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Is Carbon to Argon what Fable is to Opus?

I have an M1 and an M5 MBA. For the most part, the M1 is doing extremely well, but imo this is the year where M1 is showing its age.

What's the negativity? Anything wrong with OBS in particular? I haven't used it in a while, but recently saw DHH saying it's awful. I reckon that's the usual Twitter hyperbole/rhetoric that attracts attention, so just wondering.

So true.

Moved to Zen as soon as I noticed Arc went on maintenance mode. Never looked back.

It feels disingenuous when a company attaches to market valuation the amount of public good they do. By that logic, they could say: "We didn't do well in the market, so we're not investing as much in making the world a better place."

I guess it depends how you look at it. I agree there's a lot of new products being built that will get zero maintenance. But also think there's some awesome stuff coming out that is changing the name of the game. And that's thanks to personal software factories. I think it's better to see it as a personal software lab rather than a factory.

So Apple is the NVIDIA of open weight in this case

Oh wow yeah, it's endless!

Actually, it's more grey area than you think. See 'interoperability exception'. It does break copyright and EULAs however.

You're not. It's kinda what happened with youtube-dl at some point.

What's the point? Nitter already won since It's open source. Anyone can just fork it and/or self-host it. eg: https://status.d420.de or https://xxcancel.com

Just a way to pretend like they're doing anything in front of the public. What's there to investigate? Risks are pretty wide open. Crimes have been committed and admitted to.

Reuters probably saving 2026 for another writeup. To be honest, this is nothing surprising for 2025. I think we all expected unsurmountable costs. AI has always been and still is a huge bet into the future. The future is not written.

You could argue the same with high-level vs low-level programming languages. But I do get that English is so abstracted and non-deterministic that we're kinda clueless of what's going on. At the same time, I do think that maintaining code does require some level of understanding. And unless you straight up one-shot something perfectly, you still want to test manually and tweak with a few more prompts, adding a level of 'how does this work?'.

This is also freeing up time to explore things that before you wouldn't have been able to even start. New fields in tech are opening up. It's all about the model, compute, plugins, third parties... and more to come!

And this is not limited to code, but also how the world works. It's all being abstracted into prompts. Funnily enough, I'm also learning that way...just taking less time to get to the point. But this is not the first time we go through this. Eg. Google vs a library. And like anything, if no one knows anything anymore how do we distinguish from one another? There's a level of wanting to understand in order to distinguish ourselves from the rest in the serendipity of everyday life.

Call me naive, but something tells me we're going to start being much more open to just exploring the world with all this time we just bought ourselves thanks to technology. We were always gonna get to this point and there'll undeniably be bumps ahead.

for sure. but if everyone did this, then there wouldn't be a point for sponsorships and creators would be less incentivised to make content. and at least it's an ad they can control. believe it or not, ads work, and sponsored bits even more. and tbh i do watch some of the sponsored bits if they're fun and creative. i invite you to watch any wulff den video.

token controverial comment that all good stuff needs to be sustained with money somehow. always good to find alternatives if/when/for can't afford/appreciate. but there has to be sustenance. nothing against a cheeky freeride, of course. but when it becomes the main source something has to give.

ai is not bad. humans are negligent and/or dangerous.

ironically, this would be useful for a prompt on how not to build build a site.

I swear that we're doing it wrong. These regulations based on age restriction are lazy at best.

The harmful aspects of social media are their algorithms and their dopamine-exploitative design patterns.

Regulate and penalise this! Put some effort in actually targeting the source of the problem affecting children and adults alike.

Don't put the onus on users having to share very sensitive (and at risk of leaking!) information in order to prove they're not kids. Not to mention how easy it is to bypass with a VPN.

I'd be curious to see how NVIDIA would suffer if there were a legitimate slowdown to AI development. NVIDIA is the biggest catalyst and winner of speed in the market. Compute needs AI and AI needs compute, so there's definitely going to be an interesting push and pull between chipmakers and AI model companies with regards to regulation. While NVIDIA may have promised others at least a decade of smooth sailing and symbiosis, inevitably there's going to be a lot of stumbles along the way. NVIDIA may not fall, but there will be many casualties.

As someone who wants cat ears, I believe that doing it responsibly is the only way.

So true. I think the problem is not that there's more or less hate. I remember forums and chats with awful stuff.

The problem are the algorithms that put us into buckets and benefit from divisions.

I think we're reaching a level of maturity in tech that makes us question it for the same reasons it's great.

I think it's healthy for a society to question everything, as long as it doesn't get us stuck, but rather helps us conciously choose our path. We have more options than ever.

I used to be on social media all the time and always want the next shiny thing in tech. And I enjoyed that. But now I can choose to not be on social media and be on a basic iPhone mini. And I'm enjoying that now. All is to reiterate: we can choose our path, and that applies to many verticals.

as always… any ban of this type is lazy virtue signalling.

it’s proving unsuccessful in australia and it’ll be unsuccessful in the uk. it’s way too easy to circumvent with vpns and social media is not going to prevent it because it’s not in their interest.

governments should put their thinking cap on and regulate the addicting ux patterns that social media uses…

The people pushing the “AI is heavily subsidised” narrative don’t realise it actually flatters Anthropic and OpenAI more than the alternative.

If it is subsidised, fine – the incumbents absorb the losses, or lean on hyperscalers like Google or Microsoft who can cross-subsidise across other revenue streams. But if it isn’t, that’s the worse outcome for them: inference is just cheap, competition kicks in, prices crater, end users win.

Either way, local models win. If the incumbents are forced to turn a profit, pricing goes up and as local compute gets good enough to handle most use cases, people flock to it. And if inference is just cheap, that means the compute requirements are lower than we thought, and local hardware gets there even faster.

Bullish on local either way. We’ll find out once the Anthropic S-1 drops.

First of all, popping in a few screenshots of articles and papers is not proper analysis.

Second of all, GenAI is going well or not depending on how we frame it.

In terms of saving time, money and effort when coding, writing, analysing, researching, etc. It’s extremely successful.

In terms of leading us to AGI… GenAI alone won’t reach that. Current ROI is plateauing, and we need to start investing more somewhere else.

This is just cop out legislation. I wanna see laws targeting addictive design systems and harmful content. Social media is only part of the problem.

There’s so much that falls out of the social media definition. And regardless, kids are not stupid… VPNs, proxies, etc are easy to circumvent with.