Thanks for confirming! That’s the box I saw as well, after clicking on it it said I will get an email in five business days - and it really took the whole five days.

I don’t see it anymore either. Might be they’re testing out this feature and not all users get to see it.

I also think they’re more cautious about the EU. There are less consumer protection laws in the US, so they get fucked first.

If you want to try it out yourself: This is the book where it happened. Despite that email I can see all of the reviews again, so maybe it’s a feature they’re testing out.

It’s really shady to have a rating system and hide ratings within that system. Why have it at all then?

Did you just pull a random infographic out of your ass without even mentioning the source? I reverse-searched it and it comes from Anthropic, of all places - the guys that run Claude Code.

Forbes took a look at that study, I love this money quote from it:

These flaws turn Anthropic’s dataset into an overstated labor-market conclusion. The study’s findings do not have the level of reliability required to sustain the breadth of the headline framing, because each conclusion rests on an exposure measure whose scope (1), construction (2, 3, 4, 5, 7), and interpretation (6, 8, 9, 10) remain contested.

So yeah, an AI company telling us that AI will theoretically replace our jobs, based on their own study with flawed data - damn, that’s trustworthy! /s

I’m not going to argue anymore. It’s pointless.

At least on this point we agree.

I’ve built things that used to take 20 weeks in 1 week with Claude.

That’s ridiculous. You’ve either been a bad coder even before the AI hype or you’re simply lying. I have used these tools and they’re not that good or make you that fast - except when you’re just merging all of the proposed code blind and hope for the best. I fear for the future colleagues who will have to work with the raging dumpster fire you have created for them.

The company with the strongest coding LLM is Anthropic and it doesn’t sound like they’re having financial difficulty

Oh yes, they have the same problems OpenAI has. Just look into the vibecoding subreddits, you can see many people complaining about excessive rate limits and their models getting dumber. A healthy company wouldn’t try to put a cap on the token useage and introduce peak-hour throttling, that’s a big warning sign that they’re overspending as well.

its hard to deny the reality at this point

I only see one person here denying reality. You will be effed in a major way when your employer one day decides that the subscriptions are too expensive or tell you to limit your token useage.

It sucks, but this is the new reality.

Sorry mate, but you drank the AI koolaid from Sam Altman and the other tech oligarchs. The reality is that all of the major AI companies are deep in the red, OpenAI isn’t even making a profit with the 200$ subscription.

The only reason people are able to burn thousands of tokens to vibecode their apps is that they don’t have to pay the price for that, the companies are. This money will run out soon and then we will see the real cost for the bigger models.

If a subscription for Claude Code costs 500$ or even 1000$, will companies still pay for it or let actual humans do the work? We will see. I seriously doubt it, and I don’t want to depend on a subscription-based service to do my work while my skills are atrophying. Thank god my employer doesn’t force me to use AI.

Engineers are definitely going to lose their jobs

This kind of fear-mongering is what I despise most about the whole bubble.

There is one SD card slot and one MemoryStick slot.

I tried finding a good case, but all of them are just rotten at this point. I even got the one with the integrated nightlight and it turned into literal dust in my hands.

At this point I am honestly considering making my own, out of some leather. It can’t be that difficult, can it? :D

I absolutely love this thing. It’s a solid block of metal and will probably live longer than me. It chokes on ePubs with embedded fonts sometimes (64MB of memory is not a lot), but with Calibre you can strip them out and then they all work fine.

Amazon is “discontinuing support for Kindle devices released in 2012 or earlier”

And here’s my Sony PRS-505 from 2008 - released four years earlier - it still works fine, can read .epub and .pdf, is extendable to 32GB capacity by two memory cards and moddable with a custom Linux distribution (PRS Plus).

It also doesn’t have WiFi, so no one can remotely delete 1984 from your library. Fuck you, Amazon.

CDU is not denying the holocaust, but doesn’t seem to have a problem working together with the people who do. It’s increasingly concerning.

They’re not outright fascist, but they’re paving the way for them.

It was great!

The Expanse and For All Mankind. It already feels a bit like FAM is a prequel anyway.

If only the operating system wasn’t pure garbage. MacOS has never been particularly great, but lately I feel like they let the AI do too much coding work, with so many small glitches piling up with every update.

• The menu bar only flies down when my mouse pointer is one pixel below the upper edge of the screen instead of right on it
• The volume icon jumps up and down in the OSD when I change the global volume
• I have to precisely target either a folder icon or its accompanying text in the Finder app. They both belong together, but nothing happens when I click on the space between them.
• I can tile some programs half&half on my screen, but not all of them.
• I have to confirm using the same USB dongle every time I boot up the device without getting an option to remember my choice.
• Every time I want to install an unsigned app I have to try opening it, acknowledge the refusal message and then go deep into the system settings to force opening it up anyway. Giving me a “Run this app anyway” option like everyone else seems to be too hard.
• Every time I want to install a free app from the AppStore, I have to put in my iCloud password. Even if I install them right after each other. They surely could remember my choice for a minute and not bother asking me ten times in a row.

Apple fans often claim their OS is perfect and so much more userfriendly than the competition, but it’s actually getting more and more outdated and annoying to use with each release. Multimonitor support is still garbage, the Finder feels like it hasn’t had any meaningful changes for over a decade (to the point where even Windows Explorer outshines it now) and Liquid Glass really showed the world that they’re out of ideas. MacOS is just rotten software at this point.

I also don’t get why the Macbook Neo is hyped up so much. It’s a device that throttles under load, because the CPU doesn’t have a heatsink (which surely can’t be good for longevity) - and 8GB of RAM will make it obsolete really fast.

My employer is also very skeptical about AI. No one forces me to use it, they just trust me to build up my projects in a maintainable way. It really feels like I’m on a ship carefully navigating through a storm right now. I’ve had a lot of jobs in my lifetime, and this company finally feels like one that might keep me forever.

I once shat my pants at work after drinking too much coffee and left a little stain on the chair. After my shift I swapped the chair with one from a morbidly obese coworker, who was absent that day.

Either everybody knew or nobody knew.

PHP pays my bills, so I’ll continue using it. Sometimes I even have fun while doing so. There are more important things to get angry about.

Same movie for me as well! Two people got bored halfway in and didn’t stop talking until the end. It baffles me why. They must’ve known what they were getting into after watching the first Dune movie, which is also pretty lengthy and doesn’t contain nonstop action.

I only used the “Shut the fuck up” call during a showing of the last Paddington movie. There were two girls who used their outside voices and didn’t stop for the first thirty minutes and that angered me quite a lot. The room was packed and no one else told them to shut their mouth. Thanks for not backing me up to the rest of the society, I guess… 😑

People who talk during a movie or fiddle with their fucking smartwatches or phones constantly can all go to extra hell.

Again? Oh well… unzips pants