> “We’re entering an era of untrustable code everywhere” - This assumes AI-generated code is inherently less trustworthy than human-written code, which isn’t obviously true.
It's not true if your humans are on controlled substances all the time, it is true if we are talking about real humans.
I've been testing coding agents on real code and I can say without a doubt that they make worse mistakes than humans.
I'm European and European providers need to start by not being dishonest, we can't just give 'em some slack just because they are "ours". I'm not putting my data into a company that can't even be honest about their actual reliability.
Péter Magyar has emerged exactly 1 year and 5 days ago, he went from a nobody to looking more and more like the end to Orbán's reign.
Orbán has been complacent because the opposition was fragmented and useless, but now it looks like it's the end of the line for them and they are scrambling and just digging themselves deeper and deeper. They attack Péter Magyar with all sorts of unprofessional and childish insults, they leaked his medical records, however each time they do this, it usually backfires spectacularly.
A rapper named "Majka" has made a song about a prime minister of a country called "Bindzsistan", of course everyone knew who he was referring to and FIDESZ members made the fatal mistake of reacting to it, thereby confirming that they do believe that they are the corrupt establishment the song is about. We are now at the stage where Magyar Péter is the pop culture cool guy and FIDESZ is the uncool party.
I believe that the best thing Orbán and his party can do is: shut up, but they won't due to their arrogance.
Most Hungarians either indifferent about the Pride parade or they support it, attacking it earns FIDESZ very little.
In Hungary the interpretation of the GDPR is so hardline that it's virtually impossible to install security cameras, I find this move incredibly hypocritical and believe that if the EU values their credibility they will act, otherwise we can conclude that the GDPR was a complete waste of money.
I don't get the obsession with YAML and making things declarative that really should not be declarative.
I'm so much happier on projects where I can use the non-declarative Jenkins pipelines instead of GH Actions or BB pipelines.
These YAML pipelines are bad enough on their own, but throw in a department that is gatekeeping them and use runners as powerful as my Raspberry Pi and you have a situation where a lot of developers just give up and run things locally instead of the CI.
European here: other than people obsessed with certain political events, nobody really cares, people aren't going to throw away their iPhones and switch away from Microsoft.
I also find this very strange, that people did not talk about doing the mass exodus after we found out the US is conducting mass surveillance on us, but just because they don't like the politics of the current president, they start talking about how bad the US is.
> The expectation is that especially US tech will be weaponized
That should always have been the expectation, that's why the basic idea of GDPR was a good one, too bad they have botched it in the end.
> I know people in the US are focused on DOGE, but over here in Europe, the impression is that the US completely destroyed its soft power this week.
It's just some politicians who are unhappy because things didn't go their way, a lot of ordinary people are just happy to see hope that the economic suicide might be coming to an end, maybe next year my energy bills won't be 3x of what they used to be 3 years ago, one can dream.
Keep in mind that most people don't even understand what current events are about, the vocal minority can be very vocal.
> so people are switching search engines
> Are people talking about this - do they take it seriously or believe there is no alternative to US tech?
Switching search engines is easy, try switching your whole office from Windows to Linux.
> What does it mean for US startups, California and global tech?
It will mean nothing, if I need to build a product that requires US tech and there is no alternative, I'm going to use the US tech, end of story.
> I fully understand that you hope to see sudden breakthroughs
I want to see an end of this pointless war where a lot of people died for a lot of nothing and Europe along with other parts of the world just became poorer.
> In the early months of the war, we saw large armoured spearheads, such as the one destroyed at the Siverskyi Donets river crossing in May 2022, which consisted of 80-100 vehicles. Advancements in drone warfare on the Ukrainian side and equipment shortages on the Russian side have made it impossible to assemble such spearheads anymore. So even if there are breaches in Ukrainian frontlines, they cannot be (and haven't been) exploited on a massive scale as they were earlier in the war.
War has changed and that would be a big headache for the US and NATO in general because they know nothing about cheap-drone-warfare and NATO troops rarely faced off against a similar force, they became complacent.
> Besides that, any rapid Russian advancements in Ukraine would likely be countered by the deployment of a multinational European force. This seems to be currently in preparation even without any breakthroughs.
Europe's army is pathetic, they organised a meeting in Paris and all they could muster up is 25k soldiers, that's nothing, we have serious issues here.
> Europeans are expected to officially announce a 700bn defense package after the German elections on Sunday.
That's great but how long till it actually materialises into something? It takes time to build a military industry.
> 700bn is many times more than has been provided to Ukraine so far, by the entire world, combined.
Not as much if you research the real cost of participating in this war, a lot of economic productivity was erased as a result of the sanctions.
Money means nothing if there is nobody left to hold the weapon.
