Slartie

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by Slartie 8d ago
Where exactly do you take the knowledge from that this strategy is indeed not a strategy, but was retrospectively declared a strategy by the West?
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by Slartie 8d ago
A harness of limited capability is a component that doesn't exist in your proposal, right? Just like non-automatable or at least hard-to-automate things like physical actions to be performed in the real world as part of a business task
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by Slartie 8d ago
You call it "lack of ambition", implying a certain arrogance; more humble people might just call it "a different sweet spot" of AI integration. After all, the goal in the end is not to use up as many AI tokens as possibl
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by Slartie 8d ago
China is actively tripping the US up by pushing the open-weight strategy, which is kind of smart. They realized that they obviously will not be able to make Western companies trust Chinese companies enough to just use proprietary models by
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by Slartie 9d ago
Ehm, sorry, but no, this is not how lithography works. You cannot "hide" functionality in circuitry your machines are producing if your machines' job is to shine light through a mask. You'd have to be the producer of the
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by Slartie 9d ago
Well, then Samsung Electronics appears to be dumb for leading this investment round? They probably only do it because they're European...oh, wait... > so if you don't have the most intelligent or cheapest model in the world, yo
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by Slartie 2mo ago
Yep, most wealth is ultimately dependent on some kind of ability to scrape off tiny bits of practical accomplishments of value achieved by large numbers of people. In some cases, such as your housing example, this is a very direct dependenc
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by Slartie 2mo ago
OpenRouters moat is that a) everyone knows it, but not their gazillion competitors, and b) their API URLs and key are already configured in your OpenCode/Oh-my-Pi/whatever harness or agent you use. As long as they offer stable ser
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by Slartie 2mo ago
They are reselling inference. That is not a novel concept, indeed, a stationary merchant like Walmart does conceptually the same. Although since inference doesn't require any stockkeeping, I would rather compare it to Amazon Marketplac
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by Slartie 2mo ago
And you do not have flat priced quota for Fable 5, right? Because nobody has, as far as I know. So you'll probably not route any task to the "current best available SOTA". Also: quota. Implies you do not have unlimited access
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by Slartie 2mo ago
OpenRouter is basically a payment system for LLM tokens. Yes, it does route TCP connections from you to an inference providers' cloud, too, but what is way more important is that it routes money from your wallet to inference providers&
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by Slartie 2mo ago
They are simply out of ideas to keep the most expensive party in the history of mankind going. That's it. Simple as that. When you grasp for straws in panic mode, you don't exactly spend time strategizing and weighing the pros and
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by Slartie 2mo ago
Not if the price per token is significantly lower. Also this arm of the discussion was about speed, not price.
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by Slartie 2mo ago
The speed at which tokens are crunched, even on the same hardware, differs between models as well. Using more tokens is only a problem if they are processed at the same speed as with a comparison model.
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by Slartie 2mo ago
I'd guess the slowness is mostly due to there currently being only one provider, Moonshot AI. And they are overwhelmed with demand. Let's judge the speed of the model when its weights are released and every inference provider on t
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by Slartie 2mo ago
Did you not notice that there are inference providers running all the various Chinese open weight models in the US and EU? Nobody needs "web services run from China" to use Chinese open weight models.
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by Slartie 2mo ago
> What do they do all day? Same as they were doing in their startups: burn mon..., eh, tokens. > And who is left to manage their hundreds of thousands of servers? AI, of course.
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by Slartie 3mo ago
I second that recommendation. Hugely informative and entertaining book!
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by Slartie 3mo ago
You mean like this executive also couldn't kick off an all-out war and keep it going for months without authorization of congress?
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by Slartie 3mo ago
OpenCode exists, it is your "open source coding agent" that is practically on par with Claude Code and Copilot in terms of being able to do the 80% of things that most people actually use. DeepSeek v4 Flash/Pro also exist, th
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by Slartie 3mo ago
True, it's very useful for scammers, grifters, international terrorists and authoritarian governments to funnel monetary value around without having to rely on the traditional financial system where they may be blocked and their money
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by Slartie 3mo ago
How exactly do you - or the Chinese, for that matter - place an export ban on an open weight model?
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by Slartie 3mo ago
I think the main reason is to minimize the market for closed-source models from US companies. China knows that doing what Anthropic/OpenAI/Google/... are doing is impossible for them. No one outside of China in any sane condi
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by Slartie 3mo ago
Eventim is pretty much "Ticketmaster in Germany". They captured like 90% of the German ticket market by closely watching Ticketmaster and basically repeating their playbook. Eventim also owns some venues, has exclusive contracts w
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by Slartie 4mo ago
> I feel like people just jam poorly specified input into LLMs and hope for the best. Then pile more tools on top when they don’t get what they want. People call this exact process "vibe coding".
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by Slartie 7mo ago
The typical job of a CTO is nowhere near "finding out what business needs and translate that into pieces of software". The CTO's job is to maintain an at least remotely coherent tech stack in the grand scheme of things, to de
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by Slartie 7mo ago
Would you consider cute animal videos that are not AI generated to be so much more worthy of your time? Because I don't really care whether cute animal videos are AI generated or filmed - I simply don't want to spend even a second
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by Slartie 8mo ago
No one buys into Elon's firms because he's expecting dividends. His investors are not investing because of his success rate in delivering on his promises. His investors are investing exclusively because they believe that stock the
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by Slartie 8mo ago
I think he meant "keeping TSLA where it is". Tesla's sales have suffered, yes, and Elon's image is a significant contributor to that, besides all the reasons directly related to the cars themselves. But Tesla's stoc
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by Slartie 8mo ago
Clever engineers are usually able to pick up basic supply chain management capabilities. At least as long as it's about suppliers of things in their technical domain. For non-technical supply chain managers to pick up enough technical

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