I have a friend who’s doing this for himself. He owns an AC business. He has need for tools but does not like plunking down money for a feature set that moves him in a direction he doesn’t wish to go. Solution? Create a bespoke internal system of one off apps for his OWN business using an LLM.
He’s not a software developer, he has no concept of software maintenance or security.
I’ve been watching and it’s interesting to me because I would not be surprised that he’s not alone as a small family business. Many probably feel liberated from company’s that would enforce a certain cookie cutter shape.
Does this mean AI is shifting towards contractor jobs more? Does it mean a huge security issue brewing? Both? Maybe business owners turned SWVibers like him will swing back to an off the shelf option once pouring more effort into 3am-my-stuff-is-broke scenarios becomes more of a chore than it’s worth.
I feel like there are a million billion green field projects brewing that will soon turn brown for one reason or another.
> Maybe business owners turned SWVibers like him will swing back to an off the shelf option once pouring more effort into 3am-my-stuff-is-broke scenarios becomes more of a chore than it’s worth.
I mean, that's what, as an industry, we're all desperately hoping for, but, well, shit. ChatGPT-5.5 is quite capable, so if the business owner is disciplined and prompts it with thought, I'm not so sure those greenfield projects are going to turn brown. Hell, if I was an AC business owner, would I rather pay a software startup who think they know the AC business, or pay another AC business owner to use the software they wrote?
"Your job isn't going to be taken by AI, it's going to be taken by someone using AI" -Jenson Huang
Problem is, that person using AI is from outside our field. (Not a problem for the AC business owner who has a new product to sell! Good on them, if they choose to go that route.)
Are you ever supposed to inherit from the protocol though(unless you’re defining another protocol)? One of the great things about protocols is that your class doesn’t even have to know about the protocol explicitly. What this code looks closer to doing (style wise) is an abstract base class
"To explicitly declare that a certain class implements a given protocol, it can be used as a regular base class. In this case a class could use default implementations of protocol members. Static analysis tools are expected to automatically detect that a class implements a given protocol. So while it’s possible to subclass a protocol explicitly, it’s not necessary to do so for the sake of type-checking."
I’m not sure if you were expecting the boo’s to totally drown out the speaker. The audio system for orators in those types of venues are made to focus on the orators voice, not that of the audience. The fact that they were audible at all (they WERE) is to say they were substantial. The fact Schmidt recognized hearing them and from time to time had to pause to make a point means he was speaking through the crowds discontent.
It was a good watch - I appreciated hearing the audible boos. I’m not the only one in the room who is concerned about the adoption of AI being overly cavalier without clear evidence it’s even worth it / or that you go to school and are told great now you MUST learn this, your degree choice (your dream) is moot - the message has been “deal with it”. That’s not to say there isn’t already plenty evidence online that supports the thought, but hearing it from a college campus audience makes me think about what my son is going into right now, that my concern is real.
I’m torn really because I am already benefitting from the tools provided. I can see
their utility. And, though, I actually agree with Schmidt’s overall message - it was truthful and felt genuine, it’s an unfortunate reality. Who’s going to cheer that? So good on him for being naive to that fact or willing to endure an obvious boo fest.
AI’s fun but life is more fun. Speed is fun, but so is sitting down for a sec to chat with friends. Maybe the backlash against AI is because we’re still grappling with the onslaught of the internet and smart phones. The unintended negative effects we have yet to solve today (Schmidt even starts his speech referring to them before he brings up AI almost as if to say, “look how well these blunders went, now hold my beer”). Youth and people in general feel robbed, they have become a cog in someone else’s machine and AI doesn’t free you from it - it’s not like businesses are saying “oh excellent! we can get the work done faster, let’s decrease the amount of hours we make people work to get their wage. Let’s let them benefit from this boon of productivity.” No! The opposite, “We will kick you and if you want to stay, be happy you’re here and willing to run in this fever pitch rat race that has just introduced a rapidly increasing devourer that runs behind you.” … “Want weekends!? AI doesn’t, hmm is that the way you ‘demonstrate what it means to be human’?”
My mind keeps on thinking that what I am really being told is it’s time to start my own business because I will only ever be the person to give me a weekend off.
Showdead is quite a disheartening experience - there’s just so much LLM generated crap. The dead internet theory doesn’t feel as fringe as it once did.
Same here, my home lab is all pyinfra. I’m not sure if it’s my previous experience with ansible that made it simple for me or just the relative size of my home lab compared to larger companies where I’ve used ansible - but it seemed much easier to me and easier to follow.
The most legitimate method would be to buy a physical cartridge and dump it with a cartridge dumper. You'll probably need to clean the pins with isopropyl alcohol and sometimes also a fiberglass pen to get them to read reliably.
I don't have a specific cart dumper to recommend from experience, I have dumped GB/GBC/GBA games but not SNES. A quick search found some options, though.
That being said, I do not think there is really an ethical problem with grabbing someone else's cart dumps, whether you have a cart of your own or not, and legally I would be very surprised if you had any issues in the US at least. The coolest part about cart dumpers to me is for carts with save files, you can "rescue" them from the hardware and preserve your progress. In some cases the save relies on a battery that could go dead at any time.
If you do end up collecting physical cartridges, I would also encourage you to get the actual console, and explore mods for it, get the best video signal out of it you can (RGB or component rather than composite). Playing on real hardware is cool. I'd also recommend getting a flashcart even if you do collect original cartridges, so you can try out homebrew, romhacks, fan translations, and ports. There's a guy who has been porting NES games to SNES.
I cannot recommend Sanni as he seems difficult to deal with and apparently regrets the license he chose, because he is strongly against people selling pre-assembled units which they are entitled to do.
Nobody cares when you play abandondend games from the 1980s and 1990s downloaded from a shady ROM dump site. At the worst Nintendo will go after the emulator project itself.
He’s not a software developer, he has no concept of software maintenance or security.
I’ve been watching and it’s interesting to me because I would not be surprised that he’s not alone as a small family business. Many probably feel liberated from company’s that would enforce a certain cookie cutter shape.
Does this mean AI is shifting towards contractor jobs more? Does it mean a huge security issue brewing? Both? Maybe business owners turned SWVibers like him will swing back to an off the shelf option once pouring more effort into 3am-my-stuff-is-broke scenarios becomes more of a chore than it’s worth.
I feel like there are a million billion green field projects brewing that will soon turn brown for one reason or another.
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