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Lower up-front cost and hardware longevity are the two major ones. Whenever GTA VI launches on PC, good luck running it on your $500 PC from 2020.

“If I can't give people physical games as gifts anymore, why should I bother buying the new console?”

“Man, Valve really does win by doing absolutely nothing while the rest of the industry shoots itself in the head.”

Good luck buying physical games on PC?

This is going to happen more and more. AI is a tool that should make your employees more efficient not replace them outright. And if it doesn't make your employees better? I guess AI isn't applicable to your business then.

I can see a lot of companies coming to this realization over the coming months and years.

The pricing is all out of sorts. Close to $500 more expensive than a PS5 for worse performance. I understand this is a PC and you can do other things with it, but if you're buying a gaming device to play games this is a horrible value.

Which then gets tossed into a compiler and who knows what kind of code that thing spits out. That's why I only support projects written in assembly by real programmers.

"Even it that'd be the best code and design in the world, I won't use it. I don't trust it."

Nothing about this sentence makes sense. What don't you trust about code you can see and audit yourself? What's untrustworthy about "the best code and design in the world"?

Sometimes I wonder if any of this will even matter in a few years. How many of us compile code and then have to clean up the assembly, or even worry about what a compiler generates as long as it's correct?

You should post the results of your source code audit.

"Disabling attribution of LLM-generated code is fraud, because you’re saying you wrote the code."

Should there by attribution for Google or Stack Overflow copy/paste? Who should we bully about this?

Bluesky is insufferable. Literally any issue in any program is labelled "#vibecoded" by these clearly genius-level engineers who've never shipped a bug.

Is it weird that I want a mono version if this? Looks really great, really well designed.

This is a great idea. Even if you're one of those developers squarely focused on getting the final result working, code quality still matters (to people and LLMs).

Everyone should be doing regular code reviews and this helps a lot.

Maybe don't use the most expensive models on the planet? Maybe use AI like a tool and not this black box that grants wishes?

Low quality, bug laden code has existed long before LLMs and it'll continue to exist long after. Their rationale about avoiding future headaches could literally apply to any open source project they have a dependency on.

This sounds like a gamechanger for speed and efficiency if it can scale up.

"However, our models are nevertheless relatively small and trained on tiny amounts of instruction examples, compared to the scale of modern instruction data and multiple post-training stages used to reinforce the default message-based format. We do think that parallel streams are a conceptually enticing format, and that future work on a larger scale will go further to show these benefits."

To a lot of people AI is just image and text generation. And yes, these uses alone aren't worth the time, money, and energy.

But there are a lot of areas where AI is helping that people don't see, like in medicine. Drug development, cancer research and early detection, CT and MRI analysis, just to name a few. These uses cases are vastly more important but rarely get discussed. It's important to know that AI isn't this one singular thing or else we risk throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

RIP Cursor.

Are compute resources so tight they’d want to make their products as unappealing as possible on purpose?

Wonder if this is due to Japan’s marketing laws? Doing it this way exposes more of what’s between the bread.

AI is creating jobs, too, so this information isn’t really valuable if you want a clear image of its impact on employment.

Done and done. Hope everyone can find the time and do the same.

And it's available on their coding plans, even the cheapest one.

The pricing on this is absolutely nuts.

D gets no respect. It's a solid language with a lot of great features and conveniences compared to C++ but it barely gets a passing mention (if that) when language discussions pop up. I'd argue a lot of the problems people have with C++ are addressed with D but they have no idea.

"And it made me think - why are these people so insistent, and hostile? Why can't they live and let live? Why do they need to convince the rest of us?"

Same could be said about the anti-AI crowd.

I'm glad the author made the distinction that he's talking about LLMs, though, because far too many people these days like to shout from the rooftops about all AI being bad, totally ignoring (willfully or otherwise) important areas it's being used in like cancer research.

"The idiotic waste of gigantic amounts of civilizatory resources, for something that hasn't remotely proven useful yet"

https://ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/AI-S2501208

"I personally don’t touch LLMs with a stick. I don’t let them near my brain."

Then why should I care about your opinions of them if you have zero experience using them?

Oh cool, someone else that appreciates Windows 2000 more than XP. There are dozens of us!

With this kind of pricing I wonder if it'll be available in Gemini CLI for free or if it'll stay at 2.5.

"A good friend recently told me that she spent a night with a man, and in the morning suggested they get breakfast together. He took out his phone, opened ChatGPT, and asked for restaurant suggestions. Why get close to someone who outsources decisions, including the fun ones like picking where to eat?"

Same logic applies to using Google, I guess? Or any mapping app? How about Yelp?