DrewADesign

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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
At some point, the idea of cost/benefit analysis in the software business turned into the benefit analysis. The amount of money going into the frontier LLM model game is fantastically ridiculous. Being much better than the free
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
Yeah the people that say things like this aren’t looking for valuable companies, or to create value, or for sustainability — they’re looking for short-term growth.
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
Ah so it sounds like they might be closer to a regular SaaS.
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
With all the spending and valuations in the AI space being so reasonable and grounded in reality, sure. Huggingface will surely be exactly like GitHub and Instagram with their extremely low and stable per-user overhead, and large, extremely
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
Why I don’t think it’s sustainable to run a compute-intensive business on low monthly plans? If they’re like OpenAI and Anthropic, monthly plan users can spend many times the amount of money in a month than they pay, and unlike regular lowe
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
I’d be curious to see how much that’s subsidized. Maybe they’re different, but when I see ML and monthly plan in the same sentence, I see zero sustainability.
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
Yes, that’s true. Of course, I didn’t put it there, and I don’t know them, so there’s not much I can do about that, right?
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
Sweet, thx.
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
Talking about profit is so passé in the new economic paradigm. The rules have changed— it’s about how much a company is worth. Get with the times. –Some guys in every bubble I’ve witnessed.
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
At least they’re ripe! I hate unripe customers, rife with astringency, sharp vegetal notes, and an unpleasant, unyielding texture.
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
It kind of reminds me of those fake tech ads those guys put up in the NYC subway: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZacltqHMjT/?img_index=8&igsi=bT...
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
If you’re talking about people with the technical sophistication to consider software services based on their technical merits, then sure. Your average user couldn’t even tell you the first thing about which non-content-based criteria might
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
There’s even more variety in industrial flows than software architectures, and some of them are pretty fucking complex, but the steps are usually better defined, the processes more deliberate, and the custody of material and process oversig
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
I don’t blame people for being confused about the term in software — it’s a bit more straightforward in manufacturing, for example. That said, if you look at a system that failed and determine a root cause analysis is pointless, you may hav
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
Not that it looks like a human — that it basically is structured like a human skeletal system. It’s an incredible technical accomplishment.
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
Sorry, your uninformed opinion doesn’t match expertise. Correctness isn’t democratic. Glib bullshit is glib bullshit no matter how vested you are in the ego that it’s stroking.
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
Maybe soon they’ll be effectively disposable enough to start using the naming strategies of Chinese Amazon resellers of generic crap. Like “The mission statement of GLUFDRAWNBY labs is…”
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
>> a humanoid robot that can competently run > A machine is stronger and faster than a human? Shocking. Next we'll learn that cranes can lift heavy loads faster than a human with ropes and pullys. It’s funny how absurdly dismi
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
Being dropped to the bottom of a resume pile in this job market is effectively disqualifying.
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
I think those are more like two facets in the crowd rather than two distinct crowds. Almost all idealist tech industry workers in column A that believe this is the future of the tech business would also fit into column B. Column B folks
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
This isn’t a theoretical or technical problem; in fact, it’s not about the models at all: it’s about the available services getting worse. When they preview a new model and people are benchmarking it, they afford them a shitload of comp
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
People aren’t complaining about the idea of data centers, abstractly. They’re complaining about the actual way they’re being built. To ignore the reality of what living next to GPU data centers is like, and the amount of resources they actu
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
Email was a hit well before the internet existed. The utility was immediately apparent. And while people had lots of concerns about the internet, like misinformation and consumer-level utility, it was never broadly considered to be as d
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
Ok, let’s cherry pick some more societal tech revolutions. People also thought Segways were not the revolution in transportation despite fans and industry proponents saying we’d need to redesign cities to accommodate them. People also tho
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
I'm always surprised at how many people in the tech sector assume overcoming fundamental LLM weaknesses is always “just a matter of time,” and that time will arrive quickly enough to be relevant. If you haven’t seen any of the videos o
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
So if I build a heavily protested foundry that spews carcinogenic lead smoke into a residential neighborhood, it’s not my fault and the operation of my foundry is unimpeachable. It’s the government’s fault for not stopping me from doing
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
Extremely resource-hungry GPU data centers have a much deeper impact on the surrounding area. The only data centers power hungry enough to install local turbines for power before the LLM craze were GPU-based crypto miners, and living next t
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
That’s an awfully persnickety correction attempt for someone that replaced an opening capital letter and period with parentheses. That’s far more grammatically lax than using slang.
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
Come on now let’s be fair. They couldn’t possibly fix all of GitHub‘s bugs and deployment problems while maintaining their breakneck pace of mission critical feature deployments. You know, probably something sexy like replacing Win11’s maxi
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
You’re trying to make conclusions about local situations using federal funding data. No matter how many words you type about it, your approach is fundamentally inadequate and you’re making sweeping generalizations based on it. I’m out. Have

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