vanillama

@vanillama@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rsync author responds to online outrage about his usage of LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Using SJW unironically is a red flag

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Swap space on Nvidia VRAM, in case you bought a 5090 and now can't afford RAM⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  How good/bad was it compared to the HDD?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#NULL!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t let the world change you, this is wonderful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨days of future past⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering the MIC is in bed with AI corporations I worry they will get bailed out to some extent, and that the gains will remain completely private, with taxpayers being expected to foot the bill (or alternatively, dealing with the inflation while their wages remain stagnant). I hope you’re right though, I really want there to be a positive in the end, I’m just skeptical on this front.

  The silver lining to me is that there’s encouraging developments in FOSS AI, developed mainly in China. Maybe after the crash we can get somewhat cheaper GPUs to run them locally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨days of future past⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes the metaphor imperfect, but the data centers are being paid with circular money that isn’t there, based on the assumption that AI will make obscene amounts of money to actually pay their bills when currently they’re losing lots of investor money to subsidize the price, and they’re already talking about transitioning to a usage based system, which might push some enterprises to use a FOSS alternative from China.

  We’re in a bubble, when it pops it’s likely many data center projects will be abandoned before they’re done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe management⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That made my day, thank you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe management⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think at some point we might get better and better at simulating intelligence, and maybe even building actual intelligence in machines, but we can agree that LLMs is closer to your phone suggesting the next word than it is to your brain. If we ever get general AI it can’t be based off LLMs so the current wave of speculation is little more than hype to drive profits up and distract from the problems that already arose.