The way this article was written, is the standard way these kind of US pop science articles have always been written. It's LLM that absorbed that, not the opposite.
Ironic because IEEE Spectrum has an anti-LLM policy. So your complex about LLM writing styles has indirectly caused you to stop supporting genuine prose.
Seriously there's no LLM stuff in here. Only emdashed which were used in journalism decades before AI was even a thing.
Agreed. The only explanation is that people don't want to use aliexpress so it's not counted as a direct competitor. If you're prepared to wait even a week, you can get less than 1/3 the price and this has been true for over a decade!
Serenity was literally a distraction for his substance addiction issues. It's pretty clear he's productive and he and his team have worked on Ladybird for several years straight now. How many web browsers or OSs have you developed from scratch?
I like the idea that people are either coders or builders. So AI can help fulfill your desire to build, create, bring things into reality. But it can't satisfy you if you like programming for its own sake. SerenityOS was not a practical project, it was clearly done for the enjoyment of programming itself.
The project's use of AI now echoes that - it's not being used to create new features, it's used for practical, boring drudge work of translating between two languages. So still very much on brand.
Andreas is not some kind of hustler. He spent years writing an entire OS (Serenity OS) before the web browser part happened to gain traction. If you were just trying to be an entrepreneur, why do that?
The truth is more simple: he's a good engineer and leader, people recognised that and offered him sponsorships, and the project took off by itself.
Nothing wrong with being wary, generally speaking.*
There are many examples of good engineers that are also good leaders. I think the Venn overlap isn't that unusual, at least for a good engineer leading a team up to maybe a dozen. When a good engineer lands in a spot where they get to work on something they really care about, that doesn't hurt either!
Now, how many good engineers are also good at leading larger teams? As the team size increases, my impression is that it is less common. If so, why? Lots to explore around individual, cultural, and corporate factors.
* If one sets a prior probability to 0 or 1, a posterior probability will not change due to Bayes' Rule. This means new information has no effect. Put another way, choosing either 0 or 1 as a prior is equivalent to stating "no new information will change my belief."
The sense of NIH is from Serenity, and that was probably the reason for Jakt's existence too. Now it's spun off into its own project there is a lot more pragmatism.
Well, here's to hoping because we really need a stand-in for FF. I realize the irony here in terms of that being the ultimate 'NIH' project but that one I can get behind because the browser landscape is much too fragile. Of course they might end up taking users away from FF rather than from Chrome, Edge or Safari.
In case you didn't know they're using a lot of third-party libraries now for pretty major things: libcurl for http, Skia/Harfbuzz for rendering, libxml, OpenSSL, ffmpeg, etc:
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