There is no getting around the fact that projects that used to take man-years are possible in an afternoon now.

And this is the worst this technology is ever going to be :)

Don't take my word for it, go try building something that you always wanted to build but did not have time for. If you do not have something like that at the back of your head, I doubt you have to be concerned about this topic.

What did you build that would have gotten man years before?

Adobe Illustrator clone that plays well with latex for drawing diagrams in papers.

That's awesome! You could probably put Adobe out of business if you charge 10% their price.

If you did Illustrator in an afternoon it should only take a week or two for the whole product line?

No, that's not how it works.

It implements the (pretty large) subset of the tool I personally need.

But everyone needs a different subset, and maintaining a coherent codebase that supports everyone's need is difficult.

What could put Adobe and others out of business is everyone reaching for Claude code, cursor or codex the next time they need complex software tailored to their use case instead of the one size fits all software that is commercially available.

> Since the last several months, your US visa will be rejected if you do not submit public social media profiles.

I don’t think this is true. You can get a visa just fine if you don’t have social media profiles. Source: me. I don’t have facebook, insta, twitter etc and travel to the US just fine. When I filled in the form I left those empty.

What I think you can’t do is get a visa if you have social media profiles and choose not to disclose them or you post things or have friends/links on your social media that cbp considers elevates your risk etc.

Leaving it empty is getting visas rejected nowadays.

Can I just ask gpt to ask me questions to create my profile directly? I can't be bothered with any social media. Whatever it is supposed to addict me with is missing, I just find it all very boring.

I got into the USA in September last year. On my esta I put a private instagram account I begrudgingly made to talk to some friends, and my LinkedIn. I guess that’s enough data?

They swiped through the photo gallery on your phone, right? (Standard for years from what I know based on Latin America to USA)

> you need aerospace or space-qualified screws

This is, largely, a scam made up for costs plus contracting.

This is an interesting problem to solve.

I wonder if it is possible at all to have anonymity without admitting bots.

We just had a president of a prominent non profit publicly present AI generated slides with all sorts of hallucinations ;)

Great, except most bots don't use the API directly. They look like normal users to the server for the most part.

Google has spent billions trying to distinguish bots from users. And has been largely unsuccessful n

Seems like it would be relatively simple no? They control the app itself? Wouldn't it be trivial to put a signature to the app and see the typing speed, user actions, etc?

Google is doing that, you know all those "I am not a robot" things? Those are made by google mostly and uses a lot of such signals. Its not just clicking the right things its also how you click etc.

The reason some of those just have a checkbox without a challenge is that they already are sure enough so how you move to click the box is enough then.

This would be about as trivial as it'd be for YouTube to block yt-dlp.

I just gave it a try and all the state of the art models successfully avoided the tropes when told to.

> market has hardly reacted at all

Guess who acqui-hired Groq to push this into GPUs?

The name GPU has been an anachronism for a couple of years now.

This is, roughly, a measure of how old your civilization is.