> steal any bit of code you put on the internet regardless of the license you use or its terms, then use it to train their models, then turn around and try to sell it to you
> made it so you can't afford new, more powerful computers or smartphones anymore, or perhaps even just replacements for the ones you already have, thanks to massive GPU, DRAM, SSD, and now even HDD shortages
> flood the internet with artificial, superficial content
> I needed to invest a significant amount of my net worth in Google simply as hedge against AI destroying knowledge work jobs
I felt similarly, and did similarly, with both GOOGL and MSFT. I'm not an AI "doomer" in the Yudkowski/LolzWrong sense, but I do think it's quite sad that generative AI is first branch of the AI "tech tree" we raced up. AI art, especially, is tragic.
I recognize that my experience may not be typical, but I spend the vast majority of my development time improving the quality of the systems I work on, in response to specific customer demands for it. The last time I had multiple consecutive weeks of greenfield development was in 2021.
> First of all, Google is a shell of the company it used to be.
Isn't that squarely at odds with Google's supposed AI prowess? Is the rot really so severe that their advances in AI (including things they've yet to make public) are insufficient to overcome it? Or are the capabilities of Gemini and AI systems in general being oversold?
> Or are the capabilities of Gemini and AI systems in general being oversold?
I pretty much sure that if anyone asked Gemini "Is it good idea to retroactively opt-in new services into for old API keys?" it would suggest it's bad idea. Problem is that no one asked.
I've learned repeatedly that LLMs are very susceptible to helpfully giving you the wrong answer when you're asking the wrong question, or asking it in the wrong way.
It's not saying much, but this website is really nice, succinctly telling you what the project is about and what it can do, making all of the relevant links accessible, and having a nice slide show and video demo, and looking fairly slick while doing it.
> People know about the escorts because he asked for help getting STD drugs from Epstein.
Technically, this was something Epstein alleged in an email to himself, one that he never sent to Gates, but apparently contemplated sending, after Gates broke off their relationship. It does call into question how many escorts he had affairs with, though. He publicly only acknowledges two, one with a Russian bridge player (who took selfies with Ana Chapman (!)), and another with a Russian nuclear physicist: https://nypost.com/2026/02/25/us-news/inside-bill-gates-sord...
Technically, this was something Epstein alleged in an email to himself, one that he never sent to Gates, but apparently contemplated sending, after Gates broke off their relationship.
Thankyou for the correction. I forgot that was a draft from Jefferey.
Being a draft, it deprived Gates any opportunity to respond, so it's possible Epstein was playing "4D Chess" and planting defamatory disinfo in anticipation that his emails would be subpoenaed in some civil suit and leaked to the public, but that seems much less likely than Epstein boorishly bringing up an unpleasant episode that in fact did happen to use as emotional leverage over gates. (Epstein was known to be very pushy.)
It's also crazy to see a man like Bill Gates willingly compromise himself in this manner. Even setting aside the Epstein affiliation, did the Russian spy angle just not occur to him?
> Even setting aside the Epstein affiliation, did the Russian spy angle just not occur to him?
Ha, ha. Imagine a Russian women doing "something" to Gates and whispering in his ear: Can you tell me some undocumented Windows functions ?
Or asking him what else did he found in garbage cans (ah, sorry, recycle bins) at Xerox.
A lot of the interest in Ladybird and its parent project, SerenityOS, stemmed from the bespoke, "from scratch" approach Andreas advocated. If they're going to start vibe-coding everything, then what's the point of the top-to-bottom wheel reinvention they're doing? E.g., why even bother maintaining their own, custom XML parser instead of using any of the multitude that already exist (including in Rust) if they're ultimately going to lean heavily on AI in the course of developing it, since that inherently involves laundering existing implementations?
This project, of all of them, throwing in the towel on AI makes me fear AI abstainers have no future.
The people who:
> steal any bit of code you put on the internet regardless of the license you use or its terms, then use it to train their models, then turn around and try to sell it to you
> made it so you can't afford new, more powerful computers or smartphones anymore, or perhaps even just replacements for the ones you already have, thanks to massive GPU, DRAM, SSD, and now even HDD shortages
> flood the internet with artificial, superficial content
> aggressively DDoS your website
Real pillars of society.
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