hughw

probably no number you come up with will be adequate for very long. [edit] it's a reference to this possibly apocryphal prediction https://www.computerworld.com/article/1563853/the-640k-quote...

communists really say "social ownership of the means of production"

  A Fable 5 model running at 9,000 tokens/s on an ASIC rather than 150 tokens/s on electricity chugging Nvidia GPUs, or even giant SRAM Cerebras or Groq chips could be good enough to meet the majority of demand.

Was hoping it was a political act in favor of land reform or against owning property.

This presentation is painful to read. It's an LLM's idea of a CTO presentation. I'm overwhelmed by charts, only slightly connected to the text around them. But no matter, it looks like a CTO slide deck. HIGH IMPACT.

Much better would be if the CTO of Mozilla had actually articulated their own analysis.

Is the CTO a bot?

So good at style, so weak on substance

I guess it uses `claude -p`? Am I correct that uses API billing not subscription?

User nashashmi [1]:

  So this kid uses his home computer at his home, and they trace him down with 
  the IP address, and the IP address also makes a request for Windows Updates.
  And that narrows down the Device ID. The device id is now traced to this kid.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48815196#48818368

If the software can execute arbitrary code/binary, and you place a malicious binary, that's up to you to secure/sandbox the workspace, not the software.

What do you think PATH variables are for? Cursor just immediately adds the repo to your PATH, iiuc, without user approval.

iirc Christenson's chief example was IBM not deigning to cannibalize their high-end disk drive business by competing on the new, less capable low-end devices.

I've found that the less real estate my eyes need to scan, the faster I understand the code, even if its more tersely expressed and requires a little decoding. Relatedly, I've come to appreciate a line of code that does the thing rather than one that calls a function whose name might express what the function does, but I might need to go find it and and read its code. That works well if your language supports a terse expression. So I prefer you tersely multiply/reduce a list rather than call a function, but some languages just aren't friendly to that and demand verbosity.

I feel this too but it's very hard to argue myself out of adding features like mad. Features, features, features. Tech debt may be an illusion, if the LLM can keep maintaining it all.

CFPB once played that role for financial services. Ah well.

If it's not dangerous enough to be classified as WMD by USG, who's interested.

Sure man, knock yourself out.

I wonder though if, as long as you have LLMs to maintain the extra code, it's worth it to gain the new feature. Less tech debt than your intuition expects.

For the older among us, that's .ne.

I've been wrestling for days with a recalcitrant Opus 4.8 unable to close the circle on an algorithm I'm sure, based on the three previous days' experience, Fable 5 will cut right through.

Sure but in the intervening 2 years there's money to be made.

You looked into vendors like https://www.runpod.io/?

multiple issues right

I hired a programmer and after giving him his Linux laptop let him set up a few things. A couple hours later he asked me where he could get PuTTY for it, and I recognized a huge gap in my interview coverage.

My eyes glaze over reading all the AI produced verbiage.

I did find a few useful parameter settings I've already discovered using my single 3090 and ollama.

I'm just remarking that the LLMs overwhelm me with minutiae, especially as I'm working on code design. I frequently ask it to restate concisely, and that helps.

[edited to mention ollama as a nice alt]

If they found actual life on Mars the NASA budget would multiply many times, so I don't understand your thinking.

Nobody's talking about how "terrorism" has expanded to mean, in law, armed opposition the the government. Throw in terrorism and the sentence goes up dramatically.

Is it possible to oppose the government with arms yet not be a terrorist? I'd say, yes. But I never expect to see a prosecution acknowledge that. They're even making drug smugglers into terrorists and murdering them extrajudicially.

MS has their own profile of Cowork targeted at your users that presumably will be more enterprisey:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/03/0...

As long as the LLM can unravel, repair, and improve the slopware it creates, that's where we are necessarily going. The code will continue to be maintainable, by the LLM. I'm used to this idea and I for one welcome...

Just this morning I tweaked my single 3090 setup too:

  OLLAMA_FLASH_ATTENTION=1
  OLLAMA_KV_CACHE_TYPE=q8_0
  OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=180000

[edited for format]

Coincidentally for the last week or so I've revived my Glycine automatic as my daily wearer and I'm gauging my level of dependence on my Apple watch. So far -- hey, I wasn't all that dependent on it, and I guess, I was feeling a bit too digital. I'm going to keep going for a while this way.