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This article sums up a Stanford study of AI and developer productivity. TL;DR - net productivity boost is a modest 15-20%, or as low as negative to 10% in complex, brownfield codebases. This tracks with my own experience as a dev.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/does-ai-actually-boost-developer-productivity-striking-%C3%A7elebi-tcp8f

I heard a rumor that Amazon did it to dominate the toy market

I certainly would not put it past them.

Agreed, not sure why the mustache is the focus. For instance, Oliver Hardy is a famous comedian with an iconic toothbrush mustache. Charlie Chaplin as well. I guess if you’re going to sport a toothbrush mustache, get yourself a black derby and never, ever take it off. Pretty sure Jones doesn’t own a derby, though.

It’s a weird concept that you buy a device and then have to find an exploit that hasn’t been patched in order to do what you like with it as though you’re a hacker trying to breach someone else’s system, but it’s actually your own system you’re trying to breach.

I use k3s and enjoy benefits like the following over bare metal:

• Configuration as code where my whole setup is version controlled in git
• Containers and avoiding dependency hell
• Built-in reverse proxy with the Traefik ingress controller. Combined with DNS in my OpenWRT router, all of my self hosted apps can be accessed via appname.lan (e.g., jellyfin.lan, forgejo.lan)
• Declarative network policies with Calico, mainly to make sure nothing phones home
• Managing secrets securely in git with Bitnami Sealed Secrets
• Liveness probes that automatically “turn it off and on again” when something goes wrong

These are just some of the benefits just for one server. Add more and the benefits increase.

Edit:

Sorry, I realize this post is asking why go bare metal, not why k3s and containers are great. 😬

Pay surveillance capitalists to track you, except with a verified real identity? I’ll pass, thanks, and will stick to directly supporting creators I care about.

Yeah, I think Netflix has like a few thousand movies and a couple thousand TV shows, and some of us here have similarly sized Jellyfin libraries. On the other hand, YouTube has billions of videos. It seems DRM would be a significantly more difficult and costly problem for YouTube.

Worst part with Meta Quest is it seems you have to sign up as a dev and give them a credit card in order to sideload (a.k.a., install stuff on the device you purchased). So, you can shell out hundreds for one of their devices and the device and all your data are belong to Meta. I assume it’s the same deal with these glasses. Zuck off, Zuck.🖕

Agreed, I’d totally buy a Meta Quest as well if they didn’t zuck up all their devices with spyware that can’t be removed.

Just when you thought Ring cameras raised grave privacy concerns for the public, introducing face-mounted cameras and microphones streaming straight into Zuck’s data centers. Good thing it’s shit and probably won’t sell that well, I guess.

Show your support for surveillance capitalism and get yourself a face-mounted camera and microphone.

Well, reading the replies to this post, it became clear to me that the title is provocative, but isn’t accurate. Sure, nerds don’t like ads and generally are annoyed by inflated and unsubstantiated claims, but it’s inaccurate to say that marketing doesn’t work on nerds. Many people who read the title obviously recognized this and came here to set the record straight, hence my reference to Cunnungham’s Law. I’m sure others who originally agreed with the title came around to a different understanding like I did after reading the comments and reflecting. “Hey, maybe I’m not immune to marketing after all.”

Overall, I feel like I’ve been called out on my bullshit in this post and am wiser as a result. Hope others had the same learning experience. Maybe I’m a jagoff as well for being so openly reflective about it.