sicher

Where would you go? (Asking for a friend)

The one on stage was likely very different from the one that "flew".

I would like to know two things:

1. Why don't they show a driver entering or exiting? 2. How much do that particular "car" weigh?

> .... into a high performance car

If that is what they have done. That may just be a large drone looking like a car.

You can tell a lot about what you don't see... For instance, a driver getting in - or out.

If that thing would have looked like a huge drone (which I strongly suspect it is) no one would be up in arms about it.

If they could have they would have shown it.

Yeah. If the conspiracy theory was that these incidents were somehow orchestrated by Anthropic, that would at least make some logical sense.

Care to explain how that would make sense?

I don't think many associate intellectual capability with evil. What many do, however, is associate serious risk with living alongside vastly more intelligent entities. Especially if those entities are not aligned with us.

And non-democratic.

Sure, that's what I mean by where to draw the line. An artist taking inspiration from others is not obliged to give up the work to the public.

Sidenote: It may be tricky/impossible in the future to uphold intellectual property laws. If anyone is able (for instance) to prompt-create all their software, a software patent is worthless.

Intellectual property works differently.

You might argue that since those LLMs build on all of humanity's knowledge, they should belong to everyone. But where do you draw the lines? Or make a practical case.

Yes. And even if (when) AI surpasses humanity in general I don't know if that changes the argument.

I agree with you, but there is one aspect that is different here - the scale that is way beyond what any human can do.

I don't know what to think about that though.

Yes, it's truly scary. It's not hard to imagine a small doomsday cult releasing 100+ nasty viruses at selected spots around the globe.

I'm also baffled. AI that is substantially smarter than us is a very potential threat to us - and we won't even be able to comprehend what most of those threats may be.

I am very product focused with my projects. I have Claude write 100% of the code but I challenge its suggestions and make damn sure there are ways for it to verify functionality and correctness. I don't read much of the generated code but am adamant that there are tests: unit, integration and (if possible) against other implementations. And I care a LOT about performance.

So far (last 6-7 months) I've built tons of stuff in my spare time: A pdf generator lib, a scheme implementation (R5RS and R7RS) with AOT compilation, a screenplay editor, a code editor, a ripgrep-like lib/engine/cli tool for fast search in a workspace, a markdown parser, a Fountain (screenplay) parser, a lib for dealing with updating apps, tooling for finding duplicate code and generating codemaps - and much more.

It's been an absolute ride.

No, but even the first christians believed they were living in the end times. It's been believed for 2000 years.

Cool. I'm also working on a Scheme compiler for embedding. Bytecode VM as well as AOT compilation to Zig. 100% written by Claude Opus under my supervision and guidance. I've given it an extensive set of tests and benchmarks (r5rs and r7rs) which helps A LOT. I currently use it embedded in a modal prose editor, mostly running integration tests for now.

https://codeberg.org/sicher/zscheme

Better take the opportunity then and have it build good stuff while it lasts. :)

Oh, I think I misunderstood. Do you mean if we paid the real cost of the compute it would be the numbers you mention?

I'm paying for claude max which is 90 euros a month. It's just enough for my needs. I typically run 2 agents in parallel and seldom run out of tokens.

I'm in the same camp. The last few months I've been building a couple of applications (editors) for my own work - and since it's so fast I've had Claude spin off to build Zig tools and libraries for markdown parsing, PDF generation, a Scheme implementation for embedding and more. (If anyone's interested they are at my Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/sicher)

Thanks!

Funny that the "What is MCP?" section doesn't even explain what the acronym stands for... (I genuinely have no clue)

Or perhaps interested in history of religion?

I do a lot of writing. The best recipe for me when I really need to focus is to not use my macbook at all, but a dedicated laptop with no wifi or anything. (Bought a cheap lenovo X1 second hand for this purpose). Pen and paper is also wonderful.