yellowcake0

Enterprise is what determines commoditization as that's where the lion's share of the revenue comes from. Maybe it will eventually happen to MS Office, maybe it won't, but until it happens it hasn't happened. Access to the full MS ecosystem, technical support and seamless integration, these things matter a lot to businesses, and I'm not even saying you're wrong, but I'm not convinced yet that something similar won't play out with coding agents.

LibreOffice didn't replace MS Office, and Octave didn't replace Matlab. It seems to me that there is even less of a moat with these products than there is with Claude Code, yet neither was commoditized.

The economics of bitcoin mining dictate that the work must have no other utility. If you increase its profitability by using it for auxiliary winter heating, then more people will mine bitcoin until there is an oversupply of heating and we return to the current equilibrium amount of "wasted" heat.

I'm not sure OpenAI can realistically afford not to IPO given its spending commitments.

I'm just trying to get an idea of what the operation is such that man - man + man = woman, but it's like pulling teeth.

I think you misinterpreted the tone of my original comment as some sort of gotcha. Presumably you're overloading the addition symbol with some other operational meaning in the context of vector embeddings. I'm just calling it addition because you're using a plus sign and I don't know what else to call it, I wasn't referring to addition as it's commonly understood which is clearly associative.

It's a pretty exotic type of addition that would lead to the second set of examples, just trying to get an idea of its nature.

so addition is not associative?

Isn't returning to an era of chip architecture experimentation exactly what would be required to explore new and better alternatives?

Are you not based in the US or unable to relocate? I understand the tech job market is at a low point right now but there are still enough programming jobs across the entire continental US that you should be able to fill 40 hours a week applying to them + auxiliary tasks such as coordinating interviews, interview prep, working on your resume, etc.

Like others have said you need to switch to employment mode, and finding a job is your full-time job

AI is just a tool to help you do your job, like an IDE, or stackoverflow, why do you have so much antipathy towards it?

apparently Seattleites have more sense

are these Russian bots in the room with us right now

the killing will stop, and Russia gets to keep the eastern oblasts.