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OpenAI only provided the 70% increase figure. The investors were assuming a $40bn base number, which the media then took to mean the ARR is now 70bn.

Its comically bad how this circus is playing out.

Clear path or no-path to citizenship I guess. The fact that H1B is a dual-intent visa muddies the water and allows employers to string along people for decades.

The US will do anything but have a sane worker visa program, with clear path to citizenship. The lottery system is built to be gamed and so is the performative local "hiring" attempts.

On the flip side it always surprises me how rabid HN can be about throwing out H1B workers. I am sure some of the people who you may have come across were not deserving of it, but a large amount of them work hard to come here and setup roots. Cancelling visas or deporting them will not get American workers their jobs back. Please spare a moment to consider the pain and anguish it brings to families.

> with clear path to citizenship.

Or no path at all. Tying the citizenship carrot to the visa and letting the employers hold the stick is the worst of all possible outcomes.

Its considered a dual-intent visa.

I don't mind the projects. Its the grandiose self-important posting that is insufferable. Not everything you experienced today is an epiphany on productivity or team-building.

Off-topic: That web page looks exactly like my vibe-coded utilities.

This is how I discover China has its own space station.

> When China formally requested to join the ISS program in 2007, Roscosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) supported cooperation with China, but the Wolf Amendment, enacted by the United States since 2011, prohibited Chinese participation. That same year, China launched Tiangong-1, gaining rendezvous and docking experience.

10 years later, they had a fully operation space station. Say what you will, the Chinese are efficient once they set their mind to something.

While I mostly just do AI-assisted coding at work nowadays, after a long time yesterday I did some scripting in a python REPL on a remote server which didn't have any AI tooling. It felt rewarding. I was also surprised my programming muscle memory was still alive and kicking.

Just penalize the labs for rogue AI access of property like you would if a person did it. Make it difficult for them to be cavalier about running experiments.

They moved the goalposts. I think the landscape has changed since their initial Python superset pitch.

It seems like a deliberate pivot towards creating an AI-era language which make GPU programming as easy as writing Python.

I am finding the goal of the project at odds with the anti-local approach in the article.

I understand the point about people not wanting to be sysadmins - but surely hosting your Guardian Angel in a AWS data center has its own risks. Imagine how broken you would feel when us-east-1 goes down again.

> While I have found LLMs useful for researching and planning code changes, my attempts at actually making them write code have been quite lackluster. I found them to be slow and expensive to generate, for a mediocre result.

I think this observation is generally true for the kind of problems the author is working on.

But I would not make the leap to avoid using LLMs for any kind of code writing. LLMs do fantastically well in the 95%+ of the code that engineers spend time on. And for those we should leverage the technology.

It is upto us as engineers to figure out when to stop using LLMs. We are smarter than just dumping logs and half dozen specialized markdown files to a LLM and have it figure out solutions.

I agree with your observation. Although the framing of the question signals some of the response "Do you think.. " forces the model to check for the cost-benefits.

We can definitely mould AI agents to think more critically about these things, I dont know how effective it will be in the long term honestly.

The OS changes all the time, Apple/Google stop supporting an API your app relied on, security vulnerabilities get published, even stupid stuff like timezone changes can break a perfect app in strange ways.