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My first time using Grok. I'd been so used to using AI models that declined to do things I told them, like tagging people in a video feed, helping me "optimize" my taxes or managin…

But practically AI inference requires substantial local computing resources. It's not some web app, it's a order of magnitude more compute needed

Agreed. I feel like Alphabet (who wrote this post) has kind of lost track of what they're espousing here. Self driving cars were the "monkey" 10 years ago but now they are largely …

Seems like you tore through some outdated Jira tickets, which is cool, but what was the impact of your work? Hard doesn't mean impactful. In fact that's one of the biggest mistakes…

This is a great initiative. Postgres was written in the 1980s and we can't afford to have our most utilized workloads running on a software written before most of us even existed. …

What I'm saying is that Postgres was built for a long gone age. We need a extensible database written in Rust which can serve as a foundation for any data system. We don't need a r…

Take a example. You could be a hunter gatherer, you could grow all your own crops from scratch, you could forsake all modern medicine and rely on superstition - would you be consid…

My view is, if you're going to use the service - you should give the data. It's like using Gmail and expecting them not to train their AI models on your data - how can you expect t…

Exactly, thank you, we are on the same page! It's great to be able to use our own devices and not have their compute coopted by a third party. I'd rather not have intensive compute…

What's wrong with the data being used for something else? Someone is providing digital intelligence to us, saving us many hours a week, so the least we can do is provide them a lit…

GPT1 was released in 2018, so yes, since then.

Practically if you're running a small personal automation project you're not going to want to waste a lot of time configuring and tuning a local model. You want to build the automa…

This is dumb. Don't do hard things, do things which have a high ROI. I could try to swim across the Pacific Ocean, walk across Siberia or consume a family size portion of McDonalds…

Test driven development is one of the worst ideas nowadays in the LLM age. We have models that can consistently write expert level, usually bug free code for you and rapidly fix ev…

I don't get this obsession with smaller models. I've been using Claude and GPT models for years and have had zero issues with them. I see absolutely no benefit to me as a end user …

This is just narrow thinking. Say Claude did increase the bugs in rsync by a negligible factor. So what? You've saved a significant amount of time for a decent number of humans, an…

I would argue that for all but the largest tech companies you only need a single data system which is Postgres. Message brokers, analytical databases all can be built on Postgres. …

It's really hypocritical for the US to cooperate with Russia on space, even take their help on repairing the ISS, only to sanction them and even their trading partners for buying t…

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Java developers tend to produce more value since they can write the code in a more concise way using Lambdas, functional interfaces, record classes, etc. Overengineering like in yo…

Yes, SIMD is possible. But what about the other more obscure hardware features there's no nice library for? It's much easier to use those in Rust than Go.

See, this is a problem I see many junior engineers struggle with: Excessive desire to make one's own life easier at the cost of customers. Yes, your codebase is nice and elegant an…

Agreed. We should make life easier for our users. That's why a language like Python or Java, with a faster development time, where we can fix bugs faster and ship features faster, …

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