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Just when I felt we were at a point where it was acceptable to slow down progress for the sake of security we are now at a point where the speed is far too attr

by mrits 1y ago

Just when I felt we were at a point where it was acceptable to slow down progress for the sake of security we are now at a point where the speed is far too attractive to both stakeholders and a lot of the actual engineers to worry about the details.

coal320 1y ago
VC firms will be the downfall of the internet as we know it.
- vkou 1y ago
  Should I shed a lot of tears for the demise of the internet as we know it? The internet as we know it kind of sucks.
- leptons 1y ago
  That already happened like 25+ years ago, at least for those who knew the internet before there were ads everywhere.
  - bluefirebrand 1y ago
    I wanna say not quite 25+ 20-ish for sure. Facebook was really the big turning point imo But maybe that's just splitting hairs
    - leptons 1y ago
      The dot-com bubble burst of 2000 was 25 years ago, and that did ruin the whole internet for years, and it was caused by the stupidity of VC investment - more or less the same as the AI bubble is now. I have no doubt that the AI bubble will crash too, it's currently being propped up by the same magical thinking.
      - bluefirebrand 1y ago
        Fair enough. I was like 12. the dot-com bubble didn't affect me at all. I was busy playing videogames online and mucking around in warez irc channels
- righthand 1y ago
  The commercial internet. Every time I hear about a new LLM advancement I look at my legacy project list and do something without it just to upset people when I tell them later about how I didn’t do it in the most efficient way possible and am still happy.
- hsuduebc2 1y ago
  Well it happened few times now. I do not think it as unusual phenomen it's just innovation. Not Always positive one.
oytis 1y ago
That point would be late 90s to early 2000s. We've already got internet, it wasn't full of ads and was used to actually exchange information. Should have just made it faster and more accessible and stopped there

by mrits 1y ago

coal320 1y ago

VC firms will be the downfall of the internet as we know it.

vkou 1y ago
Should I shed a lot of tears for the demise of the internet as we know it? The internet as we know it kind of sucks.
leptons 1y ago
That already happened like 25+ years ago, at least for those who knew the internet before there were ads everywhere.
- bluefirebrand 1y ago
  I wanna say not quite 25+ 20-ish for sure. Facebook was really the big turning point imo But maybe that's just splitting hairs
  - leptons 1y ago
    The dot-com bubble burst of 2000 was 25 years ago, and that did ruin the whole internet for years, and it was caused by the stupidity of VC investment - more or less the same as the AI bubble is now. I have no doubt that the AI bubble will crash too, it's currently being propped up by the same magical thinking.
    - bluefirebrand 1y ago
      Fair enough. I was like 12. the dot-com bubble didn't affect me at all. I was busy playing videogames online and mucking around in warez irc channels
righthand 1y ago
The commercial internet. Every time I hear about a new LLM advancement I look at my legacy project list and do something without it just to upset people when I tell them later about how I didn’t do it in the most efficient way possible and am still happy.
hsuduebc2 1y ago
Well it happened few times now. I do not think it as unusual phenomen it's just innovation. Not Always positive one.

oytis 1y ago

That point would be late 90s to early 2000s. We've already got internet, it wasn't full of ads and was used to actually exchange information. Should have just made it faster and more accessible and stopped there