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Comment · 3 months ago
What are you doing if you might share ? Edit: 10x sounds like a lot so I wonder which work you do to achieve such a multiple with a simple 40€ subscription.
Comment · 3 months ago
Don't want to be rude but thats the last-resort-argument people make when defending LLMs. Its always about wrong utilization or the wrong test. If LLMs are so capable and so useful where is the "AI" fueled, real economic growth ? Why is Software still not dead cheap ? I really see how useful LLMs are especially for search. Its amazing and I use it every day. Also sometimes it can generate decent code. But this is still only a marginal improvement of productivity which leads to the big question I have: Why is it so hard to see the value created by LLMs if they are really the innovation they are promised to be ? Imo it should be trivial to see the benefit of such an innovation, kind of like it was with the wheel or the computer. For AI this is still a big ongoing discussion with not much to show. What am I missing ?
Comment · 3 months ago
You just have to reinstall you apps using Google Play Store and install Google Play Services
Comment · 3 months ago
I doubt that however an app solves this problem without FCM or Unified Push can be called power efficient.
Comment · 3 months ago
If the critique itself turns out to be wrong. Using LLMs does not equal endorsement nor does it make valid points to critizise disappear. "using LLMs" has no clear definition and can still be in line with the critique.
Comment · 3 months ago
> There is barely anything more rewarding than teaching someone something, to watch the other person grow

I think many junior devs (or aspiring junior devs) look for exactly this experience. This is a matching problem we haven't solved yet. Is Open Source the solution ? I really think it has to be solved if we want truely reliable software in the future.

Comment · 3 months ago
Yeah it should be common sense at this point that this is a stupid idea.
Comment · 4 months ago
This is true in Software Development too and why I believe SDD is not going to survive.
Comment · 4 months ago
But Anthropic would be profitable if they stop training cries

No seriously, I recently heart someone say that and it may even be correct. However I assume this only to be correct if a stop in training doesn't change the current revenue environment - which it absolutely would. I am still convinced a lot of demand for tokens is artificial in the sense that people buy tokens because thats what you do right now (and its convenient) not because the roi is so great.

Comment · 6 months ago
I love the idea! It's so good to see people advancing the european tech landscape. Just out of curiosity: Are there more reasons for building Uruky than Kagi being located in the US and closed source ?
Comment · 7 months ago
But are we really still learning ? I feel like we already converge to a set of use cases. Also I am always wondering if LLMs are what they promise to be, why is it so difficult to find sources of real (measurable) value ? Wouldn't a disillusion of those overpromises trigger a reduction in demand ?
Comment · 7 months ago
Okay lets suppose all those companies are profitable if training would stop today. What if token demand is shrinking ? I think big parts of the current demand is artificially build by e.g. FOMO and marketing without real value generated by them. There is no indication in economic data about some productivity boom resulting from AI usage. Next thing is Energy costs - that will soon eat into profitability too. I don't see how this bubble can't burst.
Comment · 7 months ago
Problem is LLMs still produce very often code that disappoints. This ereases trust in it for me and makes me always regret the decision to try it yet again. In order to cope with that I try to read and understand the code to verify. But then there is no "scaling of value produced" because its not really faster than doing it all by myself - is this a me problem ? LLMs are no doubt great for searching, generating ideas etc. but programming...?
Comment · 9 months ago
Oh yes I see that. I got my first ThinkPad last year and the only one that wasn't loaded with "AI" nonsense was a P1. Despite the enormous size and weight it's a similar experience than old ones gave me when I tried them. I guess thats the option for me as long as possible. At some point we have to switch to something newer anyway...

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