I am going to need a mac to perform some app build for ios sometimes. I was thinking to get a used mac mini for that. Would the neo be a cheaper, but still viable option?

What an interesting and very apt choice of name!

Edit: I feel like it needs the addition that Coccinelle was the stage name of Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy (1931), a French performer and probably the first celebrity who underwent a transition from male to female.

Here is what worries me the most at the moment: we're in a period of hype, fire all the developers, we have agents, everybody can code now, barrier is not low - it's gone. Great. Roll up a year from now, and we have trillions of lines of code no human wrote. At some point, like a big PR, the agent's driver will just say yes to every change. Nobody now can understand the code easily because nobody wrote it. It works, kinda, but how? Who knows? Roll up another few years and people who were just coding because it's a "job" forget whatever skill they had. I've heard a few times already the phrase "I didn't code in like 10 months, bruh"...

Then what?

Not saying I'm not using AI - because I am. I'm using it in the IDE so I can stay close to every update and understand why it's there, and disagree with it if it shouldn't be there. I'm scared to be distanced from the code I'm supposed to be familiar with. So I use the AI to give me superpowers but not to completely do my job for me.

I think the idea is that by the time those trillions of lines of code start to cause maintenance problems, the models will be good enough to deal with those problems.

We'll see, I guess...

That won't solve the problem that humans will lose the skill to write code. It will become a hobbyist pass time. Like people listening to 8-tracks now...

Why is that a problem?

Sewing by hand is mostly a hobby but it doesn't seem to be a problem for the textile industry. Planting seeds by hand in a field is a hobby too. So is cutting down trees with an ax.

It sucks but our skill set is (or will soon be) worthless. If it's a consolation, the same is true for anyone who makes money with their brain.

That won't be a problem -- again assuming the vision comes to pass -- any more than the inability to write Latin and Greek holds anyone back today.

But Greek and Latin don't underpin our entire planet's infrastructure... Software does.

A better analogy might be to point out that microprocessors run everything, but almost no one needs to know assembly language anymore.

That's almost me. I've always used Facebook as a tool to keep in touch with friends around the world. My friend list is 95% people I know in real life. A small fraction of them still posts. I also get a lot of slop in between. The filler posts. I am waiting for a Facebook resurgence or a Friendster comeback.

When your surname is McCracken, you're kinda obligated to write an adventure game...

I love it. The aesthetics are fantastic. Can this record a video as well?

Not at the moment, but sounds like a great extension to build!

Work around would be to screen record

They made the data accessible though. From what I can gather, before them, the data was only accessible via old windows apps. If the source of truth is locked and gated, what good is it?

Should we always send the source of truth to a private company to have it repackaged and presented in a more inoffensive manner?

You can get the daily court listings for free online. I would assume this service just provided a ux-friendly front end,etc. which in the clip the minister says they will be replacing.

It's not just the historical data - they provided what is effectively a live stream of events from the courts in real time, allowing you to aggregate and filter it. This is not trivial.

Between not delivering the data to AI companies, and barring it altogether is a fair distance. As far as I know, the MoJ is in talks with openAI themselves (https://www.ukauthority.com/articles/ministry-of-justice-rea...).

I've looked into the Courtdesk service. It's a stream of events from the courts, as they happen. They claim up to 12,000 updates in a 24 period, aggregated, filtered and organised. While court judgements are public, I don't know if the information Courtdesk provides is. This is a worrying direction.

If the sources of these event data are not public, your worry would be understandable. But if not public, what are these sources then?

They are non-propagated/effectively hidden.

If you don't "know about them from another source" you can't effectively find/access the information and you might not even know that there is something you really should know about.

The service bridged the gap by providing a feed about what is potentially relevant for you depending on your filters etc.

This mean with the change:

- a lot of research/statistics are impossible to do/create

- journalists are prone to only learning about potentially very relevant cases happening, when it's they are already over and no one was there to cover it

I kept digging and reached the service https://www.courtserve.net. Seems like a windows application (old school one) that receives the data, but I need more time to explore there. They've been working with MoJ for 20 years (their claim). Initially I thought they have people at the courts live reporting but that's a bit of a stretch...