"A rogue AI led to a serious security incident" is certainly a way to write "Someone vibe coded too hard and leaked data".

Now that there's widespread direct connectivity between agents and browser sessions, are CAPTCHAs even relevant anymore?

Casual threats of invasion don't build solid and lasting partnerships? Who knew.

More diversity in the LLM space is always good. In my experience though, speaking as a native speaker of one of the less-used European languages, Mistral's models already use it pretty well.

I live in a country with 3 national languages and I happen to use all of them + English + another one where most of our clients are based. Mistral is the only model atm which doesn’t make a mess of it all. It’s not perfect, but it doesn’t force me to “pretranslate” things.

As a native of another small European language, no state of the art model comes anywhere close to not being laughably bad, so more work in this space is definitely welcomed as far as I'm concerned.

Really? In my experience, Le Chat eventually devolves into spanglish when trying to speak Spanish, so I would have expected worse from Mistral for minority languages.

>(the water is thoroughly irradiated from a war that happened 200 years ago)

This is what I always found grating about the writing in Bethesda Fallout games. Their writers think that the war happened last Tuesday and there are parts of the old world behind every other door. In universe, the war happened more than two centuries ago and humanity has moved on, in several strange ways.

For some reason it was very hard for the Victorians who pioneered archaeology to understand that ancient humans were actual human beings and not storytelling archetypes or moral exemplars. This kind of archaeology is just inverted science fiction: Commenting on the present through the lens of the imaginary past, instead of the imaginary future.

The Victorians found it very hard to see contemporary humans as anything other than archetypes or moral exemplars. In this way they are quite similar to us moderns.

Despite me having (almost) nothing to do with the Victorians, I have to regularly shake off a vague sense of respecting the Greeks for having "laid the foundation" for us in the 21st c. Because they did nothing of the kind -- they were just doing things they wanted to do, just like we are today. Heron's aeolipile was a mechanical curiosity, not a steam engine. Big difference.

The release day of Civilization n is always the best time to buy and play Civilization n-1.

Also when all DLC have been released, bundled into one package, and on sale for at least 50% off.

Like now, where Civ VI Anthology which I think includes all the DLC is currently on sale for $9 on Fanatical (activates on Steam). It's always much cheaper to game a generation behind.

https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/sid-meier-s-civilization-v...

Civ 6 was free on Epic a couple of years ago. And free for keeps, I mean. That was the best time to get it.

But you had to install the Epic installer!

That was the cost, of course. Nothing is ever entirely free.

Got a good deal on Civ6 a month ago, and it's free on Netflix too with all DLC

> Perhaps one reason startups work so well is they are one of the few places that still let young people exert agency.

So, who's the VC that will fund the 4-9 failed governments we'll have to go through until we get a unicorn?

Maybe we'll get a solid Somaliland in the ensuing chaos after this current unmanaged Chapter 11 leads to a messy Chapter 7.

Even if you absolutely have to use an LLM for some reason, there are already perfectly good LLMs for code generation that you can comfortably run on commodity hardware.

Yeah the deepseek models are actually pretty solid.

I use that with avante.vim for tedious refactors. All local.

Please elaborate on how "maybe they don't need good infrastructure" can be taken positively. It is, at best, deeply patronizing.