theplumber

>> 252GB of HBM3e at 7.1TB/s,

So it has only 252GB of actual ”AI” memory making it “useless”/toy for actual real world AI workloads(I.e it can’t replace something like opus 5)

I am pretty sure Tim also used Siri for the development of the next Siri(you know to set up the alarm clock)

Something is still not making sense to me. We have these mankind extinction models, yet when you given them a problem relatively “simple” to complete it end to end you get AI slop.

Can we pause the AI development after the AI slop is “fixed” perhaps with something less than 10.000 agents?

I like the craft but I enjoy making products more. Working for 5 years on some tool chain/libraries has been great in terms of “technical” satisfaction but it would have been even more rewarding to build successful products with all that.

And I think this is really the best of both worlds because AI coding works best when you give it constrains and without my toolchain the AI is generating crap code I wouldn’t ever want to read but using the libs I wrote and know I can constrain it to write decent code that works “at scale” . The more opinionated the tools/libraries the better outcome you can expect.

Another great usage of AI is for refactoring. Before AI you could have a great idea how to make the library better/more ergonomic but the sheer amount of refactoring would make you just eat the debt and basically live with your own “slop”. Now with AI you can produce the reference design for the refactoring (I.e let’s make all these functions actually methods) and the job is done in minutes/hours. This inevitably leads to better designed software.

Russia-Ukraine war is important for Europe and perhaps should for the US as well but you can well see that’s not that important for Israel for example. Nobody cares about Maduro saga because it’s not worth it to upset the U.S for obvious no real gain. On the other hand the Greenland saga for example played out differently. You may see a pattern if you look close enough: Greenland and Venezuela are pretty much the same situation and taking down the bad guy had nothing to do with it. You may also remember the U.S released the convicted drug dealer from Honduras because it played ball with the U.S.

I think the rhetorical answer is why should we care if Iran is doing bad stuff around? Is that enough to start a war with Iran?

We don’t care if Trump is doing a deal with criminals to steal oil from Venezuela either so why should the world be so eager to help him steal oil from Iran as well?(and perhaps do a deal with the meanest of them all)

Yeah, like this zombie civilisation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i2k7KQ5L5Jg I am not sure if you can say it’s raising or falling by their posture

I think the world will start mediating but not in the way you think/want. They will just divest from the U.S., slowly but surely so that when the next U.S clown start messing around they don’t have to flatter it anymore.

I doubt that the world will subscribe to the idiocy of the current US admin. China will just push harder for renewables while Europe and the rest of the world will try to coup with the shock but I am certain they won’t go to war with Iran because they have no reason. Eventually US will have to decide if it’s going to do anything or just live with high oil prices for long or just go back home in a British Suez fashion.

I think it just proves them right. China seems to be doing OK partly due renewables push. But what do I know, electrification is a Chinese hoax.

Besides a better camera what all this along with the past generations have so exciting ? I just fail to see a reason to upgrade. Maybe I am getting old?

Ok so another “better” smartphone. To me it is very hard to get excited about the new smartphones. It really seems they have nothing new. I mean you have Apple Pay on any old iPhone and the software is more or less the same, the battery more or less the same…there is really nothing new. I am going to get a 12k or 16k camera to solve the “camera” issue and that would be it to avoid buying better iPhones every x years.

They stole my idea. I was working exactly on this! What should I do now?

I mean nobody really uses Gemini because is just too weak…

A Mac studio ultra with linux is the best computer I ever had. The only small thing that I miss is the copy/paste from iphone to the computer sync. It seems to me really that there is no going back to macOS any time soon. I don’t think I would still be able to “compute” on Windows.

Spoiler alert: TheGuardian found out that the water is wet and that most of the “western” countries have relied on U.S military for their security in a kind of “collective” mechanism since WW2.

Next article should be about UK’s dependence on U.S for their nuclear deterrence. Someone give them that tip

But that would be impossible due copyrights laws. If the law would apply Anthropic and OpenAI executives would be in jail

Yes, train your model to give people more AI slop until they get sick of it

Is this sarcasm on AI companies?

At this point I wonder why Google still releases proprietary models. They are behind the open models.

I do very security cyber dangerous work like building a signup/login form or setting up a certificate. For obvious and good reasons Fable refuses to work on such sensitive stuff.

Do you understand the difference between computer devices?

We all seem to be building this kind of Orbs or whatever you want to call a harness with some user interface.

I am at version 4 and I have a “open in vscode” button on each task/orb/instance just in case the UI is not enough and you want to corner the agent really close

I agree. But I think I would also like the OS to put a fingerprint (I.e committed on macOSX in /usr/marc/… while he was watching porn on xxx). This way we can get the full context by default and better understand the PRs.

I advise the other half of the team to be kept on stand by for the major refactoring when the slop would just get stuck in the mud due to its weight.

The politics are about compromises. China “caved” as well but that’s just one battle “lost”.

In the long term the world will adjust to the new reality. As a simple example take the oil crisis from 1970s. The U.S adjusted and now is the world’s biggest producer.

It will take time but in 30 years I would be surprised if Europe would still buy U.S weapons, let U.S tech services rule EU digital markets and so on.

When I started learning Go I went all in including using the recommended editor (acme editor) which has no syntax highlighting, no autocomplete and a very different way of writing code. My production went down a lot but the quality of the code went up a lot.

I think the lack of syntax highlighting was one reason for that. It makes you think more about the code you write and how it should compose, while a fully fledged IDE encourages you to just throw more code at the problem.

I think the ACME way should be used for love of code and ideally when you want to create libraries that stand the test of time. When you just want to get things done fast bring the full IDE and now some LLM vibes and it’s done.

I remember I’ve read somewhere that jogging is actually net harmful for health in the city due the air pollution.

“ Why developers might care”

Gemini is worse