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It rubs me the wrong way that they have to copy everything, the UI is almost exact copy of Codex

I'm sure OpenAI haven't copied or stolen anything without permission - oh wait a sec..

The US loves capitalism because it pRomOtEs cOmpEtiTion. Well, here's the competition you asked for, lads - suck it up.

Removing QA makes developers care about production

And removing Product Managers makes devs care about the product. Therefore, we should strip away all roles apart from devs..?

These roles exist because the skill set is sufficiently large to justify a dedicated role. If you're a startup, sure - maybe it's better to be lean - but in a larger org, QA folks are worth the investment and can definitely help to spot things that devs may not otherwise catch themselves since they know the product intimately and likely learn of common pitfalls. The few QA folks I've worked with have been worth their weight in gold.

100%. Often open source projects lag when they're too niche or don't have enough interest, but open source AI - I can't think of anything better suited to be open source and the demand/interest is through the roof - people will make it happen.

An absolute legend. I thought he'd be around for longer. Thanks for making Jurassic Park what it is, Sam.

Would you say copying and finding solutions on Stackoverflow is building on stolen property?

I'm no fan of AI companies, but I fail to see how people using it to build open-source software is a bad thing.

Is anyone making LLM-in-a-box for emergency supply kits yet?

Maybe someone should be making this, but for rebuilding society in the event of a disaster - a solar-powered black box with most of humanity's knowledge within. Even something running one of the Qwen models would be useful.

"So, we had a nuclear war and need to start from scratch. How do I turn this rock into a computer chip?"

Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION ($7.5k)

Hmm, I'll come back in a few years when things have become cheaper.

Anecdotal, but I'm convinced it screws up sleep quality. I'd just accepted for the longest time that waking up groggy with a slight headache and tired was the norm until I put a CO2 monitor in my room. With the door closed, it climbed up to 1500ppm in under an hour.

I'm certain many people are sleeping in similar conditions without realising and ventilating their rooms properly or leaving the door open.

Same thought here - beautiful! I'm curious what the price tag is for getting some illustrations like this done for an existing website.

..and none does.

Monsanto begs to differ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowman_v._Monsanto_Co.

this is unbelievably stupid. no company should have rights or patents over a variety of food.

Wait until you hear about Monsanto/Bayer - a quick Google of "monsanto food patents" brings up the highlights.

Ticks are a problem regardless.

Ticks in my part of the world were never such a large problem. It was rare that you'd get one on your leg in the field behind our house, and now, you literally can't walk through the grass each year without having 10+ on your legs in a matter of minutes. Warmer and wetter weather and fewer hard winters. The presence of Lyme disease has also increased in them.

I have direct experience of this, so downvote all you want, climate change deniers.

Another worrying proxy for how deeply climate change is bleeding into everyday life: coffee prices, orange juice prices, and now having to engineer huge trail areas with woodchips just so people can avoid being bitten by exploding tick populations.

Probably because American AI companies are on the hook for quite a lot of investment money

That's a lot of words to say it's just capitalist greed.

This is just pure greed

Well, pure capitalism. I suppose the terms are synonymous, though.

Can't beat thermodynamics - there's no free lunch there.

10 year old dual Xeon server...On 10 year old hardware.

Hold on, what are the specs of your rig? How much RAM?

I've been considering getting an old refurbished 2018 Mac Mini with 64Gb of DDR4 RAM but everything I've read suggests this will be way slower than my 16Gb M1 Pro Macbook.

I cannot wait until a time in the future when we have local models that are Opus 4.6+ level, and capable of running on inexpensive hardware like a 16Gb Mac. Hopefully that's only a few years away.

Probably a marketing ploy. Inflate the value even more before an IPO, and Daddy Trump and his friends make a few $$$.

It'll be "resolved" within a few days.

"...and I do not care."

I think you need to ask what you actually want to do with the AI.

What about improving the efficiency of token consumption, etc., basically opportunities for improving cost/performance?

I keep thinking there has to be a better way to share context with models than dumping entire gigantic skill files of raw text or otherwise into them - I'm betting there's a bunch of low-hanging fruit there.

Since you spent a month digging into this, can you recommend any materials/projects to look into to get a decent grasp of how they work?

Well, people keep throwing money at them, including you and investors. So why would they care? It hasn't annoyed you or a large enough portion of users enough to move off their service - because there isn't a better alternative.

So, back to the author's title - if they leave everyone to die/with no money, who buys their services and enables them to turn a profit?

Just curious if there's a reason you mentioned 8 or if that's an arbitrary number? Was 8 an industry norm/upper limit at one point?

Ruby might not be best suited for large code bases

Ruby/Rails powers some of the largest platforms on the planet - Shopify, GitHub, GitLab. Both have had something of a resurgence lately, too, with Ruby 4 and Rails 8 shipping recently, and people rediscovering that Rails is excellent for vibe coding.

I've been a Ruby developer for 10+ years and have never struggled to find work, and the communities feel very active and growing - so I'm honestly not sure what you mean by "what happened to Ruby". If you don't actively follow or participate in the community, I can imagine you wouldn't hear much about it day to day.

I don't pay attention to the JS world these days - what happened to JavaScript?

Of course we are. And Opus 4.6+. It's a matter of when, not if.

It would have to "escape" to hardware capable of running it, which limits where it could go quite a bit, I'd imagine.

So shared hosting for LLMs?

Three years seems ridiculously low lifetime - I'd hope that was covered by warranty.