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Not to mention that even people who could barely read (and maintain efficient long-distance communications and even barely understand the concept of a standard) were in extremely short supply.

Was there a concept of "ingenuousness" for the natives? Even the Aztecs were relative newcomers to the area. They came from the north and enslaved the area. Why prefer their terror to the unknown future with the new people that appeared?

Maybe the Aztecs were seen as bloodthirsty oppressors, and the Spanish as a chance to liberate from the yoke of Aztec empire?

I know, but really, in the 21st century, aren't there many substitutes for whatever pop-hype we're talking about? Not enough worlds with wizards, or swords, or dragons, or whatever you like?

I don't think local models would require hardware at nearly the scale that the datacenter buildout for OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. required. Nvidia got as high as the Icarus, it will be hard not to melt, despite they being a real company with real product that is so in demand that you can't buy their hardware even when you're willing to pay above the recommended price. They are addicted to billions, and the cold turkey clean-up will be painful as hell.

They DO vote with their wallets, though. They're still buying that crap, don't they?

Who (what) would all these middle managers manage? Agents? Why? If agents were so capable, they'd sure be capable of managing themselves or each other...

/s I thought AI can now give us the source of any binary? What happened to all the vibe coded Nvidia/CUDA drivers?

That's because it's AI-slopped.

Luckily, the jargon in the vibe coding space go away even sooner than it comes :)

At this point I would hold that silly sounding message in a much higher regard than I would hold AI slop.

> It's not 1990 anymore and my computer has gigabytes, not megabytes of ram.

And these gigabytes get used up really quickly when the LLM goes brrrr. And with this 500% surge in RAM prices, I don't think it's still enough to just buy more.

... and I suppose the solution for these particular conditions is.... drumrolls... stablecoins? They are allowed? Available everywhere? Accepted everywhere? Totaly safe from disappearing overnight?

The global poor already had ways to store value in dollars. They could simply exchange whatever meager savings they had into... real dollars! And they have been doing that for decades. I don't know whether anyone in the west really believes in this bullshit of cryptocurrencies that give the global poor options.

... and by the year 50, they will be a trillion times more productive?

It depends. What if Aldi bled a trillion dollars for this revenue of $120B? Would it be a desirable purchase?

Yes it is, because as soon as programmers step out of the most basic language level (which is kinda similar in most mainstream languages) there's a bunch of wildly different concepts, with wildly different ways of writing them. Writing them in isolation might be manageable, but it's combining them effectively that gets hairy very quickly, unless one is very experienced in said language. But then, translating that to OTHER languages becomes a bar that is too high!

What happens when Anthropic decides that the free hay time is over, and it's milking time?

LLMs can and will provide inaccurate answers to questions where data is included in their training sets too, that's in the nature of neural networks. It's just less likely that when the data is not in the training set...

I forgot to put /s in my comment :)

None of the numerous existing human-coded X11 tray icons showing battery charge level is good for you? Why? What are they missing?

FWIW Back in 2015 OpenCL 2.0 performance was quite good on then-current AMD GPUs (IMO), but the problem was that 1. You had to implement everything yourself, from scratch, since AMD's GPU BLAS was barely compilable, and 2. They abandoned OpenCL that year, and switched to HIP (or whatever their copy of CUDA was called) which didn't even compile (in practice) for quite some time, and 3. Even with HIP, you were on your own when it comes for any BLAS and other standard library implementations because AMD provided nothing of the sorts for a long time.

All in all, it's not that the drivers performance was poor per se, but AMD did nothing about providing a software ecosystem, which amount to its hardware wasn't realistically usable unless your pockets were so big that you can do AMD's job and fund the re-development of the whole ecosystem from scratch.

In other words, it made MUCH better ROI to just use Nvidia, pay a little bit more for the hardware, and save millions on software :)

Who's gonna pay $20,000 for labor that can be done by anyone with a $200/mo subscription?

Now let's think about how much money it costs Anthropic to make that $60k. :)

I find it works even better with "/effort ultra".

And when it doesn't, it politely apologizes, at least :)

If the main problem is programming languages incompatibility with QWERTY, that problem has been solved many decades ago. The programmers can switch to Colemak, and save many trillions of dollars of AI expenses.

> An app is often much more than a CRUD interface. "I could have written Facebook over a weekend" syndrome :)