You’re not wrong. Me too. I spend most of my waking hours using AI for new product development. But can you bring it to market and turn it into a reliable revenue stream? And will this still be true in a few years when…
I spent a few years studying the ‘startup economy’ after a 20 year career at MSFT that left me with some meager capital, including a half dozen Angel investments and running an Angel investment fund LLC (SPAC as they…
“I find hope in your acknowledgment of your own imminent devaluation.” Gave me a chuckle. I think this is my personal ‘best sentence of the year’. Great way to summarize how we will likely look back on 2026.
We’re likely looking at a new world where physical and mental work from humans holds much less value. So if the world still generates value ( think AI inventing new drugs, robots planting and harvesting fields of corn…
You have to admit there is now some lovely schadenfreude to be had from the whole ‘Chinese free LLM companies be stealing our theft! Stop them!’ whining.
Or, perhaps, the companies forming the for profit LLMs could be made to pay a license fee for the copyrighted data they lifted from behind the paywall and then used to form a for profit entity with. Nothing about…
Flourishing life? Where is your data leading to the conclusion that AI models are leading to the world populace leading a ‘flourishing life’? Are taxes on revenue of companies like OpenAI somehow being collected and…
You are correct, the driving controls in AVP don’t use dwell, that is the wrong (and dangerous) approach. They use something more akin to hover activation. It’s the hardware I designed coupling the power wheelchair to…
Hi Will, thanks for the representation. And an actual link!
Yes, daily, as a virtual screen for my Macbook using a BLE mouse and keyboard paired to the Macbook not the AVP. Then I supplement the Mac with the occasional AVP side app using fingers and eye gaze control. If only the…
Strongly disagree. As a dev who’s been in the business since the days of the first gui apps and OSes, UI can be very straightforward, but we have designed modern systems such that they are immensely complex. Styles and…
I took. my wife’s Model X out for a moderately complicated drive last night and was very pleasantly surprised by the new FSD behavior. Very significantly improved over the last few updates.
Having submitted a number of “product breaking bug reports” through official channels while using a paid support incident, can confirm Kafkaesque and a multi year support process. Oh, I can get a person to “respond” to…
Spoken like someone who hasn’t put a match to gasoline. Having recently used gas to help start a wood slashings pile on fire, gasoline is very explosive and dangerous. Diesel will burn in place when lit. Gasoline…
So Avalonia is built on top of Skia which is Google’s portable 2D rendering engine. So in theory it is as cross platform capable as Chrome/Electron without all the overhead that html brings. Brilliant play, imho. Now,…
Probably a much simpler answer. The programmers who work on a washing machine are probably inexperienced low wage disempowered help. And there’s an innocent rx/tx loop for a home grown notification system and noone on…
This was my experience too. While it takes a good long while to get resolved, because my mistakes were accidental and I talked it through and followed the process, I was dealt with politely and given grace. All in all a…
Thank you from someone begrudgingly paying thousands of Euros for IEC medical device standards pdfs!!!!
Windows NT was rock solid until Windows XP was released, but GPU performance was meh and Windows games generally didn't work well unless they were written to target NT. As I recall, there was one commercial graphical…
Is there a Windows client front end ide rather than a browser? It's much easier to enable alternative input from say a .Net Framework WPF app...
Nice to hear from you, great work! As a lifelong dev who started by learning BASICA and who's first pro job was in Visual Basic, I love your thesis. Nowadays I work with people living with disabilities and I come across…
Both of those are reasonably met on the Steam Deck today which is running Linux… Now the Steam Deck has an x64 CPU, but I’m running my heavyweight production Windows apps today on a Macbook Pro M1 running Windows 11 Arm…
Pardon, what part of ‘a home with electrical service works just fine’ fails to fit your definition of ‘a large scale distribution of energy’. We have an electrical power grid, dude. And it works just fine for home BEV…
You think his writing is a good time, you should have seen him when a VP would say, “Are there any questions from the audience?” He’d saunter up to the microphone, and you could see the VP’s face droop… Good times, my…
You may be surprised to learn that James’ brilliant humor and willingness to speak truth to power didn’t work out so well for him at Microsoft. He’s at Harvard now, which I think is a step up from Hollywood.
