The mdial is amazing. The Nixie tube numbers are fun. The sleekness. And this website with all demo’s is really well made. Also the “about” site is cool.

You were not underpromising when stating Apple didn’t spend enough energy here. This is a leap. And I fully trust you’ll deliver.

If anything, why not work at Apple after this adventure and get these things (or another next level keyboard) out at massive scale?

First off I would expect a (team) methodology to be referenced. There are tons to choose from. From that point on other terms may make more sense.

For example:

“ Pillar 2: Product Strategy & Architectural Governance (PDRs & ADRs)

Factor III — Mission Definition. Factor IV — Structured Planning. Factor IX — Traceability.”

Why are the Roman numerals in that order, what do they reference and why. Why is this Pilar 2. Etc. It’s easy to get lost in this, even if it would be the best approach in the world.

https://www.hhgproject.org/entries/bistromathics.html

Combining that with spaghetti that does transaction magic at random places guarantees the sort of pain that makes cursing the entire human race seem like a pretty mild response.

Higher-level abstractions may prevent some footguns; e.g., an “atomic” decorator/annotation commits automatically after a successful call. They are somewhat easier to understand but come with their own limitations and caveats.

There is no mention of the usual enshittyfication, instead their complaint is that things look generic and that is the last of the list. I would say this is a feature.

The points about locking and dumbing down products are well researched, true and worrisome.

I’ve bought a NAS after watching NASCompares a few years ago, and also an ethernet adapter. His videos are nice. Talking about enshittyfication on an enshittyfied site misses the mark a little bit. “Legitimate interest”… lol.

Any day there might bring a new discovery or mutation that changes the planet forever. AI might accelerate that, which is why AI is used in the bio / medical field for decades. An LLM might solve some things as well, but is just a form of AI.

The knowledge to make huge bombs is very old and part of a normal physics education. You can even work in companies that make or maintain these (potential) bombs. I agree that it turns into geopolitics very quickly.

Regulation often happens after the fact. I don’t think the call for regulation stems from kindness in this case. It stems from fear and greed more likely. And I share your concern.

Expecting demand to stay equal over longer stretches of time in IT is an interesting bet as both hardware and software tend to depreciate in value extremely rapidly, unlike oil from the example. Or water. Both are limited in nature.

Commodifying something that is the fraction of its value the next year might be possible, but I don’t see how. Perhaps MS Windows or Office are such things, but might not compare.

There are more limits to demand. For example what humans can process. The AI might write the finest prose and the best software but have nobody to read or use it.

Using a technology does not make an illegal activity illegal. It already was illegal to begin with.

And there are already guardrails in the form of ethos, law, justice departments and so on. This reality is flagrantly dismissed in their position on open-weights.

Just like cyber crime is just things like extortion etc which are already illegal: following similar reasoning all computer activity should be regulated by their vendors.

Hence the knives factory analogy, which is even more basic to point out this crooked way of reasoning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

On processing power, copyright, and capability.

I like to think of it as a knives factory. Anthropic knives are crafted with superior technology, uniquely shaped to perfection, and safe to operate. As seen on TV.

Millions are hurt by knives each day. Every household has tons of them, making everyone a potential mouth-foaming murderer 24/7. But not with Anthropic knives(tm).

Edit: spelling

Afterwards it will affect production code everywhere on the planet. :)

Art direction and coherence might not be that far away as those are highly desired features, but it certainly looks like that now.

When it comes to advanced queries learning the ORM equivalent to the SQL it should write… ORM’s can be outright terrible, and I completely agree with you.

Every ORM has their own names and way of doing things, so this knowledge is hard to port to other ORMs. It’s requires you knowing the right SQL first, then knowing how to write that in the ORM dialect.

Reaching for the more advanced ORM trickery means grasping hard to grasp subjects twice with the risk of misunderstanding twice, and as a bonus worse ORM documentation than plain active record features. Oh, and others need to understand what you’ve written as well.

My personal experience is that when the CO2 levels hit over 1200 in a room, it feels more cozy like a bar or crowded place. With all the up and downsides. Would hate to live in a world where this fog is a constant, as it impedes thinking.

The first 440 ppm you’ll get for free. This used to be lower and has risen steeply in the last 100 years and continues to do so.

See the historical graph at https://www.co2levels.org/