Google is also selling phones? Not a great point as it's probably not really a revenue driver for them though.

Maybe don't hold your breath on that. Even if the price for AI tools would double, or tripple...that's still a very small part of the actual cost of an employee.

Sure, but employers will want a return on investment too. And productivity studies which aren't backed by these AI companies haven't exactly been promising. With how stingy some companies can be with the basics such as getting a laptop with enough RAM and drive space, a lot of the spending on AI tools for employees is clearly driven more by hype and the false promise of huge productivity gains than the normal expense approval process.

And plenty of people get hooked on these tools through using them for free or almost-free in their spare time. Those people will balk at huge price increases.

... and almost no company of any size above startup counts cost like that.

But I agree no point holding breath, whether somebody jumps on wagon or not won't change if price per query doubles, either its this massive productivity increase where costs of llms are a rounding error in overall costs or it isn't.

I’m betting on “isn’t”

I feel like he could make a much stronger point if there was more than a few demos and utilities for using AI tools (sell the shovels?) shared as the output.

Apple doesn’t even follow that guideline (It exists) themselves and is happily using push notifications for ads.

The rage bait on HN works like clockwork. Usually it's the "dark mode" feature of that website that triggers this comment.

Or you could just lighten up and get a sense of humor...

What's trollish about his blog ?

Author seems to enjoy writing posts that get lots of votes on site that I would describe as eye-rending, especially the "normal" yellow color scheme. It's aggressively unpleasant to read.

How is it trolling, though? Annoying, sure. But the content here is valid and worth reading, even if the medium is suboptimal.

Same reason why people have personal projects and share them on GitHub, it's fun to see people using / starring / interacting with your project / blog.

If you want to count every search engine bot, AI crawler, vulnerability scanner as users then that works, but these days it's basically useless to use these web server logs.

Not being able to use your domain is a pretty massive downside.

The great part about email is that you can move between providers without issues. I wouldn’t want to use a posteo.de email for all my services when I don’t know if they will be around in 10 years.

True and nowadays I would take that into consideration too. But I was young when I created that account (I think it was around some leak scandal or whatever that made me move from hotmail to posteo). But it turned out to be a nice decision.

For a business email this might not be cool tho. I get that

You can always use AnonAddy, SimpleLogin, or similar to receive emails at your domain then forward them to Posteo.

Using lines of code as a metric for productivity is bad. Using it to show how simple something is, or how a refactor removed x lines of code that doesn’t need to be maintained any more isn’t such a bad thing I’d say.

Yeah this is exactly right, if you can trust the contributors to not code-golf or otherwise Goodhart the LoC metric, then it's a reasonable measure of complexity.

It doesn't work as well when you start mixing languages, or generating code.

Less LOC also doesn't imply simplicity: just look at the demoscene, which often has the former but not the latter.

Demo scene or other competitions that aim at using little space / shortest way to achieve something are not really a good counter example.

TFA includes a time measurement though, and 5 years for 18'935 SLOC doesn't scream quite "how simple something is".

The main complaint about these blocks is that they are managed and decided on by private companies and _not_ by the government / law.

they are still optional for the ISPs though. But if they don't implement them, they will have dozens of lawsuits to handle, that is why many ISPs say "fuck it" and just implement the blocks, to save money on their legal team