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Ticketmaster. Just throwing that out there. Stubhub.

Its already bribing its operators to pay more money or it will stop functioning

If this is true then a restructuring of the entire organizations might help. It seems the flaws are built in.

IMO we are there almost. I had every iphone until 14 pro and still use this today. I know what the top of the s curve feels like. From a pure model standpoint weighed against every day use cases for every day people (the right way to measure when comparing to something as ubiquitous as a phone), the models already have diminishing returns.

The biggest hurdle is whether humans volunteer their expertise. Not time or money. We need top talent to make the open models. Sponsorship is plentiful. Open source volunteers are less critical with LLM doing the grunt work. Its about talent contributing to the open

There is a massive difference when you zoom in close or take an angled perspective. You can manufacture uniqueness. The issue is when it comes to every day use for every day people there is no differentiation.

Many years ago I wrote a simple script to periodically pull my aeroplan miles from Air Canada using an extracted auth token. I was building my own mobile app to track all kinds of important numbers in my life. One day I woke up to my air canada account being nuked without access. I was on the phone for 3 days talking to many layers of support. At one point they were not going to re-enable my account and would lose 400k points. I was devastated. Thankfully i was able to get it back eventually. This whole era of using LLMs to manipulate services on the client is not going to end well. We need proper business-level support or its just an irresponsible hack you are letting loose into the wild.

What the auto industry should have really woken up to is the idea of a singular carplay for both android and ios. I have a 2021 BMW that only supported carplay and was fine for many years. It is wireless even. I love it. But now i have a pixel.

Why were you watching movies when you should have been setting up your apartment

To me AI is on par with the internet and what made it so powerful was piracy and porn and just the wide spectrum of things that are possible when you connect machines together. We are going to need the same thing again. Freedom to use any model that does any thing we want.

What if there is no good abstraction for the entire stack of software on each of computers? What if we built a common one because we had to? What if now we get to all make our own with natural language?

It feels like this whole site was manufactured to convince us that generative AI is a rocketship right now? While we might be basing a rocketship right now, to draw that line up at this point is total bullshit. the pc is real. the internet is real. the smartphone is real. its hard for me to even wrap my head around how you compare generative AI to these things. At this point I don't think we are far enough time to allow hindsight to let us see what the "thing" is that we should be tracking. Its not "generative ai"

I mean, just saying the new guy is trying not to be evil does not give any credence to some meaningful differentiation over the long term. Won't they just eventually be evil too? Seems odd to continue to trust the early thinking of long term companies. Haven't we been burned enough?

Unless you have hard proof this is occurring then I would rather believe my own and others positive testimony on self help. Its powerful and relatively affordable if you are committed to making changes in your own life. Is good advice. Authentic stories (generally). I am just grateful that people take the time and effort to reflect and encode their experience into something digestible by others. It’s pretty cynical to have your view.

He denies comparing them to telecom companies and even says at various points in his writing. Instead he compares their usage to the usage of mobile data.

I agree with you, but sadly without killer use cases in the browser this still ends up being quite political to adopt. I feel good about the approach being taken. The browser vendors have analytics on the usage of JCO and so despite it not being "ideal", it works. We need to make stuff using JCO and make those things popular. It's not on the browser vendors to build native component model yet. At some point I suspect it will be though.

It works in the browser already: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/jco

There is zero evidence of this shift in pricing occurring. It’s still a dream which seems unlikely

Homogeneity doesnt need to be the endgame just a pitstop along the way. We should have a universal tool for creating unique things. If everything is unique the cognitive load is high we get lazy and output all converges on shallow stuff that is the same. If the tools are homogenous we learn something once and spend energy on making the diffetences

Depending on your annual spend you could be missing out on one or more free trips per year in airline and hotel points.

This is true. Outcomes correlate with the quality and depth of the conversation. The quality and depth correlates with the users understanding of computers

I briefly skimmed this, but why are you wasting my time? What does this have to do with me earning free trips from being smart about how I buy things? does not compute.

As someone who really enjoys rewards programs, keep those scams alive!

And Google acquired you in 1998 with search.

who cares about marketing when you have distribution? Probably a smart move to pump dollars into the product and not the marketing.

did you share your UI anywhere? would like to just pull a proven one versus vibe code my own.

Coming up with precise instruction about what we are after isn't always possible. In many cases we only know what we are after once we see it. And if you can't express what you are after into tokens you can't outsource that choice to anyone else except your own direct experience of the process.

What kind of worse case scenario is running through your mind to be this upset? Not saying it doesn't exist I just would like to know.

Buried in this interview is a great insight about the limits of AI:

"Just viewing all of Treadwell’s material would have taken me at least ten days, but I had four assistants who went through everything, melting it down to about twelve hours of footage. I gave them precise instructions about what I was looking for, but sometimes scrutinised what they had put aside and found extraordinary moments they had dismissed. The shots of the fox paws on the tent had been discarded because they were too shaky, but I thought it was very beautiful imagery."

Benedict Evans often compares LLMs as "infinite interns" and when I started reading this passage my mind immediately went to the idea of "What if Werner used LLMs to filter this footage?" But the following sentences reveal a truth that I've discovered personally and that is apparent here: When creating something original there is something only accessible to the human mind of the creator. The creator needs to have direct experience with the materials that make up the creation to bring out its full vision. The more of the process you replace with interns (or assistants, here), the more the creation is compromised and doesn't fulfill its possibility.

Can you explain?