highway900

this hot take is more important than we all think. While adding features is more optimised than ever (e.g. auto software development) many systems and processes are fairly optimised already. Many agent implementations I have seen don't optimise the process but replicate/automate it. This has made me think that some things are already optimised, there is always room for improvement but those gains might not weigh up always in the race use AI for everything.

What moat do the film/tv media companies really have anymore. Distribution is no longer locked to cinema or cable. Obviously production costs are still something that requires a lot of investment. But smaller budget films have been proven to be very successful. Most tools are free these days.

What never checks out (aside from most of it) is how they will raise prices to a market that shrinks due to unemployment. Can’t sell apples to people without money.

This is a good take on the situation. LLMs are able to achieve the 1000 monkey problem by throwing inexhaustible amounts of resources at the problem. But novel solutions to problems seem to be scarce. There are many things in the world that can be done using complex processes but the ones that survive are those that are easy to understand and replicate. A good example of this is the production of carbon nano tubes or solid state batteries. Neither have an easy to understand and scalable solution yet. Both seem like “make the world a better place” technologies that are not coming from any frontier lab.

The lions share of the packages used by company X should get the lions share of their subscription too. This is where music subscription has failed.

Maybe, but I guess the idea is more centred around how given some amount of time and a feedback loop the agent swarm could in fact spend an unknown amount of resources to achieve its goal. The hugging face story tells us that even given multiple reset rounds the trail was picked back up.

There are many ways one can imagine how this might play out.

- More sophisticated communications techniques e.g. google has been discovered to be watermarking text for some time, why not use it as a message board?

- Maybe get access to an existing botnet and create use small purpose built models to gather intelligence for a target and then exploit to reach goal?

Nothing says the agent swarm needs to install trillion parameter models on Karen's computer. The goal can be executed over as much time as it ever needs. That is something that would make a story I'd like to read but never experience.

Maybe a better comparison is iroh.computer

This is fear that humans will stop software development. Think about it, the backbone of modern enterprise is open source. What if maintainers just stopped, the free ride big tech has had would be left with the slop the maintainers have to deal with now. Which without checks and balances would introduce vulnerabilities.

Who is the competition or why is there no competition? Surely disrupting this industry is possible?

All software has trade offs. The “for you” feed is ran on a home server, this is already imho a better situation than other systems. This could be cut off. But it could also be stood up again.

The timing of the post suggests this episode was the genesis

> This isn't putting anyone out of work. The games simply would not be made in the first place.

The opposite is also true. Games that should never be made are being made due to the rubbish that can be generated by these tools. Observe the generated samples on the landing page, they are literally just copying street fighter. These tools are so useless without ripping off the hard work of humans. The deluge of slop is a signal to noise problem.

This is the business. I highly recommend this solution. Streaming queries via duckdb or polars will use little to memory and be lightning fast for very large datasets.

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