some extent, but you can't generalize "people" to some uniform group, we have various needs.

There is a lot of distrust against Google and Microsoft here, also when they opensource stuff, and Chromium and AOSP are great counterexamples.

> human rights and all that rubbish

While I understand your point, please think a bit how you formulated the sentence above.

I almost choked on my tea when I read that. I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed. A shocking turn of phrase, and one that IMHO catastrophically devalues the nominally valid argument underlying that post.

To be fair, both of America's frontier labs that fearmongered safety and human rights folded immediately during wartime.

It's pretty glaringly obvious that "safety" research is a complete sham that is consistently ignored at every point in AI's development.

What do you mean by "folded during wartime"? When did wartime start, and who folded?

Anthropic and OpenAI both immediately reneged their safety/wartime limits when the feds confronted and threatened them.

Now their technologies are being used in a brushfire war half the world over.

This little special military operation: https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-hormuz-strait-war-july-20...

I think it's well formulated.

I heard this false justification already in 2007, in spite of many customers asking for it.

Incidentaly, smaller competitors solved this issue decades ago, while the big cloud decided it is more convenient never to implement it.

Big cloud didn't want to rewrite its billing systems from scratch to please its smallest customers.

With AI it should take like a weekend.

I think they already tried rewriting billing with AI. Very smartly they only tried rewriting the estimator first. This post is about the outcome of it.

Weekend is too long bro! With AI they can weite 50 implementations in a single prompt. They clearly are using tooo many humans and that's why they're lagging

More AI will 100% fix the issue lol

They clearly know it but have to pretend otherwise to keep the money flowing.

right, but the business arm will always be dominant. I see what Chinese models are doing as the same as japanese car models in the 80s: producing smaller, more efficient products that address the realities of the "total addressable market" that no business model would support. They're, unfortunately, providing public value where the US and Europe used to tread.

There's a lot to make efficient, but it should be clear to everyone that just throwing compute at larger models isn't going to magically make it rain.

> I speak as I think and I type and as I speak, so I do uses em-dashes.

I'm sorry to break it to you but the sentence you just wrote doesn't contain any —s.

Not the use case for em-dashes. en-dash maybe, but they also didn't say they use en-dashes instead of hyphens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Em_dash

I always find it strange how many HN commenters appear to have unconsciously added "exclusively" or "without exception" to the text of the comment they're replying to.

Suppose someone wants to play this game, what's the point? Not to mention the fact that Gnome, even though is not a GNU project, literally means GNU Network Object Model Environment.