> The longer the war drags on, the more modern equipment Ukraine will receive to replace the destroyed Soviet stocks and the more closely it will be aligned with NATO countries.
You are making the assumption that "more modern" as always better and that NATO doctrine is superior in a setting where NATO has never fought before.
> This is another measure by which the Russian invasion has been a complete failure.
The whole point was to demonstrate that you can ignore deals you make with Russia because Russia is no longer a superpower, well that didn't work out.
> We went from Obama refusing to provide lethal aid to Ukraine in 2014, to Ukraine's air force flying F-16s and Mirages in 2025 while Rheinmetall is building arms factories in Ukraine.
Yes and then Russia has built a missile that we can't shoot down that can target anything in Europe, great progress, what's next, do we want to see them test it with actual nukes inside it?
> This is far more than any NATO ally has received since the Cold War.
People clinging on to the Cold War need to retire, the world has moved on and changed.
No it didn't, you just need to stop asking questions an LLM can easily solve, most of those were probably terrible questions to begin with.
I can create a simple project with 20 files, where you would need to check almost all of them to understand the problem you need to solve, good luck feeding that into an LLM.
Maybe you have some sneaky script or IDE integration that does this for you, fine, I'll just generate a class with 200 useless fields to exhaust your LLM's context length.
Or I can just share my screen and ask you to help me debug an issue.
We should have seen this post before Hector Martin got so fed up that he decided to resign(to be fair, he probably had other issues as well that contributed).
I was very confused by the lack of an actual response from Linus, he only said that social media brigading is bad, but he didn't give clarity on what would be the way forward on that DMA issue.
I have worked in a similar situation and it was the worst experience of my work life. Being stonewalled is incredibly painful and having weak ambiguous leadership enhances that pain.
If I were a R4L developer, I would stop contributing until Linus codifies the rules around Rust that all maintainers would have to adhere to because it's incredibly frustrating to put a lot of effort into something and to be shut down with no technical justification.
Capturing Texas wouldn't enlarge Russia too much percentage wise, because it's already massive, not that this metric matters at all.
You keep assuming that Russia needs more territory that's why this war is happening, whereas in reality Russia does not want a powerful Ukraine armed to the teeth with NATO gear right next door, that's it, that's what the Russians have been saying all along, their position has never changed, you can look up the Mins k agreement.
> 400k+ casualties per year
It's not per year.
> Russia would exceed the total Soviet losses for all of Ukraine before even reaching the halfwaypoint at the Dnieper river.
You are assuming that Ukraine has their forces uniformly distributed across it's territory which would make it the dumbest army in the universe, in reality most of it's armed forces are near the front, if they are gone, there won't be much left to defend the rest of Ukraine.
> Russia hasn't even reached the hardest part yet: major urban areas like Kharkiv (pop. 1.7m) and Zaporizhzhia (840k), where the heaviest fighting could be expected, remain in Ukrainian hands.
They don't have to, they can bleed the Ukrainian army by dragging them into a meat grinder elsewhere, Russia does not want Ukraine, they just want to destroy the Ukrainian army and permanently make sure Ukraine will never have an army that is a threat to Russia. The crazy thing is Zelensky is doing the work for the Russians with his media stunts like Kursk and Krynky.
> Note the timeframe too. Both Germany and the USSR rolled through Ukraine in 12 months. In a week, the Russian war against Ukraine will enter its fourth year.
Wonder how well both would have done with drones and HIMARs involved.
> I'd say developing "evil" AI is a bad business idea.
You know that quotes have a meaning, a knife can kill people, but it can also be used to make tasty food, the EU wants to ban the knife because it can kill people in this case.
> And if you really think that Mistral is not competitive then you clearly know so little about the AI landscape that it's hilarious that you think you're going to go develop some "evil" AI company.
Making up childish nonsense does not advance your argument.
> I don't believe that hosting in the EU means you need to treat non-EU jurisdictions with EU law.
Let's say to that I want to develop something that uses an "evil" AI and I only want to sell to countries outside of the EU, I just can't do that because during development I would be suffocated by unhelpful regulations while someone in the US doing the same would be not.
> Most software businesses operate internationally, so the EU regulation is something you'll have to deal with no matter where you host, assuming you sell into the EU.
Having my whole business being at risk is not the same thing as only having a significant market being at risk.
> where you are headquartered as a business is up to you, and there are many choices.
Yes and the problem I was pointing out is that I would unlikely to pick an EU country because broken legislation that would hinder me is not something I want to deal with.
The EU problem is that legislation that is not around manufacturing is very knee-jerky, I don't feel like it would be a safe place for my potential software business, because legislation seems to be driven by headlines rather than rationality and the people making the legislations don't look too competent based on the end results.
