ManuelKiessling

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by ManuelKiessling 10mo ago
Call me a naïve fanboy, but I believe that Apple is still one of the very few companies that has an ideologically better approach that results in technically better products. Where everyone else sells you stuff to make money, they make mone
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by ManuelKiessling 11mo ago
The difference is that every single one of those previous AI winters didn’t show up in the stock market valuations — not even a little bit.
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by ManuelKiessling 11mo ago
I think what people want in the long term is truly malleable software: https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/11/04/what-if-software-shi...
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by ManuelKiessling 11mo ago
I really wonder why the PC is a different story. What is it that makes it special in this regard?
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by ManuelKiessling 11mo ago
Living on the edge is expensive, and always has been. Living on the edge from 4 years ago is basically free.
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by ManuelKiessling 11mo ago
I know this is semantics pedantry, but there has never been an „Internet bubble“, only an „Internet-related stock market bubble“. It’s not as if there were ten million people using and/or building on the Internet, and then this bubble
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by ManuelKiessling 11mo ago
The problem is, we need to. It’s simply insane how many stupid, malicious requests we get without it, and we honestly are a small, unimportant site. If we don’t filter all this crap out, our metrics become basically meaningless, and our Dat
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by ManuelKiessling 11mo ago
Well, let’s be honest — users of VPNs regularly don’t know what they are doing, too. Can’t count how often I‘ve heard otherwise technologically literate people saying how they use a VPN (NordVPN e.a.) because „something something security
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by ManuelKiessling 11mo ago
Well, they delivered something that is usable and useful for me and my team, and a lot of people I know, and I guess that’s what counts in business?
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by ManuelKiessling 11mo ago
Model companies running inference at a profit — do you have a good source for this?
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by ManuelKiessling 11mo ago
I‘m trying to create an app skeleton plus tooling that allows to build serious business applications on top of Symfony, where you don’t run into architectural trouble even with very complex apps: https://github.com/dx-toolin
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by ManuelKiessling 1y ago
I think there might be a middle ground that could be worth exploring. On the one hand, there’s „classical“ software that is developed here and deployed there — if you need a change, you need to go over to the developers, ask for a change &a
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by ManuelKiessling 1y ago
That’s my whole point: Why does it seemingly „average down“ to a style that was not encountered „on average“ at the time that LLM training started?
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by ManuelKiessling 1y ago
It absolutely was a trend right before LLM training started — but no way this was already the style of the majority of all tech docs and PRs ever. The „average“ style, from the Unix manpages from the 1960s through the Linux Documentation Pr
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by ManuelKiessling 1y ago
Why have the LLMs „learned“ to write PRs (and other stuff) this way? This style was definitely not mainstream on Github (or Reddit) pre-LLMs, was it? It’s strange how AI style is so easy to spot. If LLMs just follow the style that they enco
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by ManuelKiessling 1y ago
Correct, that’s my point. I don’t even have a pro- or anti-DEI stance. That’s a very US thing, and I‘m not informed enough to form an opinion. It’s the „who sticks to their guns?“ part that I find interesting. Because that’s a very universa
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by ManuelKiessling 1y ago
So… I‘m not allowed to have and express an opinion about the state of affairs in the US, because I‘m from Europe? And why doesn’t this belong here, exactly? Don’t you think it’s interesting to see how quickly all those companies rudder back
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by ManuelKiessling 1y ago
See, that’s the single „nice“ thing about the fascists taking over the country — you can see which companies really meant to make a change, and which companies merely swam with the current.
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by ManuelKiessling 1y ago
That must be a major obstacle for AI companies then, on their way to massive build-out of data centers? At the same time, these AI companies currently have insanely deep pockets and mindshare, and I assume they are lobbying hard for cheap
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by ManuelKiessling 1y ago
As always, Simon knows what he is talking about and neatly describes the whole situation. However, it's not the "coding" part of "vibe coding" that is the (semantic) problem, it's the "vibe" part. Rep
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by ManuelKiessling 1y ago
I really really love this, but it would benefit tremendously from one simple, but maybe not easy to implement, feature: movie posters. For someone like me who watches A LOT of movies, it’s sometimes hard to remember a movie based on its tit
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by ManuelKiessling 1y ago
On the side, I‘m building a platform that allows to run MCP servers on demand, making them reachable under a public URL, but password-protected. You also get an embedded VNC viewer, and thus you can watch what an AI-agent is doing with it.
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by ManuelKiessling 1y ago
That’s so wrong that even the opposite of it is wrong.
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by ManuelKiessling 1y ago
Do you see any useful synergies with something like https://mcp-as-a-service.com / https://github.com/orgs/dx-tooling/repositories?q=maas- If yes, drop me a line, here or at manuel@kiessling.net
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by ManuelKiessling 1y ago
It’s interesting how it’s the same in Germany — a country which in many regards, but especially in this one, is on the opposite side of the spectrum in terms of how the underlying system works.
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by ManuelKiessling 1y ago
That’s kind of the sad thing with this tariffs stuff, isn’t it? That it can actually be a sharp and effective weapon to set some things straight that badly need to be set straight, but this whole execution feels… suboptimal.
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by ManuelKiessling 1y ago
I had a scary (and hopefully illogical) thought today: what’s stopping threat actors from selling SSDs that are „pimped“ with a SIM-card and some additional stuff, and phone home „interesting“ pieces from said SSD?
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by ManuelKiessling 1y ago
Over the past years I was approached multiple times with innocent sounding emails that clearly had the goal to use my identity in the way described here. I‘ve always simply ignored these. Is there a better way?
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by ManuelKiessling 1y ago
Why are the feet so important?
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by ManuelKiessling 1y ago
What sometimes works, when given into the right hands, is to go smaller, more intimate, instead of „again 2x as epic as the one before“: like, imagine a Jurassic Park movie with only one single, not even especially large and fancy dinosaur,

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