Actually "AI slop" was late 2025 and early 2026.

There's still some slop, but no where near as bad as a few months ago - that's the terrifying speed of how quickly AI is improving.
I'm sure by end of this year, beginning of next, it will be hard to come by.

It's terrifying how realistic photos and videos look, that it's become exponentially easier to create fake content to spread hate and division - it takes seconds to create, and hours or days to debunk and prove it's fake.

I think that's the reason watermarks especially in photos and videos is so crucial.

For context, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.8 were only released just over 3 months ago, and already far outdated in "intelligence" and various benchmarks compared to the newer 5.5 models.
Similarly GPT-5.5 was released just over 5 months ago, and already lagging far behind GPT-6 Astra and 6.1 Sol - in various tasks especially coding and physics.

It's not "speculative layoffs", it's real people and real lives transformed.

A consultancy I worked at has gone through laying off hundreds of developers and business analysts, including many senior developers. Due to AI, you only need a handful of developers now, just to review/test code and at the odd times, make up the shortfall in AI.

Some devs claim AI is rubbish, but in my experience those are the people who used GPT-4 or earlier models and made up their mind, or those that try to feed it endless lines of code forgetting it has a context window.

There's many designers and artists in similar position. Where a company required a content writer/editor and designer, much of it is now done by AI.
An example is a senior manager portraying how great the company is doing with a presentation with pretty amazing side pictures as though it was put together by a professional designer in the consultancy... but nope, it was all AI generated :(

As far as I know, Eich has sadly left Mozilla completely and now working for the company he founded: Brave Software.
So your posts to "reinstate" are useless.

No doubt a great loss to mozilla and the user-base.

Firefox was around 3% market share on desktops and many consider it a dead browser.
It's risen in the past few months to ~6% and still gets little or no notice.

Sadly I still haven't come across a single dev or manager (or even anyone in marketing dept) using Firefox as their main browser - other than me.

For anyone else wondering what this is about.

Basically Jev is a layer (like a service) in an application which makes decisions and outputs a simple json which is used by the dev to carry out an actions. So essentially it takes unstructured data, and makes a decision like priority, or urgency, or apply a flag, etc.

So in a ticket system, to decide urgency and department;
Or in deciding whether a message posted on a board needs moderation or is harmful;
Or to monitor logs and decide on urgency of event, or to flag certain things;
Or to monitor and inform if an AI agent might perform a destructive operation.
Etc.

It doesn't itself carry out actions, only decide and output a structured json.

In short: unstructured input goes in, a constrained decision comes out, and the surrounding software decides what to do with it.

heh, funny.

I get the sentiment, but I actually use an iPhone SE (1st gen), so almost a decade old device.
I refuse to spend more than a couple hundred on a phone which I use mostly only for whatsapp, maps, and websites. No other apps.

My criticism is not that companies are allowed to make money, rather my beef with capitalism is when it goes unchecked and where it grows to such an extent that it can become more powerful than governments and can use its capital to bribe politicians - "lobbying" and revolving door. Essentially putting companies and their profit before people.

See also: thalidomide, oxycontin, bextra, etc. And the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc, and the deaths and suffering of countless people in other regions.

Itâ(TM)s quite disappointing, even though privacy is maintained, which is great, itâ(TM)s just another example of a capitalist company using any means to make more money⦠like bigpharma, military industrial complex, etc.

> "including rape and death"

This is false and highly exaggerated.
I would argue Morocco is safer than many parts of the US and some parts of UK. Especially for foreigners, as much of the economy depends on tourism.

Even with limited or no surveillance, the police is incredibly skilled and carry out pure old-fashioned detective work, especially when a foreigner is involved.

People genuinely fear the police as they are merciless if they see any crime (unless given corruption and where a foreigner is not involved).

Although exaggerated and hyperbolic, the general premise is true.

I've lived in various nations, including for a while in Morocco (near the capital Rabat, and a smaller village north of Kenitra).

Many people see the west as a role model of equality, justice, employability, and money. It's only the very wealthy in Morocco that enjoy fairness as they can give corruption. For the rest, they want to escape due to: -

1. Fairness and justice
2. Employment
3. Healthcare and equality

Morocco has virtually no healthcare system (mostly a facade), and almost all medicines are imported at 2x/3x the cost.

Ring is far worse, yet receives little to no scrutiny.

Flock is bad, but not to the same degree as Ring, which is ubiquitous across the US, Canada, UK, etc.

Quite sad that in the UK, the company and HR have won with forced return-to-office mandates, and there's been very little or no push-back by staff.

It's almost impossible to come across any job which is fully remote in UK now, unless it's a job from USA or a European company.

After reading opening paragraph, that was my first question.

The other slashdot article has a bit more info, specifically that they tried various other languages including C#.

Seems to me that pretty much any language will be faster than JavaScript, even php!

After reading that link, that quote makes sense now :)

Thanks for the laugh! :D

Don't you have any shame and get tired of repeating the same tired talking points of the zionists?

Iran has supposedly been 2 weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon for the past 30 years?!

Meanwhile in the real world, Iran's ayatollah published a famous religious edict (fatwa) banning nuclear weapons development, and Iran has been a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty (NPT) along with the JCPOA and UN inspectors have always stated there was no evidence of a nuclear weapons program.

Even the CIA admitted their intelligence showed Iran was not pursuing a nuclear weapon, and Tulsi Gabbard stated as much just before the war.

All the while, the rogue terrorist zionist regime has never signed the NPT, nor joined the JCPOA, nor admitted to stockpiling nuclear bombs despite intelligence to the contrary⦠and having the "Samson option"!

It's rather amazing that many now believe Iran should have just gone ahead and developed a nuclear weapon, it might have kept the terrorist apartheid regime from launching massacres every few years with their neighbours - or, "mowing the lawn" as the zionists like to say.

All this because America on behest of their master in the terrorist apartheid regime started an illegal war against civilians.
Marco Rubio stated as much, that America was pulled into the war.

Not only has that made Iranian people side more with their government, especially after revelations that Trump was providing weapons to protestors early in the year, but the new government has become more hardline.

Imagine if Iran unjustly attacked America to "save Americans from their Epstein paedophiles and corrupt MAGA politicians", while bombing a children school in New York on the first day, and then going on to destroy other schools and hospitals in the following weeks - you wouldn't become more patriotic and rally around your government to go after the attackers?!

Iran is doing exactly as they stated they would, and gave us at least a year's notice of their intentions to close the strait, and bomb American interests in the Middle East - also exactly what the terrorist apartheid regime wanted: they want to destroy the Middle East, especially UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia as almost half of Saudi Arabia is part of the "Greater Israel project".

Thanks to the terrorist apartheid regime, we have been giving over 20 years of warnings to Iran to destroy their country - they had plenty of time to prepare.
Remember former NATO commander and US Army General Wesley Clark shortly after 9/11: plan to “take out” seven countries in five years, naming Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran.