Given how much these CEOs are hallucinating these days while hopelessly losing money on every venture they pursue, I think AI is leaps and bounds ahead of these idiots for decision making.
Good point. Maybe not for the CEO yet, but a manager without people to manage is a useless thing. So I think corporates will invent new Bullshit Jobs[1] for humans, to keep them in their organization chart.
As with driving cars, even if the AI is strictly better at doing these tasks than they are at writing code, mistakes aren't so easy to recover from and can destroy something unrecoverably in a 5-second attention lapse from a human overseer.
So can software, if not more. Like, your healthcare data leaking, bank account losing your money, some legal document getting lost/wrongly issued, .. and then we didn't even talk about actual safety critical applications (which are hopefully not vibe coded) like airplanes/medical device, etc.
AI is software, so in a sense everything that can go wrong with AI must be a subset of things that can go wrong with software.
Lots of software has a test environment. Even in live, e.g. bank account losing your money the transactions can be un-wound.
And that's the difference when it comes to replacing software devs with LLMs vs replacing CEOs with LLMs: it's possible to write the tests and then lock them. And to perform code review before changes are merged into the main branch. And to test against something other than production.
I know the Board can in principle remove a CEO, but is there even a standardised way for a CEO to have a vice-CEO that always checks everything they do, that always tests their commands against a simulation of the company and only lets them proceed if they agree with the outcome?
The point is that "AI as CEO" would be in the category of "business-critical" software, and also that current approaches to AI also lack sufficient guarantees of obligation compliance or sufficient defence against failures, which in the banking example would be things like the AI deciding to save money by deleting the system capable of unwinding incorrect banking transactions.
To the extent this kind of failure mode happens with vibe coding (in the original coining of the term: always accept without reading), it's like letting the LLM modify the unit tests to always succeed regardless of the code.
Well, the same goes for wrong code. One wrong line can cost millions or destroy everything completely, depending on the context. It is also not very easy to recover from.
The two contexts where that applies is "interacts with the outside world and you deployed without tests", and "even though it only affects your own data, you don't have backups and you deployed without tests".
I feel like management roles would be much more easy to automate than dev. It's hilarious how they're trying to sell these products. The only thing they couldn't do is go golf and drink half the time. They would be superior in that regard.
Am I missing something or is there isn’t even an official LSP available for Elixir? For me, that looks like a red flag. From what I see, DX in VSCode is barebones.
It’s tough to find anything useful these days because of all the spam - especially due to AI, content. If I do use it, I usually use it to find something on Reddit.
For anything where practical skills are concerned (woodworking, metalworking, leatherworking, anodising stuff, etc.) I have to resort to searching on Youtube. There is, fortunately, a lot of information there in the form of tutorials and guides. Search engines are useless there. Most of the pages returned are indeed typical AI slop just there for the ad impressions.
It's extremely disheartening. I have no trust in Youtube staying accessible as a font of public knowledge. It just works out that way now.
Reddit seems hit or miss depending on the topic. Plenty of threads there where [deleted] asked a question and [disgruntled user] replied with something which has been replaced with random text by a fancy deletion tool.
He earns so much money, of course he loves to work and doesn’t give a damn about people who don’t even earn a fraction of his salary. He also seems to forget that people who actually work for him bring these high profits for the company. How about being thankful for having smart employees who help you to keep your business so profitable?
If I were to get paid as much as he does, I wouldn’t even leave the office; I would sleep there.
This is a very abused fact. When you are comparing the incomes, you are competing in your region, not globally and then your income goes from top 0.1% to top 10%. And then you realize that you won't be able to buy that house or that you don't have as much flexibility to change your employer. If you want to feel like top 0.1%, then you probably have to move to some forgotten place in Africa (most large cities do not count due to income inequality and corruption) but then your standard of living with your top 0.1% income is even worse. Statistics is too easy to abuse without critical thinking.
You’re correct :) I think I understand what you’re trying to say, and I agree, but I still don’t understand his arguments. It’s not like his company is not profitable, or the employees work not well enough
There is no bye to Windows gaming, because the casual PC gamer will still use Windows and won’t bother with SteamOS, and rightfully so, because why bother? If you can’t handle Windows, then certainly you won’t be able to live with Linux as your main system.
Windows just works for gaming and all connected devices. SteamOS maybe works well for dedicated handhelds, but I can’t imagine a casual user bothering with Linux and wondering why the newly bought xyz Bluetooth device doesn’t work on it.
This whole “Windows just works” mantra gets less and less true with every passing day. The number of times I have to fight tooth and nail to stop updates, uninstall edge, nuke bloatware shit installs from orbit, or hell just get my audio to go out the correct output device is astronomical.
Windows is no walk in the park. And Linux is easy to use these days.
So… sure maybe this is still sorta true. But we’re long past the days of needing to be a hacker to use a Linux OS and it’s only getting better, while Windows is only getting worse.
I agree with you partially, but a casual user just doesn’t care or bother. They don’t uninstall bloatware; in fact, I’m pretty sure most don’t even know what it means. Casual users don’t even bother to switch to dark mode or check if their monitor supports more than 60Hz—things like that. That’s also why Apple doesn’t focus on such details.
I’m not against Linux; for developers and servers, it’s awesome. But for casual users, I don’t see the appeal. There’s no reason to bother as long as it works—and it does. Do you genuinely think, that a user who complains that Windows is bad and doesn’t work, will be able to install Linux and be happy? First thing someone like that will do, is probably try to execute an exe file and the complain under some YouTube video about it.
