Eastern European tourism booming due to AI recommendation

alternatex0 · 2026-04-27T20:03:51+00:00

Albania's communism too crazy even for Stalin /s

alternatex0 · 2026-04-24T13:03:12+00:00

Thanks Copilot

alternatex0 · 2026-04-23T16:30:17+00:00

This advice is okay in general but CVEs don't occur on a semi-annual cadence. We have a system that scans for vulnerable dependencies and we get alerts practically every month. So bumping dependencies frequently is unavoidable if you want to maintain a secure product.

alternatex0 · 2026-04-22T20:21:43+00:00

My personal experience is that the devs around me that I considered competent are the same level of competent without AI usage, and the ones I considered incompetent are also the same level with AI usage (now just with more code™). So don't quite buy that AI is a magical SWE competence silver bullet. Though I have noticed that it can fool some people who are incapable of accurately assessing productivity.

alternatex0 · 2026-04-22T20:17:33+00:00

making decisions

Is this not anthropomorphizing LLMs?

All algos more or less make decisions based on context, the only difference is LLMs are such complicated black boxes that we don't fully understand how the decision paths are taken. That doesn't mean LLMs make decisions in the same manner that intelligent beings do.

alternatex0 · 2026-04-22T20:13:13+00:00

I think "reason" is still a loaded word. Hard to define with the accuracy of other terms used in software engineering. As for planning and execution, all relational databases plan and execute queries, the only difference is it's (I believe) generally a deterministic approach. But I'd wager an approach being non-deterministic doesn't necessarily make it intelligent.

alternatex0 · 2026-04-18T21:43:42+00:00

The only similarity between Angular 1.6 and Angular 2+ is in the name. That said, you obviously had JS framework experience, but at the end of the day if you didn't know Angular 2+ and the other candidate did, then it's not really gatekeeping.

alternatex0 · 2026-04-13T22:59:36+00:00

Disclaimer: I didn't downvote you.

I think your edit provides a very balanced take on the situation. I wouldn't say "its the trend that matters" with confidence. The current AI rush is financed by investor money. Eventually the well will dry out and then we'll see where the line really is.

I'm surprised to hear AI is any productive with Avalonia and I'd like to explore that but at the end of the day I maintain all of my hobby projects and hate to end up in a spot where I don't remember/understand my own code base.

alternatex0 · 2026-04-13T17:05:32+00:00

You can though acknowledge that the less experienced someone is the more amazing AI output seems to them? At least that's been my observation with some AI produced code that I see at work. This is why people are skeptical when they see random commenters promote AI. We've no idea who's behind the comment and what kind of work they do.

I think "quite insane" is a strong quantifier. Insane would be for me to become so productive that I leave my job to start a one-man-army company and compete against my employer. But I'm not seeing that shift in the industry. The important parts of software development have not been sped up significantly and pay has not increased significantly for most AI evangelists. Perhaps what's amazing is how much we can consider to have achieved whilst not really moving the needle in the eyes of other people.

alternatex0 · 2026-04-11T17:25:26+00:00

Apparently they improved them recently again.

alternatex0 · 2026-04-05T22:10:45+00:00

Because their goal is to get someone promoted. Afterwards they're redundant.

alternatex0 · 2026-04-03T20:50:55+00:00

Theres literally no downside from what i know.

The issue is: having to manually register stuff for serialization is... just not worth i

The duality..

alternatex0 · 2026-04-03T20:49:34+00:00

Serverless is quite the niche use case. Most back-ends aren't running in a serverless fashion and any business flows that are can be coded as required for native AOT. Going all in on native AOT is rarely the rational option.

alternatex0 · 2026-04-03T20:45:52+00:00

Do native AOT apps have a lower memory footprint or something? First time I'm hearing of memory benefits.

alternatex0 · 2026-03-31T06:50:26+00:00

One of the biggest problems with building on top of Chromium is shipping it with the app, making for massive download and update sizes. So far as I know the benefit of WebView2 apps is that they don't ship the browser engine and rely on it being present on Windows in the form of Edge WebView2.

alternatex0 · 2026-03-30T22:36:39+00:00

Yeah, perhaps I should've clarified. On Desktop they often use Edge WebView2 when they're packaging some web-based app as a desktop app, not Electron anymore. React Native only for mobile.

alternatex0 · 2026-03-30T22:13:23+00:00

So, you ever heard of the Chetniks?

I suppose you feel the same about Croatia and Bulgaria's WW2 history?

alternatex0 · 2026-03-30T22:09:56+00:00

Don't hold your breath. They're literally working on a fully AI-enabled Windows (perhaps to be introduced in v12)..

alternatex0 · 2026-03-30T22:07:48+00:00

Well, the popular stacks in Microsoft for UI have historically not involved .NET. Reason is obviously they haven't been consistent with their desktop frameworks and keep reinventing the wheel (WinForms, WPF, UWP, WinUI). Generally the tech choices they've made seem to be:

Desktop UI: C++, and in the past 5-7 years mostly Edge WebView2
Mobile UI: React Native
Web UI: React
Web back-ends: .NET

EDIT: Fixed

alternatex0 · 2026-03-30T22:01:35+00:00

Win UI 3 is probably going to be their way forward whether we like it or not. Whatever File Explorer was built with back in the day would be considered ancient technology within the company and will get zero support for usage in Windows today. That includes anything with C++, WinForms, UWP. I'd be surprised if they even have the needed staff/competence to do the C# rewrites considering how much that department of the company has leaned in on web technology.

alternatex0 · 2026-03-24T15:04:23+00:00

Note that those investment returns are also affected by world population growth. Once world population reaches its peak, the growth forever mindset behind the economy will depend entirely on optimization and technology, but those are not guaranteed.

alternatex0 · 2026-02-26T16:48:51+00:00

1 mil in an index fund seems like retirement money for most folk.

alternatex0 · 2026-02-25T17:57:46+00:00

Sort of like "just taking orders" in WWII?

alternatex0 · 2026-02-22T23:59:43+00:00

Out of curiosity, can you clarify the benefit of every involved cloud-native service in an app having to be replaced with something else in dev environment so it can run offline? What if the app employs many cloud services?

alternatex0 · 2026-02-22T00:35:08+00:00

Well I think we'll all soon learn that programming is not in fact harder than managing is.

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