I have to wonder how GenAI would have fared if these LLMs had become available anytime before 2020, during the “normal” tech bubble. It feels like the faith in it is as much to slash costs while appearing to be cutting-edge (and thus, worthy of what little investment is still available), as it is because of its capabilities. Where would we be if the tech industry wasn’t in such a dire state due to the end of ZIRP?

Because interest rates gone up, tech bubble hype now almost exclusively focuses on AI, and SaaS was commodified a decade ago?

Maybe they'll do something like what Anna’s Archive did

Turns out all of the frenzy of the ZIRP era is piddling compared to what happens when ZIRP is taken away.

To be fair, the shoppers of the InfiniteAppStore can still bikeshed endlessly about the merchandise.

Ironically, this kind of performative outrage (over a performative thing or not) is also very Gen X or millennial-coded. I can’t even. Take a chill pill.

> is also very Gen X or millennial-coded. I can’t even.

irony, much?

Don’t have a cow, man

No.

You’re so Julia

Really the previous comment should have mentioned Yelp, and perhaps Tripadvisor for non-American customers.

Before SyFy self-imploded a decade ago it had multiple “ragtag rogues adventure across a sci-fi setting with frontier elements” - Dark Matter, Killjoys, Defiance. Feels like the subgenre Firefly occupied is well-settled by now.

I mean, how often do we feel the same thing about the compiler?

What the compiler will do is highly predictable. What an LLM will produce considerably less so. That is the problem.

I don't feel this? When my code breaks, I'm more likely to get frustrated with myself.

The only time I've felt something akin to this with a compiler is when I was learning Rust. But that went away after a week or two.

Never? I can rely on the compiler to pretty much do the same thing every time. If I broke some rule, it points out where and what it is.

Every time there’s an article about the “good ol’ days of Hollywood” I like to trot out this comic strip- looks like last time I posted it was five years ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201112024059/https://www.gocom...

Hollywood has been a franchise and licensed IP sequel/remake/reboot farm since the ‘80s, since Star Wars and Jaws blockbusters killed off the experimental period of New Hollywood. And even before that it was Cecil B. DeMille bombastic productions and westerns and musicals everywhere. The movie industry has always been characterized by crowd pleasers.