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In practice you will hardly ever notice this. Especially not during normal use. Maybe only during videos.

OLED displays now are tandem OLED displays which stack multiple layers. This means you don't need to exponentially crank up the voltage to provide more brightness which also increases lengivity of the panel (and increases battery life).

In my experience AI widens the gap, not closes it. The best engineers are 10x more productive, the worst engineers maybe 2x.

Asking questions is not the same as doing work.

LLMs need deterministic verification to enable a quick and short feedback loop before they become really powerful. Software is uniquely positioned to provide this feedback loop. Much less in other industries.

Yeah, if you're wandering in random directions all day long (20 PRs a day is rarely working towards a clear goal) then you're not going to get far. Taking some time to figure out where you're headed is probably way more beneficial in the long term. And it's also something LLMs suck at, they interpolate extremely well but haven't got a clue what's next.

Maybe I'm too doomer, but if a large portion of the population becomes economically worthless, how can this not have a destructive effect on society? It would be easier for anyone with power if you wouldn't exist. How would that not lead to corrosion of basic human rights (or worse) and the spawn of a new permanent underclass which you cannot escape from? It sounds very dystopian but if AI is left unchecked this will happen imo.

It's only fair if 99% of revenue flows back to humanity. The models are worthless without its training data.

I think it's unsettling that a bunch of billionaires hold so much power. Does it really matter if 2 or 3 billionaires who are practically neighbors hold so much power? It's extremely concentrated with or without Meta joining the race.

This is nice in theory but in practice impossible.

I don't understand. Code doesn't capture the context in which decisions were taken: why is code the way it is? What is important? What is not? How can agents make correct decisions without knowing context that cannot be inferred from code?

Why are we not curing cancer? We should.

Yeah this is misleading cherrypicking. Also it's super slow. Not impressed with slow efficient chips. Anyone can make a chip efficient by reducing clock frequency and sacrificing performance in the process.

Easy, it's priced much lower in the US on purpose so that reviewers will directly compare it with the Neo to get more favorable reviews, while in fact it should be compared to the Air from a price perspective (and then it will lose on everything big time except the 120Hz display). It's all misleading marketing.

MacBooks simply have the best value proposition. Compared to the competition at similar price point they are much faster, have much better build quality, better displays, better battery life, less fan noise, etc. Also much higher resale value.

You're completely right. Power draw scales non-linearly with clock frequency. Therefore one can easily increase perf/W by lowering the clock frequency, at the expense of performance. This is not new information, this is basic physics. The Apple M-chips were not revolutionary because of their efficiency, but because they were (and still are) efficient AND fast. In fact the fastest consumer chips on the market.

So agreed, this is extremely misleading.