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Now do Microsoft.

The Xbox app is a UWP app, and has basically been abandoned.

No, No, and Yes -- Consoles are notoriously difficult to work with. Not for actual programming, no - Consoles are difficult to navigate POLITICALLY. Xbox, understandably doesn't like F/OSS software, and PS5 has tons of rules and regulations you must meet.

I'm praising Valve right now for all the work they've put into Proton.

Even LLMs in the context of coding, I am no programmer - I have memory issues, and it means I can't keep the web of information in my head long enough to debug the stuff I attempt to write.

With AI assistants, I've been able to create multiple microcontroller projects that I wouldn't have even started otherwise. They are amazing assistive technologies. Many times, they're even better than language documentation themselves because they can give an example of something that almost works. So yes, even LLMs deserve the amount of hype they've been given. I've made a whole game-server management back-end for ARK servers with the help of an LLM (qwen-coder 14b).

I couldn't have done it otherwise; or I would have had to pay someone $60k; which I don't have, and which means the software never would have existed.

I've even moved onto modifying some open source Android apps for a specialized camera application. Compared to a normal programmer, sure - maybe it's not as good. But having it next to me as an inexperienced nobody allows me to write programs I wouldn't have otherwise been able to, or that would have been too daunting of a task.

They don't. The models are trained on sanitized data, and don't permanently "learn". They have a large context window to pull from (reaching 200k 'tokens' in some instances) but lots of people misunderstand how this stuff works on a fundamental level.

Go look at the models available on huggingface.

There's applications in Visual Question Answering, Video to Text, Depth Estimation, 3D recreation from a photo, Object detection, visual classification, Translation from language to language, Text to realistic speech, Robotics Reinforcement learning, Weather Forecasting, and those are just surface-level models.

It absolutely justifies current levels of hype because the research done now will absolutely put millions out of jobs; and will be much cheaper than paying people to do it.

The people saying it's hype are the same people who said the internet was a fad. Did we have a bubble of bullshit? Absolutely. But there is valid reason for the hype, and we will filter out the useless stuff eventually. It's already changed entire industries practically overnight.

Thankfully, despite naming them like that, it doesn't actually seem to have any real purpose. Apparently they just wanted to make sure that different companies making different libraries didn't accidentally use the same name for their project....

I'm pretty sure Java doesn't have pointers, so writing a hello world application isn't gonna fuck up nearly that hard.

The one thing he forgot though is that your source file is probably in the folder

com/companyname/net/classes/factory/factoryfactory/worker/lib/bin/refresh/jdk/model/ui/closebutton/press.java

And spread out among a bunch of other directories, and the java file is like...3 lines. But there are 10k files spread all around directories like this that are all 3 lines a piece with a class definition.

My windows installs (Win 10 IoT Edition) just boot directly to desktop. Dunno what you've borked there.

This shit is absolutely atrocious and shows how far we've fallen.

Microsoft almost got broken up as a company over simply BUNDLING a browser. Now they're actively hijacking other installs to put big warnings up and redirecting to theirs. It's absolutely bonkers this is allowed.