Given the upvote ratio on the post, it’s pretty clear that most people enjoyed seeing this. Maybe go do your pedantic gatekeeping somewhere else. The fact that you felt the need to write an entire diatribe about this is frankly incredible.
Your displeasure has been noted. Amusingly, you still haven’t actually said what it is you define technology as. Surely, you can give a clear definition of what it is you think technology actually is.
Last I checked vehicles are a piece of technology, and a how a kind of a vehicle performs is very much a discussion about technology. I notice that you still failed to define what it is you think the word technology means.
How is this not technology news, what does the word technology mean in your mind?
I find most of the code I’ve actually enjoyed working on wasn’t written for money. I can see programming becoming more like artistic expression that we do for fun as opposed to being a job. We didn’t stop playing chess just because a machine can do it better, and I imagine programming will stick around in the same way.
I expect that programmers are going to incresingly focus on defining specifications while LLMs will handle the grunt work. Imagine declaring what the program is doing, e.g., “This API endpoint must return user data in <500ms, using ≤50MB memory, with O(n log n) complexity”, and an LLM generates solutions that adhere to those rules. It could be an approach similar to the way genetic algorithms work, where LLM can try some initial solutions, then select ones that are close to the spec, and iterate until the solution works well enough.
I’d also argue that this is a natural evolution. We don’t hand-assemble machine code today, most people aren’t writing stuff like sorting algorithms from scratc, and so on. I don’t think it’s a stretch to imagine that future devs won’t fuss with low-level logic. LLMs can be seen as “constraint solvers” akin to a chess engine, but for code. It’s also worth noting that Modern tools already do this in pockets. AWS Lambda lets you define “Run this function in 1GB RAM, timeout after 15s”, imagine scaling that philosophy to entire systems.
Which would explain a lot of things about the state of Ukrainian defences, such as they are.
The fact that grabbing Ukrainian resources was an objective for the west isn’t news. This has been publicly admitted by numerous officials since the war started.
Also, how much of it was embezzled along the way.
A device I’d really like to have would be something like a phone but would replace the need for having any cloud services. Imagine if it had a really large drive where you could just keep all your media, and if it had an API that’s something along the lines of NextCloud where it could expose calendar, contacts, email, music streaming, photo gallery, video streaming, etc. that your other devices could connect to.
Since you carry your phone around everywhere anyways, there would no longer be any need to have cloud services because their whole raison d’etre is to act as a central server that allows you to sync data across different devices. If you just carry the server on you, that problem goes away entirely.
You could also have a dock with a backup drive where it would just automatically sync when you plug it in at the end of the day. This way if the drive died on it, you’d always have a backup ready that you could swap in.
Another neat thing you could do would be to have a dock in a shape of a laptop with a big screen, keyboard, maybe faster CPU, more RAM, a good video card. This way you wouldn’t need a separate laptop, you could just plug your phone in the dock and voila.
This approach would result in way better privacy because all your data would always be on you as opposed to some server somewhere. It would also be way more reliable since you wouldn’t have to worry about network connectivity. You’d still need some external services like a mail server, but these would just be endpoints you use for communication.
Unlikely given that Russia already controls most of the resource rich regions of Ukraine.
Exactly, it’s becoming clear that the US will only continue getting more openly belligerent under Trump, but I’d argue the problem goes deeper. Erratic politics driven by short-term electoral cycles and mounting internal contradictions make it impossible to build any long-term trust with the US. A strategy that one administration pursues can be completely reversed by another. By contrast, China’s single-party system has a demonstrated ability to carry out decades-long strategic initiatives projecting stability and consistency. This makes China an invaluable partner for any nations hedging against the US going forward.
Looks like “Do Nothing. Win” meme has become the official Chinese strategy
Beijing assumes that Washington’s own policies will dismantle the foundations of U.S. global hegemony, even if it creates a lot of turbulence for other countries in the process. China’s top priority, then, is simply to weather the storm.
Yeah, the fact that China continues to have relations with Israel is a really bad look.
That plays a role obviously, but there’s a bigger issue here as well that much of the research is driven by private interests. Even universities are reliant on private capital to operate. China’s rapid technological progress stems from having state-driven R&D and centralized planning. The benefits are now becoming evident in China’s leadership in AI-driven manufacturing, clean energy, and quantum computing, and many other areas. Incidentally, Bloomberg wrote about this just recently.
On the other hand, Western progress is hindered by fragmented policies, short-term priorities, and constant infighting. Despite similar R&D investments, China’s scale and strategic patience yield greater returns, particularly in STEM fields and infrastructure development. This trajectory will likely secure China’s leadership in technology going forward. The future belongs to those who build it fastest.
Think of it this way, the rate of technological development in China has to be happening at a faster rate in order for it to have been able to catch up with the west. Now that they’ve reached technological parity, it only makes sense that they would start visibly pulling ahead now.
That’s all true, but capitalism encourages short term thinking, so they’ll do whatever they see as necessary to secure quarterly profits. In the long run that will lead to the problems you describe and further erode faith in the system as a whole.
The west will just continue becoming more insular and cut trade off with the rest of the world so that the oligarchs can exploit western population. We already see this happening with cheaper and better Chinese alternatives either being banned or having huge tariffs placed on them.
I really don’t see how it would be feasible in practice, simply using economic and political influence over Canada seems much more practical.
I very much expect that programming discipline is about to change quite drastically. I expect programmers will have a role that’s somewhere between a mathematician and a business analyst. The core aspect of the process that requires a human in the loop is the verification step. You need a human to actually understand what the requirements are and then ensure that the software meets these requirements. I strongly expect that writing formal contracts that LLMs will fulfill will be the way we develop a lot of software going forward.