He doesn't ruin the cost of memory. Advances in memory size and speed are now in full speed mode. Expect drastic increase in the upcoming years. Big factories are in the making and planned. Gigalab in the US and many others in the east.
Since 2010 we have computers with 16gb as being normal. Finally we are moving into a new era where the standard will be 64gb next year and 128 in 2028. Hopefully we reach 1tb in 2030.
Can you link to some of the huge leaps in emulators and binary decompilation that have caught your attention? (I hope that doesn't sound like a challenge. I'm just interested.)
That's the thing though. My hobby projects have been doing better than ever. My job is more or less the same it's always been, just with more unit tests (that cover...who knows) and slightly better tooling/CI because it's now less tedious to fix that shit when it gets mangled.
AI is very good at creating small codebases. It still sucks shit at maintaining huge ones where someone needs to understand how the codebase works.
I've seen what happens when companies just vibe code an entire mega codebase and it's really bad. AI is fucking terrible at grand architecture decisions.
In 1 or 2 years AI movies will be better in everything. From acting , to camera work to environments to story telling. Check out the quality of some of work already out there. There is a massive shift going on. China is going full speed mode. The film industry will be reshaped. Warner Bros should have used those billions to purchase products like seadance. Otherwise they are out
We in this community don't exactly fit the "tragic failed artist" archetype that well. Heck, I'm sure many of us can in fact fun artseeking now after a some 10-20+ years in the tech industry.
Instead some individuals choose to root on the end of the artist.
Frontend development will be the first that will be completely replaced by agentic development where nobody needs to see any code at all. Its already possible and many companies are having this way of working quite succesfully. The quality is already better than 99% of what frontend engineers can achieve. Speed is just insane. I can create any ui. Whether it's web or platform specific. There are hardly any limitations. Frameworks are still useful. But I expect them to become less important.
What remains important as a dev is system knowledge. Understanding of how systems are tight together. The principles of distributed systems, security, prompt engineering, agentic automation. And that kind of knowledge.
Code syntax is from the old era. Maybe there is a niche for it. But not for the majority.
Right. My clients now get iOS, macOS, Win32 (or whatever you call it), and Android apps… for free. Same price they paid before, and now they just get it all.
There are a whole lot of people (in tech) who truly hate AI and want nothing to do with it. Those people will flock to projects who take a stand against it.
This is straight up cult behavior. "You WILL assimilate or we WILL kill your project"
PopOS is not a product being sold by techbros trying to pump their stock like AI is, it's free open source software, it doesn't need to "outcompete" anything. If you don't like it, don't use it.
it isn't even me not liking it (I don't think about it at all frankly, I have nothing to like or dislike) - I think it's irresponsible policy. I won't be using something that doesn't accept automated security patches from defender AIs.
I won't and I recommend anyone currently using it to reconsider due to the security posture the project necessarily and unfortunately has as a direct consequence of its policies.
Same as Saudi Arabia. People there are still getting beheaded. And its government is under full control of the US. Same thing in Venezuela. Nobody cares about it citizens. Oil is what matters.
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