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It can’t even write a passable novel… if you know of a great LLM-authored novel I should read please point me to it and I’ll take your recommendation!

apple's hardware lead & overall design philosophy is falling apart

What?? Could someone tell me where I can buy hardware as good as a MBP? Genuinely I’d love this, it would be like Christmas had come early!

I do the same!

I’d guess one reason is that there has been no iPad/App Store/YouTube invented for dogs…

I have a gut feeling there will be negative consequences for how much time developing minds spend consuming but in the absence of clear cut evidence it seems to be the default.

Maybe a nit: LLMs do not and cannot cite their sources (at least scraped sources for the purpose of training)

It’s kind of the harness that is doing the citing (or providing the context for the model to).

But an LLM sans search can reproduce some copyrighted work with minor variations and there’s no way to know exactly where it came from.

What? If I want to read Harry Potter or watch The Matrix an AI cannot produce something equally as good for me. So I need to pay those people, or break the law.

For lots of online knowledge/blogs I guess it is true but even here I often read explainer blogs because AI casts everything in a certain narrative/tone that isn’t always appropriate.

This is how the drug industry already works. I don’t think there’s any evidence “AI” (LLM) is capable of producing valid drug modifications.

Copying was prohibitively expensive.

Mistiming is equivalent to being wrong. And Musk is good at keeping valuations high! So who knows when it will tank.

I mean he is basically an influencer at this point? I guess this is a marketing play and we will be hearing more from him than ever.

Yes, my statement was loose. The blob doesn’t really have a position since it is theoretically an infinite distribution in 3 space.

It has a mean, and that mean doesn’t have to lie on the surface, consider the case where the mean is deep inside the strawberry but its spike contributes to the surface appearance (e.g a seed could be represented this way, or it could be represented by a small well-oriented blob on the surface, the optimiser doesn’t care)

Lots of translucent blobs composited to produce the appearance of a strawberry.

There is no mesh or model. The visual surface of the strawberry could be made up of blobs spaced far apart physically and not where the surface appears to be.

This is why they are called radiance fields, they model the light not the geometry.

Practically the blobs positions/rotations can be constrained to better physically match the geometry of a strawberry.

My friend and I went to play poker this weekend. Demis Hassabis was there. I whispered to him “what the hell, that’s Demis Hassabis”!

My friend had no idea who he was. My friend doesn’t work in tech but he’s in his late 20s and we are both British so I was quite surprised. My guess is most of the world has no idea who these people are, despite their influence they are very niche celebrities.

Maybe Sam is more famous but I’d guess ~no one knows Greg Brockman.

So I find “most hated men in America” quite dramatic!

The obvious pushback to all of the slop is: coding was never hard. Learning resources were abundant and free.

If these people had a burning desire to build things prior to LLMs and couldn’t put in the effort to learn to build them (which is also fun!) then why would they ever put the effort into anything to understand it and make it good??

I set up a hook that reviews every commit and highlights potential bugs (async) and writes to a report to a dir.

Then I have a script that summarises that I usually run before pushing or at end of day.

Works quite well for both improving my code and the code ai wrote.

52/4 = 13

The counter argument is that the free market also allows lots of money to be made on anti-obesity drugs which incentivises them to be researched.

Maybe we wouldn’t have had GLP-1 (at all or as quickly) without the huge market that is the USA.

Not saying I fully buy this argument but it is at least plausible defence of libertarianism.

Can usually sniff them out because their comments are long and give lots of (vague) examples.

It’s a disadvantage for sure but not usually a blocker.

They often have security questionnaires you can complete instead. Or, as part of signing with them, you can promise to get SOC2 by x date (which will hopefully be easier with the funds from an enterprise contract).

I’d recommend looking online at some example security questionnaires or the types of things soc2 covers and writing an internal security doc for yourself so you know your position on everything and don’t have to scramble when it comes to it.

Yeah I don’t know what’s true when reading about LLMs. Same with comments here on hacker news. So much money on the line it’s clear they would seed communities with marketing shills (and some people are just tribal).

Same since they own Bun, they have every incentive to make this seem easier than it was.

Maybe you replied to the wrong comment? Peasants under a feudal lord couldn’t work elsewhere. If an engineer was fired from SpaceX they’d have another job before the end of the month… and if they didn’t then they wouldn’t starve to death because of welfare. That seems materially different.

The vast majority of those 13k workers are highly skilled and in very high demand. They could work elsewhere or start their own company. In addition, they are far better educated and have more welfare options than anyone living under a feudal system.

This seems like one of those things that is usable infrequently enough to be forgotten/poorly developed/never used. (Even before accounting for the actual failure rate of the LLM which will be none-zero).

Perhaps a text box and file upload isn’t the perfect interface for every use case but it is versatile which is a huge barrier to overcome.

“But they’ve added RL so…!!!”

You are obviously right and I see examples of it everywhere.

E.g I asked Claude opus 4.7 (the latest/greatest) the other day “is a Rimworld year 60 days?”. The reply (paraphrased) “No, a Rimworld year is 4 seasons each of 15 days which is 60 days total”.

Equally, it gets confused about what is a mod or vanilla since it is just predicting based on what it read on forums, which are clearly ambiguous enough (to a dumb text predictor).

Ironically one of the few comments in this thread that isn’t necessarily the gamblers fallacy!

The chance anyone involved saw or heard about the first one was near zero, now they’ve seen this one the chance they see another is still near zero (I.e unchanged).

The chance of him winning the lottery is identical to before, however the reward if he wins is slightly greater.

He would win the lottery money + he gets to tell people who don’t understand independence this incredible story!

The company website linked in the article is broken https://www.dottxt.ai/ on (mobile and desktop) Safari. Looks like your cert doesn’t cover the www subdomain.

Indeed, the same meditation that originated the phrase ‘no man is an island’.

Though, of course, the better version is “Ask not for whom the timer ticks. It ticks for thee”

250k would be a steal! More like $20M+

To be fair, this should probably be covered by basic physics/maybe cooking classes. “You can’t determine the calories in food by looking at it” isn’t really ML specific.

Indeed, I think any reasonable human might say “A few hundred calories but without measuring the ingredients I might be way off”. I think LLMs could get there, I don’t see anything stopping that. Though they have been notoriously bad at this so far.