The LLM hype is already running out of training material. And it only ever started because the assholes behind it stole everything they could lay their hands on. They will have known back then that all they were creating was a straw-fire. But obviously, they did hope to cash out really big before it comes crashing down. Looks like that will not not be happening.

While mostly true, for my things this only becomes obvious years later, for example when LLM use has made a code-base completely unmaintainable or an industry cannot get any senior engineers because if failed to hire junior ones. The typical C-level idiot thinks as far as next quarter. Hence while LLMs cannot replace people in most cases (and the productivity gains, such as they are, will probably not translate to revenue gains), the damage done until that become obvious will be spectacular.

The problem with that is that "the crap" is the Windows API and the culture of "software development" MS has created and fostered. It is all rotten. Fortunately, quite a bit will not make it under the EU CRA. That should sent pretty strong signals and will create alternatives. The cost of insecure and hard to use software is impressively high at this time.

It is looking pretty good for that at this time. The essentially deeply fraudulent financing of the AI pushers is getting very dicey at the moment. And the evidence for severe problems with the technology is getting better and finds more things.

Obviously, the AI cultists will deny everything and hallucinate a bright future.

Funny how you cannot even put the info together that you state yourself...

That would take a bit longer. Also, my consulting rate is $300/hour.

Your praying to the AI God is just pathetic. Well, cultists are generally not very smart.

And gross incompetence on top of that. Probably criminal at this level of messing up.

Hmm. Dating a robot suddenly looks appealing!

Then nothing will change.

I am European. But it looks like we will be kicking out the MS crap over the next 10 years or so.

I really hope you are not in charge of network security...

Yep, their site is really annoying and search is exceptionally bad. But they only have me slide on checkout, so that is tolerable if dementedly stupid and the vendors on their site are generally a lot better than the site.

Exactly. If I could get the stuff I want here, at tolerable prices, I would buy locally. But I cannot or I pay 10x more. And then sometimes wait longer because they order the stuff in China. I can do that myself better and faster via AliExpress.

The "local sellers" charge me $50 for 10 carbide mills and they only carry a small selection. The same (!) item off AliExpress costs me $10 with shipping and I can get exactly what I want.

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