Yes, open weight AI models have far surpassed good ol' Llama.

They should be aiming towards gpt oss or something, just not the Chinese models because that would be embarrassing.

Companies always have hated sw developers guts because they are: 1) indispensable for modern companies, 2) pricey 3) hard to train.

So the bosses of said companies are now ecstatic because these chatbots can spawn infinite lines of code, and as long as they're concerned, that's all developers do.

Of course, they're wrong. They're just creating an astronomic amount of technical debt that someone would have to come up and fix later.

Yes, you guessed, more developers. Which would be probably less by then, given the FUD and firings occurring now.

Lesson to retain: having a source of infinite code won't make you need developers less, but actually quite more, you fools.

Not a bad idea because the old cybercafes usually were paid by the hour at the table/computer.

You stayed more, you paid more.

Alas, cybercafes got a bad rep and went into disrepair and decay closing most of them.

Coffee shops where fancy coffees are served don't want the same reputation either.

People sitting at the tables all day long without consuming and blocking other customers are bad for business.

Even if they do get a token coffee when entering, them staying for hours and hours just because they have a pretty table, wifi and AC there stops other customers from sitting and buying.

I was just thinking this recently while buying coffee at an overcrowded Starbucks, with barely any customer rotation and plenty of laptop usage at the tables.

If your college-degree-requiring job will soon be done by a chatbot by just prompting it, why go into college and debt?

Depends on the company, of course, but I have seen people remounting them.

But they are indeed the ejector seat in case of layoffs.

Gee, even one in the past 2-3 years might be enough to put a target on your back.

Sam Altman going on about building a half a trillion dollar datacenter for AI training aged like milk, apparently.

Neon lighting is pretty and glitzy, no doubt.

But at like five time less power per the same lightning, LEDs beat neon in cost.

Specially so for applications that are meant to remain turned on all night. There the electricity bills quickly add up.

Nope. It's just wrong they are invading keyboard shortcuts with their Tay 2 thingie.

I think they should make all screen popups every hour of intensive use of other programs, specially during full screen games, so you don't forget to use it.

That would fix the user's opinion for good.

Bad guys and pirates are roaming the seas and doing misdeeds again.

Any country wanting to keep their way of life should be investing more in patrolling the seas and their particular interests.

Get Tom Holland out of the hibernation pod and call Disney!

I guess it's nothing another string of Marvel/Spidey crapstatic movies wouldn't fix.

I'm serious. All big AI cluster investment ought to have a nuclear plant in it, ensuring it gets properly juiced.

And once they're there, lobby to grow nuclear everywhere, so we stop the trend of fake de-carbonization through repentance and self-impoverishment.

Seriously?

F*ck-off you morons.

What's next? water troughs and hitchracks for the future robotic horses?

If everything is a puppet show with pretend-people talking to other pretend people via Zoom or whatever, it would be much better and efficient to have a bunch of bots talking in text all inside some OAI or Gemini chat room.

And that's what will happen, actually. Removing the excess weight of old traditions wanting to project themselves into a future where they won't be needed.

All these geological-deep layers of cruft were made precisely to remove the visibility of what's going on with the system.

You just define a magical virtual machine that just works and that cleans up your mess after you're done, then you can forget about how to read a character, print it on screen or saving it to a bunch of sectors on a complex rotating magnetic thingie.

We've just taken this approach up to its logical conclusions: all levels of software can be made like Russian dolls, if you have the spare CPU cycles, memory and you are willing to dumb things down enough. Which are true all for modern computing: we have spare CPU cycles and memory, and we want to dumb things down a lot for anyone to become a programmer

This is not new though. Operating systems have been doing this since day 0, given the huge improvements in productivity gained from just assuming there is some layer of arcane magic making everything work together.

But now we look back and realize "oh no, the kids no longer know how things work!". Well, SE made its own bed, now sleep in it.