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I used to just be "hast" but that account is now lost since the link to Google was removed without warning.
Sounds like this is similar to a decompilation (pay walled article so I haven't read it).
A while back a listened to a podcast where they interviewed people doing this and it was quite interesting. (And it's an engineering podcast so many technical details.)
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2024/05/24/bonus-episod...
Their Foundation adaptation is pretty terrible at understanding what the books are about.
Going from a story where societies and not individuals are the "heroes" to people with magical powers.
I'm assuming it's meant the other way around.
Given their estimates of a Mac being able to generate $1k (per month?) a 5090 with a lot more power would be able to generate $50k. For a $3k piece of hardware. Which is obviously not realistic. (As in, nobody is paying that much for the images, which seems to match well with no actual requests on the system.)
Strange. I've been running it on several different ubuntu 24 04 machines with standard terminal with no issues.
But with waymos it would be possible. Mark those streets as "extremely slow" and never go there unless you are dropping someone off. (The computer has more patience than human drivers.)
If that's too annoying then bad parking by school areas so the situation doesn't happen.
The field of "AI assisted programming" is progressing extremely rapidly.
Claude code (arguably the most recent large change, even if it wasn't the first of it's type) was released one year ago.
After watching the video I'd say that it is similar to my own reaction when opening my own code that is 2 years old. (To be clear, code I myself wrote 2 years ago, without AI.) Or even more realistically, code I wrote 6 months ago.
Buy it mostly reads like someone making an exaggerating claim to get s boost from a populist narrative.
If you just want to play I believe the Google alternative can even run on the free tokens you get from them. It's not going to do all that much before running out of tokens but you can probably have it make a simple single page web site for a company or something like that.
Even at the Max plan it's not unlimited. IIRC they say the limit is something like 20x the $20 plan.
With "normal use" you're unlikely to hit the limit though, unless you only use the Opus model and do things in parallell.
If you want to fingerprint text you can also do it by small insignificant changes to text which doesn't change the meaning.
If you have a number such locations with alternatives then you can make a number of identifiable versions by combining alternates.
The typical "best practice" for these tools tend to be to ask it something like
"I want you to do feature X. Analyse the code for me and make suggestions how to implement this feature."
Then it will go off and work for a while and typically come back after a bit with some suggestions. Then iterate on those if needed and end with.
"Ok. Now take these decided upon ideas and create a plan for how to implement. And create new tests where appropriate."
Then it will go off and come back with a plan for what to do. And then you send it off with.
"Ok, start implementing."
So sure. You probably can work on this to make it easier to use than with a CLI chat. It would likely be less like an IDE and more like a planning tool you'd use with human colleagues though.
It is typically neither free nor open to develop on consoles. As in, you pay to access developer tools.
iOS and Android less so (even if there is a one time charge for Android and a yearly charge on Apple). OTOH I have not heard of them usually reaching out to more than a handful of devs for promotion purposes.
Jim Keller goes into some detail about what difference the ISA makes in general in this clip https://youtu.be/yTMRGERZrQE?si=u-dEXwxp0MWPQumy
Spoiler, it's not much because most of the actual execution time is spent in a handful of basic OPs.
Branch prediction is where the magic happens today.
That would probably be preferable from a PR standpoint.
None of those games are made for children. Particularly not CoD and Battlefield.
That doesn't mean kids don't want to play them. But Roblox is pitching itself as a safe space for kids.
"People Make Games" on YouTube made some videos about it. Recommended watching for any parent who is trying to figure out if they should allow their child on Roblox. (Spoilers, the answer is "no".)
There are Python bindings for the framework as well.
Personally I could see Go being quite nice to use if you want to deploy something as eg a compiled serverless function.
I'm assuming the framework behaves the same way regardless of language so you could test using Python first if you want and then move over to eg Go if needed.
I have a M4 Max with 128 GB memory. Even on that machine I would not consider 70B+ models to be useable. Once you go below 20 tokens/s it becomes more like having a pen pal than an AI assistant.
MoE models can still be pretty fast. As are smaller models.
(This is mostly a warning for anyone who is enamored by the idea of running these things locally to make sure to test it before you spend a lot of money.)
