The lesson is that if you’re too big to fail no laws apply to you and there unlimited money to be made.

It has been learned very well.

The brazen violation of intellectual property was a precondition of making this technology useful. Taking the risk of breaking the law at this unprecedented scale was an informed decision made based on this very lesson.

Also the replacement of craftsmanship with mass produced lower quality output possible for workers with less training and partial understanding to produce.

Processes are more efficient, machines are faster, workers are easily replaceable. The quality and complexity of the product is limited by these requirements.

As someone who also designs, the few web page designs I saw produced by LLMs were ugly, generic, not accessible… unusable.

Even after prompting, I had to throw away all. No useful ideas just slop.

I’m sure there’s a lot to philosophize about a distant future when these work, but right now a waste of time.

People continue making amazing art and surely keep writing.

Slop is however flooding the space. I think at this point curation and trusting existing sources is crucial.

Better for privacy? iOS.

Better for voice search/assistant? Probably Android.

Better for voice dictation? Android.

Better keyboard? Android.

Better integration with other same-os devices? iOS.

Better UX? Likely whichever you’re used to.

Better for what?

Better apps? iOS

Better prices? Android, especially with purchase parity

Most stable? iOS

Most flexibility and freedom? Android

Better camera or speed? This always enters the debate, but it's specific to the device, not OS

The equivalent of a student copying their homework.

Schools are not publishing houses for homework assignments. Struggling with the homework is the process training the student.

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Do you use principles of nonviolent communication in your work? Or another framework to establish nondefensive listening?

> If we generate so much code using AI that no one is really looking or reading the code anymore, just verifying end functionality, we can really just skip all that and go straight to assembler, no?

We could also just autogenerate the content of our websites, emails, contracts.

And we do, resulting in mountains of slop, varying from soulless to wildly incorrect.

Code is a precise way to describe intent. Using LLMs make up some of the intent results in the author not knowing what the precise functionality of the resulting code is.

The companies selling LLM services present this as magic which will magically do what the author wants it to do, without even the author themselves knowing or defining it.

In reality it is simply ignorance and lies.

Sorry we can’t wishful think good working software into existence.

Web agencies talk to clients and provide them with packaged services in understandable language.

Coding is a part of what clients pay for.

Agency clients want nothing to do with coding.

So make that part cheaper and faster and use the competitive advantage.

I wonder if there’s a central repository of now exploited chrome extensions?

The chrome team does not seem to see security as a high enough priority.