> In terms of being competitive, some European services like OVH, Gandi, and Mistral are absolutely competitive internationally
Azure, AWS, Digital Ocean, ChatGPT, Meta, DeepSeek are a league of their own.
> end up suffering US state censorship at some point.
You had a higher risk for that with the democrats, remember the AI videos that upset Kamala and Gavin?
European countries have a far worse track record of censorship.
> Still, I would flag use of US services as a major risk for non-US businesses right now.
> Given the current state of things, I think it's entirely plausible that US services are either hit with things like tariffs, or end up suffering US state censorship at some point.
Who made your phone, your computer and the OS your computer is running?
I'm an EU citizen, I would like the EU to be a competitive place in terms of software, however at the moment I have to say that it's a hostile place for software development and software as a service.
They are making too many dumb and potentially dangerous laws, just look at the cookie consent laws that accomplish nothing but erased millions of euros.
They AI laws and aspirations make me not even consider making any software that runs AI in the EU. I don't want to harm people, but it's next to impossible to make the distilled LLM I'm using to not say occasionally dumb shit. Just because an AI is "dangerous" doesn't mean you cannot use it in a place where it poses no real risk.
> Sure, it’s not pure CGI, just CGI on steroids. But frankly, it hasn’t gone too far.
It doesn't need to go far, because it's selling point is that it's easy to learn and use.
The way I see PHP is not as a competitor to Java, .Net, NodeJS or Rust, instead I see it as a platform for non-advanced developers to be able to be able to create things and actually have the whole thing be cheap and sustainable.
> But it’s not the language itself, as I was advised. True asynchronous handlers are possible, which is promising.
The whole point of PHP is that it's single threaded, blocking and from the developer's point of view: your program starts at the request and terminates when the HTTP request is complete, this is what makes it simple to comprehend, if you want async, I would tell you to use something like Node instead.
> File caching is evil—many PHP devs love using the filesystem to store things, which is pretty nasty under K8s.
It's usually just an annoyance or just something you need to configure or just brute force it with a shared mount.
> I’ve seen a lot of WordPress plugins with spaghetti code being called on every invoked endpoint.
That's not really the problem of the language itself, the language doesn't force you to run anything on every request.
> Last time i looked PHP still had no generics, and the "typesystem" is mostly a joke.
So is Python's yet the language is enjoying great success.
> All the builtin functions still have no namespaces, and no forced types.
And no PHP developer cares, because neither does C and yet it's doing just fine.
> PHP still coerces strings to ints and vice versa.
Which is great for beginners, because they don't need to worry about it, unlike me when I program in Rust and have to deal with 8+ number types.
> PHP still has serious bugs with its (only) collection, the frankenstein ARRAY.
So does JavaScript, yet it's not enough to stop the language.
> IIRC doing a array_filter is still broken on PHP8 for key val arrays.
There is some odd behavior if you try to do certain things in a functional style that is actually true.
> PHP still had no unicode in 2023, im not sure how the latest version fixed this or not. IIRC you had to use the weird mb_real functions to get anything closely functional, and it was a mess.
That can get annoying in some use cases, I have developed many international web apps in PHP, it rarely got in my way, but I do acknowledge that it's not great to not have Unicode by default, I suspect they are afraid to resolve this after seeing what happened with Python 3.
Nobody runs PHP in CGI mode, either they go with libapache2_mod_php, where Apache itself does the work or PHP-FPM with Nginx.
Either way you are not going to pay for the PHP process startup cost.
PHP can also cache the interpretations of files so you avoid that cost as well.
And frameworks usually have their own usually file-based caching mechanism.
At the end of the day it's still going to have some costs compared to a single application server model, but for most web apps it's not going to matter, however it greatly simplifies the programming model.
I think we can agree to disagree on that one, we are talking about a country that started wars for far less.
> Russian losses are totally insane. The US lost 107 903 killed in action and 208 333 wounded in the entire Pacific theater of WWII, over four years that saw massive aerial and naval battles, unrestricted submarine warfare, large-scale amphibious operations, and savage fighting in the jungles across Southeast Asia.
You don't have as many men on the ships as you need to cover ground.
You should check the Russian losses in WWII, compared to that, this is just a walk in the park.
> There have been no strategic gains.
If they keep categorizing all Russian gains as non strategic then of course there are none. The problem with this narrative is that it makes the Ukrainians look incompetent for sacrificing so much for these unimportant places.
Either the Ukrainians were complete morons for defending these places for so long or they were actually important and the media just likes to spin it the other way when the truth is inconvenient for their narratives.
> US did for fighting its way across the Pacific to Japan and forcing its surrender
You kind of forgot to mention one other player in that game and a certain type of weapon.