I think the definition of a “casual user” has changed drastically over the last 10 years.
This very much used to be true. But most gamers (i.e. the group we’re talking about here) are more than technically savvy enough to run Linux. Most gamers have seen a terminal once or twice and know how to google the solution to common fixes.
And yes, I do believe most motivated users (those unhappy with windows) can install Linux. It’s SO easy these days requiring nothing more than a USB and an hour or two of time.
Why would anyone want to bother with a terminal just for gaming, a little bit of browsing, casually installing mods, using Photoshop, etc.? I mean, just watch the video, and this is coming from a guy who at least knows one or two things about computers.
Plus, don’t forget, Linux also has its quirks, just like Windows, only in different areas. Like not so awesome Nvidia drivers :P
The Nvidia drivers for Linux are awesome. I have been using them for more than a decade and they have had far fewer issues than the equivalents for ATI/AMD over that time period. The idea they are not awesome is misinformation.
... nah. I usually remove all unwanted software once and only after a fresh install, and a Windows installation lasts years without maintenance nowadays.
What exactly is such a big hassle with Windows? Sure, it’s bloated with trash, but again, it’s good and simple enough for everyone to use. Try explaining to a casual user that they can’t execute an exe file or use Photoshop or whatever on Linux without specific workarounds.
Neither of those scenarios are typical for 'casual users' of the 2020s: at work, most have Windows laptops issued to them that they can't install things onto anyway, and elsewhere they are liable to do most of their computing on a tablet or a phone. There's almost nothing an exe file could do for a casual user that couldn't be done in a browser or mobile app, and most of them understand what an operating system is and that, on some level, there are cross-compatibility issues between them that they may be able to resolve with a tool.
That’s not true—these scenarios absolutely apply to casual users, like students or hobbyists who do things like video editing or photo editing. Students, for example, often need Windows-specific software for schoolwork.
Even if we ignore Windows-specific software entirely, there are still other pain points: DRM support, HDR support, certain drivers, and even the variety of package managers and ways to install things. You know what I mean—these things are nothing special for us, but for someone who’s just casually gaming or doing some creative hobbies, being forced to use the terminal to, for example, update Nvidia drivers or find a workaround to get an unsupported game launcher to work, can be a total dealbreaker
Even something as basic as swapping out PC hardware as a gamer isn’t as seamless on Linux as it is on Windows. That’s a lot of friction for someone who just wants things to “work”. And you know I’m right because if I would be wrong with all these points, we already would have a year of Linux desktops … as it’s being said every year.
You underestimate how most people just value ease of use, familiarity and don’t care about freedom and control over a system. Most don’t want to spend their time tweaking or figuring out why something doesn’t work and that’s totally fine.
I get the impression that a load of people are preparing to jump ship once Win10's sundowned and they're faced with having to get rid of a perfectly usable computer to install Win11. I know I am, loathe as I am to move over to Linux, but Microsoft's making its own bed and continuing on its quest to alienate long-term users with 'peculiar' interface and OS changes.
That, Mac and Mobile ownership and I do have to wonder what MS's long-term strategy to avoid pissing away Windows Desktop users is, because I can't see it.
> I get the impression that a load of people are preparing to jump ship once Win10's sundowned and they're faced with having to get rid of a perfectly usable computer to install Win11.
In my opinion, what will most likely happen is the same thing that happened when Windows XP was retired: nothing at all, people just kept running the same Windows XP they had already installed. That is, people will just keep Windows 10, not caring that Microsoft does not care about it anymore. And, for them, it will work even better, since without constant updates, Windows 10 will become more stable (as in: not changing all the time, not having random automated reboots due to updates, etc).
(We might be concerned that, without software updates, the security bogeyman will catch and eat us, but most normal people don't worry about that.)
> I do have to wonder what MS's long-term strategy to avoid pissing away Windows Desktop users is, because I can't see it.
Give private users up because you can't extract money from them, but keep milking Office 365, governments and enterprises that Just Can't move away from Windows due to decades of legacy garbage.
Neat. The printer bit made me roll my eyes, though. They could not get a printer work with the desktop OS that is Windows, and after also unsuccessfully attempting to get it to work on the OS of a _hand-held_ _gaming_ device, which they just showcased as a PC-based alternative to a living room console, their conclusion is "needs some work"? I, mean what? Would anybody expect to be able to print from a PlayStation or a Switch? What would you even want to print?
Maybe it’s due to peripheral driver support? Not every device works without issues on Linux. Also maybe because of specific mods or tools which only work on Windows. Besides that, currently all the “awesome anti-cheat root kits”, are not supported by Linux.
There are a few reasons, but I agree with you that if you use only a handheld, SteamOS probably will work fine.
SteamOS is a much more streamlined console-like experience for gaming. Even things as simple as system updates is far less annoying on Linux/SteamOS than it is on Windows. This is especially important in, for example, a set-top box media PC you might want to have for your TV and you don't run every day.
And, over time, as SteamOS in its various forms becomes more and more popular, game publishers will be motivated to support it. Many already are, from Steam Deck alone. And, in a few years, it's possible that a "casual PC gamer" will actually prefer the far more plug-and-play SteamOS experience versus the Windows one (which, I, for one, highly dislike, but I understand that's a preferences thing).
