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by echelon 4mo ago
NO! This is the wrong approach that will turn us into serfs. We need big honking models that do what the leading foundation hyperscaler models do to within a few percentage points of measured performance. The small-scale models are not prod
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by echelon 4mo ago
We don't need rinky-dink RTX models that budget VRAM. We need large scale open weights models just as capable as what's at the frontier. And we need the ability to rent compute and spin up the weights easily. One-click, easy enoug
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by echelon 4mo ago
The bike meme is unrealistic, and you're dismissing all of my arguments. You're ripping up infrastructure for yuppie pickleball. How do you transmit tons of material on bikes? How do people move in the rain or when they're o
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by echelon 4mo ago
Bikes are not going to deliver your packages and food and medical services. They're not going to take you on vacation, haul your gear, or provide shelter. There's a meme that bikes will solve everything and that cars suck, but it
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by echelon 4mo ago
Cars >>> Bikes + Rail + Pedestrian infrastructure More money flows atop highway and road infrastructure than on biking, rail, and scooter infrastructure. By orders of magnitude. Commuter rail has 1/200th the economic impact of
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by echelon 4mo ago
It's too late. How are you going to mass migrate all of the cold, dark wallets? It's not going to happen because it requires conscious, deliberate, careful migration on the part of the wallet owners. You won't even be able to
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by echelon 4mo ago
You can use AI to eliminate Oracle from your org's dependencies.
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by echelon 4mo ago
Crypto exists to make early crypto holders money. You get in on the speculative promise of making yourself wealthy. It's sold to you by the people at the top, and the message is amplified by the grifters and the pick mes in their orbit
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by echelon 4mo ago
I've just built a $3M run rate company in five months on mostly AI outputs in Rust, which is rock solid code. In my career I've been a six nines systems engineer. Stuff like billion dollar daily volume payments platforms, and my w
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by echelon 4mo ago
Why not have a diverse set of energy inputs so your energy economy isn't fragile? Some black swan event could kill solar. Maybe some mega volcano explodes. It would suck to be 50+% dependent on it in that case. We should have wind, sol
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by echelon 4mo ago
Metaverse is bullshit. Blockchain is bullshit. Crypto is bullshit. VR and wearables are bullshit. AI does your job. Robots do your job. These are real and substantial and actually provide enormous value. You can get more done per unit of ti
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by echelon 4mo ago
> There will never be a point where essentially unlimited usage (i.e. what I, as a normal developer, can use at peak effort) of extremely good models will become financially unattainable. The way you phrase this prevents refutation. But
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by echelon 4mo ago
You will not have a job in software in the future if you refuse to use AI. I fully stand behind that prediction. edit: despite the downvotes, I'll double down: most of today's software jobs will disappear. Your job , if it is i
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by echelon 4mo ago
> This point of view always confuses me, because web developers already need to deal with platform differences. On Mac, I use Firefox and Chrome. However, if I use a Tauri app on Mac, I have to use dated WebKit. It's out of a Tauri
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by echelon 4mo ago
Could you assign certain subject matters a score in the training data, construct a unified token space that contains these rankings, and then mark conversations as "dirty" if they veer into that subject matter?
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by echelon 4mo ago
Are any of your Mac users using an 10-year old WebView? We frequently ran into that. And there's nothing that can be done about it except engineering around it. I also doubt it works well on Linux. The performance of webkitgtk is like
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by echelon 4mo ago
The biggest weakness of a framework like Tauri is the choice to target system webviews instead of bundling a browser runtime. It seems great to be able to cut hundreds of megabytes out of your app installer, but the platform differences win
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by echelon 4mo ago
> I'm happy to see this I see that this provides CEF, Webview and Raw They beat Tauri at their CEF support. Webviews are a mistake in most cases. They're too platform-specific, and certain Webviews (Safari/Webkit) are bugg
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by echelon 4mo ago
The minute an open model breaks through and beats Claude Opus/Fable, it's over. There are far more opportunities that can be served when the world's intellectuals have the raw weights and can fine tune, splice, distill, and r
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by echelon 4mo ago
AI laundering is going to become a major tactic in all domains. Fiction and nonfiction writing, software, video, music, you name it. It's easy to take GPL software and rewrite it in another language without the license. Trivially easy.
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by echelon 4mo ago
Why is SoftBank getting out now when every VC is all about "embodied AI"? Seems like the only companies VCs want to fund now are robotics, energy, and chips. That "software AI" has had its run.
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by echelon 4mo ago
> architecture astronauts Not sure how I haven't heard this one before, but I'm stealing it. Salient descriptor.
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by echelon 4mo ago
All of this goes away if we just do P2P social media. Swarms of content. Cryptographic identities and content signing/attribution. Cryptographic hashes for content uniqueness/immutability. Immutability in general. Ephemerality (co
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by echelon 4mo ago
This is why we need open weights for everything. Nobody will cry when their AI girlfriend model gets revoked. You'll always have the weights. Presumably for the low cost of spinning up an H200 or two you can use the weights forever. No
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by echelon 4mo ago
1. This is bad, if true. 2. In the future, there won't be copyright. Or open source. Or anything "owned". It can all just be copied trivially, and there's literally no stopping it. 3. I don't know how to feel about
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by echelon 4mo ago
I don't use Graphene, but now I'm out of the market for a VW. Vendor lock-in to Play services is ridiculous. A car is a big purchase, and ideally not something I discard after a few years. I'd like it to not treat me like a s
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by echelon 4mo ago
Look at the ChatGPT usage share. It's dropped dramatically in the last year. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/chatgpts-market-share-slip... This is not the winner take all market that OpenAI needs it to
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by echelon 4mo ago
Yeah, but they have no moat. They gave up on video because three separate Chinese companies were kicking their ass (and for cheaper). Google has a better image model in the majority of cases. Much faster, too. Claude Opus and Fable are like
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by echelon 4mo ago
Are we experiencing the same website? I swear, two thirds of the folks here just make comments that dunk on AI. They underestimate it, hate it, hate those that use it, etc. It's the "old angry man yells at cloud" trope. I&#x2
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by echelon 4mo ago
They literally would have kept the entire thing to themselves and never productized it. Think about how much investment capital and human capital OpenAI poured onto this by having their big "hello world" with ChatGPT.

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