Yeah, I have no interest in becoming a pet. Especially not as a species.
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It's unfortunate that we live in a world that has decided to push in this direction.
I have started a work project that is 100% vibe engineered, as an experiment to see where it would land. While it seems to be working, I can see that it has made so many mistakes along the way that it is still unclear if we can dig ourselves to production ready.
I was at an art museum recently, and was looking at a marble statue. And I thought to myself: this artist probably spent more time sculpting the big toe than anyone has spent appreciating the entire statue.
That speed is what we used to have in software engineering. So much careful craftsmanship, no line just yeeted out. And now we're just heading into a direction with no clear end, just prayers that bigger and better models will lift us forward.
What's the point of being human if we're so gung ho to remove that which separates us from other animals (our intellect)?
Would you rather have 1M dollars in cash or 10B in stock that you can't sell?
Just laziness / not necessary for my commute. However, my understanding is that keeping the battery around 80% is better for lifespan. So, the convenience will actually result in longer lasting batteries?
The problem is that it makes it easier to fool people and provide "cryptographic" evidence of validity, backed by big tech.
It's purpose is to stop bad actors from passing of fake as real just as much as it is to prevent real images being dismissed as fake.
And if we think college degrees don't matter, there's plenty of professions that require time on the job, rotations, flying low/no passenger planes, and so on.
We require people get a license to own a firearm (or ostensibly should...). And AI can be an extremely powerful weapon.
I see a gatekeeping argument. I don't agree with their requirements. I'd rather see that regulation than banning models.
It also has the side effect of preventing AI from taking jobs as aggressively, keeping it at bay in schools, and getting people to maybe respect(?) / acknowledge the dangers involved here.
If anyone hasn't tried it I highly recommend it. Simply put: Solid makes the "dumb and naive code" the optimal code. It takes all the pain of React away.
I agree with your sentiment that we've pushed web frontend performance as far as we should bother. I think optimizing calls is the next frontier. On that end, I like the approach for async, but maybe I have a suggestion?
Solid needs a tightly coupled request library that emits signals/resources directly. That "server-side" data binding layer would be the missing glue. I think server actions sort of get at that, but I've never really been satisfied with them. Just my 2c.
Step one of all my projects is always wrap a bunch of fetch calls into whichever correct incantation of solid primitives. Plus, the solid compiler should be able to early load those requests via static analysis and improve real life FCP / LCP times without the developer needing to do gymnastics.
It's a really, really easy line to draw in the sand: don't support openly corrupt individuals.
It's absolutely true there's money in politics. To call all money in politics equally corrupt because Bernie got a dollar to have dinner with someone vs Elon effectively directly buying votes....
A complete lack of nuance here. And I wouldn't be surprised if corporations / super rich WANT you to think like that. The more defeatist the mentality becomes the more we just accept whatever they do next.
Meanwhile, and I say this as someone who plays a lot of puzzles, this feels distinctly unfair? Too many valid positions for each answer, which makes it more sodoku like but without the ability to validate against concrete rules. Forces a full mental layout of every possible position to find the one(?) Valid layout.
It costs billions to develop a drug (model) and pennies to produce the actual pill (tokens).
The government regulates the drug industry to give companies an exclusive period to recoup the costs before generics can jump in.
AI lacks that regulation which means frontiers are guaranteed to just bleed to death.
If you are used to docker compose and don't care about redundancy or authoring your own stuff. Just setup storage and then use helm install. It feels like an app store at that level.
Grow from there as needs arise.
I learned it because it seemed like the right way to do things and fun. Cut myself a few times in the earliest days having no clue, but no regrets.
Talos + longhorn + fluxcd (optional), is super nice. And everything beyond that is additive and just works within the ecosystem.
If anything, it helped keep my stuff alive during all the hardware issues a lot longer.
I think like 5-6 years ago, kubernetes on baremetal was pretty painful. People should really give it another try, an LLM can probably set it up for you and fire off the docker compose to manifests in one shot. Or just follow the docs yourself, maybe a dozen commands to get a cluster running?
All the enterprisey stuff makes it feel a lot more complex than it really is.
I actually read this, and still have basically no idea what your point was. But you sounded very pretentious and AI-ified while making it.
At some point it's on them to live with their choices. And just from my small sample size (I doubt there's a large sample anywhere), those people are more interested in complaining about their self-inflicted woes than engaging with the content.
/rant
AI + 100GBE (under load) + tiny box = unreliable and eead very quickly.
On the flip side, visualizers have always fascinated me. I love this one, but one build off I've always wanted to see: analyze the entire file a priori, and then generate the visuals. Sort of like a normalization pass, but getting longer form structures decoded ahead of time could be pretty neat.
That means they're actually incentivized at least short term, to benefit PCs becoming strong enough to do local LLMs. Which makes this play make even more sense. Though, I've been saying for a while that the local AI inflectiom point is the death knell for these frontier labs.
I used fable on some difficult stuff and it was surprisingly good.
It's safe to say that models aren't going to get worse.
Does that mean: US citizens will get an edge in hireability?
Assuming: 1. Non-US companies can't keep up Or 2. That model improvements continue to convince management of productivity improvements
Didn't think that was needed to be pointed out.
Yes, a lot of the news is sensationalized and blown out of proportion.
But also YES, things are absolutely trending in the wrong direction and you should both be aware of that and be loudly screaming about it. Going to protests, boycotting companies run by these CEOs leading us into oligarchy, and letting people know your stance.
The idea that "I can't do anything about it, so I'll just bury my head in the sand" is the rhetoric that the people benefitting from rigging the system want you to have. It makes it easier for them to screw you over.
No, your brain was neven designed for this much bad news. It also wasn't designed for the Internet, tv, smartphones, processed food, soda, painting, sleeping in a bed, to infinity. It's a garbage argument that falls apart at first glance.
Edit to add: I highly recommend meditation and days off from technology. But the answer is not what many people in this thread are proposing. Steve Bannon's "flood the zone" strategy is winning.
Because if they don't imply that size is needed for every task, they'll end up tanking their valuations.