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I finally gave in to the rust hype and built a new project in it (or my agent fleet did). Almost instant regret. My poor machine with just 2TB HDD and 24 cores was almost immediately crippled by agents each working in their own sandbox, each one building and compiling

Most projects my fleet works on are in other languages (TS, Go, Elixir) and can comfortably handle 10+ agents working in parallel, but not rust. I had to cap the fleet to 5 workers and build a dedicated resource monitor to step in and tidy up every time the disk almost filled up

That and general progress on building is far slower, with far more time spent building and testing than any other language I use.

Ended up rebuilding in Go, the perf gains weren't worth it

There is an absolutely massive tech community on Twitter and its by far the place to get real time updates on tech news (yes - better than HN). It isn't all a far right cess pit and that is easy to avoid by just using the following tab

You've just given them a 50% discount

It's literally made from the same steel so yeah cybertruck in space vibes

Cybertruck seems like a pretty good electric truck though if you're into that kind of styling, if you can find the signal in the noise of biased reviewers one way or another (I'm european so I have no real personal experience or care)

But I digress.

Lets wait until its no a prototype before declaring it a failure. I for one hope its a great success, as I hope all new technology is successful - but I'm an optimist

If people didn't try things just because they were hard we'd all be ploughing fields right now

Yes. The Starship program is pushing the limits of engineering, if it fails today it doesn't make it unimpressive

I'd also consider the attempts at fusion energy to be very impressive engineering projects even though none have them have yielded a stable source of fusion energy

To be fair there's probably a considerable amount of engineering that went into evaluating those markdown files so the agent behaviour is statistically reliable. The markdown is the product, not the process

2 reasons why we don't start with animals

1. it's not consciousness we really value, it's intelligence 2. LLMs are not tasty

This author seems a tad obsessed. 15 times they threw the word fascist around. DHH certainly has some controversial views that many (including myself) find distasteful, but the idea that he will use his funding to suppress and take funding from politically opposed founders and push fascism is nothing short of conspiracy theory.

Use Omarchy if you like the OS. Don't use it if you don't like it. A political analysis of the founders and leadership behind every product you use must be an exhausting way to live your life

And I read it by asking an LLM to summarise it

It's a bit 2025. Needs a scroll hijack background animation and cursor effects to be up to date for 2026

Without knowing what makes consciousness possible, the paper cannot justify biology as necessary - it mistakes a lack of evidence for conscious AI for proof that conscious AI is impossible.

I do not believe current AI or LLMs are conscious, but there is no proof one way or another that they can or cannot be. The paper authors are making up their own definitions and building an argument from them

> the obvious astroturfing that occurs on this site (along with reddit, etc.) when it comes to Grok isn't helping. All I hear about Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc., are how terrible they are, yet any discussion of Grok seems to always revolve around sensible, but confident, assertions that it's actually a great product and every new release is the point where Grok finally catches up.

this is the exact opposite of my experiences on HN and Reddit. In my experience, Grok is typically reduced to hitlerbot and CSAM generator and rarely taken as a serious competitor. People let their hatred of Musk blind them to the tech of his companies

We have Google, Figure, Tesla, Boston Dynamics, and literally dozens of Chinese companies building humanoid robots and making huge improvements in the tech. Not there yet by any means as a general-purpose home assistant, but I don't think it will be too surprising if at least one of them succeeds

Same - also thought it was hilarious

Real time reentry plasma field will never get old. Amazing

If you can't see cases for it you may need some glasses. Replace the graph in the docs of Top-level planner -> mid-level planners -> worker leaf nodes and you get an org chart of CEO -> executives, N-levels of management, and ICs at the leafs. It directly maps to almost any office-based company that can operate completely digitally.

It's obviously in its infancy but fully agentic companies are becoming a possibility, given the right harness, models and tools

It will be fascinating to watch this play out. Particularly if AI-compute satellite constellations become a reality - We're trending towards a matrioshka brain and I'll be happy if I live to see the beginnings of that future

"you need a very clear set of requirements. Every constraint on the table"

How nice it would be to live in this fantasy world

Well they trained their model by scraping all digitised human knowledge and ignoring IP and CW laws so whats a little bit of corporate espionage in the grand scheme of things

I use it because its gives a good balance between intelligence, latency and cost

I won't claim to know everything about its history - I don't know any history about _most_ of the products I use

The 2 main criticisms I see of Grok are the Mechahitler comment and the CSAM image generation

on mechahitler - I'm no expert but if I remember correctly it didn't just do that unprompted, it was specifically asked to be politically incorrect. It's definitely bad taste to say the least but the guardrails were quickly tightened as a response

on CSAM - Again, X quickly stopped Grok from generating images of people in bikinis (which as I understand was the underlying problem). I never personally saw anything that I would consider CSAM (nude or obviously underage people rendered naked or scantily clad)

So these aren't dealbreakers for me and I'm not aware of any other high profile issues or incidents

The nature of LLMs is that an adversarial prompt will make the model output something inappropriate or outrage-worthy, and that's amplified 1000 fold for Grok because people are primed to criticise Must so will jump on any opportunity

Parents taking responsibility for what their children can see and do on their devices is an option. Maybe free classes for tech-illiterate parents?

There are options that don't involve forcing everybody to prove their age and provide ID verification to access social media

Very cool. Good to see more axial flux motors in the wild - will be interesting to see if they become the new standard in future. With smaller material costs the cost to manufacture at scale could actually become lower than radial

I expect radial will still dominate for at least another decade or so outside of premium performance focused cars. Radial has been battle-tested and proven. Axial still has a few more years to prove it's reliability in the field. Higher loads and stresses, tighter tolerances could make the axial motors less reliable overall especially at mass market trims. Mercedes is probably over-engineering for reliability and performance on the premium car

Radial is also "good enough" for most applications. The efficiency, form factor and weight improvements of axial is nice, but they aren't the limiting factor. Radial is already highly efficient, reasonably light and small. The real level for weight is the battery

This is why there is so much interest in space based AI compute. It's not just SpaceX - Google, Anthropic and Nvidia have openly expressed interest

If you look at SpaceX plans and ambitions, they hope to deploy massive compute to orbit (multiple Terrawatts, hundreds of thousands of sats). If their ambitions even slightly materialise it would make ground based compute pale in comparison.

Whether or not they succeed in their plans is beside the point - the point is they know that terrestrial electric infra can't sustain the growth they need

No it's not. That statement assumes other corps care. They don't. If it was easy, everybody would be doing it. The fact that not everyone doing it is not because everyone else is not out of the goodness of their hearts

I've used it for a couple of years now and honestly the hype around it is really unjustified. It does the job but it's nothing special. I could go back to Jira and see no change in productivity after a brief re-orientation period

China becoming self sufficient in chip fab could be the trigger point for WW3 so lets not root too hard

Tesla is building their own fab

Huge gamble - If they pull it off I wouldn't be surprised if other companies follow

The whole armchair engineer debate online about this is hilarious

I'm just a software engineer, all I need to know is SpaceX is aggressively pursuing this - that's enough for me to believe it's viable

SpaceX operates literally orders of magnitudes more satellites than anyone else. If anybody understands the physics and engineering of space compute, it's SpaceX. Lay people debating this online is just showing their ignorance as far as I'm concerned, and it mostly comes from an emotional place of wanting Musk enterprises to fail

> Right.. and computers were once the size of a large room vs now fit into a pocket.

and yet now we have far bigger rooms with far bigger computers anyway

Hardware may improve exponentially, but demand for compute increases double-exponentially. we'll always need more, bigger computers