You know, after a while this excuse is not valid anymore.

That depends on what you call "Think" we made the interface of LLM of the second "L", Language. And it can hack our perspective of the thing.

> I don't understand how LLMs actually work...

Plot twist, they don't either. They just throw more hardware and try things up until something sticks.

While true, it influences a lot in the EU

I don't think they influence more than France does. But I don't know, I live in Europe but don't care for the EU

If you live in Europe you should care for the EU: not only it's the reason why there hasn't been a war for 80+ years, but if we can have a voice on the international stage it's because we are united instead of 27 small independent countries.

Don’t feel bad! The EU cares about you as much as you care about the EU.

Do you live within the EU, or in europe?

Thankfully, not in the technology area. Eg. we in the post-soviet EU block are well beyond using fax, and stuff like that, ... :)

Not all Kindles can be jailbroken. It's a constant cat and mouse game, and if you get a Kindle with up-to-date firmware, there's a good chance you cannot jailbreak it for now. Once jailbroken, you need to make sure it doesn't auto-update the firmware. And personally, I think one should rather support open devices. Even if Amazon loses money on a jailbroken Kindle (which I doubt), in the end, it still hurts open alternatives.

Because you still paid Bezos and then have a bunch of extra work to do to not make it a strictly interior to a Kobo. Tailscale+Koreader+Kavita on my Kobo Libra Color gives me access to my entire library at all times from anywhere. I read a lot more now after getting one.

In any case you are always the only one to pay they just reduce their margin with the ad flavored version.

To be honest, in my decades working in this, I have never ever saw a Manager that was a good Developer. Maybe it is just my luck.

The best managers of my career have all been developers, and like myself enjoy going up and down the management chain based on the need of the org. My favourite, at age 61 joined a ~250 person company as CTO, but spent his initial, transitional period of 90 days, as a part developer, part meeting listener, quietly learning as one would expect, helping them scale to 800+ people.

He's the example to me, of the career I'm intentionally pursuing. There's tremendous amounts to learn from, and contribute to, everywhere. Sometimes an organization and I best work together with me managing, other times with fingers on the keyboard. Sometimes, there are multiple jobs.

We could recognize that we're in a different era, or at least that's my bias. Roles are increasingly combinations of generalists, especially in the AI era.

My manager is a good developer. But he's also a terrible manager.

I have very much seen that too!

> I have never ever saw a Manager that was a good Developer.

What does that mean? And why should a Manager be a good Developer?

Seems like we are ready heading to what the OpenAI CEO wanted "intelligence just available thru a subscription"

Does ICE needs something?

Internal combustion engine? Hydrocarbons, I guess.

I am now using LLM at 100% at work and producing faster code, while I keep growing my regular skills privately in "old way".

Why? Because when the bubble burst and the companies (including mine) can not pay the 400% price increase and go bankrupt, then I still have keep my brain active and still can do stuff without or less tokens.

What is with the amount of comments talking about other countries in Europe "Doing the same"?