afry1

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by afry1 1mo ago
> The price increases ... made the customers ask the question the AI vendors need them to never ask: "Do we need this?" ... Times are tough, people are going to look at the costs and ask, "Do we need this?"
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by afry1 1mo ago
> Context windows are only going to get bigger, that's a given. This is certainly not a given, economically speaking. This stuff is tremendously resource-intensive to run at its current scale, and we've reached the top of the S
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by afry1 1mo ago
Infrastructure depreciates! More slowly and with less expense in relative terms than an LLM model. You get a lot more bang from your buck from a 10 year old set of under-maintained railroad tracks than you do from a 10 year old unmaintained
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by afry1 1mo ago
Fiber and railroads don't depreciate after 3 years of use like AI chips. Fiber and railroads don't need tens of billions of dollars in continuing yearly maintenance expenses to keep them from going stale.
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by afry1 2mo ago
Let's say that Trump was pretty ambivalent about AI until Sam Altman and co informed him that they would have to build a ton of new fossil fuel infrastructure to power the data centers that would be necessary to scale the technology. W
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by afry1 2mo ago
> These tools came about because the cost of trying things out has dropped to nearly zero. What an obscenely disconnected and privileged notion. "Nearly zero" still currently equates to thousands of dollars of subscription expe
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by afry1 2mo ago
A sane government would take one look at this job posting and regulate this insane industry out of existence.
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by afry1 2mo ago
As if ALL OF THAT doesn't represent inherent and crucial elements of judgement, and therefore"intelligence" itself. We are not purely rational creatures, thank God. Sometimes those "limiting factors" you listed -- s
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by afry1 2mo ago
"AI business plan generation" i.e. "Hallucinate the part of the process where you actually think about your plan for how to spend our money!" I would be utterly mortified and insulted to be on the receiving end of an AI-
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by afry1 2mo ago
Did AI take it away, or did you give it away? Now that you've made the Faustian bargain at this low low introductory price, how long until they start ratcheting up the price? How long will you be able to bear it? You're still allo
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by afry1 2mo ago
Not impossible, but I disagree fervently with the notion that that "lack of focus is nothing but wasted time". Trying things, experimenting, acquiring a diversity of experience in life that eventually builds into something greater
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by afry1 2mo ago
What a bunch of crap. If you spend your life running to and fro and never commit to anything in the end, then arguably you've frittered your life away. But maybe, just maybe, what you've really been doing this whole time is buildi
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by afry1 2mo ago
Awesome, I hope they attract a better industry than this. Maybe something that builds useful things for the world, and not a shrieking blight of a warehouse, dependent entirely on the economic dead end of frontier AI. An industry that provi
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by afry1 2mo ago
"Already being generated and sold to other utilities," i.e., "already bought and paid for by you rubes to do useful things like heat your home and run your refrigerator." I'd love to import a couple of high paid wei
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by afry1 2mo ago
Here's an eloquent counterargument: emissions. The world is on fire and these clowns are completely fine with dumping a good portion of France's GHG emissions back into the atmosphere if it means we can turn a few more millionaire
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by afry1 2mo ago
Most of them don't get access. So let's hook them up to an insane, unproven, unpredictable autocomplete math equation and entrust it to their development as a human being. So gross.
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by afry1 2mo ago
Gross
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by afry1 2mo ago
Technology does not exist in a vacuum, nor does anything that is engineered. It's not this abstract stuff detached from the world. PEOPLE make stuff, people use stuff, and people are ultimately the ones who are going to pick and choose
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by afry1 7mo ago
And the leaders of these companies are so genuinely surprised at the fact that the people are refusing this technology. Sam Altman: “Looking at what’s possible, it does feel sort of surprisingly slow.” Satya Nadella: “For this not to be a b
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by afry1 7mo ago
At least with a person, you can say that there's one person in your org that understands the code after they write it and submit it for review. Maybe they stick around for a while, maybe they move on to another job, but they were THERE
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by afry1 7mo ago
I sure don't. But when I'm using all of those things (pickaxe, mineral mine, power station, internet network hub), I know that there was a thinking human being that took some measure of human care and consideration when creating t
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by afry1 7mo ago
"The future belongs to whoever understands what they just shipped." Perfect summary. It's like we invented a world where you can finally, _finally_ speedrun an enormous legacy codebase and all patted ourselves on the back lik
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by afry1 7mo ago
If code must be correct, and review time is not free, and review time is costlier than code time, why not just ... ... write the code yourself?
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by afry1 7mo ago
If code is now free, why does the language matter at all?
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by afry1 1y ago
Those Lasko fans have pretty raw edges on the blades of the fan itself, which I think contributes a lot to the noise. If you take the cover off, sand down the nubs and bits of flaking plastic, and reassemble, I think that will take care of
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by afry1 2y ago
It is very possible! Just this year these girls discovered a proof for the Pythagorean theorem using nothing but trigonometry, a feat considered impossible until they did it: https://youtu.be/VHeWndnHuQs
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by afry1 3y ago
These guys have a fabulous bit on microservices that I watch at least monthly to maintain my sanity. https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ
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by afry1 3y ago
Congrats Michael! I've been following along with your story on and off since 2019-ish, very cool to read about how things are getting along.
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by afry1 3y ago
Pound for pound, mining and processing minerals for batteries has a much smaller environmental impact compared to extracting and processing fossil fuels for gas. It's not nothing, but way less.
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by afry1 3y ago
If I had a dime for every time I saw somebody copy and paste "#myExampleWidget" into production code ...

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