Alex

Some of the AI generated bug reports we get are good because the author had verified them, added a test case and at least reviewed if it is guest trigger able. Yesterday’s flood however was low effort spam.

I wouldn’t say it’s totally legacy. (v)ram bandwidth does matter and while the Apple M-series chips do well with their unified memory architecture don’t forget it’s fixed because it’s part of the CPU chip.

I don’t doubt that locally hostable models will be important for agentic tasks but I suspect they are still going to be bigger than most can comfortably host for time being. I still think there will be a place for the super large models for more complex reasoning although how much will be due to the intrinsic knowledge in the weights and how much due to the plumbing around them remains too be seen.

And if course LLM’s are not going to be the end point of the search for AGI. Whatever their architecture they will still need copious amounts of compute.

With the recent heat waves we’ve been having it’s nice to visit the cellar for a few minutes of cooling down. Of course I can’t stay too long because of the radon.