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The other thing with the AI debate is that it's nothing new- these kinds of failures are the same kind that have been going on for a long time, for the exact same reasons. Any time…

If they are using a true agentic TTS / LLM setup then this is just a first pass for them to implement fully AI answered 911 calls. Otherwise I can code this state machine condition…

For the people who believe this, I think it deeply reflects how they think about all knowledge and the kinds of things they would use this technology for- "finding the answers to t…

I don't agree with the luddite-esque AI views like using ChatGPT makes you dumber and it thinks for you , but- this is a real case of why people are angry and why they should be co…

Most people mean this to say that 1 trillion is a lot of money, but it still comes back to what you believe AI is- in hindsight, does 1 trillion dollars to build the internet sound…

I don't want to save money so badly that I'd possibly undercut the quality of the code that gets created. *edit to add: that code quality (or lack of quality) is it's own cost

what's the threshold for model routing where you're willing to trust the router? For coding my own work I don't trust the model router, and it would have to be shown to be to save …

I’m not sure I understand the analogy. You could say that the reason why artificial flavors work in food is because we know how to recreate flavors from first principle chemistry. …

> LLMs are really only capable of combining different things into output In terms of how writers think about creativity this doesn’t reflect reality- there’s the old writer’s sayin…

It's crazy how much bigger OpenAI is than Anthropic.

Maybe they are hoping that when the bottom drops out they will just be able to buy Anthropic or OpenAI for a few tens of billion.

But maybe the TPU advantage is in inference? That's what I assume because the number of compute cycles are going to be all in inference vs training. So they could train on GPUs if …

It says the original report was in the Information, which I can't see, but I'm skeptical that they includes the training cost? And how much that changes the figure?

Does it have "massive" margins? Afaik no one has said publicly what margins there are on an API call?

It seems like there are some credible rumors that Google is actually winning in terms of actually building models that work and don't lose money- between how they're able to price …

I meant the attack would be the other way around- if an infected package had the git.exe file in their root. Or, the infected package could also copy that file into the parent proj…

I guess this is only specific to a file in the root of the repo, so it doesn't allow for an NPM supply chain attack?

It's interesting that all models seems to be unbiased out of the box so far- that is, mostly reflecting the training data (the internet). The whole mecha-hitler thing doesn't seem …

> But your brain works the other way around. First there is a concept, a feeling, an image, and then the words come out to describe it. After this I can't take the essay seriously-…

For a lot of Americans the credit card system is another tax on being poor: People with stable jobs and good credit qualify for no-fee credit cards with rewards / cashback. As a co…

It’s all about perspective, because Vercel is probably another 3-10x markup on AWS? These kinds of choices are kind of pricing range as engineering decisions in the end.

afaik prices for the big cloud providers haven't changed this much. Their instance prices are already inflated and they're probably willing to eat into their own margins to keep pr…

As a teacher I understand how difficult it is to explain complex topics in a simple step by step way. The site has some really impressive technical aspects, but the educational ang…

That's true now, but long-term (maybe just a few years) it doesn't seem feasible for the status quo to continue from a financial point of view. Spend for compute seems like it need…

I've started to have different models review things like architectural planning docs- and I think for these more "fuzzy" outputs the differences between the outputs can be quite di…