it's not really a fair characterisation, because he persisted for nearly 10 years dumping enormous investment into the VR business, and still is to this day. Furthermore, Meta's AI labs predated all the hype and the company was investing and highly respected in the area way before it was "cool".
If anything, I think the panic at this stage is arising from the sense of having his lunch stolen after having invested so much and for so long.
“What kids told us about how to get off cigarettes”
While I agree there’s a problem with how helicopter-y society is with kids these days, I think it’s ridiculous to expect kids to resist a device that is designed to be addictive. Teams of tens of thousands of the most highly skilled people in the world are laser focused on squeezing every second of attention out of _adults_ let alone kids. We need regulation, full stop. I don’t know what that looks like, but if you’ve ever seen a toddler scrolling TikTok like a zombie you should know what’s at stake.
I imagine there is a lot of new pressure on public APIs now that there’s an explosion of vibe coded projects accessing them (some probably quite haphazardly).
Uhm, having a weather api is probably the easiest thing to implement because of how catchable it is. Any public api accidental can be prevented by tiered rate-limiting:
- uber low limits for anon access
- low, but reasonable for register free users
- Up-to-you for paid users
You might say: well, proxies are cheaper than paid plan, and solution to that - charge reasonable price.
I understand what the author is getting at. It’s really densely written though, I’m hoping the intent is to express the feeling rather than persuade because (as some of the top comments show) I think it comes across antagonistic to that audience.
I think they’re better for most users without a password manager. I don’t see how your mother example would have a better experience with another password to remember.
I've been evaluating AI code review vendors for my org. We've trialed a couple so far. For me, taking the workflow out of GitHub is a deal breaker. I'm trying to speed things along, not upend my whole team's workflow. What's your take on that?
The good news with mrge is that it works just like any other AI code reviewer out there (CodeRabbit, Copilot for PRs, etc.). All AI-generated review comments sync directly back to GitHub, and interacting with the platform itself is entirely optional. In fact, several people in this thread mentioned they switched from Copilot or CodeRabbit because they found mrge's reviews more accurate.
If you prefer, you never need to leave GitHub at all.
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