David Kobia

Software developers are conflicted about ceding control of software development to LLMs. There's a good middle ground where the LLMs help us solve problems faster, optimizing for outcomes because many of us lose sight of the actual goal when we get distracted by implementation details.

The AI generated components of a large codebase are now the hardest to debug.

GitHub - suitenumerique/docs: A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales. Built with Django and React. Opensource alternative to Notion or Outline. A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales. Built with Django and React. Opensource alternative to Notion or Outline. - suitenumerique/docs

Very cool project supported by the French and German governments. Such efforts save tax payers money in the long run and benefit everyone.

github.com/suitenumeriq...

I wore a one-horsepower exoskeleton to the world’s biggest tech show It felt like an extra energy tank in a Metroid game.

If you've ridden an e-bike then you understand how cool something like this is:

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Vibe coding with Cursor is phenomenal. However, I can’t think of a time when unit tests were more important. I’ve noted occasional inconsistencies in large codebases where the context is pushed to the limit. It is not infallible.

I felt like such a boomer telling our Cursor devs that I'm still on Jetbrains products. I use ProxyAI and Copilot in the IDEs which brings it up to about the same level. Mostly I just like that Jetbrains is opinionated to the specific language and packaged with everything out of the box.

AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving - let's look at the data Traffic trends from WebMD, Quora, Stack Overflow, Chegg, G2, CNET, Reddit, Wikipedia, and Substack!

The advent of AI has a negative impact on the companies you'd expect - Stack Overflow, Quora, G2 etc.

The very pleasant outcome is the rise of user generated content on Reddit and Substack.

www.elenaverna.com/p/ai-is-kill...

DeepSeek-R1 models now available on AWS | Amazon Web Services DeepSeek-R1, a powerful large language model featuring reinforcement learning and chain-of-thought capabilities, is now available for deployment via Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI, enabling us...

Run DeepSeek R1 on AWS for ~$70k/month or run it on local with 2x H100 80GB… wild
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You know it’s bad when even “DEI”, can’t provide enough cover for a bigot.

Perplexity’s Deepseek prompting combined with retrieval augmentation is impressive. My direct ones not so much. Here’s an example:

The Deepseek chain of thought is wonderful to see. I didn't realize how much I'd enjoy watching someone (something) really smart think through a problem.

Perhaps I’m one of the few that think this is one of the things he’s actually honest about and niggles at him.

Tragedy of the commons

Deepseek’s arrival provokes so many questions about this industry highlighting the fact that the emperor has no clothes. It is truly an existential moment for incumbent A.I. companies

I'm almost afraid to start the second season for fear of disappointment. The first season was phenomenal.

Bad UX is a crime! I'd add security too as a reason for switching. Most banking apps offer sms/voice as the only second factors.

The flutter core adds about 4mb while the react native one adds 8mb to an app at a minimum.

Google’s flagship apps are completely native with Kotlin, Java, Swift & Objective C which makes them much faster and secure than any cross platform framework ever could be.

I imagine large companies commit to React Native for the same reason I did. Mature libraries and I could find and hire engineers. But for the last reason I’d go with Flutter. Dart is both type safe and much much faster than JavaScript.

The selection of non-alcoholic drinks now vs before the pandemic is astounding, with terms like nootropics and adaptogens entering the lexicon.

RTO mandates are about control rather than productivity and right now higher unemployment strengthens employers leverage. They do it because they can.

While BYD has achieved scale, the quality of the software is highly questionable (custom Android). That you can sideload apps into their system tells you everything you need to know.

YouTube video by Everything Electric Show The Man Behind The Best-Selling Truck In 50 Years - Ford CEO Jim Farley | The Fully Charged Podcast

Jim Farley does a great job explaining why legacy companies have such a hard time with software. TLDR: There's a multitude of modules in the car from suppliers each with their own software systems that don't talk to each other.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IhS...

Rails/Ruby are experiencing quite the renaissance. Solid Queue and Solid Cache are fantastic. Also applauding the effort to reduce software and infrastructure dependencies.

That we've been wrongly shrink wrapping dinosaurs and that they shrank and became birds is mind blowing.

Because AI IDE's can't currently hold the entire context of a large project in memory, it leads to incomplete understanding, strange bugs and functionality. I for one welcome our new overlords, but ceding full control to a moving context window is playing with fire.

Well done! I used to do this over the holidays but tougher now with kids. The App Stores definitely have the built in gate keeping mechanism but generally very rewarding for developers. You should spend some time on ASO or Search Ads if you had a few extra dollars to validate one of these.

The real culprits in all of this, are large consulting firms - Cognizant, Tata, InfoSys, HCL etc. They game the system, suck up most of the H1B visa slots, pay their workers well below prevailing wages and bill for expensive hours after placing them in many large companies you know.

Maybe not you, however the fact that character.ai exists means there are people that do.

Meta's running ahead of the curve as usual. AI-Native social networks might actually be something people want. If your real friends suck, why not have fake ones that engage? After all in the metaverse you won’t know who’s actually human…