CoolestBeans

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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
So I've been working on a project in Rust because a library that's appropriate for the design has a terrific Rust API and a miserable C API. I've been loosely tracking Rust since before 1.0 and I've never felt it's
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
I think every project should seriously ask itself if it actually needs manual memory management. My hunch is that most people who think they need it, do not. If you really truly do need it, then yes Rust is a great way to get most of the be
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
I don't disagree about the danger. But if it is dangerous, why isn't OpenAI opening dialogues with all the labs and politicians across borders to basically say "we need to stop now"? Cyber models are constrained by the t
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
Trust, or lack thereof. People don't trust OpenAI, a company whose very name is essentially a deception and a lie. People don't trust the tech industry in general anymore. Most tech companies act as a tax on otherwise productive b
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
Also AI models have less intangible subjective qualities that separate each other.
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
This is just a bubble by another name. To use tech as an example, remember that the dot-com bubble was really three crashes: the crash of the dot-com companies in 2000, the telecom crash in 2001, and the media crash in 2002. Of course these
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
Oracle has bet the house on AI. Free cash flow is deeply negative with tons more capex guidance on the books. They are currently the largest non-financial corporate issuer of new debt in the corporate bond market. They are literally cutting
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
Total addressable market doesn't pay interest expenses. Even if this technology really did have the potential to be as revolutionary as the move from the horse to the car, if you can't get there with what the world economy's
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
Certainly, but a flop of $1.5 trillion would create a deep and long trough. I think in that situation OpenAI and Anthropic probably don't survive as independent companies (where is the revenue? who would want to put more money in at th
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
The $1.5 trillion number is extremely relevant because it makes the revenue numbers the industry has to hit higher and there's an expectation to see progress sooner before funding starts getting pulled back.
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
They can and do. Since at least the 10s automakers have been using tricks like pumping the engine sound into the main cabin or using speakers playing an audio file. The speakers usually toggle when the car is in "sports mode" or n
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
Probably both. Having a strong frontier model is necessary not just for the model itself but because it provides a halo effect for your entire line. So if Google could deliver a pro model they would. But I also think Google is targeting the
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
For sure! Why is Google throwing their own language under the bus? They're literally saying in their article Go isn't the easiest language to write but that doesn't matter because its the best for maintaining a project. I a
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
"The death of the American Dream" has been explored ad nauseam throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. It definitely pokes its head out more prominently in times of political and economic upheaval (eg the 60s and 70s, the 00s, now
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
I agree the issue is not the scale but you're missing the reason the scale has allowed to inflate to these proportions is through purchase agreements that are enabled by other purchase agreements. Yes banks, other funders, and even the
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
I love the sleight of hand this blog post tries to pull off here. It doesn't matter than Go isn't fun to write because the AI is doing it now! Yeah so it sucked for the last twenty years? I know the main thesis is that Go is holis
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
It is hard to parse! It talks about some lesson that is out of context and the second sentence makes you do a double take because it's incorrect.
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
I wouldn't go so far to say AI agents encourage waterfall but coding with them has a larger feedback loop than coding by hand.
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
What LLMs and coding agents do is drastically increase the opportunity cost of writing code by hand. But there are downsides to this. The value in a mature codebase is not number of lines of code. If you've worked with one, you know th
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
I actually don't think this article was LLM generated but these two sentences suck. I think they were moved from another part of the article without being modified. First, "the hardest lesson". What lesson? It is out of conte
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
I love typefaces where the italics look very different from the non-italicized font. The combination of that and the brownish red color used for the word " Replicant " does such a great job of leaping out and cutting through. Inci
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
I don't think tech itself is the big employer here in a failure case. Its all the stuff that feeds into the data center build out like construction, electric specialists, all the semiconductor manufacturers, etc. If all those people go
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
The sheer scale of the buildout and debt load requires incredible scrutiny. But there's a few reasons why this isn't the radioactive bomb it might intuitively seem like. One, tech isn't a massive employer. The people being em
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
So long as search revenue isn't correlated to AI revenue or threatened by AI revenue, Google at any point can bail on AI spending and suddenly the free cash flow machine is back on. Yeah they have a far larger debt load they now have t
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
This is a company that's planning on going public soon. Imagine having your eggs in this basket, a basket which is already being zip lined across the Grand Canyon, and they're posting adolescent slam pieces about an ongoing lawsui
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
This is unambiguously illegal in most jurisdictions but if one wanted to stifle the progress of LLMs, one could deploy an AI worm targeting unattended AI agents running at major AI labs (like the one involved with the attack on HuggingFace)
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
The desire to push back into MCP highlights one of the primary tensions with AI agents in my mind. For an AI agent to be useful it needs to have broad access. For an AI agent to be safe it either needs limited access or perfect alignment. A
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
Just going off vibes, I think if Sony could sell a physical media from now until the end of time they would. This is a company that engineered a tiny optical drive and little DVDs encased in cartridges that slot in for their portable game s
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
Was that image of the plucky hacker shooting their shot actually something based in reality or something cooked up to get people interested in founding a company? Look at the inaugural YC class. Do those people today resemble what you'
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by CoolestBeans 2mo ago
The discs have been a formality for longer than most gamers understand or want to admit. Sony is discontinuing disc sales as a response to how gamers are buying games not the other way around. So it's an irrational response but an unde

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