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There is infinite demand for content (to the limit that human attention can absorb it).

Most content sucks ass. What may appear to be bountiful content is actually a lot of okay and meh content. Very little of it fits to your actual taste preference. It's a whole lot of mediocre. We as humans do not know what plentiful content looks like. We've never lived in it.

Most movies suck. You doomscroll and are dissatisfied. You refresh your media recommendations and sigh. You are excited to see a new fantasy or sci-fi film that scratches that itch, yet often left disappointed.

We are still in a desert. Anyone who says otherwise is settling for the status quo that our childen will call primitive and beastly.

Jobs are disappearing because cheap/free ad subsidized content attracts more eyeball hours than produced and prestige content. It's the optimal pareto frontier of content and does the most bang for buck, most in aggregate eyeball hours.

When the tools enable more creation at scale by tasteful creators, we'll start to get closer to content abundance. We're not there yet.

AI is my jet pack.

I was a fantastic IC and built really amazing software. I'm an even better AI-empowered engineer.

The old era is dead. The new one is exciting.

Shun the non-believer.

Kidding of course. It could be that he's an expert in his domain and can quickly ascertain whether the results are quality. It may also save a lot of time and be the best modern heuristic process.

I certainly will never need to write code anymore, and I can judge the output of these agentic processes. Same thing.

We're going to need something more expansive than OSI software licenses for the future.

Something like, "if you look at us, we must be able to look at you"

Second Amendment for AI.

If I don't get it, you don't either.

> do you think the Chinese models are going to be trained in such a manner that you enjoy the society that results?

I don't need government minders.

I'll take the models and live free.

> At the end of the day we are going to have to realize AI is both dangerous and governments are going to control it.

Your thinking is dangerous. Do you work for Anthropic?

AI is dangerous when these powers are being hobbled up by the select few. These systems threaten to put us all out of work. I refuse to be a slave to a company or a government that is taking away our livelihoods, scraping up our earnings potentials, then seeking to muzzle us and put us in jails with no rights.

I would rather burn down all of tech than have AI be owned by the elites.

Your thinking is a threat to all of our liberties.

Let me edit my comment :)

It's exactly this.

If the "scary Chinese open weights models" can do "dangerous cyber", then we might see regulations spring up against open weights sooner than later.

I hate Anthropic and OpenAI. As companies and leadership, anyway.

Dario and Sam are 100% to blame for this. They're trying to turn us all into jobless slaves, sex workers, and Squid Game pawns.

The only good future is open weights. They're trying their damnedest to keep us under boot.

I hope the Chinese companies (and I say this as a patriotic American) slay these two companies and destroy their moats.

In my mind, the two most dangerous people in the world are Dario and Sam.

We need open weights to win.

> That is why we have the good old WWW for.

We can use AI to take back the entire tech stack.

Every moat, every walled garden, every infrastructure piece can be rebuilt with AI.

We're seeing it with desktop apps, with games. It will happen to infrastructure and platforms. I'm itching at the opportunity to build open cloud primitives and P2P social protocols.

We don't need big tech anymore. We just need to be able to run our models.

> Digital privacy is important to me. I think that all humans should have it. Feel free to disagree. Jared Kushner is a human.

This isn't about the privacy of one individual human. This is about the security practices of a politically exposed person and the information they have access to.

Any high profile, high security clearance individual must have top-notch security. Any information gleaned or stolen from them can have enormous repercussions.

In a few years, they'll be able to do this. It's still too early.

OpenAI buys from Azure because of the Microsoft investment deal.

OpenAI sells and reaches enterprise customers via GCP.

Enterprises want zero data retention guarantees and they're already on AWS or GCP, so this is how OpenAI reaches those customers and makes more money.

C allows you to express things easily which should not be easily expressable. When people do these things it is almost always in error.

That is the fault of the language.

Rust won't have as many CVEs, though.

Both are true. Our backend is Rust and anyone could maintain it.

Replace it all with Rust. It's a fantastic server language.

Nobody needs to write any of this code anymore.

Rust is literally the best positioned language to handle the upcoming onslaught of CVEs.

It's time to have the conversation about killing PHP again.

We don't really need it anymore now that we have LLMs.

> Yeah this looks like it's going to go on history as the worst vulnerability ever.

Thanks, PHP.

I want hyper personal transport.

I want high reliability driverless services we can rent for our own cars.

I want to fall asleep in the car with my family and dogs and wake up on the beach or in the mountains.

That'll be peak Americana.

Frankly everything is now. Anyone can use Rust or Go for this now.

> you can either go it alone, or build on top of a lot of well discussed well thought through solutions to these sorts of problems that the Drupal community has dealt with for a couple of decades.

That isn't needed anymore. One person can maintain an entirely in-house solution and easily make changes and adaptations.

I'd like to live forever and explore the universe and live a billion trillion lives and build galactic empires. But we're a bit absent of that.

It's not about effort. It's about scope and scale and wonder.

Software programming can't live up to that. It's just manipulating symbols in a buffer that do some things. Nudging symbols around is cool, but there are so many even more amazing things left to unlock and do in the universe that are still out of reach.

"Born too soon", as they say. AI at least feels as though it's trending in the right direction.

Code is a great serialization, but writing code is a poor substitution for dreaming.

I want to dream and build, not write code. And certainly not hole punch punch cards or whatever our ancestors had to do.

Code is/was fun sometimes, but not always. Plumbing and glue code sucks, for instance. Even in the best times, programming by hand was largely a means to an end. There are far more entertaining things than any of this.

You guys are crazy. You know nothing about my career and just want to hate on AI.

> > Like who are we kidding, the type of nerds who were attracted to math and software were into it because we saw it as an art-form,

I have never once felt this way.

I like building cool shit. Code sucks.

Wanted to dog pile on this - Godaddy gave away my entire account back when I was younger. I lost lots of domains, including my website, "strategywiki.org".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38062595

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32470260

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24507411

Looks like I'll be transitioning off of Namecheap now too.

Oof, that'll do it.

I'll have to move providers.

I did CS, bio, and chem as an undergrad. I'd like to think I have an artistic appreciation.

Could we instead encode the kun or on reading in the kanji? It feels like something we should have placed inline in the encoding all along. That would literally fix this and you could build furigana rendering on top of that.