Flamebait style: people are getting in the way of AI fixing the bugs.
Use LLMs to triage the flood of reports, and implement the fixes.
Learn to stop worrying and love the Skynet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove
An actual interesting experiment: fork the system and work toward fully automated maintenance on the fork. Sure, if you want to make it fail you can, but try to succeed and see how it competes with / compares to old-school real-life Linux.
I interviewed/hired C graphics programmers off and on for 20 years. 95% of candidates had near 0 actual ability to draw a sine wave on the screen, given example code that draws a rectangular box to draw the sine wave in. We pre-screened the applications for appropriate experience, so 100% of interviewed candidates had appropriate experience or academic background claimed. About 2/3 of the candidates “talked a good game” but it was literally less than 1/20 who could actually make lines appear according to a math function WHICH WAS THE CORE OF THE JOB. I tried giving clues. One intern level hire I gave 3 heavy hints to, basically doing the test for him. He never did learn to do much of anything for himself even after a 4 month trial period. Then there were the ones who got it, and they performed the test like a hot knife through butter. One candidate took the (time series simple sine wave) test before we paid him to travel for an in-person interview, and in person we sprung a “now, do a polar plot of sin(t) on X vs sin(3t) on Y” - he aced that too, we made an offer - then he discussed moving with his wife who he assumed would be fine with it, oops.
AI agents may not be great, but in my experience they beat the hell out of the advertise, interview, hire process.
this is a thing where you should be studying for the test, rather then real life.
Like so many professional certification exams, not just in computer skills. I had a construction contractor complaining to me about the same problem with his certification exam: exam questions that don’t cover real life scenarios and even expect you to give answers that don’t make sense outside the exam.
I use nano because it’s always there.
Oh, so you believe MP3 pirates have actually stolen something off of the retail music shelves as well, then? Digital piracy is the ultimate evil and all that? Supporting strong jail terms for pirates, are you?
The difference between the commons of the industrial revolution and the commons of the digital landscape is that the commons of old was a finite resource. The digital commons is effectively infinite.
Our new present and its future requires the defense of ideas for all.
And MIT is lacking because it doesn’t force commercial users to lie about what they do behind closed doors? Trust me, if they are so inclined, they already do plenty of that. Next, with LLM assistance, all your copyleft code is freely available for word-salad-surgery remix and rebrand with whatever license anybody wants - as it always has been, LLMs just cut the labor required to do so by a huge margin.
Well, yeah, if they have a dominant market position, they can force their customers to do just about anything.
critical stuff like security fixes.
Yeah, that’s straight outta Canonical’s “pay us for extended support” playbook. Which is why I shifted to Debian a couple of years back. Canonical used to add positive value to Ubuntu, now they’ve shifted into the negative from my perspective.
How is MIT a “chance to take over”? It’s a chance to go proprietary with future enhancements, but that’s far from a takeover.
The mit license allows someone (some company) to modify the open source codebase and sell the result without making their modifications public.
That is not equivalent to closure of the commons, that’s some company spinning a proprietary version of something. If they try to sell it, most people won’t buy - most people will continue to use the FOSS version. The people they sell it to may enjoy the proprietary enhancements, but that doesn’t prevent the FOSS community from developing those enhancements in the open if they so choose.
MIT license is not a software patent.
How does copyleft benefit you?
Yeah, it was probably the tablet… ultimately I wanted a phone but the tablet made sense at the time, or would have if they ever shipped it.
All the best to Jolla - I wished their products would have succeeded 10 years back, they did manage to refund half my deposit when they didn’t back then. The world is more turbulent now, that may be a wave that pushes the little boat higher, or capsizes it again…
Know this Jolla crew: US residents also would like your phones to work here.
So, declare your system users’ birthdate as Thu Jan 01 1970 00:00:01 GMT+0000 and get on with life.
There was that recent “malware security” update that crashed so so many systems in airports. I saw more than one Blue Screen of Death that day.
startup costs are basically zero, there is no need for a top end PC, whatever you have now is probably good enough to start.
Unless your true heart’s desire is a faithful Crysis II sequel…
Try it, if you are having fun that’s pretty much all that matters.
Also, don’t expect to have the production value of a AAAAA $800,000,000 development team, even if you do use AI. There’s only so much one developer can do, no matter how sharp they are. There were tons of awesome single developer and very small team games that came out of the 1980s - so, if you can get happy with 8 bit style you might just surprise yourself.
Some companies will also supply Macs - several of my colleagues got MacBookPros just by asking for them. I, unfortunately, missed the “open funds” window and must wait until the current “all POs over X$ must be signed by GOD” phase passes.
I said it was flamebait… only trust it with trust it has earned.