The app is called MAX, and it says that in the first sentence of the article.

Sure, assuming the infrastructure to support this doesn't end up costing more. Transaction fees on crypto currency tend to be nuts (which is why it's only speculated on, and not actually used as a currency)

The truth never stopped Slashdot commenters before, and it sure isn't going to now.

We tried that. It didn't go well.

The big rule of LLMs is
Accurate, reliable, helpful, pick 0

An LLM is a neural network, and a neural network is a pattern matcher. Try not to be so condescending.

You're right, that number is absurd. I guess my brain autocorrected it to "the price was 1500% of what it should be"

Drug prices are absurdly high, and in many cases don't have to be. Same with many medical supplies and procedures -- the indirection caused by insurance (most people don't directly pay full price) has really screwed up the economics

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.costplusdrugs.com%2F is an example of an effort to compete, and I hope it's successful.

I think you made this reply to the wrong comment, i was talking about the "agentic" version of windows, is this about this "guy controls a tablet with his mind" story from this morning https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fs...

at any rate, yeah, dystopias for everyone. yay. Still not booting windows though.

Cool! I'll keep not using it.

There are a couple of cloud-based cad programs, like OnShape or xDesign, but if you want everything to run natively pickings are pretty slim on linux. There are more programs on OSX if you're willing to go down that route. I left windows 23 years ago, and every time i come in contact with it I'm happy with that decison.

Programming is literally the easiest profession to self-teach, there are tons of great resources available for free -- I see no ivory towers or gate-keeping of knowledge. Anyone who wants to know how to program, but doesn't, is either too lazy or too untalented to learn. Please elaborate on your position here.

I saw a missive on LinkedIn (i know...) that states that git isn't needed and AI hallucinations are OK because you can just replace the faulty AI generated code with *more* AI generated code. Nevermind that that's probably also faulty.

It *should* be. The software industry is really really bad at figuring out who is qualified to be writing computer programs; knowing how sorting works is more of a shibboleth then a real qualifier.

I feel very bad for people who are entering the field now, because without making a million mistakes they'll never get experience writing programs, and with making a million mistakes they're equivalent to these (cheaper) code generators. I think people with a foothold in the industry will be fine, because as the last generation of qualified programmers, they'll demand COBOL-like salaries cleaning up this mess in the future.

I graduated with a Computer Engineering degree in 2007, and my experience was that there was almost no software used in the entire curriculum, just offline pen-and-paper work, and I suspect I'm better off for it. There were a few professors who required papers be turned in in a Microsoft office format; for me, that meant writing the paper in Emacs, saving to a text file, converting to dos line endings, going to a lab, opening the file as a word document, and saving. A bit of a pain in the butt, but workable.

As far as software, we did use matlab a bit, but i used it on school-owned lab computers not my own. One professor wanted CodeWarrior IDE files, which again, i just wrote the software for gcc, tested it, went to the lab, imported to codewarrior to create a project file, re-tested, and off you go.

Sometimes you have to play the game a bit.