So he still does the whole “centrist” shtick of peddling western chauvinist points on the regular rather than sticking to topics he is actually knowledgeable of. A while back people found out he never actually worked as a software engineer as he liked to claim he did, so even on tech topics I would take his advice with a grain of salt.

They do still exist (in their quarantined form) but barely get any traffic nowadays. Interestingly nothing of the like from Reddit for the subsequent genocide apologia from Zionists however.

For coding I find LLMs to be legitimately revolutionary. I’ve tried letting DeepSeek & some local models like Qwen and Gemma loose on various projects to implement features and improvements for local use and so far most of the time it didn’t disappoint.

In the last couple of weeks I’ve been updating an old third party bot plugin for a game by prompting various behavior changes I’d like to see and it’s a night & day difference to its original state. If I had done this by hand the time it took would’ve been multiple magnitudes longer, it’d have been more error-prone (especially since it’s a C++ project written in classical C style, which is just UB galore) and I likely would’ve lost the enthusiasm to work on it by now.