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> struggling to keep up with the frontier

I think the question is whether that's even relevant.

If AI becomes a commodity (will it?) you're better off being Google than OpenAI.

Microsoft struggled to keep up with the mobile industry frontier and here they are, healthier than ever.

Personally my benchmark for a compiler is way higher than "it has a lot of tests". Way higher.

Is this in practice what's going to happen, or are (1) the prices going to hike (and never go down) for the consumer and (2) the memory companies will just continue doing what they already do because they're still selling their old shovels to the gold diggers?

I don't see how this will benefit the consumer, but I might be missing some second order effect?

> If it wasn't so controlled it'd might as well have just been reddit.

And why do you think most people (and LLMs) just Google "<what they are looking for> reddit" ??

Sorry, the wording confused me.

The project itself seems to be structued around 1.4k micro-crates[0] which I admit is a bit weird. Rust's compilation unit is the crate unlike C's per-file compilation unit, so if this was a 1:1 AI-assisted translation from the original Postgres source this might be an artifact of the translation.

[0] https://github.com/malisper/pgrust/blob/main/Cargo.toml

> I love llm coding. I don't know what I am looking at here

There might be some correlation here.

With the current trajectory of looms, I see unionisation efforts dead in the water.

- Someone in the early 19th century

> wonder if CORS world be better off opt-in rather than opt-out.

It's necessary that the defaults are secure. More so, not less, if the problem is hard.

If I perfectly know all the guardrails I need, I don't need an LLM, only Prolog.

But that's not very informative.

Levenshtein distance is not only a well-understood problem, it's small, self-contained, and extremely well-represented in the training data. The kind of problem where even small/bad models can excel. The golden standard for those tasks is just "use a library" so no wonder the beefy models are expensive: you're chartering a commercial airplane to go grocery shopping.

My personal benchmarks are software engineering tasks (ideally spanning multiple packages in a monorepo) composed of many small decisions that, compounded, make or break the implementation and long-term maintainability.

There's where even frontier models struggle, which makes comparisons meaningful.

> Whenever a central position is formed with power over something, even if it’s only a steering power, it will be sought out by power-hungry people and manipulated

The inevitable "iron law of oligarchy".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy

That's how you get date bugs.

Ah, that's where you're wrong. There is no long term. Investors want results now. "Later" is for the greater fools.

> I was surprised to find out how much hate there is for AI in art.

I'm surprised you're surprised.

Giant corpos steal work from millions of independent artists and the State ruled that IP laws didn't apply to them, only to us common mortals.

Is the token budget also there? I assume not it they'd be at multiple orders of magnitude negative.

> nobody is sitting their waiting / watching the LLM code anyway

My personal experience is that for production-grade code you need to steer the agent more often than not... so yes, at least some of us are watching the LLM code.

So what you propose is first you create the request payload and POST it, which generates a request-id-bound URL (but it does nothing stateful yet) and then you actually request to perform it? Because otherwise I don't see any difference.

Yes, I understand that, but I'm not sure how that changes anything?

I mean: you still have the problem regardless of following HTTP verb semantics or not.

> Don't do that, and this problem evaporates.

Don't do that, and you solved nothing.

Either I'm missing what you mean, or half the comments here are missing the point of idempotency.

Let's say your server received this request twice within one minute:

    {
      items: [ { id: 123, amount: 1 } ],
      creditCardInfo: { ... }
    }

How can you tell from the server if that's a retry (think e.g. some reverse proxy crashed and the first request timed out, but the payment already went through to the user's CC)... or if the user just trying to purchase another item 123 because they forgot they needed 2?

There is simply no way to make the requests idempotent without an idempotency key. The only way to tell both situations apart is to key the requests by some UID. The HTTP verb is irrelevant.

Did I misunderstand what you meant?

And what's the public API/stdlib/bindings inside the WASM workers?

I've been thinking a lot about this today and I think you might have a hidden gem here. Where can I reach you to talk more about this?

Feel free to drop an email (address in my profile)

Let's see if I got this right: so it's something like a private Yggdrasil Network (minus the IPv6 overlay?) meets self-distributing WASM-powered serverless functions? Plus some built-in functions for proxying/serving.

I know the individual words in the description but I'm a bit confused about what this is.

What would I use Pollen for?

I'm not sure I understand the "seed" metaphor.

> You have to join the Union, after all

Uh, how? This might be a country thing but you don't have to join any union in my country. You do, if they represent your interests. Big companies have multiple, competing unions, and the anarchists (which refuse state subsidies and are fully self-funded) are pretty good at what they do.

If you have to join a union isn't that essentially a racket?

And in knowledge work we're not instantly replaceable. That's why anti-union propaganda is rampant in SWE fields.

Well, unions do not exist to keep people entrenched on their jobs. That perspective is propaganda (by you-know-who).

There's not a lot I can say that isn't covered in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union

I'm interested. At a glance this sounds a lot like Hurl[0]. What's the difference?

[0] https://hurl.dev/

> There are different coalitions with varying compromises between them.

They all failed and were subsumed by the two (read: one) big groups in Europe. Far left and libertarians were crushed in the past two legislatures.

Now it's PfE's turn but the antibodies are already in the bloodstream (the two big groups are already signing their covenants to protect the oligarchy) and Trump did them dirty (they're now scrambling to distance themselvesb from USA's and Israel's ties) so they're DoA and will fail too.

This said: I understand your points, and thanks for the civil discussion.

> and they are wildly different

As someone from the "whole rest of the west", no, they're not different at all. Very minor details change, but the net outcome is the exact same and suffer from the exact same problems.

You can't escape the iron law of oligarchy.

> Democracies are good at crushing dissent?

They're not only good: they are the best. You don't need to curb dissent by violence if you discourage dissent by social manipulation. It's the cheapest and most effective tactic: keeping the populace docile.

If you manage to equate "democracy" (again, quotes intended) with democracy (lack of quotes intended), most of the work is already done.

"What are you, antidemocratic!?"

"Don't blame me - I voted for Kodos"

There's a reason my country's system trembled when the bipartisan system was challenged as new parties emerged... but it was curbed within two legislatures without a single shot fired and now we're back to an even stronger bipartisan representation. Quite the fine job, actually.

We even have a name for this: "the state's sewers". They're very effective. There's a reason the state's armed forces routinely infiltrate unions and other citizens participation platforms.

No, but believing our so-called "democracy" (quotes intended, read: "21st century western systems") is how you give people "a choice" is the moral high ground. That is your axiom, but it's often touted as a tautology.

The name says "demos" and "kratos" but names are names, not facts.

There are many ways to give people a choice and this one has proven to be quite ineffective at that, as it slowly devolved into a plutocracy/oligarchy. Iron law of oligarchy, yadda yadda.

What they are very effective at though: crushing dissent, calming the masses with a reassuring illusion of choice, and touting itself as the "one true way".

When I look at the outcomes I don't see any semblance of democracy, only a ritual dance/theatre show every 4 years. A farce as big as the "democratic" instruments on the PRC.

There's a reason this "democracy" is very diligent at discouraging association and unionizing. Those give actual power to the people (and with power comes choice). That's dangerous. People might start believing they can actually influence the outcomes.

"Don't blame me - I voted for Kodos"