LLMs are stateless. But given an actual database of task-shaped items and some work, I could see the potential.

With a canonical source of truth, and set input/output expectations, the potential blast radius is quite small.

And the end results is.....? What? A todo app that takes 16GB of RAM?

Nothing that Mac and Windows users aren't already used to.

It’s tempting to be flippant about MacOS/windows but in all seriousness, the resources required for an LLM to do the job of a typical lighter weight app/software is a serious consideration. No amount of bloat matches what an LLM needs.

> No amount of bloat matches what an LLM needs.

I don't think that's necessarily true. For instance, LinkedIn uses more memory than Gemma E2B inference does.

LinkedIn is an entirely different category and an extreme case at that. We’re not talking about LLM’s replacing LinkedIn either. It’s an entirely different comparison/discussion.

Finally, we've fully documented the Singularity-is-actually-just-bloated software.

Critical thinking as a skill unto itself was held as incredibly important in my early education. At school, and at home. It continued through undergrad (obviously, I think).

In the past, say 5-ish years, I've been shocked to realize this isn't universal, or at least broadly applicable. Probably more of a result of whatever societal bubble I was born into. I don't know.

The result has been a growing uneasy feeling for me, at work mainly, when discussing just about anything. I have to pause and understand for myself: "Has this person thought through what they are saying?" That's actually become a friction point with me. And it isn't generational from what I've seen.

For my part, the code quality of the next.js dashboard isn't even something I'd evaluate.

I instantly get a quick, functional-appearing view of the offering. I can picture how I might interact with it and what mental gymnastics stand between right now and me pulling out a credit card.

I don't see marketing fluff that bring up more questions than it provides answers. I can be pretty certain I won't wind up in a sales funnel from hell, also.

Right but without at least the effort of a sales funnel I have zero confidence that this guy has thought anything through.

This is a single afternoon vibe-coded project by all indications.

Is this not a greater loss for the government than for Anthropic?

This is where my mind went.

A curious person or two poking around is one thing.

A few hundred, or thousands, of "AI enthusiasts," or however you'd like to imagine OpenClaw users, could likely approach the scale of "a problem."

Well, there are still many overly complex spreadsheets in the SMB sector waiting to be turned into products.

There is no shame in having your work - even software development - be a means to an end.

You are well within reason to work to survive, tuck a little away, and use the rest (of both time and money) to explore unrelated interests and passions. I really enjoy gardening.

The cross-pollination of interests, passions and professional experience may well lead to a fun and interesting project where your $DAY_JOB skills come into their own in a way you’d not expect.

Work to live, not live to work and all that.

Yes. [0]

Time to see how unreliable OpenAI's API is just like when GitHub has an outage every week, guaranteed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36063608

More like the new Google down

So, my client (an HVAC company) is in a more secure position than a government agency. That is disturbing, but not surprising.

This is my biggest complaint when i reflexively type `git log` to get some context on a branch.

There's a `--date` flag which you can use to control this behavior. Also, it depends on your git configuration.