numlock86

That was exactly my thought when reading the headline, before even looking into the article. Sure it's still somewhat complex to get to a rocket launch, but without the biters where is the challenge, other than complexity? It's like a big excel sheet with conveyor belts, pipes and electricity poles at that point only.

Reading the comments almost everyone seems not impressed at all and points at obvious errors in the samples. Meanwhile it's been just roughly over 3 years since we've seen an AI generated abomination of Will Smith "eating" (or whatever you want to call that act) spaghetti. Yes, AI gets things wrong. You could say the same about LLMs still making obvious errors here and there. To me, personally, this seems super impressive and it's clearly another leap forward. Not perfect, yes. But an improvement.

> even compared to the synthetic materials we are now capable of creating

Aren't like almost all commercially used diamonds these days synthetic as well? As far as I can tell, other than just for the sake of them being "natural" or for having weird impurities that add color to them (read as: subjectively better to some people), no one wants/needs natural ones anymore.

> Meanwhile the Chinese are going to undercut them every chance they get.

I wish they were, but I always wonder when people chime in with Chinese models what they are actually doing with those. I have an OpenRouter account and give various models a shot every other month, wishing for an alternative, but I always come back to Claude. Even more so since the switch from Opus 5.1 to 5.5. To me, personally, it's unmatched. Like a year ago it was very different, and I would use other models all the time. But honestly at the time they all felt kind of "meh" still. I just hope everyone is at a good baseline in a year from now on, so I actually have a choice. And then, as you stated, things will get interesting.

tl;dr: I agree

The one from Denmark (while not as cool looking, because ... you know, mountains and stuff) had much more appeal, though. Probably because it wasn't 1% blocks and 99% of Claudism rubbed against your face.

> B~ b~ but they would have used LLMs back then if they could, too.

"You're absolutely right."™ But they didn't/couldn't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't own any Garmin stuff, but it's just been yesterday that I overheard someone in the office ranting about them, and how they are making a custom firmware for it with Claude right now. Are they really this bad?

> Why do they keep stressing the "games you already bought!!!" part?

To imply it being somewhat controversial, so people jump in and generate clicks.

He promised FSD and an affordable base model for everyone, for close to a decade at this point. Instead he dropped yet another car that's not legal on most roads and doesn't even solve a problem to begin with. Imagine what great things could have been done with the money and resources that went into this.

The "print on a shirt" example looks so bad that I can't imagine a human looked at this and said "Let's put it on the showcase page!".

The other examples range from mostly good to okay'ish at least.

> "land of the free"

Amazing development from idea, vision and lyrics to the current status quo.

> [...] since Toyota is (was?) arguably one of the staunchest and most stubborn anti-EV manufacturers out there

Wait till you hear about German car manufacturers. It's not even that long ago that e.g. Mercedes said that their target audience doesn't want EVs and they will never (!) give in to that market. Now look at them. All of them.

Excuse my wrong phrasing. I meant things like this were unthinkable to be done with LLMs at the time, not LLMs in general.

Marketing or not, this is an interesting development. Two years ago (or even one) things like this were unthinkable to be done with LLMs.

But I agree, there are just too many headlines like this lately, and I am growing tired of them, too. On the other hand that's just what's going on right now: LLMs are advancing, and they are advancing fast. The first real AI use-cases started popping up around 2015 when hardware was potent enough to do more than just the generic "classify this hand-written number", and we are just above a decade later now, with LLMs being even more recent than that. Things like this will keep popping up and be even more prominent once someone comes up with whatever comes after "just LLMs".

> I did it once manually over a couple of days. I suppose I hoped enduring the pain of waiting for the packages to compile would somehow make me smarter. It didn’t. I didn’t learn much.

Exactly my experience. Back in the day when all I knew was Windows and a couple of BSDs I wanted to get into Linux, because it seemed like it was going to become very relevant in the next decades. After years of slacking I thought LFS would probably be the ideal choice. Turned out it wasn't, at least for me. I ended up "learning Linux" with distros like Gentoo, Arch and later even Ubuntu, and by just replacing my production systems with Linux, which were still running on OpenBSD mostly. I have revisited LFS a couple of years ago and honestly didn't take much from it. I get the appeal, but it's not for everyone.