Deer: Urine Stick? 😳

Gallagher’s fault.

Chinese manufacturers look like they’ve figured out vertical integration and manufacturing automation. BYD makes a TON of items themselves, from battery to drive-trains, tires, telematics, sensors, etc. And they can iterate FAST. It also means their battery division sells to the car division at cost, whereas a different manufacturer would have to pay cost + profit. Also, robots.

There’s no way a Ford, Toyota, or VW will ever go back to making their own components.

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Not long before git repos will implement Captchas for each submission.

Good thing there are openings in the “Physical Augmentation” division: https://www.engadget.com/transportation/doordashers-are-getting-paid-to-close-waymos-self-driving-car-doors-122711640.html

This whole post has a strong ‘Sovereign Citizen’ vibe.

Wasn’t “lo-code” a BIG thing a few years ago… that would destroy programming and make every PM a developer? Whatever happened to that? 🤔

Edit: read the HN comments. If I ever go back to consulting, I’m 10x-ing my rate to work on cleaning up this slop. I’m not anti-AI coding and use it for my own projects, but if you just give it a prompt and walk away, you will be very sad later.

There’s a BIG difference between prototypes and something others have to use. As the lo-code folks found out the hard way.

They tried that around these parts. It didn’t go as planned.

Curious how those viewing numbers are tallied nowadays, given over-the-air, cable, DVR boxes, streaming, digital DVRs, overseas, etc.

What could go wrong? It’s not like anything bad has ever happened when we force-injected pressurized substances underground.

/s

Could have gone with a proven Godot ecosystem, then sponsored them to work on speeding up startup times and making it ‘automotive grade.’

But, no…

It said it had. Obviously, a fabrication. Even after it said it implemented it, it took a couple more hours of coaxing it and pointing whst should be done before it actually worked.

Point is, one shouldn’t go near these LLMs for coding unless they know what to do and how to look for problems.

Last week, curious what would be generated, told Cursor (with Claude Opus 4.5) to create an animated LED strip effect for an ESP32 device in C. Pretty simple stuff. It thinks for a long time. Creates a ton of scaffolding, docs, step-by-step agentic checklists, even a Makefile to build and deploy the binary. It then says: “Done.”

I go compile it. Lots of errors. I paste over the logs and ask it what’s wrong. Claude thinks for a while longer, then goes:

“I see the issue - I only created the header file but never completed the LED manager implementation. Let me check what’s there and finish the implementation.”

I want a Nio with battery-swap, and a hitch for the unicorn-trailer.