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New comment by root_axis in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

root_axis — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:53:51 +0000

Hilarious to see people predicting a singularity when 40% of the u.s. economy can barley keep the LLMs online to complete mundane software tasks.

New comment by root_axis in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

root_axis — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:20:24 +0000

Sorry but you're just seeing what you want to see. The idea that a 31b model is anywhere even in the ballpark of something like Opus 4.5 is just absurd on its face.

New comment by root_axis in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

root_axis — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:21:47 +0000

Well $100k was a generous guesstimate for some time in the future where something like an Opus 4.7 is old news.

If we think about the near future, something like Kimi2.6 is within the realm of Opus 4.6 today, but requires closer to $700k in hardware to run.

New comment by root_axis in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

root_axis — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:07:08 +0000

That cannot run KimiK2.6 or GLM5.1 i.e models within the ballpark of anything offered by frontier companies.

New comment by root_axis in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

root_axis — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:42:10 +0000

> They're good enough for 95% of use cases

They're not at all, not even close. Especially when you consider the use cases for people who are paying for LLM services today.

New comment by root_axis in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

root_axis — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:35:46 +0000

I have two A100s and have been playing with local models for years. There's definitely moments where they are quite impressive, but small context sizes and unreliability become immediately obvious.

> For those of us a bit crazy, we are running KimiK2.6, GLM5.1

Yes, those can compare to Opus, but you can't run those unquantized for less than $400k in hardware.

New comment by root_axis in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

root_axis — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:17:12 +0000

> Won’t these H100s drop in price in a few years

Doubtful. The increase in demand is greatly outpacing supply, and all signs point to a continued acceleration in demand

> If I could drop $10,000 to have an effectively permanent opus 4.7 subscription today, I would.

lol well obviously, but realistically that price point is going to be closer to $100k, with a perpetual $1k a month in power costs.

New comment by root_axis in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

root_axis — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:02:51 +0000

I use Opus 4.6 as an example because it's the LLM that has been widely recognized by the public as being reliably capable of doing real work across many domains. However, the same logic applies to Opus 4.5 and even previous generations. These models have huge parameter counts and large context sizes, there's no training technique that can compensate for those qualities in small and quantized models.

New comment by root_axis in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

root_axis — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:47:56 +0000

You are greatly underestimating the hardware requirements for productive local LLMs. Research consistently shows that parameter count sets the practical ceiling for a model's reliability. Quantized models with double digit param counts will never be reliable enough to achieve results in the realm of something like Opus 4.6.

New comment by root_axis in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

root_axis — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:09:58 +0000

They care. They are very sensitive to their public image and most cannot tolerate criticism or disapproval.

New comment by root_axis in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

root_axis — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:37:25 +0000

> Also their feelings are not hurt by what you or I think, they don’t care.

Definitely not true, they tend to care more than most.

New comment by root_axis in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

root_axis — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:23:52 +0000

The AI argument doesn't make sense to me for layoffs. If AI is making the company more productive then there's an incredible opportunity to use the existing workforce to tackle the massive backlog of important work. A big layoff only makes sense if there is no more useful work to do or you're killing products.

New comment by root_axis in "Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found"

root_axis — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:42:46 +0000

These suspensions send the appropriate message. This isn't the same thing as poorly reviewed marketing copy, hallucinations in government policy papers are unacceptable.

New comment by root_axis in "AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields"

root_axis — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:13:14 +0000

Singularities are a sign that you have a broken model.

New comment by root_axis in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

root_axis — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:31:17 +0000

He's not using LOC as a metric, he's making an observation about the impact of a change in the typical volume of LOC.

New comment by root_axis in "When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing"

root_axis — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:22:57 +0000

They're making the bet that seniors won't be needed by then. I think it's a bad bet, but it makes sense to follow through if 40% of the economy is already being occupied by this tech.

New comment by root_axis in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

root_axis — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:25:54 +0000

Any confirmation that a genuine port is underway? This might just be an experiment.

New comment by root_axis in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

root_axis — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:01:26 +0000

Diagnosis is just a small part of a doctor's job. In this case, we're also talking about an ER, it's a very physical environment. Beyond that, a doctor is able to examine a patient in a manner that isn't feasible for machines any time in the foreseeable future.

More importantly, LLMs regularly hallucinate, so they cannot be relied upon without an expert to check for mistakes - it will be a regular occurrence that the LLM just states something that is obviously wrong, and society will not find it acceptable that their loved ones can die because of vibe medicine.

Like with software though, they are obviously a beneficial tool if used responsibly.

New comment by root_axis in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

root_axis — Sun, 03 May 2026 04:36:56 +0000

Actually I don't really have any problems with panpsychism. It's a pretty uncommon perspective, but when discussing conscious machines, it at least presents a consistent criteria for consciousness.

New comment by root_axis in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

root_axis — Sun, 03 May 2026 02:15:03 +0000

Based on that reasoning anything could be conscious. If that's a bullet you want to bite, fair enough.