unlikelytomato

this is not my experience, in oct2026. Claude does for me what I ask better than any human I've delegated to in my career

I've recently talked about how it makes almost zero sense to ever delegate anything again at work. 3-6 months ago, that was not a thing. 12 months ago, that would have gotten me laughed out of the room. Wherever we are headed, we are not even close to the steady state

my understanding is the vision component of the original model is an independent preprocessing step(except for things like Gemma 12b). And it would be possible for engine to have broken that phase of translation before it hits the real model as encoded text. I am not familiar with Strata engine and their claims, but this seems like an interesting way to test models with relatively straightforward inputs.

at least for vision? Are there similar comparisons for language? It seems like vision is often an afterthought when it comes to bootstrapping these newer inference engines

the code seems to fill this need, for me

It's about multitasking. RAM is the upgrade trigger for me. I'm so exhausted by developer introduced bloat in software such that almost every app fully reloads when switching. Devs ruin multitasking every few years until another RAM upgrade.

That is not my memory at all. I remember him saying to not do all of the things but just do some of them & we will all be much better off.

For desktop and server, sure. MacBook is superior for everything that matters in a laptop. The touchpad alone is a dream. compare that to constant pain for the thousands of hours I will use the device over it's lifetime.

and yet, the collective industry has still continued to expand for decades because people overwhelmingly cannot consistently do these tasks without their code collapsing on itself.

imagine if people regularly had tires fall off on their way home from the mechanic. or regularly having to get bones rebroken to set them correctly.

I can agree that much of the work is not true "engineering" but most of what I've seen produced over the years is closer to fraud than anything else.

Good engineers would communicate effectively of something is impacting the product. Good product understands how to judge that impact and prioritize it. Frankly, if the engineers are making enough tech debt that they don't want to play in their own sandbox as part of regular practice, maybe they should walk.

Perhaps those “good engineers” need a reminder of who enables their situation to exist at all.

Family and neighbors shared Costco memberships when I was growing up. It's still accessible today to anyone who wants it

I very much miss the ability to never use my phone on a charging cable. Just swap the battery on an external charger and go. 5 seconds to charge to full. It was freeing and simple

as a local LLM novice, do you have any recommended reading to bootstrap me on selecting hardware? It has been quite confusing bring a latecomer to this game. Googling yields me a lot of outdated info.

This is why I'm confused when people say it isn't ready to replace most of the programmer workforce.