ironically, the blog lacks a rel=me link that would make streetpass work on it :)

Oops, added. Thanks :)

..VB6 was to windows dev?

People with very little competence could and did get things done, but it was a mess underneath.

I was never a perl programmer, but this was my impression of basically every perl programmer I have interacted with.

Also, I think Larry Wall's "Diligence, Patience, Humility"[0] is among my favourite articles about programming.

[0] https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/larry.html

I think deepwiki has been popping up in my search results (e.g. for rust.vim) and I did not initially understand what it is. I am not sure I am happy it appeared there at all.

> But ChatGPT is an insane brand

I mean, so was netscape.

This. Netscape was THE browser in the early phases of the Internet. Then Microsoft just packaged IE into Windows and it was game over. The brand means nothing long term. If Google broadly incorporates Gemini into all the Google-owned things everyone already has then it’s game over for OpenAI.

The mass commoditization of the tech is rapidly driving AI to be a feature, not a product. And Google is very strongly positioned to take advantage of that. Microsoft too, and of course they have a relationship with OpenAI but that’s fraying.

To be completely fair the later versions of Netscape were increasingly giant bloated piles of crap while IE slowly caught up and surpassed in terms of speed and features. The first versions IE were only good for downloading Netscape.

Netscape, to a large degree, killed itself.

Not to say IE turned into anything good though. But it did have its hayday.

What's up with the flock of downvotes? I'd never got a comment with so many as this one… Is being younger than 45 not allowed in here?

the time frame matches too, 14 to 20 gives you one day of rest after the last AoC, and then three more days to buy presents before Christmas that you forgot to co :)

I usually do it with ruby with is well suite just like python, but last year I did it with Elixir.

I think it lends itself very well to the problem set, the language is very expressive, the standard library is extensive, you can solve most things functionally with no state at all. Yet, you can use global state for things like memoization without having to rewrite all your functions so that's nice too.

Gemini-cli existed long before Antigravity. It took Google very little.

And the gemini app will come preloaded on any android phone, who else can say the same?

Yes agree with the sentiment - G has the reach for sure.

So despite being preloaded on any android phone, a platform with billions of users, they are still a very distant 2nd to ChatGPT in terms of usage.

the keyword is _will_. New android phones have it preloaded, but the large majority of phones is not a new android.

No, old phones are having it downloaded. It's replacing Google Assistant. And of course it doesn't matter.

what I don't understand is how paying for YT ads can be profitable. I've never clicked on a YT ad _intentionally_ nor I know anyone who did, having asked a few people. I admit the brand awareness works tho.

There's a counterintuitive effect sometimes, which is that the person who tolerates a stupid ad is also more likely to buy the product. This was used by email spammers whose messages came littered with deliberate grammatical errors as an efficient filter against too-smart targets.

maybe the solution is what linux & co used for many years: have a team of people who vet and package dependencies.