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I met so many awesome people in SWG. It did a really great job of fostering social interactions in a real way, not just transactional menu button presses. To get a lot of things do…

I think what frustrates me about the constant AI talk, is that it's like a global bikeshedding/yak shaving convention. It's an onslaught of details and opinions that don't matter t…

Real world domain knowledge and experience cuts through the chaff too. LLMs are going to have people reinventing the wheel and wasting tonnes of time on stuff that won't work out. …

That describes almost every major auto company though. Some companies sell their luxury lines through different badging or different branding but it's the same line up. Even Nissan…

The safety of a 2025 with the driving UX of a 1995 is what I want.

Mercs and BMWs occupy the same market space. They are direct competitors. Mercedes may have a car or two that reaches just out of upper middle class but they are largely a middle t…

I have a delayed sleep phase. In the modern working world that means I am not as effective as I could be, and it puts a lot of stress on my body to be awake when work requires. The…

To show my ignorance in mathematics a bit: do you feel that having such neatly defined riddles gives the AI an advantage in solving them? A lot of Innovations or insights are obvio…

Not sure they got to having a normal business yet. Hopefully they don't just pivot entirely to energy.

I don't think you can handwave responsibility like that, even if your theoretical were true it's still the responsibility of the org.

No disagreement here, the incentives for software have always sucked. People complain constantly about how everything is enshittefied, that's just corporate incentives manifested.

Depends on how you're running them I suppose. If you are running them on local hardware, then the harness is what you are concerned about. A compromised local model might be able t…

It's an interesting thought experiment, I have an existential disagreement with hourly tracking but that aside. Most agencies I know run on hourly rates. They are fundamental to al…

I hear you, some books are precious on a personal level but most books are made to be used, worn, enjoyed, thrown in backpacks etc. I can understand the used book experience gets r…

I wonder if it would be better to work on models thst can produce the 3D scenes in Blender that can be rendered to an anime style. That technique is already common, but if you coul…

Apologies, I meant ability to deploy new generation. You're right that areas of the US are cost competitive. This can change quickly though, so it's not that big of a deal. If AI e…

US running costs are higher than in China, because the US lags behind in energy, has higher real estate costs, and wage costs are higher. Eventually we will hit a "good enough for …

Please see my other sibling comment reply, the analogy is about how LLMs will be used rather than what they are.

The analogy is about business impact, I understand CNC and LLMs quite well and realise they are not the same technology. At some point LLMs will be used like CNC machines. Prompt i…

> Skip the vibe coding, just let AI be a helper. This I think will explain the differences in experience in industry. As pressures increase, control and power moves away from devel…

There are other business models, it depends on what you're building. For a while almost everything coming out of SV was destined to be advertising real estate. Now I think there's …

A lot is said about context you can feed into the LLM but I do think there is still superior power in human context awareness. That kind of ambient collation and organisation of th…

Flying drones is an interesting one, I guess you do have to drive the car out to site and set up the drone. But a lot of drone ops are waypointed, automatic flight. I can see a fut…

Super cool and close to my heart, albeit not the Yamanote line for me. There is an episode of Our Man in Japan with James May where he spends an admittedly short moment with the co…

I have really liked my GL.iNet travel router, also with OpenWRT. I didn't think I would need a travel router but they're pretty handy. I didn't realise routers like theirs existed,…