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We experienced this with Anthropic, not the same blast radius obviously, but out of nowhere account was terminated. No support available. It was via someone’s 30+ year old classmate via LinkedIn the account got reinstated.

As a counterpoint to the right to the repair there should be a right to recover.

It’s not one single skill being lost, it’s about many and how they interact.

I just did a big refactor with opus, it went ok, some bugs. The normal stuff. One of the bugs was in a part of the code no longer needed, which Opus had just filled with comments more or less. Asking it fix the bug worked, but then I really looked at the code and realized just that, this is pointless now.

I’ve only been coding for 20+ years so I might be more susceptible than the author, but I’m quite terrified about losing skills in writing code, but also designing good structure, coherency and system overview. These are the things people claim you need more of with LLMs, but is what you outsource the most, even if you think you are describing it in detail.

We are all collectively growing the skill of complacency and laziness though, and those are not great ”skills” to have. And I’m just as guilty as anyone.

It's a built-in secret part of the teaching for any job where you interact with customers, they don't upgrade and they have no troubleshooting skills.

Or just ineptitude, but I'm hoping for the former.

Love that they don't pay any royalties for AI music right now, unlike Spotify.

Reaper and Predator are both drones and there’s really no comparison to toy drones in terms of sheer destruction and capabilities in general, the comparison is actually quite apt imo.

What people? Are you seriously thinking the hundreds of millions of customers Apple have is going to be buying run-to-the-ground GPUs second hand and build local workstations for AI? Might as well ask them to self host email while you’re at it.

I was surprised to even see it mentioned after all these years, literally haven’t thought about it a single time since I got my first MBP that had it.

Not only that, daily flooding websites with almost infinite amounts of request for ”web searches”. DDoS-by-VC money.

Errors multiply though, you might just get more plausible sounding errors than actual facts.

Like when agent 1 says X, agent 2 verifies it as Y and the original question ends up being some weird amalgamation of Z with additional ”this is really true” statements sprinkled on top.

I agree Google responses hurt more than help, but I’ve also gotten identical outcomes of 40min self-reasoning Opus threads (it’s less common obviously).

Not really, you might understand it in the moment, but to learn something you need to do actual work. An example is, watch a thousand hours on photography, how to take great photos. Go out and try to take great photos, you will fail. This is why all serious tutors keep saying ”stop watching and go out and take photos, every day, all the time”. I don’t know Rust, but I can understand AI outputting some Rust code if I ask it to. Two days later I won’t be able to write it again.

Feels great to have both a very generic first and last name and share them with others who are internationally known and some more locally. I really have no desire to be in model weights.

No, good driving, which includes focusing does that. People hit other people in the parking lot. There’s a reason some countries have significant higher death counts in traffic and no amount of beeping will change that.

But it’s not a matter of total charge, but output, hence it shutting down even though there’s plenty of stored energy in the battery.

Yes, let’s make people focus less on the road and instead worrying about 1km/h speeding. And where I live expensive photos are only taken way way later than the car starts beeping. It’s the real life equivalent of the cookie banner.

Whoever came up with the idea that the car should beep loudly even close to the speed limit has clearly never driven a car. The best way to silence it is to constantly be over the speed limit or well below.

But surely 60B could buy you something better if you want to spend money on AI. The number seems completely arbitrary, would Cursor say no to 40B? I really don’t see Cursor as bringing them anything of actual value, it’s more of a bragging thing, but I can be very wrong.

How are these numbers even working out, I get free markets and all that, but Microsoft paid 2.5B for Minecraft, which was printing money at the time (seems they still lost on that deal). Now a rocket company is buying an editor company for 60B and everyone seems to think that makes sense.

I’m happy to be old man yelling at clouds here because I can’t for the life of me figure out these valuations and purchases.

There’s literally nothing pointing towards this direction, rather the opposite.

Also the problem is not only judges, but the scope of detective work being done and when the crime was discovered etc. Judging comes last, but I guess we could deploy the infallible robot police squad which will do a flawless crime scene analysis etc.

Because others are paying for it. It’s a lot easier to get revenue when you don’t have to care about CAC or paying the bills.

Thank you for writing this. It’s such a classic example of ”do what I say not what I do” but in reverse. Why would you ever judge a CEO or company by their statements and not their actions. Scaremongering is incredibly efficient for marketing, the fact that both players are using it to drive monetary gain is kind of a tell.

I feel it helps for the personality aspect, how it handles answers and general vocabulary, but it doesn’t in any way improve skill level, at least that’s my take from building an assistant.

CSS keeps improving and models still train on legacy. So yes, knowing what’s possible and how is very much needed if you want to do something scalable and maintainable. Random blog or landing page, not so much.

This post is an extremely good example of how unsuitable agents are for a lot of tasks. Doing all that for a CSS fix is insanity. It also makes you wonder if Anthropic is actively making their models eat tokens by favoring complexity.

The analogy falters in scope, it should be more like ”do you put your entire family and all your friends in different cars, on different highways, and try to remote control them all at the same time, while also driving yourself, facing backwards”

I’ve done a few different things, some different presentations, web mockups etc. They all look more or less identical out of the box, and in every single case of a presentation, Claude Design has zero concept of layout boundaries, happily making slides that expand 200% or more out of the visible viewport (I have a lot of content and it just can’t figure out nice ways of presenting it).

There’s still value in it for me, I get decent enough output to convey my intent and I sometimes manually tweak the HTML.

Defining fonts is a good way to at least not get the same typography as everyone else.

Gamers Nexus has a good video on this, but if NVIDIA exits the consumer market, and honestly why would they stay when they can charge up to a 100x for the same wafer space for enterprise, AMD would likely do the same. Only Apple really makes consumer hardware suitable for running things locally then, and maybe some weird Qualcomm ARM chip for Windows. It will be hard running things locally if nobody is supplying the hardware.

They’ve had hardware decoding since M3 and equivalent A cpus. So I’d say it’s pretty well supported.

But it’s at the whim of someone who I think nobody can describe as stable or trustworthy. Starlink the technology is great, Starlink the company has a massive weight attached to it.

The circulation of money in AI is deeply troubling (NVIDIA being one of the worst I believe), either the bubble doesn’t pop and corruption like this is considered legal (self-inflating money amongst friends) or it pops and the financial hurt will be felt for a decade.

That is a load-bearing decision!