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  • Thinkpad L390 Yoga. They crammed a 4.6 GHz CPU into a cooling system that was not designed for it, so the machine ran hot and throttled all of the time. The keyboard keys rubbed off after a few months of use. The Thinkpad logo was just a sticker that one day decided to stick to my hand because Lenovo used really cheap glue. It had a MicroEthernet port with a passive adapter that did nothing but break it out to a regular ethernet jack. The adapter cost 30€ and its cable turned into oil after a year.

    I was able to undervolt the CPU and make it barely passable, then Microsoft released a Windows update that prevented undervolting. Gave it to a friend afterwards and got myself a GPD Win Max 2.

  • Maybe he bought that RAM before the crisis. I got a 64GB netbook last year, shortly before it became unobtainium.

  • my project is not inherently dangerous.

    It is not "your" project - it was generated by a glorified chatbot. Since you lack the experience to judge its output, I cannot trust you to verify the security of the project.

  • Yep, it feels really fishy. He dropped a whole album and all of these songs sound the same.

    Can't say I didn't enjoy this one in the moment, but knowing it was probably generated in minutes sucks the joy out of it longterm.

  • What did you just say?

  • Did you just pull a random infographic out of your ass without even mentioning the source? I reverse-searched it and it comes from Anthropic, of all places - the guys that run Claude Code.

    Forbes took a look at that study, I love this money quote from it:

    These flaws turn Anthropic’s dataset into an overstated labor-market conclusion. The study’s findings do not have the level of reliability required to sustain the breadth of the headline framing, because each conclusion rests on an exposure measure whose scope (1), construction (2, 3, 4, 5, 7), and interpretation (6, 8, 9, 10) remain contested.

    So yeah, an AI company telling us that AI will theoretically replace our jobs, based on their own study with flawed data - damn, that's trustworthy! /s

    I’m not going to argue anymore. It’s pointless.

    At least on this point we agree.

  • I’ve built things that used to take 20 weeks in 1 week with Claude.

    That's ridiculous. You've either been a bad coder even before the AI hype or you're simply lying. I have used these tools and they're not that good or make you that fast - except when you're just merging all of the proposed code blind and hope for the best. I fear for the future colleagues who will have to work with the raging dumpster fire you have created for them.

    The company with the strongest coding LLM is Anthropic and it doesn’t sound like they’re having financial difficulty

    Oh yes, they have the same problems OpenAI has. Just look into the vibecoding subreddits, you can see many people complaining about excessive rate limits and their models getting dumber. A healthy company wouldn't try to put a cap on the token useage and introduce peak-hour throttling, that's a big warning sign that they're overspending as well.

    its hard to deny the reality at this point

    I only see one person here denying reality. You will be effed in a major way when your employer one day decides that the subscriptions are too expensive or tell you to limit your token useage.

  • It sucks, but this is the new reality.

    Sorry mate, but you drank the AI koolaid from Sam Altman and the other tech oligarchs. The reality is that all of the major AI companies are deep in the red, OpenAI isn't even making a profit with the 200$ subscription.

    The only reason people are able to burn thousands of tokens to vibecode their apps is that they don't have to pay the price for that, the companies are. This money will run out soon and then we will see the real cost for the bigger models.

    If a subscription for Claude Code costs 500$ or even 1000$, will companies still pay for it or let actual humans do the work? We will see. I seriously doubt it, and I don't want to depend on a subscription-based service to do my work while my skills are atrophying. Thank god my employer doesn't force me to use AI.

    Engineers are definitely going to lose their jobs

    This kind of fear-mongering is what I despise most about the whole bubble.

  • There is one SD card slot and one MemoryStick slot.

  • I tried finding a good case, but all of them are just rotten at this point. I even got the one with the integrated nightlight and it turned into literal dust in my hands.

    At this point I am honestly considering making my own, out of some leather. It can't be that difficult, can it? :D

  • I absolutely love this thing. It's a solid block of metal and will probably live longer than me. It chokes on ePubs with embedded fonts sometimes (64MB of memory is not a lot), but with Calibre you can strip them out and then they all work fine.

  • Amazon is "discontinuing support for Kindle devices released in 2012 or earlier"

    And here's my Sony PRS-505 from 2008 - released four years earlier - it still works fine, can read .epub and .pdf, is extendable to 32GB capacity by two memory cards and moddable with a custom Linux distribution (PRS Plus).

    It also doesn't have WiFi, so no one can remotely delete 1984 from your library. Fuck you, Amazon.

  • PHP pays my bills, so I'll continue using it. Sometimes I even have fun while doing so. There are more important things to get angry about.

  • I felt so bad for him when I saw that. Fuck Bezos.

  • "Experiencing interruptions? Find out why" - Naah I'm fine dude, just take your time.

  • That Wizard of Oz movie is really weird. They put the original movie into a tiny area and generated a whole load of surroundings with AI.

    The original framing and artistic intent get totally lost, it's a novel idea but a shit product as a movie. "Be Kind Rewind" watched it live and made a lengthy review about that slopfest on YouTube.

  • Singapore put one of the first full AI movies into cinemas last year: "Madam Zheng". It is absolute garbage, got a 1.6/10 on IMDB and barely anyone watched it. I didn't find any news articles about it at the time, but the YouTuber Pinely made a video about it with some details and horrible shots.

  • He only lost the first of his 99 lives.

  • The best modern one, yes.