I'm not making judgments of the people you're speaking down about, I'm making judgements of a nation utterly failing to prepare its citizens for the financial realities of our world. It's not a personal failing for hundreds of millions of people to be financially illiterate, it's a failure of society and those elites who like to gaze down at the dirty peasants for not knowing better.

You and I might be able to make educated judgments about a loan and its value/consequences, but the vast majority of Americans cannot. We simply don't teach this kind of thing in our schools, and every day innocent people get absolutely taken advantage of.

If the public were capable of accurately judging the utility/risk of a loan, then sure we can say it should be on the individual to make their own choices. But that is just not the reality we live in.

I'm running an RTX 6000 Blackwell. It regularly spent over an hour per turn thinking. Every time I looked at it, the thinking trace seemed coherent, sensible, appropriate. But it could never settle on a solution.

Granted, I was trying to have it solve a hard problem that 5.6 Sol couldn't solve, but still.

Either way, I'm still impressed. It genuinely feels better than Sonnet 5

They didn't set out with the goal of making gobs of money or subsuming the entire online population, and because those things didn't happen, success is tautologically ruled out, right? After all, as we all know, the only kind of success that is even theoretically possible is being the best and only player left alive in your field. Literally anything less is failure, unqualified and unequivocal.

Mastodon did what they set out to do and there's a vibrant community around it. That's a success, even if it doesn't meet narrow-minded silicon valley definitions of success.

It accomplished what it set out to do, which was not "make obscene piles of money" but since they didn't make obscene piles of money it probably is a failure anyway, right?

Great that it doesn't work on you, but it works really well on a depressingly large number of people.

The audience will go away to somewhere you aren't. Then what?

20GB is just barely not enough unless you want to live with 32k context, which just isn't enough.

The way I use LLMs seems to be most analagous to the way vibecoder's LLMs use subagents. They exist to solve a bounded task or to write specific code in support of the engineering model in my head. I intentionally never did much research into how others were using LLMs before starting myself, and it seems like that was a good thing. It seems like the majority of people have given up on thought and just slam "do my job with no mistakes or hallucinations" into a prompt and then get confused and angry when it doesn't work. Or worse, don't check if it worked and ship anyway.

AI isn't gonna help you magic a CDN into existence