Yeah, you have a prejudiced view of older people.

Actually, I think Anthropoid recently turned profitable for the first time?

There are so many non-twitchy games, though, and hidden object games are not what they grew up with.

And maybe they like twitchy games. Platformers were among the first games older people played in their youth.

I understood some of those words.

Why would older people prefer hidden object games?

Prime Directive.

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Why wouldn’t they? Linux is gaining market share.

Proton does not protect you from harm. It’s not a sandbox.

I found the Artemis app and it’s surprisingly close to Apollo and Voyager with Liquid Glass aesthetic and works just as well.

This was leaked early. There is a mitigation (see link for confirmation):

sh -c "printf 'install esp4 /bin/false\ninstall esp6 /bin/false\ninstall rxrpc /bin/false\n' > /etc/modprobe.d/dirtyfrag.conf; rmmod esp4 esp6 rxrpc 2>/dev/null; true"

Ren & Stimpy!

Or even better: the Sam & Max cartoon!

I do wonder about the electricity cost, though. I did some very rudimentary calculations once (so could have been way off) and found that my VPS at 7 euro a month with 500 GB SSD isn’t takt that expensive in comparison, could even be cheaper.

Yeah, I get it. I’d like to try a Raspberry Pi setup sometime. Maybe some home automation stuff. But I don’t require much and don’t want a server rack. I’m a developer, not a network engineer.

Why wouldn’t you recommend it? I’m running my VPS for many of those services just fine. It’s technically not selfhosted, because I’m not doing the infrastructure, but the end result is the same besides not owning the hardware and paying for the electricity bill.

Have you already tested this on Steam Deck? That would be awesome.

My god. This timeline is so horrible.

Their AI agent doesn’t understand that.

I don’t think so. I think I could pull together something like this using AI and enough money/tokens, and without reviewing the code produced too much in a day, a few days for polish, after thinking about it. But I have the advantage of knowing backend, frontend, tech stacks, what works, etc. But I would have little to no knowledge over the code base and what it does outside of the visual.

In the end with these LLM models, you just describe what you want and they fill in the rest. No skill required, and that’s what scares me the most for our future.

You are potentially putting yourself at risk and others as well by making it public. I run a VPS in the cloud, so I would never, ever install this app on it, even though I firewall it to my own IP ranges. Your agent has access to the docker group and the tokens are sent and stored in plaintext, as per the SECURITY.md file. That means any leak of a token could lead to total hostile takeover of the server. Adding that you don’t understand the codebase yourself just pushes this further over the edge.

Sure, I get it. It’s fun to build things. But I’ve always found it more fun to actually build things myself. These days, everybody is building these huge, monolithic codebases that nobody understands anymore. I don’t believe that it’s impossible to learn the things required to make a full application. True, you can’t learn everything, but that’s because there are so many different things that do slightly different things, and each week something new comes along. So you specialize a bit. But it’s fun to learn, and just telling an AI to do it makes you lazy.

I don’t know, I don’t like it. I do use AI during development, but I throw smaller things at it, so I can actually look at the code and approve it every time something changes. In some ways, it feels similar to what I used to do, which was reading documentation and copying the examples in it. Now the AI agent can pull that by itself and insert it into the code. However, I built the structure and original foundation myself, so I keep a firm grasp of it. I personally enjoy creating good code more than I enjoy piling on features generated by the AI, but these days it seems quantity over quality is appreciated more.

I don’t develop profesionally anymore, but I’ve read so many stories online about senior developers getting depressed and considering a career change, because their managers think it’s cool to let AI take over their old jobs, while they are left doing code reviews and undoing the fuckups that AI threw at them.

Every week I see several new iOS app on Reddit for tracking your fitness, habits, reminders, expenses, subscriptions, and they are always introduced in the same way: “I grew tired of how x apps do y, so I built my own” while stating that “this is my first app.” And there’s always a $15/month subscription on it! The internet is filling up with cheap Chinese replicas of applications, except that they are not sold cheaply.

People are writing their posts using AI, and then replying to everyone in the thread in Spanish, because why not? Let’s not even try anymore! Open source projects are in trouble, because the volunteer maintainers cannot get through the automatic AI slow pull requests on GitHub to get to the high-quality ones.

I just really don’t like how the current landscape looks, especially in the future. The ensloppification of everything.

End of rant. :)