https://www.science.org/content/article/ridiculous-says-chin...

Humans intrinsically need to feel good about themselves and what they do. It's hard for ye olde ego to think of oneself as replaceable, so we tell ourselves stories about how good we are, or, in the author's case, how good we are at finding the best.

You know that insufferable friend who won't stop talking about the starving kids in XYZ? And you know how they donated five dollars that one time and just won't let you forget it? Yeah, well, at least that a*hat gave five dollars.

I'd rather have the Bonos of the world making mountains out of the molehills of aid they provide than hang out with people so cool and disaffected that they only see the virtue signaling and discount the virtue.

Just like you, I see the virtue signaling as gauche, but I think calling it out without any substance is just as gauche.

Once there's enough code, tests, and docs to appease the prefill gods and give it an understanding of what I expect in terms of code quality, style, and TDD etiquette, I can expect more consistent performance.

That said, I've never been comfortable enough with it to let it write more than a few of functions at a time without a diff/checking-in.

I've seen folks with 500K LOC branches written by an LLM and my heart just sinks...

There was a time when Wi-Fi, or Wayland, or XComposite, or Linux gaming, or just accelerated graphics at all or, or, or... People get excited, they work on it, other people get excited and mess about, and eventually it just works.

I would love to one day pick up a decommissioned M1 Ultra and use my OS of choice on it, and I'm grateful for the people who are doing the hard thing now.

My brain officially only understands "up" as "down"...

And also, chant is a lovely name that was skipped over. Especially for the models that won't stop sounding like a broken record.

What you really do is disallow everything save vp9...

Maybe it was silently presented in silco but lacked the software bits. It's a pretty big omission considering the Pi5's release date.

Even the best code I've ever written rots, not because it changes but because I get better. Now... I know thinking out of the box is hard... but one can get better a lot of different ways, and call me an optimist, but I'm betting folks can get better at producing tool-assisted code, too. Assuming how we do it now is how it will be forever is silly.

We're in the middle of figuring out the next level of mediated engineering. You-know-what or get off the pot, but stop pretending being a dinosaur is still in vogue. It's gauche, and trust me, we've seen it all before...

... back in my day we didn't have that fancy IDE autocomplete; we memorized every function in a library. IDEs?! ... Back in my day we didn't even have debuggers; we just knew how the code worked. Pish posh, back in my day the compiler didn't even produce error messages that made sense. Compilers? The faux luxury of it all! Back in my day, if you actually cared about your code, you wrote the assembly by hand.

It’s like a tech Benjamin Button story. Thanks, Steve!

...oh heck, I can't handle it anymore, take my money already.

I consider Gemma 4 31B (dense / no MoE), the new baseline for local models. It's obviously worse than the frontier models, but it feels less like a science experiment than any previous local model I’ve run, including GPT OSS 120B and Nemotron Super 120B.

On my M5 Max with 128 GB of RAM and the full 256K context window, I see RAM use spike to about 70 GB, with something like 14 GB of system overhead. A 64 GB Panther Lake machine with the full Arc B390, or a 48 GB Snapdragon X2 Elite machine, could probably run it with a 128K to 256K context window. Maybe you can squeeze it into 32GB (27.5GB usable) with a 32K context window?

Even last year, seeing this kinda performance on a mainstream-ish/plus configuration would have seemed like a pipe dream.

I agree poking fun at someone's appearance is low (and this is particularly savage), but it is hard to have sympathy for Andreessen, and I'm not going to strain myself trying.