Yeah although my M4 is more powerful I somehow don't perceive it much and it's so heavy and gets hot. My aging M1 is still snappy for most workloads, the battery holds well, it's light. Only thing I resent is the stupid touch bar instead of proper F keys.

But I'd say it's the exception. In general it's better to wait for later generation.

Vigilantism [0,1] isn't ok in a modern democratic society but if the society tolerates neo-nazis and they get kicked ass it's the least of my problems and far from the terrorism definition.

Terrorism targets the mainstream population, not a bunch of radicals.

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

.

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

.

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

.

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

.

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out

- Martin Niemöller

This plus auto-discovery of nested non-root CLAUDE.mds in a more complex setup (monnorepo or even a big project with different parts)

Beautifully put. Software is ok. It's not going to fix our broken world. If AI could at least find cure for some illnesses that would be great. Or decrease social injustice and help with global warming. But it's likely going to do the exact opposite.

I yearn for the old days of bad photoshop/wordart/powerpoint flyers.

They were visually bad but honest and sometimes soulful or playful.

The AI slop that's everywhere now looks superficially more professional but it's very busy, samey, unnatural and it really turns me off.

I don't want to say this is indicative, but my local library used AI-generated event poster/images for the past year. But recently they switched back to word/clipart event posters. When I was checking out, I query the librarian about it, and apparently they saw a 40-60% drop in attendance. On one hand, I found that hard to believe, but on the other hand, simple word/clipart event posters do have a certain inviting charm about them.

I think that word/clipart posters make it clearer the date and time, with GenAI material you end upo adding a big colorful image that takes most of the space and relegate the important bit to a second place. At least that's what I see around me.

Less violent goes a long way.

In 20 years of my career I haven't seen humans generate correct a11y. When prompted and given quality reference (e.g. UK gov design system) LLMs can nowadays beat 19 out of 20 web devs.

Thanks out can also hook it to Playwright with Axe and let it run assessments.

Then they should stop the development and focus on the identifying of consciousness. But wait, there's money to be made now so screw that and just talk big words to press.

It might be readable to agents but to me it reads like a manic babble.

It's a topic that interests me a lot, I am not a blind AI hater and I can usually stomach LLM prose without issues but I am lost and repulsed here.

Rather cleptocracy. Pedocracy or kakistocracy would also fit.