Saw a yellow sports car on Saturday. My wife has a bright green Fiesta.

There’s an orange Subaru at my work, along with a couple of baby-blue Broncos with white tops. Those broncos are pretty stylish, tbh.

You should read the interview. And/or this post: https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-go-rogue/

https://archive.ph/DMknL

Excellent, where can I watch it?

four hour examination of the centibillionaire’s life

Woof. Uh… where can I donate money to it?

Plausible premise, and it will be interesting to see what happens.

Two things though:

1. I don’t trust any big tech companies to have their head on straight when it comes to AI in software development
2. Seems like “2x the time” is a cop-out argument. Hands on keyboards is surely not a limiting factor when you’re a 10$bn+ company. I imagine it’s more a problem of coordination and source-of-truth. Those problems don’t go away with AI. If anything, they get worse. Neither the iOS nor Android app is the “authoritative” version, so are they going to have AI copying back and forth between the two, over and over? Seems like the same kind of “localized model collapse” problem lots of companies are sprinting towards.

See, normal people go “How do I live my life such that nobody wants to kill me?”

CEOs go “So obviously a lot of people are gonna want to kill me. How do I make sure their bullets kill someone else?”

Mobile: Orion

Work laptop: Chrome (mandatory)

Everything else: Firefox

Learning How to Smile, by Everclear

Yes. The issue is not that ARM systems don’t/can’t communicate with a dGPU over PCIe. It’s that x86 systems (edit: running conventional x86 desktop OSes) have to basically pretend they’re using PCIe to communicate with an iGPU. (Not literally, but a lot of the primitives they use were inherited from AGP/PCI and don’t make a lot of sense for an SoC.)

Hence “x86 (desktop OS) space”. It’s not intrinsically part of x86, but it has settled in as a conventional piece of x86 desktop OSes. x86 consoles and ARM desktops don’t assume the same principle, and they can get a lot more mileage out of SoCs as a result.

but I suspect they are still going to be bigger than most can comfortably host for time being

ARM and CXMT both have the potential to change this situation rather dramatically.

ARM: The RAM/VRAM divide is kind of a legacy thing at this point, doing more harm than good in the x86 (desktop OS) space, but ARM doesn’t have the same baggage.

CXMT: We know the DRAM cartel have previously engaged in price-fixing, and the current shortage looks suspiciously similar to their old behavior. When confronted by a new challenger, they might be forced to actually compete.

Average price is still higher than any quarter from 2020-2021

Hard to say, cuz they were kinda pre-committed to this strategy by always casting themselves as the more private option (vs Google) and eagerly adopting unified memory and heterogeneous SoCs.

Apple is about to pop the AI bubble with this and indirectly save the PC build market.

Luckily, we’re not just “consumers.” We’re also citizenswho can exercise political power. That’s hard work – but so is organizing a co-op or a boycott. The difference is, when we dog enforcers who wield the power of the state, and line up behind them when they start to do their jobs, we can make deep structural differences that go far beyond anything we can make happen as consumers:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/18/administrative-competence/#i-know-stuff

We’re not just “consumers” or “citizens” – we’re also workers, and when workers come together in unions, they, too, can concentrate the diffuse, atomized power of the individual into a single, powerful entity that can hold the forces of capital in check:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/10/an-injury-to-one/#is-an-injury-to-all

And all of these things work together; when regulators do their jobs, they protect workers who are unionizing:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/06/goons-ginks-and-company-finks/#if-blood-be-the-price-of-your-cursed-wealth

And strong labor power can force cartels to abandon their plans to rig the market so that every consumer choice makes them more powerful:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/01/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship/

And when consumers can choose better, local, more ethical businesses at competitive rates, those choices can make a difference:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/10/view-a-sku/

Antimonopoly policy is the foundation for all forms of people-power. The very instant corporations become too big to fail, jail or care is the instant that “voting with your wallet” becomes a waste of time.

No, “convenience” isn’t the problem: Enshittification isn’t caused by “lazy consumers.”

Using Amazon, or Twitter, or Facebook, or Google, or Doordash, or Uber doesn’t make you lazy. Platform capitalism isn’t enshittifying because you made the wrong shopping choices.

…

When [we] blame corporate power on “laziness,” we buy into the corporations’ own story about how they came to dominate our lives: we just prefer them. This is how Google explains away its 90% market-share in search: we just chose Google. But we didn’t, not really – Google spends tens of billions of dollars every single year buying up the search-box on every website, phone, and operating system:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task

Blaming “laziness” for corporate dominance also buys into the monopolists’ claim that the only way to have convenient, easy-to-use services is to cede power to them. Facebook claims it’s literally impossible for you to carry on social relations with the people that matter to you without also letting them spy on you. When we criticize people for wanting to hang out online with the people they love, we send the message that they need to choose loneliness and isolation, or they will be complicit in monopoly.

Hillary Clinton, famous for winning elections by courting the fascist vote.

I wouldn’t say Kagi has “moved to become an AI company”.

They host some open weight models, which you can use with your subscription (which hasn’t increased in price or dropped features since they added AI access), but you’re not forced to use AI ever, and they’re not collecting your searches or prompts to feed into training.

They’ve taken a pretty skeptical stance on AI from the start. You can disable AI features completely, so you don’t even accidentally use them. But even if you leave them enabled, you have to opt into invoking AI by ending your query with a question mark.

Edit: Also, they downrank content that has been flagged as AI generated: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/slopstop.html

Well, “should you”? Only you can decide that. You only get the one life, you know. It would suck to spend it only doing things because they’re “prudent”.

It seems like you’re asking for market predictions here, based on the AI and outsourcing aspects. Nobody knows what the future holds. But we can look at the past and present.

Historically, companies — both individually, and the industry as a whole — tend to oscillate between:

• “oh my god, knowledgeable people are so expensive, I don’t need someone with deep understanding, I just need more output” and
• ”oh fuck, I am drowning in output that nobody understands, I desperately need knowledgeable people”

For all the AI corpos’ talk about a revolutionary change in the way we think about work and employment, it all looks very familiar right now.

Historically, these moments, where everyone seems to agree that they want more hands on keyboards rather than more brains on call… tend to be the worst time to freelance.

It’s a race to the bottom, and you’ll probably be so busy spinning plates that you won’t be able to make any long-term strategic decisions about what you wanna learn and do next.

If you can, I’d look for a stable corpo job that you can firewall to 9-5, and keep your options open. Watch the market, and — more importantly — find something that you like, so you don’t have to ask internet strangers what to do with your life again.

Oh hey, I just watched something that was full of good info about this! https://youtube.com/watch?v=-Lv7jmdqTUU

ADHD context, but most of it is universal. I hope there’s something useful in there for you!