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I hope that cat properly grounded itself so as to not cause a static shock on the components.

Should be illegal, but they are doing it legally by exploiting a loophole. Disgusting.

This one projects the image onto a bunch of vibrating rubber bands. I don’t think there’s a long term market for this. It’s a clever idea though that fixes the hazards of a solid diffuser (like those godawful fan-based volumetric displays).

Because it’s a hardware company first? That’s what you get for making a closed ecosystem. If your ecosystem collapses, you have no fallback options.

Like, if their software ran on other devices, they’d have lots of revenue and growth options left.

Agreed. I use it in my daily workflow but you as the senior developer have to understand what can and cannot be delegated, and how to stop it from doing stupid things.

For instance when I work in computer vision or other math-heavy code, it’s basically useless.

Code written by AI is really poorly written. A couple smells I’ve noticed:

• Instead of fixing error cases, it overly relies on try:catch structures, making critical bugs invisible but still present. Dangerous shit.
• It doesn’t reuse code that already exists in the project. You have to do a lot of extra work letting it know that your helper functions or CSS utility classes exist.
• It writes things in a very “brute force” way. If it finds any solution, it charges forward with the implementation even if there is a much simpler way. It never thinks “but is there a better way?”
• Likewise, it rarely uses the actual documentation for your library. It goes entirely off of gut instincts. Half the time if you paste in a documentation page, it finally shapes up and builds the code right. That should be default behavior.
• It has a string tendency to undo manual changes I have made, because it doesn’t know the reasons why I did them.

On the other hand, if you’re in a green field project and need to throw up some simple, dirty CSS/HTML for a quick marketing page, sure, let the AI bang it out. Some projects don’t need to be done well, they just need to be done fast.

And the autocomplete features can be a time saver in some cases regardless.

Ah perfect, that makes a lot more sense to me

Yeah it was a quick google search. Do you have better numbers available?

Even an 80” tv only uses around 150W, if my research is correct. Surely this must be thinking about massive displays.

Well yeah. I think you’re missing the sarcasm train though.

Thanks, Obama.

I disagree. While intellectual property legally exists, ethically there’s no reason to be protective of it.

Information should be a shared resource for everyone, and all these open weights models are a good example of that in action.

Presumably “small business” means self-employed or other employee-owned company. Not the bureaucratic nightmare that most companies are.

This is great stuff. If we can properly understand these “flows” of intelligence, we might be able to write optimized shortcuts for them, vastly improving performance.

Nah I do similar stuff. I think very few people actually trace their own lines of thought, so they probably don’t realize this is how it often works.

As long as open source AI keeps up (it has so far) it’ll enable technocommunism as much as it enables rampant capitalism.

I would agree with that if the cost of the tool was prohibitively expensive for the average person, but it’s really not.

Yes, but when the price is low enough (honestly free in a lot of cases) for a single person to use it, it also makes people less reliant on the services of big corporations.

For example, today’s AI can reliably make decent marketing websites, even when run by nontechnical people. Definitely in the “good enough” zone. So now small businesses don’t have to pay Webflow those crazy rates.

And if you run the AI locally, you can also be free of paying a subscription to a big AI company.

Try comprehending what he wrote instead of spewing insults, it might make you smarter. He’s clearly not an AI bro.

Of course they aren’t, but the cartoonish levels of moustache-twirling villainy described here are unlikely to be real.

They thought it was cool. They knew it would drive usage and make money. They shit on intellectual property. There is no other explanation needed, nor is it sensible.