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This is the only reason that makes sense to me. Thank you

No thank you. Good luck out there.

I'm not sure if I would put it exactly like that, but yeah, I am referring to Wine/Proton.

Also, see pjmlp's comments. Everything he said is spot on.

Gabe Newell put an end to that

Wrong

That's a bad analogy

Whisper large-v3-turbo is still the SOTA non-cloud model? Damn. I'm wanting to move away from it to something smaller/better but based on this comment it seems like I made the right move by sticking with whiser.cpp this whole time. It's been 2 years since large-v3-turbo was released...

I don't know man. Being able to reason about DS&A was pretty useful before the advent of ML Code Generation. If only to pass the interviews at Google/Facebook (when they were in their prime circa 2004-2016).

Also, didn't the parent comment say he went back to college?

I suppose he was right, just ~20 years too early...

They used to be able to. I don't think they can anymore. The iPhone 6 was 3 years after Jobs died. Apple's corporate/engineering culture has had 12 additional years to rot since then. If the Scott Forstall situation, Chris Lattner situation, etc, tells you anything, it's that Apple cannot make basic, common-sense tradeoffs anymore. All they can do is copy whatever the wider industry is doing.

All of the excuses people are coming up with in these comments are just that: excuses. Look at the sibling comment by musictubes, for example. Citing these ethereal "critics" and "most people" when in reality Walt Mossberg was the only critic whose opinion mattered.

Occam's Razor: The Innovator's Dilemma. It's a rotting, bloated megacorp with too much to lose, that doesn't take risks, and can't change direction. The direction it's in is "bigger phones", for whatever reason. So we're gonna keep getting bigger phones. It's that simple.

The reason they keep getting bigger is because Apple is rotting. When a tech company rots, it gets bloated. That bloat seeps into the products.

I just don't think he realizes how saturated it got over the years. Or maybe he knows at a conscious level, but not subconsciously.

In 2000 (his era), it would have been really smart to study the source of Linux or Apache. Would have paid dividends over decades. Cuz that knowledge was so rare. The number of people hacking on LLMs now dwarfs the number of people hacking on web servers 30 years ago, by several orders of magnitude.

And if you turn back the clock even more, I mean just even having access to a computer, let alone owning one, would have put you at a massive advantage.

I don't know what to call it. The pioneers should be respected obviously, but at the same time you need to understand that for them, the game wasn't nearly as played out as it is now.

I just don't think you can afford to be dicking around with LLMs like you could afford to dick around with random Linux distros 20 years ago. Too many people willing to do it for free these days.

You don't wanna end up being the 2030 equivalent of a certain SNES emulator developer, or maintainer of a package manager for jailbroken iPhones, I mean the list goes on and on. Being a hacker doesn't automatically give you a path to being rich, or even making a decent living. It hasn't been that way for a while.

Mhmm... clearly that is not the right tool for the job!