More justification for my mortgage for my well-insulated, single family home with air and distance from my neighbors. Me and my subwoofers escape litigation facilitated by this SaaS.
I am one of those critics, but I never used Tailwind. A layoff of that magnitude is horrific, but if what they are describing as their business model is true, they really really need to rethink it. I wonder what the size of their marketing team is like, and if they were involved in the layoffs. Seems like they need some help there. I found the "downvote" spam in that thread, for reasonable posts, to be quite off-putting, and that led me to my remarks.
The topic seems to be native programming languages -- I don't think any of the languages concerned are "better in every way" for every possible coding problem. Many will rightfully choose Fortran over Rust for their application -- knowing full well their choice is far away from "better in every way".
When writing code meant to last, you need a language that’s portable across compilers and through time. C has demonstrated both. Fortran 77 and 90 were portable across compilers, but are now at risk from breaking changes, and later versions are not very portable across compilers.
Would you scream at a child that shows you a beautiful shell they found on the beach -- "you didn't make that!" -- why assume that everyone's ego is entwined with sharing?
No, because the child is behaving as a curator which is a valuable act. I never hear ai “artists” claim to be curators, they always claim to be creatives.
Photographers were not initially respected as artists -- they are now. The history of this cultural evolution is well documented. It is easier than typing a prompt to take a picture with a smartphone, yet the respect for photography somehow remains. It is definitely a cultural problem.
I appreciate the thesis -- however, experiences with iterative development via Claude Code, Gemini CLI etc. show that the statement "the characteristic LLM pattern has always been that they get the right answer almost immediately, or they never do" is simply incorrect.
I think the concern of the author, that AI video ultimately "enable(s) those who want to manipulate, deceive, and exploit people for engagement, profit, or ideology", cannot be understated. However, the binary claim that the author doubles down on throughout, "All AI Videos Are Harmful", dilutes this messaging.
I'm a progressive -- just as I am not dumping my climate friendlier Tesla at a loss because Musk is a Nazi buffoon, there is no way I am walking away from my GraalVM compiled babashka binary because another billionaire turd kicked Stephen Colbert off the tonight show. I can mourn and label both as petulant and stupid, without having to bleed my back like Saint Thomas More.
Babashka has been available and has had a growing following since 2019. I have many babashka shebang deployed scripts with fast startup. While I would never desire to use Java syntax, AOT capable JVM based Clojure libraries are available and can be loaded dynamically. Built via graal. https://babashka.org
babashka comes with some excellent namespaces. Highlights include babashka.fs -- a functional and effective wrapper around Java file system classes, and babashka.process -- useful functions for interacting with shell processes, i/o and pipelines. I find babashka packaging to be minimal and much more convenient than python for scripting. No massive virtual environments, just a smaller than 70mb binary needs to be available on my machine. Borkdude FTW.
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