ashirviskas

> Without hardware documentation, you're looking at decades of reverse engineering effort just to get somewhere half as far as an engineer with hardware documentation can get in a weekend.

I'm not sure this is true anymore and it is becoming less true with each new LLM release.

> No one cares about spending a decade reverse engineering the hardware on a Google Pixel or Samsung Galaxy.

Actually, this might a cool idea - just get a few super cheap smartphones, connect them all to a PC, give LLM access and tell it "make linux gud like android pls" and just give it a weekend.

I'm 30, I am trying to achieve what the other person described. I'm not there yet, but I feel like I might be in 8-36 months timeframe. Ask me then, you'll get at least one more data point that's not just survivorship bias.

I've been doing that since before reasoning was a thing baked into the models, it always performs better this way. Except for some providers/models where you just can't easily turn it off, now I just avoid them. This way I save tokens and have full control of the reasoning.

Thank you for putting this here. While I do believe in climate change, I could not finish reading the article as it seemed like the authors opinions are led more by emotions rather than facts. And gourds.

How many euros or kilograms is it?

Better, take a look around. No random mobile focused redesigns to hit a random KPI.

Text only design also invites to focus on the discussion itself. It also has proper moderation.

> It's almost guaranteed with agents you could do the same job with less than half of 100k lines.

That's great, non-test code is only ~47k lines of code.

Gemini 2.0 Flash: $19

don't forget Gemini 2.0 flash at $0.10/$0.40

What does Malta manufacture?

What region is UK?

That's so interesting. Kind of explains company directions - quality vs quantity.

And what should we do about it? Only allow comments about top X world countries?