Cross-platform clients, yes, but that’s only a (small) part of the way there. For example, Signal is actively hostile to other client implementations just like Apple is with iMessage, unfortunately :(

I’ve found this feature mostly reliable. Those times where it doesn’t work, or I’m travelling, or don’t have phone reception is kinda annoying. But being able to just use my Mac is fantastic.

It’s really about interoperability of systems, protocols, services, and clients. Since we’re both using Lemmy I assume we both understand at least a bit about the significance of interoperability.

I think it’s a shame that effort is put in to reverse engineering.

I don’t think it is clear that everyone wanted to follow to Microsoft: https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-employees-did-not-want-to-work-for-microsoft-2023-12

Especially with their sizes: Broadcom has 20,000 employees and VMWare has 38,000.

“As part of integration planning, and following an organizational needs assessment, we identified go-forward roles that will be required within the combined company.”

Totally devoid of any humanity. Corporate jargon freaks me out. It shouldn’t, but it really gets to me.

Haha no worries mate I totally get you. One of the best things about LLMs when I’ve played with them is it exercises my ability to write questions and requirements

Let’s say a function, about 20 lines. Something too small to warrant an external dependency but tricky enough that you don’t want to keep rewriting it.

I have things like a function to read through a file of newline delimited text of key-value pairs separated by whitespace. It skips comments (lines beginning with “#”), and returns the pairs. I’m happy to do a little copying instead of having a little dependency.

I mean, I get it. But… damn… can you imagine the relative computing power required to read a text file versus asking a LLM to generate that same text?