If this were a place for memes, then I'd share that swimming pool meme with Microsoft holding up copilot while GitHub is drowning.

Then Azure Dev Ops (formerly known as Visual Studio Team System) dead o n the ocean floor.

Although given how badly GitHub seems to be doing, perhaps it's better to be ignored.

why is az devops on the floor? i am having to choose between the clients existing az dops and our internal gitlab for where to host a pipeline, and i don't know what would be good at all

It works fine,it just feels like it has been under a kind of maintenance mode for a while.

There's clearly one small team that works on it. There are pros and cons to that.

It hasn't even got an obnoxious Copilot button yet for example, but on the other hand it was only relatively recently you could properly edit comments in markdown.

If the client has existing AzDo Pipelines then I'd suggest keeping them there.

thank you very much! that copilot comment got me, haha.

I worked somewhere that actually had a great way to deal with this. It only works in small teams though.

We had a "support rota", i.e. one day a week you'd be essentially excused from doing product delivery.

Instead, you were the dev to deal with big triage, any code reviews, questions about the product, etc.

Any spare time was spent looking for bugs in the backlog to further investigate / squash.

Then when you were done with your support day you were back to sprint work.

This meant there was no ambiguity of who to ask for code review, and limited / eliminated siloing of skills since everyone had to be able to review anyone else's work.

That obviously doesn't scale to large teams, but it worked wonders for a small team.

I used it with Sonnet 4.0 a lot, and there was vastly more back-and-forth and correction of "dumb" things, such as forgetting to add "using" statements in C# files.

I don't know if it's model, or harness improvements, or inbuilt-memory or all of the above, but it often has a step where it'll check itself that is done now before trying to build and getting an inevitable failure.

Those small things add up to a much smoother and richer experience today compared to 6 months ago.

It's possible that it already is, given there are already signs of the US administration leaning on AI. Perhaps they're leaning a bit too heavily and getting the kind of confirmation / feedback they crave?

If they then feedback to the AI the outcomes of current actions, who knows where that'll lead next?

I've seen some code reviews go like,

"Why did you write this async void"

"Claude said so".

Is that so far from:

"Why did you use nukes?"

"ChatGPT said so".

It's entirely possible that humanity simply follows AI to their doom.

Does that make me an AI doomer?

Yes, the AI leading one through a human figurehead would probably be the way it happened.

It's the "incredibly banal" comments that upset me. The ones that just re-state the article in one or two uncontraversial sentences.

Often lean slightly pro-AI, but otherwise avoid saying much about anything.

You might be surprised how little money there is in chess.

Total purse was $300k, Magnus got $100k of that for winning.

Which confirms the point, right?

It's not chess but a variant. Maybe it has ~10-100 times less viewer base.

I wish it was more popular - it’s more enjoyable to watch and play since it’s not nearly as much prep / memorization

I suspect Magnus draws a similar level of attention regardless, it's probably closer to half the viewer base

100%.

That essay was written weeks before Opus 4.5 was released which was an inflection point for the ability of Claude code and specifically how well it would work with less guidance.

And by "Deleted immediately" they might mean they delete the image but keep the hash.

It is the failure mode of incorrect trust that has changed.

Previously you might get burned with some bad information or incorrect data or get taken in by a clever hoax once in a while.

Now you get overwhelmed by regurgitation, which itself gets fed back into the machine.

The ratio of people to bots reading is crashed to near zero.

We have burned the web.

I've been miserable over the last few weeks after coming to that same conclusion. Its so bad that i doubt the people that were pulling the strings can even tell whats going on anymore.

If the web is burned, something new will arise in its place (with new constraints) as long as there's a need. It's not like we only get one shot at this.

The constraints being different already make the replacement tangibly different

Maybe it will kill the veil of (perceived) anonimity which tangibly changes how people behave, or maybe the filter will be monetary and the filter will just affect the underclass shifting whatever discourse will be had

We can't act like whatever replaces the current web won't be different, because then there's no reason to change at all

Depends on if someone ends up launching nukes over this, which there isn’t a non-zero chance is going to occur.

This same type of info war tends to muddy, confuse, and get everyone on edge.

Hence dead internet theory has turned into dead internet reality.

It corrupts future AI models too, so we might be holding onto today's models for a long time, as a least biased version as a checksum.

Worked for me in firefox, my best is 2 strokes, the hole in 1 is proving difficult.