toddmorey

How is it v1 with an architecture page coming soon? I'm really having a hard time gauging the maturity of software & services these days.

I still struggle to wrap my head around a $30,000 GPU card. But impressive payback numbers.

“I am going to show you where on earth in the future we will find the biggest rock: Space.”

https://youtu.be/aO0TUI9r-So?si=7fNwDvf86GpVFxDR

Beanie’s Baby

I don’t get the endgame. If your model underperforms in real life usage, the backlash comes quickly. I guess I’m asking what exactly the perverse incentive is? A day of press at most?

I say never do you own plumbing or electrical and I stand by that. You’ll want to be able to show electrical work was inspected and approved by a master electrician god forbid an insurance event like a fire puts that into question.

Trades will be under attack on both fronts. The DIY kits will be used to train the robots. Don’t under estimate how motivated these companies are to embody AI and replace human labor.

What's interesting about the Hyrtl Skull Collection is the collection was built to counter the claims of phrenologists by showing just how varied Caucasian skulls across Europe really could be. Noble, but if you are going to build a skull collection, you are going to use dubious means to collect them.

It is something else to see that many skulls looking back at you. Reminds me of the Crypt of the Capuchin Monks (walls covered in skulls) with the haunting inscription "What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be." Stays with you.

Here’s how I think about it: only organic data from real scenarios will provide realistic edge cases. The world is much harder to accurately simulate than people sometimes assume.

What’s said is that yahoo “article” is really an ad for a budgeting app, offered towards the end as a potential way to protect yourself from the same outcome.

Grift layered on grift. What a world.

Is it just entirely unprofitable to sell hardware devices unsubsidized without locking it all into restrictive ecosystems & services?

These are amazing!

There's also an eerie feeling of emptiness to the outputs. They lack real intent. Glossy and technically impressive, but they don't tickle your brain. I think it's because they don't really communicate or give you that buzz of new insights. They are pretty but not _helpful_.

For example, I didn't learn about lenses or earthquakes or fusion messing with the controls on these.[1] I didn't know what to look at.

However, there were interactive exhibits at the Children's Museum I spent a long time exploring and loved. That's because they were carefully designed to really teach the concept?

[1] https://sael.net/fusion-pulse/?ref=earthquake-tower

I get it, but would YOU use Jira to manage agent-based work cycles?

I guess I'm a bit of a killjoy here but:

  - This is google experiment, meaning you're sadly likely invest more time in the product / community than google will from this point forward. (That's just my "fool me once" voice talking.)
  - There really won't be much advantage to building in their playground vs building directly with any of the frontier models.
  - Interest and distribution will be challenging because the bias is towards building your own game vs playing the games others make.

Every time I see a vibe-coded game, I think to "I should try that prompt" not "I want to play that game". I think personalized apps, experiences, and games are amazing but are a different beast and won't have the viral impact some creators are hoping for.

Yes and if you need a controlled prescription, it’s super painful. Can’t be transferred to another pharmacy, etc. extremely difficult to fill reliably.

And the medications that are controlled vs uncontrolled (at least here in Texas) seem completely random.

AI is already being used to guide care outcomes and overrule doctors via “utilization management”.

I am a big believer in AI for drug discovery. But AI applied to patient care will never be used to benefit the patient or increase quality of care.

Cost reductions will be absorbed for profits. The medical industry has already aggressively implemented AI automation (imaging, automated note taking, etc) and in that period, costs have only increased.

Jeez, cars are absolute necessity in US, and yet still ave cost new runs $50,000 US or about 44,000 euros.

Maybe they can be designed for thermal management, but very few of them really are. I'm also finding the LED is the most likely failure point, so I prefer to find fixtures with replaceable LED bulbs so I can install the ones I know to be reliable. That way the entire fan isn't junk when the LED dies.

the generators and cooling equipment on some data centers are certainly audible.

https://youtube.com/shorts/AAQsnrAHy5Y?si=vgmEGHS38mzzs2G9

I mean, the latest ones are massive. Climate concerns aside, data centers don’t make great neighbors. They are never a net positive for the local community.

This got to me: > For a certain type of developer, building things yourself is just more fun

The platform APIs were terrible. React wasn't "more fun"... it just made it possible to do things with the platform that were extremely difficult and cumbersome to get working reliably with platform APIs alone.

To me, web components were an incredible idea poorly implemented. Most of the minimal adoption happened on top of frameworks like Lit that wrapped WCs to try to make the dev experience tolerable.

In urban planning they have a concept called "desire paths" where if you don't put sidewalks and pathways in the right places, people invent their own. I feel like the web community has spent a lot of time and effort patching the platform.

Now credit where credit is due: it has very much improved. And modern standards means it really is time to re-evaluate where and when you need these patches. But don't write off all that annoying and painful effort people put in to trying to making the platform deliver it's promised potential just to "building it yourself is more fun".

Dear god. The pace of AI progress may slow down just enough to extract real value from these models.

It's a fascinating case of use our product to build websites & apps until we can get our product to entirely replace websites & apps.

AI is this strange double-threat for folks in software development: attacking both the demand and supply at the same time.

Me, I don't think they are super eager to be a hosting platform even though this is a very logical extension for them. I think they're hoping this is a catalyst to make login with OpenAI as ubiquitous as login with Google.

Except for critical services like taxes & benefits

That seems like the intent for sure… but behind the scenes, they are really the LLM with a hosted sandbox. I’m still thinking any sort of moat will be difficult & agent services that can use multiple LLMs will be popular.

I had this naive assumption for years that MacOS was the most stable / workable *nix desktop available, but I’d been sleeping on modern Linux distros.

Been on Mac since the 90s, now a very happy Linux desktop user.

I kinda think home charging is important. You never know when the public charger will have no spots.

Aside: Quanta magazine always has excellent design & visuals.

Author here. This started as a 20-second ad: a household robot waters a plant, the camera orbits, and its revealed the water is actually missing the plant. Fun gag, but I had no idea the struggle that would ensue trying to get the model to produce a result against its rewarded training data. Hadn't done much with generative video before this; Learned a lot about the state of video models and AI world knowledge on this project.