Well, what is sign language for clitoris?

Too many people believe they are AI is capable hands.

Half a century of companies suing each other over code licenses suggests otherwise

I trust deepseek because I can run it fully offline on my own machine

Skinny jeans are uncfomy and hard to move in. I always wear baggy jeans anyway.

Ollama, openwebui, running the ~20GB Qwen models on a 3090

So much important government computing happens on Linux. Almost every server and supercomputer is on some form of Linux.

A little bit of airflow can make a huge difference. If it works it works. I think the doubters have just never experimented.

You don’t need to check that the machine code your compiler made matched the code you wrote. You don’t need to check that the commit message an editor sent matched what you typed.

You absolutely do need to check and correct everything that comes out of AI because it’s at best like 80% correct, and that’s if the subject matter is easy.

People said this a year ago and I tested it then and it wasn’t great. I’ll believe it’s better but it’s hard to believe it’s “fixed”. I’m sure I’ll get a chance to try it again sometime. No way I’m paying for it myself lol.

Beggars can’t be choosers my dude. People giving away their hobby projects for free don’t owe you anything.

GitHub is designed for sharing code. Executable downloads are not really supposed to be there, but small projects with no budget won’t put in the effort and money to host their own downloads on a separate website.

Perhaps, but it’s well before recorded history, and seems unlikely it would be the source of the British using lion symbolism

Cave lions became extinct about 13,000 years ago as part of the end-Pleistocene extinction event

Is it really feasible to run it 100% locally? I know there’s plenty of people with very powerful rigs indeed, but still.

There are small models you can run 100% locally on a mediocre computer or even a phone, and I mean you could be 100% offline and it will still work.

The better local models require a higher end gaming GPU or an ARM Mac with a decent amount of RAM, but nothing too extreme. You could get a computer to run them for about $2000 to $3000.

the software doesn’t come from nowhere and ultimately still relies on gas-turbine-powered datacenters and stolen IP and stolen personal data, no?

The small local models typically start with a full infustrial-size model and then they “distill” it to smaller models. The concerns over training data are still valid. I’m not sure how much the concerns over power usage are about training vs running the full industrial size models commercially. Running a small local model uses a tiny fraction of the power it takes to run an industrial size model, and the training is a one-time cost (except these companies never stop training because they want to make next year’s model better and faster).

I do think it’s worth pointing out that running a model locally keeps your conversations with it private. Remember, it can be done 100% offline. So your data won’t be stolen.

installing an app Apple hasn’t signed requires the command line, for example

It doesn’t, but it does make a scary popup, and requires the user to know to go to settings to find the section to override that popup.

It’s something to hassle with on Windows too. Less so on macOS because it’s easier for them to optimize everything when they control the whole software and hardware stack.

Yeah its definitely useful for topics you personally don’t have much experience in. It’s much less useful when trying to use it for topics you personally are an expert in.

I am bad at remembering names. Remembering a set of pronouns is at least as hard as remembering a name. Pronouns help when I can’t remember names. Having to remember custom pronouns defeats the purpose of pronouns.

All that being said, I’ve never met someone IRL who hasn’t picked one of the three most common pronouns sets (he, her, or they), so I see this as largely hypothetical. The internet does tend to be a space for people to test their more extreme beliefs.

This is basically the same as asking someone who knows a bit about everything to recite obscure information from memory. I doubt most humans would do better.

Sure, but a good web resource or even a good reference book would provide better help faster. Unfortunately it’s getting harder to harder to find those good web resources as search results get overtaken by AI slop.

iterate until the result is correct, then give me a one-page document explaining what I need to know, with cited evidence — far faster than I’d do it

I have gotten it to do this in certain situations, like the other day I wanted to simplify a math formula, so I gave it a loop with a Python script that checked its solution against the original reference version. This worked pretty well.

But I had to write code specifically for that situation. Even with a good skeleton to start with, it’s a non-negligible amount of work to get that set up. I feel like the scenario in which this is useful is kinda narrow: when I have a very good idea of exactly what I want, but some step along the way is a hassle. General software engineering, like making a whole app, is far too open ended, and most of the sub-problems I encounter in software engineering seem either too open ended or too small to benefit from this approach.

That also doesn’t account for the speed of models. My experience is a ~20GB locally hosted model takes like 1-5 minutes to produce a good length response, and the few times I have used online models they are often slower. A few minutes per iteration, accounting for debugging when it goes off track, is not exactly fast or hassle free.

I just feel like the trade off where using AI vs doing it all myself is pretty limited in when AI offers an advantage.