That's just the basics. To craft a prompt for a complex architectural task, you need to know the solution at least on an abstraction level. If you don't have the right system design in your head, no llm is gonna conjure it out of thin air
Funny how almost every wave of automation starts the same way: "we're gonna cut headcount," but ends with "we're just shifting roles"
AI is pretty good at scaling existing knowledge, but if the actual knowledge is just in the head of an engineer who can hear that a press is acting up, the model doesn't really have much to go on
Good code is absent code
LLMs by nature work like autocomplete on steroids. They're always trying to write more than necessary to please the prompt. Seniority now is measured by the ability to break down a task so that the agent doesn't even think to drag in unnecessary abstractions
It's good to see the hype around "programmers are no longer needed" giving way to a more realistic view. Generating lines of code was never the hardest part of engineering. What's much harder is understanding exactly what we're building, how it integrates with legacy systems, and making sure it doesn't crash the database under load
This is probably the better way to frame it: not "Nvidia is proposing a new CPU system" but "Nvidia is trying to move an existing GB/Spark-class platform into a Windows PC form factor"
For local models, the useful part is not just having 128GB attached to the package. It is whether the GPU can practically use that memory without the usual VRAM-style constraints
I think the local-model use case is going to become less niche pretty quickly if the models keep getting smaller and more capable. Even if most people do not care about privacy or offline use, the cost argument is pretty strong
The interesting part to me isn't really the Cortex-X925 vs AVX-512 comparison, but Nvidia trying to make the GPU the center of a Windows PC rather than an add-in card
I get what you mean, but "more addictive stimulant with a stronger cognitive kick" is one of those product requirements that starts to sound less appealing the longer you think about it
A molecule can be socially and medically associated with a very harmful delivery mechanism, while still having specific biochemical effects that are worth studying on their own. Ant that's interesting
The glucose part is especially interesting: the missing step wasn't just an unknown enzyme, but a transient intermediate that basically disappears by the end
I agree that privacy and security are not identical, and that bad actors can benefit from privacy tools too. But I don't think that makes privacy a "lofty but meaningless" ideal
Most people probably don't "give away freedom" in some explicit bargain. They accept one small exception at a time: this restriction is for children, this one is for safety, this one is only for bad actors, this one is temporary
Age-gating VPNs fails, becausw it probably won't stop determined piracy or abuse, but it will make privacy tools feel abnormal, regulated, and less available to ordinary users and families