Oh definitely. The whole “reasoning” thing was just sending the answer back as a prompt a few times in different structures, and it was of course all billed

The stance is that chatbota aren’t essential to the economy the way smartphones or computers are.

When you send a message to a chatbot, it cuts it up to little pieces made up of a few letters, assigns numbers to them, does math, and gives you back a bunch of other numbers that it translates back to pieces and puts together into a sentence.

You pay for the chatbot by the amount of little pieces in and little pieces out. The little pieces are the tokens.

You can run Claude Sonnet equivalent quantised models locally on much less RAM.

Local LLMs are close to being viable. We’re almost at the point where they fit a Macbook.

600k is not a lot of money for a software team or for AI though.

I guess it makes coreutils vulnerable to EEE. Corps with significant stakes in Linux would be able to extend the API with proprietary functions, build ecosystems on top of that, and lock out independent development.

Imagine being unable to distribute a Linux based OS that is compatible with most of the world without proprietary age verification built in for example.

They ship with proprietary code, this would be the point of open source.

In practice in my experience, every company is at least skirting the law regarding privacy, and I never worked for one big enough that could lobby itself out of a fine.

There might.be a little of that going around as well, but the datacenters haven’t actually been built even close to the scale claimed, and the racks in there are kinda useless at serving SaaS webpage stuff, too many GPUs to make it make sense financially.

They fly small planes, in a lot of cases they fly themselves.

I mean there is the CLOUD act.

I tried this thing called PINCE, it worked dead simple for memory editing. IIRC it now has the speedup too

My bank lets me set up a kid debit card, I can see and approve purchases and set limits.

Also, IMO kids should either ask their parents to buy a game for them, or be old enough to have their own bank account.

Giving your kid a credit card is how they end up with a gambling addiction because AAA is an unsanctioned casino.

Are not all ORMs like that? I only used ActiveRecord before fucking off from backend 10 years ago

Plus is the two lines together, minus is the distance/difference in my head at least

Job creation at its finest

I actually did an experiment on doing just that. For context, I’m an experienced software engineer, whose company buys him a tom of Claude usage so I had time to test out what it can actually do and I feel like I’m capable of judging where it’s good and where it falls short at.

How Claude Code works is that there are actually multiple models involved, one for doign the coding, one “reasoning” model to keep the chain of thought and the context going, and a bunch of small specialized ones for odd jobs around the thing.

The thing that doesn’t work yet is that the big reasoning model has to still be big, otherwise it will hallucinate frequently enough to break the workflow. If you could get one of the big models to run locally, you’d be there. However, with recent advances in quantization and MoE models, it’s actually getting nearer fast enough that I would expect it to be generally available in a year or two.

Today the best I could do was a tool that could take 150 gigs of RAM, 24 gigs of VRAM and AMD’s top of the line card to take 30 minutes what takes Claude Code 1-2. But surprisingly, the output of the model was not bad at all.

Standard TLS, I think, but what else would you need?

They can ban payments from the EU to Pornhub

Not the entire supply, just enough to affect prices. Basically the stock market but without even the appearance of it not being manipulated to hell.

And it’s not Russia, or not just them, anyone with enough money to play can fuck people with sub-8 figure net worths over.

But that increases the money supply. This way they can take money from other people. For example Russia can get USD without printing and inflating RUB.