I can assure you it won’t be this llama.

Relative to their peers is somewhat more telling. But generally agree.

Jokes on you, a team I work with split their creds into multiple pieces, concatenate them where needed in their bootstrap, and committed then as plaintext in their repo.

Single instance, but still federated is somewhat odd to me. Part of the point of multi-instance was to provide protection against a single instance going off the rails. That’s not to say that multi-instance doesn’t come with its own class of problems, like community fragmentation.

The entire description reads like it was written by a LLM. Fediverse users have a decent nose for generated images, so I’m surprised this generated language flew under the radar.

That said, I can’t fault OP for using AI to build a thing they wanted to build. The plagerism machine is real, but it’s hard to tell people not to use it. Even more so when it’s being used to create something that wouldn’t have existed otherwise (ie it’s not replacing anyone’s job).

Companies pouring money into AI are the ones to look at. Example:

They’re still doing doing great if you zoom out further, but it’s a potential start.

As a developer, our executives and stakeholders have really losed focus. It seems like 10-20 years ago we were being asked to solve tightly scoped problems. Now we get massive sprawling edicts, tons of how I want it, and the result is a very unpolished product. No one seems to care about basics or details anymore. This predates our current AI mess and the AI boom has only made things worse.

Amusingly, I am pretty happy with darktable. The UX is a bit kludgy, but the workflow makes a lot of sense to me. If you’ve used another mainstream RAW processor, like Lightroom, Capture One, or DxO PhotoLab, you’ll quickly be ripping through RAW files once you figure out where the handful of things you’ll frequently use are. Everything I need is supported.

I’ve made a few runs at GIMP over the years, but I’ve given up each time. It’s UI is also kludgy, but the workflows do not make sense to me. They will feel very foreign to someone who cut their teeth in Photoshop like tools. There are a ton of editors that have basically the same workflow as Photoshop. Paint.net is a good example. It’s nowhere near as full featured as Photoshop, but it’s very easy to pick up and run with if you’re familiar with Photoshop.

This is exactly what the mainline frontier labs are trying to do.

Based on the current valuations of their companies. They will likely remain 0.1%ers, but it will still hurt.

Microsoft’s copilot branding is all over the place. Copilot CLI and GitHub copilot (IDE plugin) both let you choose which model you want to use.

They’re fighting some headwinds, but it looks like it’s still full steam ahead.