- True enough, but do you think the usual level of disparity is so vast that it ends up on the front page of international press outlets? I'm thinking the $100m pay offers etc
- The capital intensity of browsers is so high that there won't be any alternatives unless standards evolve to be simpler and easier to implement. That won't happen while Google and co are driving.
- Given the amounts being raised and spent, one imagines that the ROI will be appalling unless the pesky humans learn to live on cents a day, or the world economy grows by double digits every year for a few decades.
- The greenest AI will be connected to district heat networks instead of being cooled with air or water. It isn't even faintly green when heat is treated as a byproduct instead of a co-benefit.
- "I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism... SPAAACE!"
A more innocent time tbh
- It runs Android apps. Presumably, it has access to the Play store in some capacity, or a viable alternative.
- Am I the only one who thought poetry was still the greatest available whizbang?
- Many companies will roll out to slices of production and monitor error rates. It is part of SRE and I would eat my hat if that wasn't the case here.
- Germany, where 80% of the population does not vote for the AfD :)
- > There’s honestly so much material in the resulting notes created by Claude that I haven’t reviewed all of it
I've had the same "problem" and feel like this is the major hazard involved. It is tricky to validate the written work Claude (or any other LLM) produces due to high levels of verbosity, and the temptation to say "well, it works!"
As ever though, it is impressive what we can do with these things.
If I were Simon, I might have asked Claude (as a follow up) to create a minimal ansible playbook, or something of that nature. That might also be more concise and readable than the notes!
- The only actual hope is a common European defence policy (and industry) independent of NATO. The day Germany agrees to it, the dominos might fall, and the USA might realise what it has lost.
- The same thing will happen: skilled people will do one thing well. I've zero interest in anything but Claude code in a dev container and, while mindful of the lethal trifecta, will give Claude as much access to a local dev environment and it's associated tooling as I would give to a junior developer.
- Honestly I've generated some big ISH codebases with AI and have said so and then backed off when asked.. because a) I still want to try to establish more confidence in the codebase and b) my employment contract gleefully states everything I write belongs to my employer. Both of those things make me nervous.
That said, I have no doubt there are also bots setting out to generate FOMO
- Conspicuously, this is from June 2020
- That is absolutely delightful. Estonia is just _good_ at this stuff. Admirable.
- Interesting, what was the reasoning behind it?
- As someone with IBD who is on their fifth trip to the toilet since midnight (BST) I'd love to get the recipe. I've got a few months of steroids ahead and anything more long term and high impact is of enormous interest.
- Even just saying this applies downward pressure on pricing: NVIDIA has an enormous amount of market power (~"excess" profit) right now and there aren't enough near competitors to drive that down. The only thing that will work is their biggest _consumers_ investing, or threatening to invest, if their prices are too high.
Long term, I wonder if we're exiting the "platform compute" era, for want of a better term. By that I mean compute which can run more or less any operating system, software, etc. If everyone is siloed into their own vertically integrated hardware+operating system stack, the results will be awful for free software.
- Not everyone has a smartphone. A substantial number of especially older people don't. Plus poor people, and just.. well, offline people whose lives are much more communal than ours. The requirement for a hundreds-of-units-of-currency device to prove who you are is bonkers.
Except the market pretty much can't do this with Nvidia. Nobody is showing any sign of catching up: it is entirely possible we are seeing a runaway train and without the intervention of a massive state like China to create a viable competitor, there will never be one.