Currently I'd probably say the Nvidia RTX pro 6000 is a Challenger if you want local models. It "only" has 96 GB of RAM, but it's very fast (1800 GB/s). If you can fit the model on it and it's good enough for your use case then it's probably worth it even at $10k.
It depends on the model.
It's typically ok for MoE models but if you try to run something non-MoE the speed will plummet. In that same thread there are people getting 50 tok/s on MoE models and 5 on non MoE. (https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1n79udw/comment...)
And while it has unified memory the memory is quite slow. 250GB/s compared to 500+ for M4 Max or 1800 GB/s for a 5090. So it's fast for a CPU, but pretty slow for a GPU.
(That said, there are not a lot of cheap options for running large models locally. They all have significant compromises.)
Using chip and pin is what makes the system secure. The PIN is verified by the chip on the card so it can't be skimmed. (You can copy the PIN of course, but you also need the same physical chip to clone a transaction.)
Signing the recipe is a useless security theatre. That's why it's not done in Europe.
Git won't catch new files the agent is adding. To get around that you can of course always add all new files, but then you'll potentially have your repo polluted with a bunch of temporary scratch files instead.
You can typically go back and edit git history. But it will require force push and breaking changes. And a few sacrifices to ensure that it doesn't make a mistake because then your repo is potentially broken.
Best way to do that is probably to have it work on branches and then squash merge those.
The problem is Dunning Kruger effect.
The people who shouldn't disable these security features tend to be the first to do so. And then complain the loudest when the enter the "find out" phase.
As someone who used to work for a bank building applications I would say no. This is definitely a feature companies and organizations like banks would request if it wasn't available.
There are a lot of scams targeting vulnerable people and these days attacking the phone is a very "easy" way of doing this.
Now perhaps there is a more forgiving way of implementing it though. So your phone can switch between trusted and "open" mode. But realistically I don't think the demand is big enough for that to actually matter.
As someone who developed in it at the time I found the reason it died was because they made new, slightly incompatible, versions every new Windows release.
After a while people got tired of doing updates.
From what I've seen immediate mode seems suitable for less fancy UI requirements. If you want to start having a framework solve things like animations and such then you'll probably end up with some form of retained mode.
Over my years making UIs I've found most of the bugs you get is due to incorrect state handling in applications. Having a framework you use which is opinionated and helps you solve that is pretty nice. (If your UI requirements are such that you need it.)
After being stuck in XML land for making UI for almost two decades I couldn't be happier to leave it behind.
Spreading your code over multiple languages means you now have a bunch new fun edge cases to deal with when things get stuck and don't update correctly. With everything in one language that means all debuggers and other tools work the same regardless of where in the app I'm debugging.
I've found it fascinating to see UI building come full circle. I started in code (C), then using various XML schemes and now back in code (Kotlin, Flutter, Swift). But a big part of why it's nice now is because C is a pretty horrid language for making modern applications.
On Android (and I'm pretty sure iOS) you have WYSIWYG editors for UI layouts for jetpack compose and flutter (and on iOS it would be Swift UI).
These all go direct to code instead of XML or some other extra layer of code.
What I would probably focus on is better integration with Figma and similar tools. Use that to do the WYSIWYG part and then generate corresponding code (possibly with LLMs).
The biggest limitation you tend to have in WYSWIG is that at some point you really need to have the true data the user sees to ensure everything looks good. That becomes a bigger hassle than coding the UI manually. (Particularly when doing multi-platform things.)
Kotlin multiplatform has been around for some time if you want that. But I guess it makes sense to be able to approach it from the other end as well if you're mainly an iOS shop.
It's "Tools as a service", so it's really trying to make tool calling easier to use.
I suspect that Waymo car's could operate in a lot more areas than they do. The issue is that Waymo are trying to sell the service of safe travel and not a car with an addon you can pay for which doesn't actually work.
In other words, since they accept liability for their cars it's not in their interest to roll out the service too fast. It makes more sense to do it slow and steady.
It's not really a strong argument that their technology is incapable of working in general areas.
My experience with this is that it is vital to have a system where the system can iterate on its own.
Ideally by having a test or endpoint you can call to actually run the code you want to build.
Then you ask the system to implement the function and run the test. If it hallucinates anything it will find that and fix it.
IME OpenAI is below Claude and Gemini for code.