It's like saying your program is PC compatible. What else would it be?

Small models are good enough depending on your task. That's the point. A model you can run on your phone or laptop is an incredibly useful tool for a lot of problems even though it isn't the "best" theoretically possible model.

The world is a lot more complicated than "datacenter bad". I don't think datacenters are a good justification for HVDC transmission. HVDC transmission justifies itself because even if you could magically transport the biggest consumers to where the power is generated, we still need to transport power all the way across the country. HVDC is the most efficient way to do that bar none.

The reality of the situation is that our power grid is a century out of date and needs an overhaul for the realities of renewable energy. Not installing HVDC transmission lines is simply not an option if we want the whole country to stop using local coal and gas plants.

While the automation and systems side of my brain is thrilled that all of this id automated and integrated, developer brain is sad

Claude has been helping me tune models to run better on our big compute rack at work, researching which leading edge open models will fit in hardware and are good for our workloads, and it's been helping me write test fixtures to evaluate how things perform.

At several points, Claude has expressed surprise at the quality of results from my local LLMs. While I know that doesn't mean anything, it still feels like giving Anthropic the finger, which is always great.

The US is the bad guy on the world stage right now. If you can't see that then you're part of the problem. Dunno what to tell you. Read a book, maybe?

The interesting discussion is why they are doing this and why it's "bad". The goalposts are right where they always were, you've failed to see them past your own feet.

Have you ever compiled something by hand? You should try sometime, it's an illuminating experience. Humans find it hard because you have to remember a lot of details while simultaneously paying attention to a different large set of information while also generating instructions. It's tough, but not impossible, it takes humans a lot of time and effort. How might a computer fare if it could remember everything and pay attention to multiple inputs and outputs at once? That's what an LLM does.

I suspect (with zero proof or understanding) that this has something to do with how well C maps to assembly. It's not a stretch to say the model's vector space maps this chunk of assembly with that line of C. And we all know how much C code exists online.

China absolutely does not have my best interests at heart, but America's technofascism is probably more immediately dangerous and harmful. Americans genuinely have more to fear from America than China at this point.

T&C are not laws, and aren't even legally binding in most situations. They exist purely as an ass-covering maneuver and self-justification for customer abuse.

These are fundamentally different tools for entirely different applications. They only look similar to people who don't understand the tools or their purpose.

You should consider how your actions impact others.