Am I the only one who feels the comments here don't sound organic at all?
But all the accounts are old/legit so I think that you and me have just become paranoid...
It's like when you interact with any other piece of language oriented media.
TBH, I didn't watch the video because the title is too click-baity for me and it's too long. Instead, I looked at the benchmark results on the Github page and sure, it's fascinating how you can significantly(!) thin the latency distribution, just by using 10× more CPU cores/RAM/etc. Classic case of a bad trade-off.
And nobody talked about what we use RAM for, usually: Not to only store static data, but also to update it when the need arises. This scheme is completely impractical for those cases. Additionally, if you really need low latency, as others pointed out, you can go for other means of computation, such as FPGAs.
So I love this idea, I'm sure it's a fun topic to talk about at a hacker conference! But I'm really put off by the click-baity title of the video and the hype around it.
In all seriousness, agreed. The top comment at time of this writing seems like a poor summarizing LLM treating everything as the best thing since sliced bread. The end result is interesting, but neither this nor Google invented the technique of trying multiple things at once as the comment implies.
I think rather than AI it reminds me of when (long before AI) a few colleagues would converge on an article to post supportive comments in what felt like an attempt to manipulate the narrative and even at concentrations that I find surprisingly low it would often skew my impression of the tone of the entire comment section in a strange way. I guess you could more generally describe the phenomenon as fan club comments.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1sgtkdf/tailsl...
There are a few glazing comments there too though.
> Well he veered off of the technical and into the personal so I'm not surprised it's dead.
I don't know what he posted, but it is easy to see how a small fan group around Laurie can form?
She is an attractive girl not afraid to be cute (which is done so seldom by women in tech that I found a reddit thread trying to triangulate if she is trans. I am not posting that to raise the question, but she piques peoples interest) plus the impressively high effort put into niche topics PLUS the impressively high production value to present all that.
i would note that it also appears to be wrong, reading laurie's reply, though i am not an expert. rude + wrong is a bad combo.
the next comment by jeffbee is also quite rude, and ignores most of laurie's reply in favor of insulting her instead. i dont think it is a mystery why jeffbee's comments were flagged...