However, it doesn't take away the concern of architecture, design, etc. and questioning if the current solution is well designed or not.

In other words, if you can't question the AI and refute it in a topic, you aren't expert enough to use AI in that area in a engineering manner.

Granted, not everything needs an engineer behind it. A shack to store some tools will survive long enough probably

The (classical) Latin alphabet can be fully described by the English alphabet.

The government should face a punishment for targeting constant inflation.

It's quite uncivilized to see a situation where someone is mugging someone and hundreds of people are just passing it by like it's another Tuesday

Maybe. I've seen cases where the local Farmer's market was reselling produce from grocery stores at higher prices (because Farmer's market).

Farm stores may have similar problems - they might stock things they don't make so they can sell it for convenience. Just because you buy corn from them doesn't mean they made the corn.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated...

If your working with an active context, and changes you do then need to be conversed back to the agent, and even then, it might still find it jarring and wrong.

The military and it's suppliers need mitigate risk, and that includes suppliers intentionally causing harm to soldiers on the front lines, or in the backend logistics supply chain.

Honestly, every company should be treating Anthropic and OpenAI as supply chain risks, and should completely avoid dealing with them.

It's not like Anthropic will be nationalized any more than the bankrupted auto companies of 2008.

Just being a flight attendant doesn't make them great humans to be around.

Having said that, you are depressingly very correct. A negative population growth will cause the post-2008 depression to continue even longer, and probably more agressively.

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG?end=2...

I've noticed Qwen3.6 struggles a bit with today/date based logic.

Both sides are to blame - neither will fix the problem. Obama could've made that his goal - he was competent, had a lot of political good will, and many people were frustrated at the bailout policy Bush did, but instead it was inflationary printing (quantitative easing), Obamacare and Cash 4 Clunkers (which the used car market still hasn't recovered from).

I never voted for him - I didn't view him as honest, nor did he seem to indicate that he liked America, but was rather just a good talker - but I think he could've been a great president given a less radicalizing agenda.

He was probably the best situated president in terms of timing to fix the debt problem, but instead it was a good time for divisive politics. By the time Obama finished, it became clear neither party actually cared about the fiscally conservative Ron Paul supporting voting block.

The wars already put us into too much debt, Obama continued it for 8 years (granted, the deficit slowly went down, but it wasn't fixed). Trump and Biden did a huge disservice to the debt (but neither really cared much about it), and now I fear the path Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden have laid will not be easily fixed.

I still have to use GHCP at work, and I self-host at home, and aside from the fact self-hosting also forces you to tinker, optimize, etc. - there's not a huge difference in my end result in end user results. I spent quite a bit of time trying to optimize llamacpp and compare 35b to 27b, etc. I don't compare models that much at work.

I guess the other part of it is I didn't really know much about cheaper cloud models, but I was attracted to the idea of no longer renting against Claude code, etc. I figured if I could run something functionaly similar from my bedroom on a normal outlet, then all this talk about data centers needing to be built everywhere in the news cycle is obviously just plain stupidity and hype.

It appears I'm using about 20.4/7.6 million in/out tokens a month, or on open router, about $20/month.

That puts $1350 at a 5-6 year break even (thanks to cheap electricity), I guess. Beyond that, running on localhost as a nice feature of 0 no latency when doing rapid tool calling

I don't think I'm the only persona that did the math.

I paid $1350 and threw an R9700 in an existing machine. That's a 4 month pay off or so.

Plus, I can feed it sensitive data all day and not be worried where it's going.

With just coal/gas/hydro, this can be mitigated much easily, but still needs to be handled with care. If not, then the lack of power generation could cause brownouts for hours or days as backup power generation takes time to spin up.

TVA experienced an issue like this in 2023, where it was inadequately ready for a winter storm: https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/report-examin...

Since we build for "1-in-a-100", it's expected we'll have these failures, as a 1% chance every year is a pretty high chance that will keep increasing as these power companies rely more on non-failsafe power generation strategies. Texas is the extreme example, where over-reliance on those systems caused too much damage.