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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine confirms it will produce 10 million drones in 2026, rising to 20 million, as it signs a massive $1.1 billion 'drone deal' with the EU⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Jebus, so that’s why folks are saying drones will dominate warfare. That is a lot of drones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Vegas devs Obsidian are reportedly working on a new Fallout game, and only Microsoft could make news I've waited half my life for taste this bitter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Feels like a weird decision from a business point of view, too, to gut your studio right as you come up with new projects for it to tackle.

  Maybe those devs aren’t needed in the early stages of these new projects and they expect to be able to rehire when they are. That’s still short-term thinking, but at this point, I would be surprised, if anything at Microsoft happened even with just this much rationale.

  There’s probably one decision that they need to milk their cash cows some more, and an entirely separate decision that they need to bolster their numbers for shareholders to be happy with this quarter. And the only time those decisions crossed paths, is in some middle manager who’s told to make the impossible work…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Slop is Killing Online Communities⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “I rewrote Kafka in COBOL”

  Oh man, it’s late here and I thought to myself “How would you rewrite a Kafka novel in COBOL?”… 🥴

  (In case, anyone actually isn’t aware, they’re talking of Apache Kafka.)

  In general, though, yeah, I also find it cumbersome how much noise these toy projects add. Actually usable software involves so much more than just dumping some code into a repo.

  Nevermind that even just useful software requires you to not rewrite existing software in a worse way. You need to actually come up with something novel, which requires tons of design decisions.

  Letting the LLM auto-complete those is a lot harder, because 1) you need to actually describe design goals rather than just telling it “do it like Kafka”.
  And 2) because those design goals will be wrong every so often, and/or the detail decisions that you outsourced to the LLM. And then you still need to painstakingly find out what those detail decisions were, so that you can correct the decision.