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Trying to figure it out

https://cbk.ai

https://chatbotkit.com

https://pdp.im

https://github.com/pdparchitect

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Comment · 7 days ago
Recently I decided to create my own VM manager for Mac (think of VMWare / Parallels). It now supports containers, Linux, Mac and Windows vm and local mac accounts. It has support for GPU acceleration too and it is agentic.

I would like to think that I could have done it without AI if I had the time and energy to do it.

I wouldn't have attempted to do this project without AI!

Comment · 7 days ago
3 years ago the best model was GPT-3.5 Turbo with 16,385 tokens context window.
Comment · 7 days ago
This is not a good metric IMHO. I would expect new projects to have bigger changes initially as they try to find a suitable architecture. That is not slop. This is no different than rewriting a project 2-3 times pre-AI to find out what sticks and how to organise it better.
Comment · 7 days ago
All interesting projects that I have seen in recent times are all done with AI.
Comment · 7 days ago
The latest frontier models no longer produce slop. The code is pretty good in general - better in fact in many situations compared what a human might have produced with limited time, resources and experience.

The argument against AI-assisted programming just doesn't hold anymore.

Comment · 11 days ago
Someone asked me this morning if I consider Muse a privacy risk. Lol. I do.

But to be honest this is all temporary. Muse, Grok, Dots will have users for the foreseeable future but there will be viable options for self-hosting too.

I am already doing it https://github.com/pdparchitect/noodle/

The Hub powers the entire family inference needs through a single device - 4 users - 8 device about 50 agents - mixture of local models and some subscriptions.

Obviously you cannot get frontier level of intelligence for coding tasks on a single Mac Mini/Studio but most people don't need that. Latest generation of open weight models are fine and in the worst case scenario bring your own regional cloud based inference services that value privacy. There are already plenty of companies in UK and Europe that provide serverless access to GLM, DeepSeek etc.

Comment · 13 days ago
I will get downvoted for this comment on this forum but I will call it out.

You wont be able to review or understand code for much longer.

There will be just too much of it. The vastness of code libraries in 5 years are hard to imagine by today's standards.

We need to develop tools that help us understand.

Comment · 16 days ago
I am super excited about this.

While right now Mac Studio is not a budget device and it certainly costs more than the subsidised subscription, the promise that one day we can run these models on commodity hardware is exciting.

Comment · 25 days ago
Comment · 28 days ago
I don't understand why you would want to remove well-balanced and relatively small local-inference models that ship with every mac.

Sure, not frontier levels but fine for basic tasks and they are off-the-cloud.

Comment · 1 month ago
I did not make this but I am using it ... and so far happy user. I think Pi is supported.

https://github.com/hardbeat920/monocode

But yes, the TUIs are supposed to be lightweight yet it is overall a horrible experience.

Comment · 1 month ago
I don't really think there is much future for TypeSafe but I wish them well. In fact, I like them.

Jev is just a reminder that you can use more "traditional" forms of AI (that are not LLMs) and still get remarkable results.

We tend to forget that.

That was a surprise and that is why it went viral.

Comment · 1 month ago
It will be nice if it had persistent URLs and and SDK for desktop applications. It could solve a lot of small issues for a project I am currently busy with.
Comment · 1 month ago
AI needs tools as much as humans do.
Comment · 1 month ago
It will be solved when there is no more code left to write.

Code is an abstract concept that is not bound to the physical world and I imagine that future will have some much more of it that it is difficult to comprehend. Everything will be code and more code will be written than ever before.

Code will never going to be solved. The question is how much humans will be involved and I think the evidence is that perhaps just a bit. However, because we are talking about vast libraries of code even if we are involved in under 1% of all code and decision making that is needed around the code, there are still not enough developers out there to take on the task.

I might be wrong :)

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