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Well I'll be...

I've just read it in full and, while I think / agree it is probably still too generous and soft on her, you are quite right about it.

I'm thinking I must have been caught up in some of the commentary around it at the time it came out (I had recently read Carreyrou's book and had gone down a bit of a rabbit hole about her and Theranos), and when I did see it I read the headline and the first few paragraphs, looked at the image, and then closed the page in disgust.

Reading through the rest of it it does come across very differently, and was an interesting read. Thanks for replying about it.

Facts, I was able to code a personal self improving harness in a weekend (something a bit more similar to Hermes or OpenClaw at the time but with a more expansive set of features for my use cases and requirements) and it works great for 90% of the tasks I would use Claude Code or Codex (now ChatGPT App) for, with the remaining 10% being able to be implemented with a few more prompts from within the harness itself.

For this reason alone I would also argue that the idea about an agent harness being sticky is a non-starter long-term.

Off-topic somewhat, but NYT once tried to convince their readers to call Elizabeth Holmes "Liz" and not send her to jail after her fraud conviction. The implication being that it was a highly paid puff piece. They lost a lot of credibility with me that day.

Copilot’s T&Cs clearly explain that it is for entertainment purposes only though.

Holy vibe coding Batman! You might want to check how your site looks when viewed on a mobile.

Interesting idea, but the front end sloppiness is not filing me with confidence.

So much of everything is doing this (following trends)... It's a bit depressing really...

r/whoosh...

Yeah I had a big lol when I read “just don’t let people declare bankruptcy for 7 years after graduation” - how in the world could this be good public policy?

I just upgraded my 2008 Thinkpad R61i to 8GB of DDR2 a few months ago while I was also upgrading to a core2duo

Uhhh… ok… good for you I guess…

I'll eat my hat if SpaceXAI manages to produce something even close to leading edge again

Their hardware is nowhere near Nvidia, hence Google paying SpaceX hundreds of millions of dollars a month to SpaceX for capacity there.

This is 1000% not their (Google's) aim. The position they are in is due much more to their organisational laziness and incompetence than it is any grand strategy.

Google wants its AI to be pervasive in everyone's daily life.

Google wants nothing more than the world to remain stuck in 2000 - 2020 where search was king. Their organisational inertia will fight its AI progress every step of the way and this very well explains why they are not leading the AI pack despite inventing the technology.

So many wet blankets on this post today with these types of questions...

Another day, more cope on this subject from many posters on here...

It's bad, very bad, for the frontier labs.

The EU is dead in the water on this front mate...

Talent concentration

Lol

My favourite part of their strategy here is its profitability

Trade secrets? Like how to invent a trillion dollar technology and then sit on it for years while others eat your lunch with it? Like how to consistenly release inferior quality models to others despite infinite compute and engineering talent and insane profitability in your legacy businesses?

But Meta's had so much success in this area by copying the leading lans already!

Hard agree

Thinking that on prem models will be a halfway decent solution against what can be served out of a data center is a fools take... One that is more common than it should be on here...

Huh? I don't think there's much doubt ...

I am doubting. I will be very surprised if Google ends up top or second place (again?) at any point in the next few years.

I think this is good. Having one clear winner would be worse than this ...

I agree that it would be better to have 3+ top labs as well.

2 top labs...

owns it's own models, hardware, large corpus of data, talent and network effects

How's that talent been working out for them the last few years?

"I got the top tier of Gemini AI." - that's your issue, get a subscription to a lab offering actual frontier models like Anthropic and OpenAI.

You only have to look at both the ridiculiously terrible "Q&A chatbot" that is in FaceBook under some posts (do they still have this?) and the fact that their system can't tell the difference between an inappropriate and a non-inappropriate comment most of the time to understand just how far behind Meta is in AI...

It can be everywhere, but that doesn't mean users are paying or even value it.

While not quite what you are saying here, I have found that I like usbc charging on my 15in m3 MacBook Air way more than its magsafe. The magsafe is always falling out as soon as I move the computer on and off my lap and is another cable that I can only use for one purpose. Nowhere near as good as it was back in the early 2010s macbook days...