I had a similar situation yesterday, albeit not with 26.04, but the previous version. After a regular update it reverted to software rendering. What fixed it was selecting the non-open Nvidia driver with “sudo software-properties-qt”. Initially the options were greyed out, this was fixed by removing all old Nvidia drivers, and then “sudo ubuntu-drivers install”. The default open driver stopped working for some reason.

That happens when you think you don’t need experienced software devs any more, because the AI can do everything now. A seasoned developer/devOp/admin would have known that the production environment needs to have different credentials from staging and these need to be protected. If that is not possible with railway then it’s simply not a good product to use and (again) a good dev/admin would have seen this in the initial evaluation phase. Not preventing AI access to the production environment from the start is the third grave mistake. However, there’s none of it in the “lessons learned” section of the article. You have learned nothing and are bound to repeat your mistakes.

How bizarre. That’s actually a thing. I’ve read the following quote in another article about tokenmaxxing:

“Scaling compute along with data can increase the size, complexity and therefore value of the result,” said Brian Verkley, director of AI data strategy at VAST Data. “A token represents generated business value. Therefore, I expect business value per token to continue to rise, along with AI usage.”

WTF, dude. Size and complexity does not equal value. You can shit out a massive dump of unmaintainable garbage code that has zero value. Incentivising your devs to like that will only produce exactly that, a massive amount of garbage.

And using a token only represents immediate business value for the providers of the AI, not for the consumer of the token. If the price payed for the token isn’t covering the costs then it’s not even a lot of value for the AI provider, apart from usage stats.

This is a doomsday cult.

Good analogy. I’m gonna steal that :D

I don’t doubt that it is possible to create good code when focusing on programming best practices etc. and taking the time to check the AI output thoroughly. Time however is a luxury most of the devs in those companies don’t have, because they are expected to have a 10x code output. And thats why the shit hits the fan. Bad code gets reviewed under pressure, reviewers burn out or bore out and the codebase deteriorates over time.

This approach to coding is exactly what creates the problem. They will find out the hard way if they can continue to be productive when something breaks and AI is not available for whatever reason. Does anyone know how to fix it? Is the documentation sufficient to understand what the AI did?

It’s just “Copilot” for everything in Windows these days

Like a digital piñata

Well… Given that the average person neither knows what data they are effectively giving US and Chinese companies, nor does anything against it, this poll is asking the wrong questions. Massive amounts of data collected for every single individual via ad-based surveillance (US) and IOT devices phoning home (China) is the reality we live in today. But the average person does not know about it and therefore can’t even grasp what is done to them. They don’t trust them, but they hand over the data anyway. This is basically a poll amongst cows in the slaughterhouse.

I have a suspicion they are focusing on short-term goals, because that is what those people usually do. For example, it’s probably hard to explain who should watch all the ads and buy all the advertised products when Facebook replaces their content and interactions with bot slop. They didn’t think this through. This isn’t some kind of visionary 4D chess. But it does not matter to them. When wasting 80 billion on a VR project that was doomed to fail from the beginning does not matter, nothing does.

It’s a start, though. If you are waiting for the perfect replacement to magically appear, it’s never going to happen. Widespread shop support takes time too.

“opprobrium”… an element in the periodic table? Right next to copium I suppose?

This. The EU might be speculating on a regime change in April, which would be a much better option than causing damage now. At least that’s what I hope is going on.

If we’re not talking about the super rich, because there is only a few dozen of them, and they have their own parallel universe… it’s usually mannerisms, language clues (in articulation and content), but of course also signals like expensive clothing and accessories. Also the places where they meet. This opens the door for all kinds of grifters who emulate behaviour and style to get into those circles. Jeffrey Epstein is an (in)famous example for this.

There is an aspect mentioned in there which hits the nail on the head for me. I’m not a game developer, but a developer nonetheless, and this ongoing AI debacle is taking a toll on my mental health too. I know very well that LLMs are not going to replace me, and that most of it is just hype, ignorance and stupidity by people who don’t have a clue about what’s involved in software development.

But that’s beside the point really. What hurts is the blatant disregard of human skills and craftsmanship which are necessary for making good software, and this a level of disrespect to me and my profession which is hard to swallow. Furthermore, the uncertainty and mayhem created in the industry over what is basically a lie (there is no intelligence in AI) makes it really really difficult now to work. It’s a massively frustrating shit show of delusional people and I’d rather become a goat farmer.

I had this happen when a game at random times filled up the available memory so quickly that it froze completely before any OOM watchdog could catch it.

Dieser Aspekt wird im Artikel irgendwie vollends unterschlagen. Der Vorteil für kleine bis mittelgroße Unternehmen besteht ja gerade darin, die Infrastruktur nicht selbst hosten zu müssen. Wenn Souveränität nur darin besteht alles was bisher “in der Cloud” war nun wieder selber zu machen werden viele dankend ablehnen. Es braucht EU-Anbieter die diese Cloud-Dienste als Service anbieten. Heise lässt irgendwie schwer nach in letzter Zeit.

Same here. Can’t add much to the conversation though. All this stupid AI babysitting and bullshitting sucks the fun out of my profession. For a while now I felt it might be time to leave the tech sector entirely. Unfortunately that’s the only thing I’m comfortably good at.

twice the average pension and more than normal people earn a month in Germany.

I know, but that’s the effective cost. You can get financial assistance though, it depends on things like “Pflegegrad” and other factors. But still, the system is horribly broken.

That’s a regular price for a basic nursing home as far as I know. We paid 3500 per month (7000 for two parents) for a nursing home that looked good at first but turned out to be horrible. Due to what I would call criminal negligence they both died after 1 1/2 years.