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by echelon 3d ago
ChatGPT is in my tool belt now, and I barely touch Google anymore. The world is fundamentally and momentously being rewired.
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by echelon 3d ago
> But for now they're capturing 80% of all the AI spend so they gonna keep making money. And this is why the stock remains high. This hasn't even started to make a dent in Nvidia's bottom line yet. These comparisons to Enr
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by echelon 4d ago
Software is ephemeral. Very little of it lasts for long. And if it does, it's legacy banking or some ossified terrible thing people are afraid to touch - not something revered. Every piece of software today will be rewritten. By 2100 m
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by echelon 4d ago
El Nino decreases Atlantic hurricane activity. Weather patterns in the Americas and Asia change in the summer through winter months. Rainfall changes throughout the Americas, and Asia sees worsening floods and storms. Just because the Atl
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by echelon 4d ago
Did you look at the screenshots? IKEA has a trade dress and the game matches their color scheme and font exactly . The building is clearly an IKEA with the exact same branding, just different four letter name.
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by echelon 4d ago
That's not how trademark works. If you don't defend your mark, you lose it.
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by echelon 4d ago
We should be able to set at a crate level whether our code can compile with panics, implicit conversions, etc. And we should be able to blacklist dependencies and transitive dependencies that do these things. We should be able to advertise
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by echelon 4d ago
Open models and agents can't be trusted without handholding. Astra can one-shot six months of work. Years of work, even. OpenAI just solved Navier-Stokes. Seems like the US is on a takeoff ramp to me.
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by echelon 4d ago
A lot of effortful things deliver value, yet we call them slop. The Jurassic Park sequels, for instance. One of the common tropes anti-AI people fall into is calling all AI-enabled works low effort. I'm refuting that point here, but yo
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by echelon 4d ago
It may not matter that they're "sleeping on it". AI is going to disrupt all tech companies. Clearly software and SaaS has no moat. I just saw someone vibe code a fully functional Photoshop in a week of Astra use. I'm thi
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by echelon 4d ago
This is precisely how you advertise. But the beauty is that you can only do this a few times before the formula becomes worn out. Others will have to come up with something else, entirely different, that is equally inventive. Brilliant ad o
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by echelon 5d ago
It's still at the number two spot 30+ minutes later. That's wild.
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by echelon 5d ago
I've always been interested in "building". Programming was always just the means to do so. I got into it at a very young age, but the syntax and the languages were just the means to an end of building and creating. I'm
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by echelon 5d ago
Until we bar export.
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by echelon 5d ago
People are ego-centric and pull a blindfold over their eyes.
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by echelon 5d ago
And all of these things will be solved one by one. It's astounding to me that people can see coding get solved and not think every single one of these tasks won't be solved too. Why do you not think these things aren't going
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by echelon 6d ago
This is not slop. It took effort. This is not a one shot fire and forget project.
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by echelon 6d ago
> was already possible. The fact that people who couldn't program can now build utilities and automations for themselves is beyond remarkable. And for those of us who can engineer, we're making 10x, 20x what we were before. I&#
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by echelon 6d ago
You now have a PhD in your pocket. Is that not the miracle of the free market? King Richard II would have killed for an iPhone, PS5, air conditioning, and Uber Eats. He'd swap places with you, and he was king. You don't realize ho
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by echelon 6d ago
People that say "things [...] were already possible" don't dream enough. Maybe you were born a few decades too late. I feel I was born (a few decades?) too early. I want the world with cures for cancer, holodecks, brain uploa
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by echelon 6d ago
It's a market. Why can't someone buy it? Why does it matter that homes "aren't clean" while Google is? That's silly. There's going to be the same level of demand no matter what - the same mix of coal and n
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by echelon 6d ago
People downvote me when I say we're back in the "Geocities era" / "indie web" of the 90's and 00's, but LLMs have enabled us to build cool side projects to completion and give them love. This is 100%
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by echelon 6d ago
You're not emitting the code yourself anymore. The platform ease of use for humans no longer matters as much (if at all). Preference for a native feel, solid software, bugfree code, compile/develop velocity, LLM friendliness. We&#
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by echelon 6d ago
Zig -> Rust is straightforward and is a good advertisement for their model. React -> Rust is ambitious and the models aren't there yet. Soon.
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by echelon 6d ago
"Look daddy government, all these bad guys are doing bad things and we stopped them. You should regulate AI in the US so that companies can't use open source models or buy from China."
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by echelon 6d ago
You do this to distill a model. You can submit your users' questions async too, but if you do it sync, then you can also RLHF on the users' behavior after the output.
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by echelon 6d ago
These apps predated LLMs "getting good". Both have an enormous number of paying customers and you don't just disrupt that for a language change.
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by echelon 6d ago
Axum and Actix are phenomenal web frameworks. The type system and error handling ergonomics make it easier to write defect-free code than, say, Go or Java. Simple servers are request scoped and mostly feature linear request handling, so you
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by echelon 6d ago
None of this matters anymore. We have LLMs. It's easy to build native everything now without much resource expenditure. Android will be Kotlin. iOS will be Swift. Desktop and server will be Rust. Web will be TypeScript / React fo
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by echelon 6d ago
A lot of infrastructure is going to be ported to Rust. It's fantastic for websites and servers, and LLMs are very good at generating it. The primary downside of Rust is the long compile times, especially with macros (serde, etc.) If th

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