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What about ARM? Isn't it also European?

True, but I also believe that one can generally hire "more intelligence" if one is willing to pay more in salary and benefits, which most companies aren't. Basically, the original argument wr Microsoft Teams.

Technically it is... According the original vision for workstation, a computer with >1MB RAM, >1 megapixel of screen resolution, >1 MIPS and costing under 1 Mega cents (10K dollars).

However, so is my phone!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M_computer

XBOX will be the big validation of the model. They purposefully chose an executive who doesn't know a thing about videogames. The business side is obviously important, but can a videogame company be successful if it's run by bean counting business optimizers? I doubt it, but time will tell.

This is fascinating and scary at the same time. I dread the future when people will have access to cheaper health insurance with the caveat that all consultations and procedures will be performed solely by AI. Want a human? Pay extra.

Quality of life worldwide has had the biggest increase in the history of humanity over the past 50 years due hundreds of millions, if not more, being lifted out of poverty. Its impossible to separate the role of technology from it.

It looks like they wanted to kill most of the reverse engineering by cutting down on low effort recomps. It had got to the point where people who knew nothing of coding were recompiling major games just by throwing tokens at it. I'm neither condemning nor supporting it, just reporting.

Someone on Reddit made a good point. Even a short fence stops most people from treading on your lawn.

In other words, people who try to divide and conquer recompilations will likely still succeed... for now.

You know, that's an interesting analogy.

I think the core issue isn't the abuse, but the very existence of a service that claims to provide infinite of something. Infinite is always BS because resources aren't infinite.

It's just like "all you can eat" places kicking out people after they've been in the restaurant for a while. We should discourage these marketing tricks because they are always a lie.

Regarding Halloween, we stopped leaving unattended buckets out because of bad actors taking everything. Now we hand out the candy ourselves. Our home no longer provides "all you can grab" treats...

If the US was doing it, we'd only need a Little Excursion against Seaweed!

His fortune should go to Hacker News users, not to his bank account. We'll use it a lot more efficiently.

"Search for the small web" is interesting. I think the closest thing we have of "the Internet that doesn't suck" for me is HN.

The Usenet vibes, "let's talk about the stuff we geeks love before people come to spoil them". A much higher quality than average chat room, even if imperfect and undoubtedly biased to our left brain personas.

So searching on HN is a bit of the "Search for the small web".

Most successful companies and innovative ideas come from middle aged founders and inventors. Silicon Valley loves the romantic notion of a contrarian young adult or even teenager "seeing what nobody else sees" , but they are the exception and not the rule.

Why didn't Claude detect the hack and prevent it from affecting customers using its superhuman AGI reasoning?

The word "open" is misleading and dishonest in this context. Just like "OpenAI".

Call it free, available, downloadable etc, but not "Open".

Either way, Mistral is a failing company with little relevance in the AI space and that's not going to save them.

Sure, but you could also have used this dollar to buy oil, gold, stocks, bonds etc

At least they are safe from governments and their "fiat money"!

For someone to kill New Jersey's reputation, it needs to be alive to begin with...

Once upon a time there were "developers" known for doing their work by basically copying code from Stack Overflow without caring to understand it. Building applications as a sort of legos where stack overflow answers were the pieces.

Today they are vibe coders and no longer need stack overflow.

These guys started with the conclusion and then tried to find a way to "prove" it.

Valve's take of 30% is astronomical. The company is pure profit and the absolute dictator of how people should market and sell games. It's Valve's way or the highway.

They created the AI ghetto with their forced disclosure banner but are doing nothing about AI otherwise. They must do better than to basically tell developers that AI cloning is their problem. How about using a bill or two from their huge pile of cash to build a coherent strategy to handle the post-AI game industry?

I have a few acquaintances who smirked when I last met them: they love how AI saved them a ton of time in their non-tech jobs while pointing out that "they wouldn't want to be a software engineer today".

They were always a bit resentful about how I made money "so easily". And they were right in a sense. Before retiring I'd make more money browsing reddit in a boring meeting than they would make in a day.

We made incredible improvements to society but we also destroyed the livelihoods of millions. I believe our profession was/is a massive net positive to the world, but many got hurt while we steamrolled others without hesitation.

I'm actually very positive about AI in general and I don't think it will end our field. But if that's what happens, we can lament the bad luck but not really complain that we've been wronged.

This was a good example where a talented engineer worked hand in hand with AI to get the decomp to work.

I think some people are brute forcing it through a lot of agent time and expense, but they used 6.1 Sol Medium, a great but not a top capability AI model+effort.

This matches what I've been hearing regarding talent and experience making a big difference in task speed and cost when using AI. When prices stop being subsidized, this will be a key factor when evaluating engineer performance: "you've used a lot of tokens and don't have much to show for!"

Who knows where this is going to end, but Talent+AI still beats Vibe work by a lot.

Layoff severance isn't great and it's very common for companies to use the performance system to get rid of people. Suddenly someone stops meeting expectations and are gone within weeks.

Hey! I was there and my kid is still a teenager.

I was programming already in the mid 80s and helping my dad figure out 20MB "Winchesters" in the late 80s/early 90s.

I've never used LLMs for C++ but I notice that it likes to use every available feature on other languages. Is Claude-generated C++ incomprehensible as a result?

I can think of "Ten little Indians" by Agatha Christie. I haven't read it in years so I can't remember the quality of the writing. What I do remember are the plotline ideas, some of them completely novel when it was first published.

If that had never been done, you could arguably prompt your way into something fresh and interesting with a good AI writer.

Not literature, but still a valid choice for the genre.

Many people here complain that AI writing is bad. And I agree with it, AI writing is boring and its distinctive tone is now associated with unpleasant thoughts for most people including me.

But I'm curious about how people will feel when AI writing is good and impossible to differentiate from a decent journalist-level writer, including with tooling. Then what? Are people going to stop reading?

I'm trying to separate the part of the argument related to "this writing is bad" from "this was written by AI".

I personally don't care if AI is a writing instrument for a human who's signing off on the content, as long as the writing is good and the source is legitimate.

Just look at these offices compared to the drab monstrosities we have today, even at the supposedly cool and trendy tech companies...

Get an issue of Scientific American from the past few years and compare with one from the early 90s. It will become obvious why Scientific American no longer has readers.

The tech sector is one of booms and busts. Humans tend to extrapolate the present into the future but often these extrapolations are wrong due to unforeseen factors. I was around in the dotcom bust and many people thought the profession was done and "that time was different".