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Comment · 2 days ago
So what you're telling me is that Apple is willing to put multiple generations of devices out to pasture because in the future they intend fix it with a new platform. That does not inspire confidence that they now care about thermals, the opposite actually. What you're saying is that they again might have slipped up and we need to wait for the next redesign for it to improve.
Comment · 2 days ago
Yes, but there was ample time for Apple to re-design the thermal system of their macbooks. Instead they kept releasing extremely thermally limited devices year after year.
Comment · 3 days ago
That would be excusable for a generation of macbooks. Not over multiple generations.
Comment · 3 days ago
I hope so. I just see Apple going down the same dark path they used to before the M series laptops.
Comment · 3 days ago
TBH this is one of the things that will be a clear downgrade imo. Weight reductions and thinness are not free. The Pro and Max chip version are already over powered for the cooling system the current macbook pros have. And now they are further cutting into the laptop...
Comment · 3 days ago
Very worried to see it's 1mm thinner. The existing macbook pro was already struggling way too much with heat. And now they shave off 1mm.
Comment · 5 days ago
Calling it something extremely negative like a cattle pen makes clear that you aren't even open to consider anything but the negatives.
Comment · 6 days ago
You can do that? You have a million people ready to go? Whereas a singular person on a rich country salary can actually go out and start vast amounts of agents. I'm honestly perplexed by your argument. Most people would struggle to find even 5 people who will join them on a journey to build something that takes a long time. And you are just casually throwing out there "Well someone can just gather a million people".
Comment · 6 days ago
Well not really. The point is "There are some things that are sped up by a very large factor, easily over 1000000x.", this is obviously referring to wall clock time. Not "agent time".

Yes companies/large groups of humans are sometimes also a lot faster at doing some things than a singular person. I'm not sure why that matters or what your point with that is.

Comment · 6 days ago
I don't think you are supposed to multiple the number of agents with the time. After all a single human can run arbitrary number of agents. Still 1000000x speedup is a few order of magnitude too many imo.
Comment · 7 days ago
That's moving the goal post. I was responding to this line in your comment:

> so turning over control to AI companies where no human ever sees the patient is a no brainer

Using an open weight model turns no control over to an AI company, even if that model was created by some AI company.

Comment · 7 days ago
I'm not sure what AI companies have to do with it. Open weight models are available and work great, literally today kimi K3.1 pro was announced and goes toe to toe with closed models. You are tying AI usage to bigAI and that is unfounded.
Comment · 8 days ago
I think it won't happen because people just care to much for performance. You already see this now. You see a ton of rewrites moving to rust even from higher level languages.
Comment · 11 days ago
People are really not as black and white as you are making them out to be. Most coders cared both about writing the code and the end result.
Comment · 12 days ago
Of course, and then AI will give you generic canned things to build. It cannot (yet) read minds. I don't understand what you wanted to make clear to me with this.

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