A month ago Gemini was just fine for getting the weather, now it tells me it needs a location (I can see that the app got my location). And then when I specify the location, it gives me weather in the wrong unit despite me having set that preference.

1. Make LLM
2. Make it cheap
3. ???
4. Profit?

I have to wonder how much of the "I feel like I'm flying" with LLMs that folks like Thomas Ptacek express is less about LLMs per se and more about coders who have gone into management coming back to coding.

I try not to speculate too loudly about the impact of AI on software engineering since there is a lot of discourse on it, but I think there is one segment it will almost definitely kill: companies in low CoL countries that focus on producing basic apps for cheap.

I can't help but feel like LLMs have ushered in a new version of Schizophrenia. A loneliness epidemic combined with someone to talk to who will almost always agree with you and can't leave you, it seems like its only a matter of time before we see a mass shooting where "the bot told me to do it".

Cognition acquired the remnants of Windsurf after Google hired away the founders and top engineers. The other shoe’s dropped as the Cognition’s CEO just told the Windsurf team “We don’t believe in work-life balance” and then gave an ultimatum; work 80 hrs/6 days a week or quit with 9 months salary.

Tax cuts for billionaires are permanent in the big Republican bill. Tax cuts on tips expire in 2028.

I think many who love LLMs do so because they can approximate basic critical thinking, and let's them get away with not doing any themselves. I've noticed a strong correlation between struggling to Google things on their own and over using LLMs. Which is sad really, it feels like school failed them.