... when are large companies on the hook for anything, ever?

I mean, hypothetically, yes, but class-action lawsuits get settled out-of-court, the lawyers get paid in Ferrari-multiples, the plaintiffs get paid in McDonalds coupons that expire in two weeks.

Slaps-on-the-wrist are written into the laws; a million-dollar fine is existential for a small company, and likely not even a line-item at Anthropic.

I'm sure Omarchy will appreciate the effort, even if you're snubbed by Asahi -- being able to run Linux flawlessly on Apple Silicon is going to be awesome.

I wouldn't expect "flawless" support for those chips in the next decade, even with AI. The earliest-supported Asahi chips still have missing power management and dark silicon.

The only way to get flawless Linux support is to buy hardware from an OEM that supports Linux well.

I'm sure they would: https://tbreak.com/omarchy-m-apple-silicon-linux/

What you want is a Garmin Instinct, or equivalent. Not sure if it does the pertinent-info bit -- mine has Bluetooth off almost all the time -- but it does the rest of what you want, and will run for over a month per charge.

It's funny how these articles always conveniently skip over the most important point: you first have to fill your city with Japanese people.

I don't think this is as absurd as it sounds. Come to the US Midwest. "Wisconsin nice" is a stereotype, and makes us seem a little bit like hicks, but it's real. People really are polite to one another. A friend from one of the coasts observed after a long trip through rural areas by bike: "Nobody tried to kill me."

Sometimes our infrastructure and zoning are awkward, and we're too reliant on cars, but I still think there's hope.

"It looks like you're trying to bypass authorized firmware. I'm sorry, but I won't help you."

We need to start teaching everything in Anglo-Saxon:

"Some of the higher samesteads are splitly. That is, when a neitherbit strikes the kernel of one, as for a showdeal ymirstuff-235, it bursts into lesser kernels and free neitherbits; the latter can then split more ymirstuff-235. When this happens, weight shifts into work. It is not much of the whole, but nevertheless it is awesome."

With me on the older side of things, believe it when I tell you that things actually used to, for the most part, Just Work.

"Simple mistakes" and "process breakdowns" were uncommon, notable, and dealt with quickly. Even the cheap stuff tended to last for quite some time, and was often repairable when it failed.

Enshittification is not only real, it is accelerating.

A substantial portion of software engineering -- and the fundamental jobs of a proper Product Owner and UX Designer -- is to turn "vague ideas about what we need to do" into "this widget, on this page, it should work like this"

It's not a pipeline, it's an ongoing conversation within any functional team, but this requires buy-in from management, who is often selected for "line must go up this quarter no matter the cost" over "hey, wouldn't it be cool if this company was still a going concern in twenty years?"

Variance in time horizons explains a lot of corporate behaviour.

And it’s rational. We all have limited careers.

I think that all makes a bit more sense as we get older. Optimising for short time horizons is not what I strive for, but explains things.

I'm really curious, what sort of work you were having it do such that you could execute multiple days of work with minimal supervision.

I maintain a transit website as a hobby, and I'm building a Flutter app, from scratch. The old pre-COVID one carried mental baggage.

I spent a few weekends building comprehensive plans, designs, user maps, etc with Claude. So it has enough context to make decisions and keep going.

One session lasted over a day, I imagine partly because Fable + superpowers feels slow. I have an app on my phone that I have been test running since Monday on the bus.

What really helps (not sure if Opus used to do this) is that Claude will run through the emulator on its own, verifying that the design aligns with the Figma design system we created.

This is all building on top of 15 years of existing backend and rich features, so it's not a "build me a transit platform from scratch" where AI can end up making bad decisions.

The best project I found to throw it at was cloning llama-server's web UI essentially in one shot. I'm not sure what I'll do with 5 extra days, maybe try to imagine some complex features. I'm no longer surprised at how much seems to work in these "new brain what can it do?" test, and instead think the risk is feeling like I have to take it the rest of the way once I've sunk the token cost :| https://inkcap.click

Yeah, I've been quite skeptical of LLMs, but I was wrong. The new models are capable of generating good quality code reasonably reliably. They still do some dumb things, but it's becoming more capable of one-shotting non-trivial stuff. I've no idea what software development will look like in a decade beyond absolutely nothing whatsoever what it looks like today. Even if we get sublinear progress from now on out, the current SOTA is already enough to redefine coding.

In general I expect the value of software, as a thing in and of itself, to sharply decline. With no barriers to entry, having software that just does something competently will no longer be worth much of anything. It's unclear what that will mean in the bigger picture. It'll also be interesting if this proves correct, given that software companies are largely the ones dumping so much money into this. Another probable outcome is major damage to the support-as-a-service model which again is going to directly affect many of the companies directly enabling this.

I guess the logic is that if you control the systems creating this, you control everything they're used for. But it seems equally obvious that free/local models will catch up to the SOTA today - and eventually tomorrow, so that's not a particularly realistic vision for the future.