I switched to a US keyboard with EURkeys keyboard layout (alt-u for ü etc) and I’m very happy with it. Common keys for programming like backslash, square/curly brackets, pipe, tilde and of course the backticks are just horrible to use on a German keyboard.
An air conditioning device that needs no pipe to the outside you say? It defeats the laws of thermodynamics for only 99€? Shut up and take my money!
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Yeah, I can relate. I’ve been doing consultant work and I always tried to avoid being pushed into the “architect” role. My background for over 25 years was software development and we had a lot of success with agile methods (doing it right is hard but viable and it produces quality software) My experience is that a good dev team does not need an “architect” to tells them what’s best. But all of this is now gone anyway, or at least taking an extended break. At the moment no one is investing in development teams, and the prospect of being able to fire all the developers because AI can do their job now is making CEOs giddy everywhere. Not going to happen (and this should be obvious for anyone who can judge the quality of code or the effectiveness of processes in terms of reliability, quality, cost, performance etc.) but that doesn’t stop them from trying.
Interesting perspective. Software development works different where I come from, the dev part is still very much in control of the developers themselves. However the management lives in delusionville and the expectations are pretty much insane compared to the reality of the actual turnout. My comment above was more about educating the general public… AI results can look pretty compelling unless you decide to have a closer look, and a lot of non-dev people are falling for it. Either because they are dumb and gullible, lack analytic thinking or because they have no real contact with AI and are just exposed to the hype through the media.
Or educate the people around you that “AI” is not the magical fairy dust machine that can do anything imaginable. Might be better than giving them any money at all.
There is a crucial difference though, vibe coding enables people who are neither interested nor capable of understanding what is involved in maintaining a piece of software. Before vibe coding it didn’t even come to this situation: if you can’t write software you don’t need to maintain it. While there were bad coders and bad maintainers before, the numbers have now increased dramatically because everyone can pretend to be a software dev these days.
Just Imagine, some day he will not wake up any more.
Derzeit wird der Begriff “KI” in den Medien in den allermeisten Fällen synonym mit LLMs verwendet. Andere ML Anwendungen kommen meist nur dann ins Spiel um die Nützlichkeit von “KI” darzustellen. Ein lustiges kleines Täuschungsmanöver und es funktioniert jedes Mal. Weil der durchschnittliche Deutsche immer noch ein Faxgerät im Kopf hat.
Ich will damit nicht sagen, dass LLMs generell nutzlos wären. Die Mystifizierung und Anthropomorphisierung (uff, was für ein Wort) der Technologie und der direkt daraus folgende Missbrauch/Falschnutzung sind ein wesentliches Problem. Die Modelle selbst als Wissensspeicher zu missbrauchen führt genau zu der angesprochenen Zementierung des Status Quo.
Ist der Papst katholisch? War Hitler Antisemit? Die Investigativjournalisten der Tagesschau finden es für Sie heraus!
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Der weichgespülte Quark, den Tagesschau da verzapft geht mir schwer auf den Keks. Wenn ich sowas wie “gelten als gemäßigt national-konservativ” höre kriege ich das Kotzen. Muss man das braune Pack mikroklimatisch einteilen? Bringt das irgendwas?