Some Big Tech social media platform falls victim to enshittification, but people still stay on there for no sane reason except it has more content and porn.
The DX of this project is not ideal at all. Like, they are using a different image than GitHub provided, so you get different errors when you deploy… which defeats the entire purpose!
That’s if you figured out how to run it locally in the first place after weird errors.
Also, I wonder if you can use brute force for a lot of name reductions. You know, have a list of highly suspicious names, set the same font and size of the surrounding text, and try to see if it fits in the black box.
I’m fine with a big social rollout for K12 version, where schools give each student a one-time code and they can sign up. All linked accounts are automatically locked into this version until predefined date. No data collection, chronological order feed only, and they can only interact with other people in the K12 program. Guardians or teachers can monitor this program but no strangers can even access this mode.
I 100% support a social media ban/heavy limit for children. It’s all LLM bots, farms from Russia/Israel, alt-right propaganda, pedo that pretend to be kids, and aggressive data collections. Like, even adults can’t deal with the consequences, let alone kids. Not to mention the algorithms that are designed to cripple attention spans, and younger people are getting increasingly more lonely because of social media.
Yes, they hallucinate. For coding, especially when they don’t have the latest documentation, they just invent APIs and methods that don’t exist.
They also take jobs. They pretty much eliminate entry-level programmers (making the same mistakes while being cheaper and faster).
AI-generated code bases are not maintainable in the long run. They don’t reliably reuse methods, only fix the surface bugs, not fundamental problems, causing code base bloating and, as we all know, more code == more bugs.
Management uses Claude code for their small projects and is convinced that it can replace all programmers for all projects, which is a bias they don’t recognize.
Is it a bubble? Yes. Is it a fluke? Welllllllll, not entirely. It does increase productivity, given enough training, learning its advantages and limitations.
I started to feel that’s a mathematical issue, not an economic issue. Since the internet is a thing, a person’s influence and wealth can increase exponentially(benefiting from the networking effect aka power law), while the best tax law can do is still linear.
We need a tax law that grows exponentially. After certain points, it should collect almost 100% of the “controllable assets” (assets you can control, not necessarily owed).
But of course, we will never get it. People who have the will to climb the ladder tend to have less empathy for the masses, and they need to pay back to their stakeholders to help them get on top. It’s another paradox we need to deal with.
TBH the only thing that can fix humanity is extraterrestrial life lol.
I maintain open source projects too, and I fully understand the burnout, the pressure from supporters and such.
What I was saying is they can do better from a project management perspective. Otherwise I love their work :3