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You have to understand that little errors compound very quickly, vibecoding is super iterative.
> after the current memory crisis

It strikes me that if it were up to Sam Altman, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Bill Gates and Dario Amodei, this crisis would persist indefinitely. If it were up to them I wouldn't be surprised to see them destroy the GPUs just them to keep them from the plebs.

I picked those names not to be hyperbolic, but because of very specific things I've seen them say.

Too expensive at scale
Re:Sam Altman Thinks You're Wasting DRAM on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:03AM (#50324108)
Maybe what's really inefficient is sam a and other billionaires unilaterally deciding to capitalize and productize technologies imminently slated to get 100x more energy efficient, rather than distributing hardware in a way that would surely motivate and accelerate efficiency breakthroughs, even if more slowly.
Re:Sam Altman Thinks You're Wasting DRAM on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:57AM (#50324071)
People shouldn't own books or printers either
Re:Sam Altman Thinks You're Wasting DRAM on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:56AM (#50324068)
Sama flagged it
Re:We Took over ChatGPT Accounts on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:01PM (#50317372)
If only poverty were so simple
Re:Northflank Breached on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:26PM (#50312941)
This is much more akin to books than it is to nuclear weapons. In my view you're proposing to tightly control access to something akin to the next generation of books. Is knowledge power? Yes it is and it's much more dangerous concentrated than distributed.
Re:AO3 Down for Maintenance on Friday October 30, 2026 @08:55PM (#50312153)
I wonder how many breaches are going undetected/unreported
Re:Northflank Breached on Friday October 30, 2026 @08:09PM (#50311824)
You should assume any of those are possible. And by that I mean: it's not physically possible to "control the technology" without instituting total surveillance and even that's just false security.

Defense is the only way.

You don't realize it, I imagine, but you're essentially advocating for the contemporary equivalent of requiring a license to print text on paper and distribute it.

Re:Breaking the Open Web Won't Stop the Bad Bots on Friday October 30, 2026 @08:04PM (#50311791)
The legislators are way out of their depth and oligarchs are preying on them at this point.
Re:Northflank Breached on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:37PM (#50311563)
Sorry but how in the world would that help with anything? You can't control an adversary, that's not how adversaries work. So that makes what you said a literal cop out.
Re:Herdr has released native app on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:52AM (#50300596)
It's such a good experience. Try it out, later we fork if they pull anything funny.
This is cool but it'd be way more useful if they had made a GPU, seeing as how expensive those have gotten
Re:The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:57PM (#50252911)
This is so disingenuous. We all know where the money goes.
Re:Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions on Sunday October 25, 2026 @01:14PM (#50233763)
> Our work is based on the growing body of research suggesting that psychiatric disorders arise more from disruptions in communication between brain regions than from dysfunction of any single region

Reductionism falls apart once again and I love it every time. This is very exciting to hear.

Every accusation a confession
Re:No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector on Saturday October 24, 2026 @05:23PM (#50225464)
Or inside for that matter
So then why do you shill for the rich minority?
Re:The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:14AM (#50210460)
That's exactly what I mean, compilers are more important than ever
Re:The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) on Friday October 23, 2026 @07:55AM (#50207550)
I think you're missing my point which is more or less that compilers are these original harness and will continue to anchor human-computer interaction as they have always done.
Re:The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:33PM (#50204193)
The LLMs don't replace compilers, they challenge the next generation of compilers. And they don't replace software engineers, they shift them into yet another metasystem.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:48AM (#50105404)
I tried it out and ran out of weekly usage on a $200 plan within a day. Not impressed.
Re:Do dentists know what they're doing? on Thursday October 15, 2026 @12:25AM (#50099139)
I had a great dentist once who gave me an x-ray and said "look, you've got a small cavity but it's really not worth filling, just keep it from getting infected". And I have.
They're buying out RAM and consumer GPUs too.
You sound exactly like the people who didn't understand personal computers because mainframes existed.
They should offload the overprovisioned, hyper concentrated GPUs back to the people
Look around, at least a few of them are openly fixing to secure a total government sanctioned monopoly on unmonitored computer usage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlTNN0gvkLM

Re:Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @02:19PM (#50092385)
Outperform? Where would those GPUs have been without Linus' prompting? Driving a car consists of brutally simple movements critically orchestrated. This isn't a GPU outperforming Linus Torvalds, it's Linus Torvalds engaging with yet another higher cybernetic order.
Or maybe it's actually the billionaires and their anti-democratic partners who have gone rogue and these anthropomorphitronic puppets are a convenient scapegoat to distract us from the fact?

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