ajdegol

A stitch in time saves nine.

There are classes of problems that should be worried about aforehand, just ask the crew of the Titan.

Autonomous super intelligence escaping airgapped computers seems like one of those problems.

Yeah this is why people stopped playing chess once the engines got good enough…

If you’ve been in the software game long enough then you can recount days or weeks tracking down a particularly tricky bug that was resolved by a single line of code.

That’s because software engineering is not about the amount of code you write: it’s about problem solving.

So then logically, either: - there are problems still to solve and you can work to solve them (maybe with AI) - there are no problems. So let’s head to the beach, as there are no problems.

I get a neuronal immune response to bureaucracy

It seems like AGI until it does something that leaves you scratching your head. Getting a simple thing wrong.

Double precision cell chips were reserved for military, I think (or maybe also blade processors). So doing any serious physics on them was dead in the water - same with macs tbh

> doing Typescript type fixes with this model across 50 files cost me $54 this afternoon.

Not trying to be harsh, but that sounds like a skill issue. You have the language server to lean on; easy feedback loop; sub agent per type.

A fascinating insight into the architecture of modern cpus from an entrepreneurial angle. Bravo!

I wonder if we could gamify and democratise it somehow, like fold-at-home and wikipedia...

I've been training a teeny specialised model to run in a browser on a phone to detect harmonium notes played in a song (harmonium turns out is a pita, another story for another day), getting good labelled data is _all_ of the hard work.

That being said, maybe for cheap inference, using a big model to train something ultra-suited for the task at hand might be how we could handle local inference; thinking language specific models.

Before customisations

The price of convenience.

But you forgot about Vickers

Because of AI or because hackers are hyper targeting infra clusters?

I’ve been wondering about potential regression in coding models.

The initial models were corrected by programmers which gave a very high quality feedback signal. Whereas with vibe coding on the rise, you’ll lose that signal.

@grok is this true?