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At the end of the day, if their profit margins aren’t good, it doesn’t matter whether their competition is open source or not (which is often where OSS wins). I

At the end of the day, if their profit margins aren’t good, it doesn’t matter whether their competition is open source or not (which is often where OSS wins). I think we are seeing that AI isn’t the slam dunk for increasing productivity or we would see companies like UIPath being profitable. I don’t think we’ve seen anyone net a profit on AI software and the only company that has been investing since at least 2017, Apple, gets zero credit for their contributions and commercialization of the tech. I think about how Amazon abandoned the AI-powered, checkout-free tech because the margin of error stayed stubbornly high for too long. The clock is ticking on the industry and some players, like Apple, already have found it isn’t profitable (well to their standards of 60% return on investment).

kolinko 3y ago
Depends on a field. The project from the thread would take me an impossible amount of time without GPT. Even the page itself would take me twice as long to generate - the charts were done by pasting source data to GPT and GPT writing plotlib code for me to chart them, and the equations were originally written by GPT as well, because I wasn't familiar with MathJAX. Ditto with the code - a bunch of it was written by GPT originally, since this is my first Swift/Metal project. I kept telling it what I want to do in Python, and it kept rewriting it in Swift/Metal until I learned the latter. The name "effort" was also invented by GPT. Originally, internally, I was using "quant" but that would be confused with quantization. I considered "perc" from percentage - but that's ugly. I described the project to GPT, and it suggested "effort" as a metric. As for self-checkout - in Poland we have Żabka Nano which is still going on, and seems more solid than Amazon, but of course the time will tell :)

kolinko 3y ago

Depends on a field. The project from the thread would take me an impossible amount of time without GPT. Even the page itself would take me twice as long to generate - the charts were done by pasting source data to GPT and GPT writing plotlib code for me to chart them, and the equations were originally written by GPT as well, because I wasn't familiar with MathJAX. Ditto with the code - a bunch of it was written by GPT originally, since this is my first Swift/Metal project. I kept telling it what I want to do in Python, and it kept rewriting it in Swift/Metal until I learned the latter. The name "effort" was also invented by GPT. Originally, internally, I was using "quant" but that would be confused with quantization. I considered "perc" from percentage - but that's ugly. I described the project to GPT, and it suggested "effort" as a metric. As for self-checkout - in Poland we have Żabka Nano which is still going on, and seems more solid than Amazon, but of course the time will tell :)