andrekandre

  > Computing is held back by corporate legacy, and PARC was lucky to build all its own hardware and software.

this really resonates... apple makes both the hardware and software, is massively profitable and yet swift is basically a much much better c++ in a lot of ways. and xcode is just totally absurd excuse of a development environment...

is it better than before and welcome improvement? yes, but fundamentally conservative compared to what parc was doing with much much less...

  > It's a tool, dude. Relax.

it has been my observation, in the short years i have worked in tech, that some people really worship technology like religion/god and think it alone will solve all the worlds problems (hint, it wont)

this whole shove chatbots into everything trend will get reversed or watered-down after a couple years like all the other trends

most of the time, a bad (or non-existent) ui is responsible for even a need of a chatbot; its lazy (and i say this a someone who was forced to implement a chatbot!) from a product design perspective.

that being said, could some complex apps benefit from adding both a command-line style interface to 'pop open the hood' so-to-speak for advanced users and provide a chat interface for beginners as well? yea why not?

this whole data center in space thing is like a huge red siren screaming BUBBLE!

once these books have all been scanned and destroyed, doesn't it mean later competitors (and free-as-in-foss alternatives) wont ever be able to catch up?

it seems really sad that these books data isnt open in the first place...

  > If the labs end up with only 1-2 models ahead of the others, while spending 10x more than last year, that can only go on for so long. There just isn’t enough money in the world!

intuitively (to me anyways) isn't this one big reason why the top companies are putting out signals to slow down frontier development? its getting to costly and hurting chances of turning a profit come ipo time?

  > all that remains is the ugliness of stupid power

in the end, in the world of business and politics hasn't it always been these types of people that eventually float to the top? capital/power begets more capital/power...

i mean, imagine if your a business and suddenly you had to expense > $200 a month for every employee just to run a compiler, or you could just buy a computer and use it for everything else and that as well…

i think llms will be the same.

n=1 but at $work they are forcing us off enterprise and on to personal claude max that caps at $200 and people are like “you don’t need the top end models anyways just use the cheaper one for coding”, which begs the question how long till those “good enough” models run locally (with relative ease) and our company can cut that huge monthly cost with just the macbook pro they are gonna buy anyways.

  > Capitalism isn't an ideology

your confusing trading/markets with capitalism; they aren’t the same thing, and it definitely has ideology(ies)

https://www.britannica.com/money/capitalism

nowadays i can’t even start a day without a fresh cup of jev in the morning…

  > Jev is a new type of model that just makes decisions based on given options. 

something like “if x > y then x else y”?

you will be assimilated

5 years of (200/month) tokens at that price, meanwhile an rtx 5090 pc is about half that… hmm

but i wonder how much these token costs are sustainable or not, it may be in the long term cheaper to have your own hardware if token costs go up (and hopefully hardware gets cheaper again)

maybe its the verb?

what about `exclude()` or `keep()`?

in those cases its less ambiguous (to me anyways) that returning true means 'yes' to 'keep' or 'exclude', whereas saying yes or no to filter is like 'filter to exclude or include?'

thats my take anyway

  > amnesia is driven by materialist consumerism

anecdotally, but i see this everywhere not just in tech...

  > resulting in 10GB stored in a few days for what should have been like 5 MB of data

something for all those new datacenters to take care of (only half sarcastic i'm afraid)

  > Why does it feel like we've forgotten how to automate things?

everybody is too busy everyday fighting fires to garden all those standard automations; its much "easier" to just throw it at an llm and move on (just saying what i see)

  > I always struggle to remember if ‘filter’ keeps elements that match the condition or removes them

if you had parameter names maybe it might help?

`filter(where:)` like in swift...?

thanks for the thoughtful reply ^^

yes, regardless how one feels about "ai", its obvious to me its basically gasoline being dumped on this "faster and more" culture we are all suffering from...

> obsession over quantity and speed over everything else

i think this is a problem larger than just programming; we see it everywhere in western(ish) culture more and more ime....

  > We're souless automatons feeding a machine god.

whats the machine, capitalism?

  > something as mundane and non-violent as computer programming gets compared with violent combat

ever worked at s large corporation?

not that i disagree, but its funny because i just came back from a presentation from a "chief ai officer" where he boldly stated that ai is the next big abstraction for programmers (even had fancy charts and tables to boot)

  > I still wouldn't want to put in the capital resources towards it.

do these ai-startups require a lot of capital?

  >  cause your business to really spend a lot of time shepherding the tech over the finish line

some may be better than others, but isnt this basically true for all these 'multiplatform' systems? i have nightmares of all the time it took with handling platform-boundaries/integration and lots of other grinding...

i hear a server rack had been hit with a subpoena...

"boys with toys"

n+1, i hope they continue it as well its a great form-factor and pretty tough as well

whats that saying? "i broke in to steal the tv and found you already had stole it"?

  > People everywhere want to strive, work hard and get ahead.

i think you need to visit more countries and cultures because you would discover this is not at all true