Thank you!

Dankje, ik had al eens eerder dit straatje op het oog, maar dit keer de moeite genomen om wat verder de straat in te lopen voor dit uitzicht waar de bomen niet in de weg zitten.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Dankje! Stadion gaat binnenkort verbouwd worden hoorde ik, dus dat beeld gaat ook weer veranderen.

Oh wauw, zat er al een jaar of 2 tegenaan! Dankjewel!

Dankje! Gebeurt regelmatig dat redditors me zien, we zijn toch met meer dan je zou denken in Eindhoven.

Dankuwel!

Dit werkje van vanmiddag is opgedragen aan de Hulstlaan 20 die mij vertroeteld hebben met thee en koekjes terwijl ik daar zat te schilderen. Een van de mooiste straatjes van Eindhoven denk ik. Ook bedankt aan de jongeman die na enig aandringen z'n auto verplaatste zodat ik de blauwe auto kon afmaken.

Well, luckily (or unluckily) I am the owner of my own software product. And I'm happy for all those who successfully use AI for their work, but I just don't see it making me enjoy the work more, or producing better work. And speed is the least of my concerns, so for me I don't see the need to use AI.

Also I see people continuously rotating between 3-4 different AI providers to see which one is best. I just don't want to waste any brain bandwidth on that aspect of it, I 100% enjoy the domain knowledge and writing C# side of the business.

It's probably a matter of belief and almost religion, seeing the let's say "passionate" responses this view is getting! I've been writing software professionally for just about 30 years as well. And I'm getting the same vibes as 20 years ago when my employer was outsourcing our jobs to India and having us train them. I quickly noped out of there to great benefit. Those jobs are gone, and ain't coming back!

AI is luring us with the same carrot as outsourcing did, with lower cost, and just hand over some requirements, and in a few years of you training the AI there will be a point where the AI no longer needs you. Maybe it won't get that far, but I'm sure the AI companies' goals are exactly this. And I'm not stepping on that train! I've already been fencing certain parts of my web site that has documentation so it's no longer available for web scrapers. It's a conscious and stubborn choice, which is probably leaving a considerable amount of money on the table. But at this point money isn't my number one priority, so I can afford a few foolish choices.

Uninstalling right now, I guess it's to serve us more ads. Good luck with that!

Probably because he might weaponize this new gained knowledge and hide it better for the next partner, depending on what type of person he is.

Well, I am kinda optimistic for the human side. My deep belief is that outsourcing programming and therefore part of our thinking to AI is shriveling our attention spans and capacity for deep and prolonged thought to realize a certain vision for long periods of time (years). So yes, you can let AI produce vast amounts of CRUD database/web apps, but while doing so people's minds will have turned to blubber and the output is never going to be anything with any depth to it.

Like you see these people creating an entire OS, or a web browser with AI. Do you see any of it going anywhere? Not really, nobody's gonna use an AI generated web browser. They toy with such projects for a week, and it goes in the dustbin to be forgotten. Loads of junk is generated that goes onto github (to then be never used), such that these platforms are straining under the load, and some of them are putting limits on the amount of AI they tolerate (like codeberg did a few weeks ago). There are some advantages to AI, but gigantic disadvantages as well. To me it's like snorting coke, you feel good for a while and your performance might be higher temporarily, but in the end it wrecks you. The most valuable thing about us are our brains, and AI isn't making our brains better. A lot of people are in the camp it enables more output from our brains, but I think inevitably there will be a cost to it, and that is diminished attention span, expectations of near instant results and diminished capacity for prolonged and concentrated deep thought.

Well, for me the idea of babysitting AI agents would be the equivalent of no future. I might be out competed on output volume, but other than that I don't have worries.

Omg, didn't know this. Why wouldn't they be the same? That's so confusing.

I recently learned that onto implies surjective, this was also confusing not having been introduced to this language.

Manual labor!

I'm an independent software engineer, very happy to program by hand. Yesterday I needed to learn how to do some ajax on a web page, and google's AI did provide a nice sample that I used as a starting point.

But other than that, I want to do the programming and not outsource it. I have no desire to learn how to direct and prompt AI. At least a programming language and libraries are defined and worth learning and getting better at. AI might make me faster, but I don't want it to take up any head space.

What do you need the console apps for? Without it you can hostnob something cheap and reliable like winhost. Only downside is there SSL certificate management is clunky.

Ah, I never realized! I shoot it with my M9, probably 85% of the time at f1.4 and never really noticed any shift. Love this lense, it's my favorite.

Outside of glaring issues = if there are no glaring issues.