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I barely even noticed it happened.

I agree that SO became very hostile at some point. But I also moderated a bit around 2014-2019 and the vast majority of questions in my field were very low effort. People would just dump their code with no context and ask why it doesn't work.

So, the place was a shit hole.

I find their products confusing as usual. Does Antigravity sub work same as $20 Codex? Are the limits somewhat similar to ChatGPT and Claude?

> How is this a problem?

It creates inequality. For some reason we accept that following a morality framework based on a bunch of presuppositions puts you in a special box (well, I don't accept it). Like, why am I forced to be sent to a meat grinder and kill people? Just because I'm not ultra orthodox something?

I didn't make myself clear. I'm against the concept of asking for exception from something based on your religious beliefs. I didn't mean that you can ask for virtually anything.

I'm just trying to understand what the particular uses people have for them.

My raw data alone is terabytes, and it takes hundreds of GB sometimes to run very simple analyses. So there's no way I can have a local AI orchestrating the analyses locally.

But I realize some people have different kinds of data. So I'm interested to hear how exactly people use local models.

The point where it'd make sense for me is if someone makes a compact machine with 512 of unified memory in a couple of years and it costs less than a down payment for a house...

I have a limited understanding of local LLMs, but from what I gather 128GB is not enough to match DeepSeek v4 Flash or GPT 6.1 Luna. And these models are so cheap right now. What's the use case besides having your data locally?

The problem is that you can get any kind of exemption based on religious beliefs.

> We envisioned a utopia which would lead to everyone having equal access to information, communication, market access, and general prosperity.

I'm curious how you think general prosperity can be achieved by the things you mention. Like, lay it out.

> Most people here probably have around $5-10M in assets given we’re mostly in tech

Some European making 3k/month net probably wept reading this.

> People taking the shortcut to build new games - and for what purpose, I wonder?

It's a trend that started before the AI. Games went from niche to mass market. There're billions of devices - and potential customers. Mobile game publishers haven't been trying to make a "memorable" game for over a decade. It's all about A/B tests, retention, lifetime revenue, etc.

The same is true for many desktop studios. The recent Wolverine debacle is a prime example. Studios are making generic, "safe" games.

In summary, I think it's an industry problem that predates AI. The only difference between now and five years ago is that you don't have to rely on cheap human labor all that much to create a clone of a clone of a clone.

> Or am I wrong?

I don't know what kind of answer you're looking for. There's no soul and games don't have them.

You have some kind of subjective feeling of nostalgia (or something else) and want to pin it on AI-assisted development. That's real for you, but not objective.

Their second choice was using a hosted GLM-5.3 and calling it a “sovereign AI”.

> I think the best way to keep quality up is to stay small.

Yes, but it's also rational for founders to sell a successful small studio when they can.

The core issue is wanting to jump on the Fortnite hype train. Every exec wanted their own money printing machine. It's not unique to this studio: abandoning the core IP to pursue an Overwatch clone.

It's like when CA decided to build Hyenas, put millions into it, and shut it down just be the release.

Then they release Pharaoh TW that nobody wanted, Shogun TW "remaster" that everyone hates, and failed in many other ways.

At this point, I hope Sega puts them out of their misery. I can't stand another decade of Warhammer without any proper historical titles.

The percentage of businesses that need to scale to even millions of users is miniscule.

> Although I haven't gone through an exercise of using AI to rewrite the whole company codebase at once, not sure yet how well that'll work.

Right, have you gone through exercise of having AI write an app in a language you don't know (inventing a whole web framework along the way)? Does that sound reasonable to you?

> The implication being of course that writing code is now extremely cheap and you can build anything you like in any language, so why not choose to rewrite everything in Rust?

I've been out of web dev for a while now and forgot these people exist. Why would you even compare framework with a language? Why would you want an AI to build a custom web framework around Rust? Why would you want to never read the code AI writes? It's infinitely easier for me to have a conversation with AI about something I know and understand.

Russia has been building mid-range cruise missiles ("Banderol") that are estimated to be sub $150k. That's much cheaper than Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles.

However, you can't compare them to long-range cruise missiles that are north of $1 million. The payload is much bigger and you just can't leverage cheap commercial engines.

> Not every opinion needs a set of citations.

It doesn't if you're fine with it not being worth much.

It's a bunch of statements that need good evidence behind them. I'm not sure why you're ignoring what I said before: the Netherlands have great public education system and strong democratic tradition. The effectiveness of any foreign influence on political life should be studied. AFAIK, it's still a matter of debate.

Idk why you think knee-jerking "social media" adds any substance.

Definitely not an answer to my question.

Nokia was dominating the smartphone market when iPhone was released. There was no ecosystem there. All these "pocket PC" devices were very cool for their time, but they were really really far from mass market adoption.

It's a web site for a car. It has pictures of the said car. What's up with it, I don't get it.

> but the actual reason is that the Russian influence found a fertile ground in the NL

Are they stupid and can't think for themselves? The Netherlands have strong democratic tradition and great public education system. Why would they be influenced by a foreign government? I always find it amusing.

Yeah well it has nothing to do with the argument. Consumer Linux not being mainstream isn’t not due to lack of trying.

Linux has millions of man-hours worth of code. Did it help Linux become a mainstream consumer platform?

> I could make a full macOS clone

With like a million bucks worth of tokens? Sure.

> Then I can port it to whatever hardware I like.

I think you're missing a point here.

> They’re a luxury goods brand

How so? Just about any major manufacturer has hardware in the same price range.

I'm naive, but wouldn't industrial applications be enabled by this anyway? You'll have in-house inference hardware that a robot can talk to via local network.

Also, your model probably doesn't need like a lot of its knowledge to control a robot.