"look at what i can do with the assistance of an LLM"

shows an rube goldberg construction sure it works. but geez support and security is a nightmare.

next round of outdoor cams and doorbells are going to be wholly selfhosted.

if they live for another 9 months I'll have the budget for it.

they just keep pumping out short form videos or yapping heads talking about how they use x to do y better than any of the old stuff...

I think this is the OP's point. they all exist because there is a lot of noise about them existing and being used.

I hit this wall about 2-3 years ago at least...

I'm keenly interested in seeing super small (like 10's or 100's of mb) special purpose models starting to come into their own.

that might actually be transformational globally not just in rich countries.

AI will too often not say "I dont know" and just make shit up instead.

but with AI you get to add "hallucinations" to the mix.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widmanst%C3%A4tten_pattern

tbh its just a geeky coolness thing.

I would expect that to have gone up a decent chunk in the mean time given the price of gold has skyrocketed since then.

I was so very wrong.