What does it mean?

One can grow up with time but one cannot mature without experience.

So you go and become more mature.

Programming is an art and using LLMs makes you as much of a hack as a visual artist resorting to Stable Diffusion.

Everything matters. From high-level architecture to little details of implementation.

Last time I checked us programmers had preferences for details as small as tabs vs. spaces, or curly bracket placement.

You think I'm going to let a fucking machine make decisions about implementation for me?

Let alone high-level architectual ones?

Everything about your software should have intent, and its impossible for LLMs to actually intend to do something.

So you can fuck right off with that, and while you're at it, stop poisoning the worlds codebases (and drinking supply.)

I mean... The "fuck cloud" crowd were right, unless you actually enjoy house appliances that cease functioning without an Internet connection.

the old crowd is still going strong and have been proven largely correct because what they/we were really against was going from a "you own this software" model to a "perpetual licensing" model with price hikes, lock-in, and everything becoming a service.

it's not completely enshittified, there are lots of great cloud-based services. some long-term, some at various stages of the enshittification curve.

same with AI. it doesn't all suck, and it won't all suck. but a lot/most of it does and will absolutely suck and it will enshittify many things.

So can we fast track the "oh no, they where right after all" and just skip all the bullshit?

Cloud turned out to be largely a stupid idea with a few decent applications that should have been shackled down by consumer protection laws from the get go.

Meanwhile, you sound like "nft is the future of art" crowd that sounded like "bitcoins are the future of money" crowd that sounded like "web 3.0 is here and will always be relevant" crowd that sounded like...

Honestly those people are proven right every time there's a data breach or service goes down for no discernable reason.

I'm still anti-cloud

And in which direction are we going?
Back from
everything into the the cloud
to
Everything back on-premise or a hybrid model

Can confirm, both are an extension of Corporatocracy and the abortion of privacy.

We hate cloud here too, what’s your point?

The difference is that, unlike "AI", cloud hosting actually exists.

Yes I think if software companies put money into easy to setup home servers that would be better than what's available to the average consumer.

I might be the sort of person to keep a 24u rack in their closet, but you shouldn't have to to reap the benefits.

I mean Jesus, even cloud providers know this. Just look at AWS Outposts.

(I admit, I liked the cloud crowd better.)