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Comment English dominates vs Tamil && Hindi (Score 2, Insightful) 47

> English dominates Common Crawl with 44% of content. Hindi accounts for 0.2% of the data despite being spoken by 7.5% of the global population. Tamil represents 0.04% despite 86 million speakers worldwide.
 
English dominates because not only are there a lot of speakers, but it is the modern business lingua franca and most anyone who owns a desktop computer today can probably grumble out a handful of statements or questions in english. Hindi and Tamil on the other hand, use completely different writing systems and beyond a couple of clever words have zero vocabulary overlap with "western" languages. Simply due to inertia of 2 billion speakers Hindi/Tamil etc will continue on forever, but I can't see them being targeted by western technology. Americans and Europeans already struggle with cyrillic and it's at least recognizably sorta phonetically similar about half the time. Tamil just makes my eyes glaze over when I see it on street signs in Malaysia or whatever.

Comment Re:Oh Yeah... (Score 1) 23

Have you tried finding a specific app you've used before, perhaps 2 years prior, the good one that's freeware and not ad supported? The play store is atrocious and pushes inferior apps every time over other, better apps. There's 1001 free timer apps but the store pushes garbage on you if you try and search for this. I only use Spotify on my phone, specifically in the car.

Comment Re:Oh Yeah... (Score 1) 23

Google play store has always been horrific, app search is so intentionally broken as to be useless. I might have bought a couple apps in the first opening years but it's not worth it anymore I don't have any "paid" apps beyond uber and spotify, and I'm working real hard to get rid of spotify.

Comment Re:Unlikely... (Score 1) 76

Probably on the computer side, immutable infrastructure will continue to reign supreme. Since 2015 there's been a big shift towards immutable infra/code. You can let AI fart around in lower environments but until everything passes all the tests, it won't get promoted to production (or end-users computers). You can see this in immutable package managers like nix already. Or in the Android case, it's completely locked down on the user side and only changes on major updates. Managing mutable infra is going to phase out over time, especially if AI gets involved.

Comment Re:drive demand for highly skilled software engine (Score 2) 82

The trick I've had to use was to get to the MVP, maybe 800-1600 LOC, and then draw some lines where you see the seams, have it refactor it into 3-6 main files, and split it across there. Then close the conversation and start a new one, and keep iterating. Once a file gets over ~1200 LOC I ask it to split that file and refactor, and summarize any particularly tricky chunks of code. I haven't tried adding new complex large features on an existing codebase, but it seems to be really good at spinning up and iterating on MVP/POC up to ~5000-7000 LOC. I've been burning through my "programming ideas" backlog/list in my spare time with good success, particularly in rust.

Comment Re:Kill it with fire (Score 1) 25

ChatGPT is a better search product than google, traffic decline to SEO-optimized clickbait websites proves this; they're absolutely 100% going to monetize free tier chatgpt with ads, why would they not? Advertising is 70-90% of Google's stable revenue, they would be insane to leave that money on the table. The question is, given they already have paid-tier products, will they offer ad-free products still? Google always offered their products for free in favor of getting more eyeballs to drive ad revenue, because nobody was willing to pay for a search engine. In this instance, the paid product was offered up front, so hopefully paid products continue to offer an ad-free tier (which I'm happy to pay for, fuck ads).
 
Interestingly, Facebook just started offering a paid tier in... I think the UK? Hopefully that takes off and we see that across other advertising-funded , previously "free only" tier services. We got Youtube Premium during the pandemic and that's been a tremendous value for money.

Comment AI Focusing on specific languages (Score 0) 51

I am seeing the same languages focused on over and over for LLMs: rust, golang, python, c++, bash, typescript, java
 
if these are the languages LLMs are universally best at, that's probably what people will continue to write things in, as LLMs work best at those. Claude and GPT5 are phenomenal at writing rust, python, golang, even terraform

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