This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Being in an economic bubble during the age of (over)information is really weird. We're getting two articles per day confirming that we're in a big ass bubble but it just keeps on going. I preferred not really knowing how bad things are.
Everybody knew dot-coms in 2000 and houses in 2007 were bubbles, too. But they kept investing anyway, because they didn't know when it would pop and FOMO is a helluva drug.
Also, something to keep in mind: https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market-timer/
prepare for the burst so you can jump in and get the deals of a lifetime
With what fucking capital, bro. We've been squeezed already.
my wife and I didn't have but a couple grand saved up, in 2011 we bought our first house at the beginning of the end of the 2008 bubble. We got a house that was extremely cheap compared to the value
when the opportunity comes, make sure to take it
Let's pool together and buy shares for a hundred bucks.
I've got a fiver to throw in!!
Its this kind of thinking that keeps the market irrational for longer than it should be.
Yep. We’ve been waiting on a big crash for three years now.
Or to put it another way, AI is making it faster and easier to do the wrong thing in the wrong way at scale.
I also wonder what the plan is when the token cost starts going upward. The bill for all this venture capital will come due eventually and someone has to pay for it.
Or to put it another way, AI is making it faster and easier to do the wrong thing in the wrong way at scale.
…and absolve the operator of any responsibility, apparently.
Oh, that was the AI doing something wrong. shrugs and just keeps doing what they’re doing.
“Oh that was the hammer that hit you in the noggin, not me. Why yes, I did pay for that hammer, and I did hold it, and I did swing it in your direction, but it’s totes not my fault.”
AI works great. I work in the sphere of production defect detection in manufacturing and it's been working pretty well for a decade or more to predict machine failures and spot defective materials or products.
LLMs as business digital yes man is what doesn't work.
Yeah, unfortunately the marketing people have made the LLM synonymous to AI. It's a damn shame.
LLMs have a use case, it's just really limited and the vast majority of what companies, and people broadly, use it for is either not the best case for it or not even something it can/should do.
If you know how to use them they can save time. You still need to validate everything it gives you, but as a developer I can use one to generate small code snippets or give it documentation and ask questions as a quick reference.
But these are not automation tools. They are not worker replacements. and they aren't replacements for research even if they can get you started on research..
LLMs, and neural nets in general, can never be AGI no matter how much companies wish it could be.
It’s 3.7x more lines of code that performs 2,000 times worse than the actual SQLite.
Pretty much my experience with LLM coding agents. They'll write a bunch of stuff, and come with all kinds of arguments about why what they're doing is in fact optimal and perfect. If you know what you're doing, you'll quickly find a bunch of over-complicating things and just plain pitfalls. I've never been able to understand the people that claim LLMs can build entire projects (the people that say stuff like "I never write my own code anymore"), since I've always found it to be pretty trash at anything beyond trivial tasks.
Of course, it makes sense that it'll elaborate endlessly about how perfect its solution is, because it's a glorified auto-complete, and there's plenty of training data with people explaining why "solution X is better".
I saw a vibe coded PR the other day. So much redundant code, lots of comments making assumptions and questions. It’s a mess.
Glad it didn’t land in my lap but the person who is now responsible for steering that up is already quite busy and wasting their time with this feels shit.
One of the worst things about this is that the person vibe coding just ends up shitting on the reviewers time. Like... you couldn't even bother to write a real PR, and now you want me to spend time filtering your shit? Fuck off.
I tried using an LLM for making an 3d object in openscad, an open source CAD app for making 3d printable objects
its basic and uses an open source language. The LLM should have infinate examples and access
but after 4 tries I gave up and just did it myself, sure the crap the LLM gave me helped form a general setup but I had to spend 2x as much time fixing the code then it did writing it from scratch
I haven't tried using LLM for anything else, that failure told me everything I needed to know about its ability to do basic shit
This. If users are spending so much time explaining in detail to an llm what they want the output to do, theyre better off doing it themselves. Code snippets were already solved with search.
I have never heard of any generative AI system capable of doing anything useful with 3D models. If you ever find one, PM me to let me know!
This article says that the AI-coded Rust rewrite of SQLite ran 2,000 times slower, but the linked source article says it ran more than 20,000 times slower. Muddling up 2,000 and 20,000 seems a bit sloppy for journalism about code performance.
Maybe they were using AI to write it.
it was actually 200,000 times slower!
The article cited by The Register cites this more detailed analysis in turn: https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code
Performance of the AI-generated version was 20,000 times slower on one specific benchmark, but "only" about 2,000 times slower when averaging over multiple different benchmarks (which is, imo, a better measurement of the code's quality).
So I suppose The Register pulled from multiple sources (as you should) and just linked to the most top-level of all of them.
Thanks for that link. It has a lot more detail.
Companies and governments told us that an energy transition is "too costly" or "too disruptive to society" but when it comes to AI disrupting and even ending people's lives...
They just say, "deal with it."
Ai is currently a glorified search engine. But expensive.
Yeah. I use it at work as a glorified search engine of all company wikis and docs and tickets. It’ll work basically just as a search or it can also summarize - not terribly.
Our AI meeting notes are also pretty good. I’m always impressed at how it leaves out personal chit-chat and anything negative we say about someone who isn’t present.
No bro the new model from 3 months ago is infinite gooder than what they tested. In 12-18 months we get agi or some shit i dunno just 10 more billions$ bro.
