I’m convinced that a large % of programmers don’t actually like computers.
As a side effect, are also perfectly happy to throw away their reasoning to a model as soon as they can.
I don’t get it, at ALL. Don’t you *LIKE* understanding the magic of the machine?
You do realize hand-programming (I hate that I even have to specify hand now) is fun…right?
If you are bored you can always:
- Build your own operating system
- Build your own game engine
- Build your database
- Build your compiler
- Build your virtual machine
- Build your web server
PewDiePie in 2025:
– built a 10×4090 rig
– runs Llama 70B, gpt-oss-120B & Qwen 245B locally via vLLM
– built a custom web UI (chat, RAG, search, TTS)
– ran protein-folding simulations for charity
– created an AI “council”, a swarm of 64 models
– now fine-tuning his own model
Open-source AI for the win!
Some Indonesian citizens have started raising the Strawhat Pirates flag as a symbol of protest against current government conditions.
And the officials government are considering it an act of rebellion and thinks the flag is a threat