I wouldn't blindly trust a brand new author in 2026, but it's very easy to trust an author that has put out good writing in years past. Not hard to find, there has been plenty of great books written after 2023.
New authors however will certainly have to earn trust for a few years now I think.
It's similar with music, if someone puts out their first album in 2026 and has no singles or EPs, no YouTube presence, etc., it's probably slop. If they have a body of work that goes back a few years, easy to trust.
I don't understand caring about 'slop' in creative media. Its pressingly more important in programming because there are a lot of bugs linters, complicated language models and even fuzzy sandbox searches can't catch. Even if they did, coding is collaborative work and maintaining vibecoded infra is a genuine hassle. However, none of these apply to music or books. AI or not, humane feelings always shapes a piece to its last form and its entirely up to you to determine if you like it or not. AI generally fails to capture this, and if it didn't - a fluke -, why not enjoy the piece?
There's only so much time we have. If I can filter out a category of music (slop) I know from experience I'm 99% likely to not enjoy I'd like to be able to.
I for one can't enjoy a piece of creative media made by AI because I know it only exists so that a handful of losers can profit off the wholesale theft of actual human creativity. Other people don't share these qualms (they are also losers) and that's their choice. Honestly, I could give a fuck if AI tanks coding because I think the internet as we now know it is a mistake of capitalism and if using the plagiarism machine causes codebase maintenance to be harder, aww shucks sucks to suck, guess that's your job now? IDK, I'm married to an artist/writer and was a cook for most of my 20s so I have become a neo-luddite in my middle age when it comes to this specific topic.
Weird how "where you are in the world" affects your view of things, right?
Pretty much described what MSFT is trying to do with M365 Copilot. It's "secure", it can be deployed in GCC tenants, etc. It may not be a dedicated private server exactly, but they believe it is private enough.
I don't think there is anything private about that, what I was actually thinking is the polished equivalent of me spinning up LM Studio (or Ollama...) and rolling my own vector database. Mandatory updates and phoning home are a no-go, I just want it to run on my private network the same way my NAS does.
I don't think MS value has been inflated by AI, if anything it's value has decreased from it's AI investments. MS has mostly been on it's same growth path for the last decade.
I think you haven’t been paying attention to the market then over the last couple years. Despite getting hammered recently, it is still up 100% from 2023 lows.
Am I crazy? MSFT has was up about 100% in the prior three years before 2023 as well, and again for the three years before that.
AI has had very little to do with MSFT growth. Pretty sure the 2023 lows were a response to the massive AI spending, and the recovery mostly due to continued Azure services growth.
There is probably no transmission in a US road car that can be replaced for $500 in labor at an auto shop. Your buddy or some rando may do it, but no shop will for that price. Typical shop rate is $120-$220/hour. Most shops are going to charge a minimum of 4 hours, but probably closer to 8 hours. Have you ever been under a car? The amount of "automation" required to replace a transmission is still in the arena of science fiction.
I have personally replaced a Volkswagen transmission in under an hour. I did it alone, in a driveway, with a regular floor jack, a skateboard, and a set of harbor freight wrenches.
Out of all the og Xbox games, Kung Fu Chaos provided the most fun and laughs with friends. It honestly still holds up gameplay wise. I still play it sometimes. The minigames were the best.
Exchange is actually still fairly prevalent, even among smaller companies. Although many of the smaller orgs that still have on-prem Exchange tend to have a migration plan to M365.
> Exchange is actually still fairly prevalent, even among smaller companies. Although many of the smaller orgs that still have on-prem Exchange tend to have a migration plan to M365.
and I hope they do. most of these smaller companies are sometimes sitting on really really old versions. "it works" is mostly the argument.
updating exchange sometimes can be painful. most of the time everything works, but sometimes things just break.
Let’s not ignore that if you’re a company self-hosting a highly available Exchange installation (plus backup infrastructure and maybe near-line storage solutions for mail), it’s almost certainly comprised of very expensive capital and > an FTE of labor, all which are entirely a waste of time and resources at this point.
There are vanishingly few circumstances where it makes sense for an organization to be funding deep expertise for the direct management of an Exchange environment. This has been clear for nearly a decade.
The capex to refresh that hardware is a ridiculous waste, so yeah, it wouldn’t surprise me if the people still running those setups have very aged installations (e.g. WinSrvr 2008-12), which are as great a risk as the Exchange Server software they’re running.
The gating factor is often the expertise to plan and execute a migration with minimal disruption and loss. It’s not simple, and it’s nothing like an exchange upgrade project. It’s a downright UGLY project if a company has been abusing their mail system for years (e.g. using their mail system as a document management platform since ‘99, allowing distributed PSTs, etc.). Seen it.
