I found the article interesting yet my thinking is at the opposite spectrum. I also spent a lot of time using LLM, and I am moving away from "no framework" or "library pretending to be a framework".
Not that I was a fan of it, but for work purpose I was using React / Next.js etc.
Now, I am using Laravel. lots of magic, pretty much always one recommended way to do things, excellent code generation using CLI. When you combine it with AI it's following the framework's guideline. The AI does not have to think about whether it should locate business logic with UI, use a hook or not, extract a helper, etc.
It knows how to create route, controller, validator, view, model, migration, whatever.
If I was a heavy drinker and smoker I would likely have health problems and shaking hands. I don’t think I need the New York Times to inform me about it or that 88 years old are dying from heart attacks everyday.
But if people starts to behead teachers (as it’s happening in my country : France) for religious reasons, I want to know.
Yea, even if it represents a few deaths here and there.
Because I am willing to consider the possibility that it’s telling of a shift in my society that will have consequences down the road.
Significance of events are not necessarily correlated to how many people die from it.
Also different countries set up different priorities. France for example is talking quite a lot about « feminicide » (how many women are killed because they are women). In France, it was 137 in 2024. Is it a lot? Probably not for a population of 70 millions. Can we significantly decrease the number? Probably not.
But people and media are still talking about it. And even if this specific number do not improve, it does spark debate about related topic, which is sometimes a good thing.
Yes many countries will decide to extradite for actions which are legal in said country.
I am French, and we recently convinced Scotland to extradite a French man who was denying the existence of the Holocaust and gaz chamber, which is something you could do in Scotland if you do it without violence.
So indeed it’s possible.
But I don’t think it’s the same as extraditing for a meme.
I found some interesting bits in this article but overall I think it’s being overly cynical.
In the past ten years, I worked with one guy from Nigeria and a bunch of people from Iran. Bitcoin (or rather cryptocurrencies in general) have been more than just mere gimmicks.
Sending money from one side of the world to another, for such a low fees, even when the central bank of Nigeria is blocking USD transfers, even when bank transfers to Iran are being blocked, has been very useful in itself.
As for AI, yes if you use it as a God, you will be disappointed. Yes it can’t do everything. Yes it will hallucinate.
But it’s been a great learning environment for me, I keep asking questions to get an overview of things.
I used to learn concepts such as « clean architecture » because AI is never tired, it can provide endless variations to the same problems, until you better understand the underlying principles and the recurring patterns.
When I work on a project, 20-30% is creative, cutting edge, never seen before. 70% is CRUD, necessary boilerplate.
I know what I am supposed to be doing, I can verify the result, double check the validity of it.
Why would I waste hours typing letters?
Do I rely on AI for everything? No I don’t.
But pretending it’s completely useless, is nonsensical.
Yes it’s just statistically inferring the next token, but it’s actually a very simple, powerful concept.
I used AI to write press releases in every languages I know there are victims.
I am trying to look for someone who can help me shoot / edit short videos, and I will try to use Heygen to translate them.
Posting on TikTok might be useful, but usually the content can only be seen from the country you are posting.
Do you know of any tools where you can feed a bunch of content / documents / pictures / etc and it generates many pages ranking on their names / brand / company / etc?
It's something I am considering, not just talking about whether a country is safe or not, but listening to whistleblowers and listing scammers by name / pictures / estimated amount / connections / and publishing personal information (phone / address / school for the children, etc).
Only after collecting enough hard evidences, of course.
If they plan to scam hundreds of people, they might as well take the associated risks of scamming the wrong people who have nothing else to lose.
We bought during Covid, the building was half-way done, the prices were attractive, and the story telling was that they mostly worked with workers from Burma and Laos, it was a bit slow to get them a working visa during Covid.
Hence, why the construction took a halt during 1 year. They were selling at a discount to break even, the government was indeed talking about opening borders (we were already inside Thailand at that time, not buying from abroad).
We visited the construction site and saw ~10 workers, everything seemed real, like a thing slowly getting back to normal.
I have all the reasons to believe now, that these "workers" were just paid to be here. The company was advertising, getting batches of potential investors, and making a "Potemkin" construction site.
They never had any intention of ever finishing the project.
I have traveled extensively to both the US and China (where I did a master degree) several years ago.
I did not keep the count of many times I crossed each borders, but I can assure you it was pretty much always easier to get into China than it was to get into the US (and that was before Trump).
Chinese authorities are no jokes, but the amount of non sense you need to put up to get into the free land, is very high.
But then he also spends the few paragraphs laughing about executives operating based on beliefs/ideologies instead of facts.
Just to talk about EU letting some countries sliding into fascism.
Fascism : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
It seems that the author is also reasoning by pure ideology, ignoring simple facts.
Absolutely no countries in the EU are remotely close to being a fascist state.
Not that I was a fan of it, but for work purpose I was using React / Next.js etc.
Now, I am using Laravel. lots of magic, pretty much always one recommended way to do things, excellent code generation using CLI. When you combine it with AI it's following the framework's guideline. The AI does not have to think about whether it should locate business logic with UI, use a hook or not, extract a helper, etc.
It knows how to create route, controller, validator, view, model, migration, whatever.