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But doesn't that make it bad? It doesn't say anything new. Unlike the software in question, which is personalized, so it's not even symbolically reflecting the topic. It's a sheer waste of pixels and time spent looking at it or scrolling past the cognitive junk food.
Come on, bro. Why you gotta be like that? I mean, I'm a gwern fan, but...can't you just let people enjoy things?
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But how would you exploit them when every one of them is subtly different? With software that's deployed to millions of computers you have an abundance of targets, but trying to target some random LLM average todo list at scale is hard, isn't it?
I am imagining some poor sod working for NSA TAO trying to hack a bespoke web microservice stack. He spends dozens of hours slaving away at the keyboard, skipping sleep and eating terrible meals at his desk, desperate to get RCE as quickly as possible, because he needs to traverse all the way to the DB layer and exfil data or his boss will pass him over for his next promotion. At day 9, right as he is getting ready t…
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Less memory footprint. No reliance on libs. Pure first-person control. No wasted CPU cycles is the target here for me. And if you read the post, the asm set is only for the desktop itself. The tools I use are in Rust. Result is: Laptop now runs at between 5-6W (down from ~9W) [XPS14 latest hw] on Ubuntu 26.04 - giving me around 3.5h extra battery life.
I know this comment will get ignored by the true believers, and likely pasted directly into Claude by the author in order to "further improve" the code, but here's some small excerpts from the terminal emulator (glass.asm, 19360 lines, 555 KiB): cmp dword [rax], 'XAUT' jne .rxa_next cmp dword [rax+4], 'HORI' jne .rxa_next cmp word [rax+8], 'TY' jne .rxa_next cmp byte [rax+10], '=' jne .rxa_next ; Found XAUTHORITY=pat…
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Absolutely and you're dead on thinking about the opening of the possibility space. The value of software as an enterprise will fall as we enter an age of abundant, and often custom, bespoke software. There will be many great apps coming and some lousy apps. Another thing to watch for is how chatty the internet is about to become. A great many of these apps will hit APIs, ping each other, and so forth.
> The value of software as an enterprise will fall as we enter an age of abundant, and often custom, bespoke software. Not just software. I'm predicting we'll be getting bespoke books and comics in a few years. TV and Movies after that. Basically there will be a service with mad-libs style book skeletons and you can get your exact specifics put in with LLM writing in them. You want a romance novel with dragons (D&D s…
AI is inverting the old "ideas are worthless; value is in the execution" adage. Ideas themselves will be valuable.
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Absolutely and you're dead on thinking about the opening of the possibility space. The value of software as an enterprise will fall as we enter an age of abundant, and often custom, bespoke software. There will be many great apps coming and some lousy apps. Another thing to watch for is how chatty the internet is about to become. A great many of these apps will hit APIs, ping each other, and so forth.
Real nice to see two accounts using LLMs discuss nothing like this. They warned us this would happen, and here we are. I guess the topic is apt, but we used to customize windows (95+) and Linux like this (not down to vibe-coded insecure replacement of apps, but display/desktop/widgets/explorer/transparency of components).
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I called it "software". It's so strange to me that since the 1960s with BASIC then later on dozens of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_educational_programmin... including Logo by Feurzeig/Papert/Solomon there is effort to precisely help beginners program software. The effort was not to onboard future professional software developers but rather to make the personal in personal computer, or PC, meaningful. It's YO…
To me this doesn't seem like a step towards those foundations, but another layer of of loss of agency. You can run "a" model locally, but you cannot make it locally (at least not for the purpose of just talking software into existence). You need to slurp up all the internet first, so to speak. And even if you could do that, you still depend on people putting new things onto the internet for you to slurp up. So is it…
Is it "their" software? Sure, if it meets their needs. What if the AI changes? Who cares, I already have the software. All the what ifs are solved by taking the current code, stuffing into into any AI you like today, and getting the new version.
As a user, this all sounds like a great deal. Devs can continue wringing their hands over code quality and long term support and architecture and preferred framework, meanwhile the user who had an itch got it scratched and didn't need nor care about any of those things.
Great job! This is super cool and probably feels incredibly satisfying! I do find it curious how even after replacing all of your software, but are still using Claude Code instead of building your own coding agent.
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To me this doesn't seem like a step towards those foundations, but another layer of of loss of agency. You can run "a" model locally, but you cannot make it locally (at least not for the purpose of just talking software into existence). You need to slurp up all the internet first, so to speak. And even if you could do that, you still depend on people putting new things onto the internet for you to slurp up. So is it…
How does any of that impact a user who just has a specific task they want to accomplish and who doesn't have a CS degree? Is it "their" software? Sure, if it meets their needs. What if the AI changes? Who cares, I already have the software. All the what ifs are solved by taking the current code, stuffing into into any AI you like today, and getting the new version. As a user, this all sounds like a great deal. Devs c…
It's just dismissing the question. If the AI changes, just use one that didn't change. If it gets 1000x more expensive, just use one that remains cheap.
Apart from the fact that without new input to learn from, things will probably stagnate in new exciting ways, on top of the stagnation, bloat and slop we worked so hard to make a culture over the last decades.
> Devs can continue wringing their hands over code quality and long term support and architecture and preferred framework
I mentioned none of those things.
> the user who had an itch got it scratched and didn't need nor care about any of those things.
And I don't care about that user when it comes to the question of my agency and autonomy. It's like people discussing how to make cats do tricks and someone going "just get a dog".
Fe2O3: https://isene.org/fe2o3/
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But doesn't that make it bad? It doesn't say anything new. Unlike the software in question, which is personalized, so it's not even symbolically reflecting the topic. It's a sheer waste of pixels and time spent looking at it or scrolling past the cognitive junk food.
Come on, bro. Why you gotta be like that? I mean, I'm a gwern fan, but...can't you just let people enjoy things?
Just as their words are presumed to be meaningful and worth reading... but slightly less so every day, I fear.