You’re not wrong. Me too. I spend most of my waking hours using AI for new product development. But can you bring it to market and turn it into a reliable revenue stream? And will this still be true in a few years when…
I spent a few years studying the ‘startup economy’ after a 20 year career at MSFT that left me with some meager capital, including a half dozen Angel investments and running an Angel investment fund LLC (SPAC as they…
“I find hope in your acknowledgment of your own imminent devaluation.” Gave me a chuckle. I think this is my personal ‘best sentence of the year’. Great way to summarize how we will likely look back on 2026.
We’re likely looking at a new world where physical and mental work from humans holds much less value. So if the world still generates value ( think AI inventing new drugs, robots planting and harvesting fields of corn…
You have to admit there is now some lovely schadenfreude to be had from the whole ‘Chinese free LLM companies be stealing our theft! Stop them!’ whining.
Or, perhaps, the companies forming the for profit LLMs could be made to pay a license fee for the copyrighted data they lifted from behind the paywall and then used to form a for profit entity with. Nothing about…
Flourishing life? Where is your data leading to the conclusion that AI models are leading to the world populace leading a ‘flourishing life’? Are taxes on revenue of companies like OpenAI somehow being collected and…
You are correct, the driving controls in AVP don’t use dwell, that is the wrong (and dangerous) approach. They use something more akin to hover activation. It’s the hardware I designed coupling the power wheelchair to…
Hi Will, thanks for the representation. And an actual link!
Yes, daily, as a virtual screen for my Macbook using a BLE mouse and keyboard paired to the Macbook not the AVP. Then I supplement the Mac with the occasional AVP side app using fingers and eye gaze control. If only the…
Strongly disagree. As a dev who’s been in the business since the days of the first gui apps and OSes, UI can be very straightforward, but we have designed modern systems such that they are immensely complex. Styles and…
I took. my wife’s Model X out for a moderately complicated drive last night and was very pleasantly surprised by the new FSD behavior. Very significantly improved over the last few updates.
Having submitted a number of “product breaking bug reports” through official channels while using a paid support incident, can confirm Kafkaesque and a multi year support process. Oh, I can get a person to “respond” to…
Spoken like someone who hasn’t put a match to gasoline. Having recently used gas to help start a wood slashings pile on fire, gasoline is very explosive and dangerous. Diesel will burn in place when lit. Gasoline…
So Avalonia is built on top of Skia which is Google’s portable 2D rendering engine. So in theory it is as cross platform capable as Chrome/Electron without all the overhead that html brings. Brilliant play, imho. Now,…
Probably a much simpler answer. The programmers who work on a washing machine are probably inexperienced low wage disempowered help. And there’s an innocent rx/tx loop for a home grown notification system and noone on…
This was my experience too. While it takes a good long while to get resolved, because my mistakes were accidental and I talked it through and followed the process, I was dealt with politely and given grace. All in all a…
Thank you from someone begrudgingly paying thousands of Euros for IEC medical device standards pdfs!!!!
Windows NT was rock solid until Windows XP was released, but GPU performance was meh and Windows games generally didn't work well unless they were written to target NT. As I recall, there was one commercial graphical…
Is there a Windows client front end ide rather than a browser? It's much easier to enable alternative input from say a .Net Framework WPF app...
Nice to hear from you, great work! As a lifelong dev who started by learning BASICA and who's first pro job was in Visual Basic, I love your thesis. Nowadays I work with people living with disabilities and I come across…
Both of those are reasonably met on the Steam Deck today which is running Linux… Now the Steam Deck has an x64 CPU, but I’m running my heavyweight production Windows apps today on a Macbook Pro M1 running Windows 11 Arm…
Pardon, what part of ‘a home with electrical service works just fine’ fails to fit your definition of ‘a large scale distribution of energy’. We have an electrical power grid, dude. And it works just fine for home BEV…
You think his writing is a good time, you should have seen him when a VP would say, “Are there any questions from the audience?” He’d saunter up to the microphone, and you could see the VP’s face droop… Good times, my…
You may be surprised to learn that James’ brilliant humor and willingness to speak truth to power didn’t work out so well for him at Microsoft. He’s at Harvard now, which I think is a step up from Hollywood.