Seems to me like everything is instead becoming even more bloated with AI stuff. A Google chat tab uses 2 GIGABYTES on my work computer.

I’m also interested. I use wasabi, for a good number of terabytes. Reducing the costs at all would be great.

Phone: 169 in Safari, inf in Firefox Computers: uhhhhhhh probably several thousand? It would take quite a while to get a number.

Which book was that?

Vance isn’t cold and calculating haha I can’t tell if you’re serious.

They’re both problems. Why do you think the water usage isn’t a problem?

The article doesn’t seem to be accurate, or at least the CRS research is inaccurate. Literally one of the links stated that one company used 23 billion gallons in 2023. That might be worldwide, but the U.S. has the most data centers of any nation, so it’s unlikely to have offset how much is actually being used. And yet the CRS report says it’s only 17 billion in 2023?

AI;DR

Then they still used just as many resources? All these local models are distillations of the big models.

Huh? External sound does not mean the object produces sound.

Ours doesn’t blink, so if it’s more than a minute of time on the timer it literally just looks like the time is set wrong

Those smaller models are trained on the larger models. They take just as many resources to train and then you add on more training, so they’re literally worse than the big models.

Hahaha I love it. Honestly the style is hilarious to me.

I gave one example. In fact that’s one of the least bad examples. If that was the only problem with LLMs it wouldn’t really be that bad. But the actual reality is so much worse. But I was arguing to the point that the person I replied to made, which was about development. The problems I have with AI are not fixable without literally every government on earth taking a stand, which just will not happen.

Completely disagree. The difficult part of software development was never writing code OR speed of delivery. It was understanding requirements and problem solving. LLMs still can not do either of those things and there is no evidence they ever will be able to.

An example of how harmful LLMs actually are to development can succinctly be described with an issue I had a few weeks ago. I found an issue in an open source project, code was fine if a bit hard to understand. I came up with a PR to fix the problem.

In the time from me checking out the code to submitting the PR, a little less than 24 hours, the maintainer had completely rewritten the entire project with Claude. It was complete nonsense. Incredibly difficult to understand. Abstracting things that didn’t need abstracting. My PR was useless, because the entire project was new. The maintainer definitely didn’t understand the changes either. If a bug came up there’s no way AI would be able to solve it (the bug was still there even though the code was entirely new).

LLMs don’t understand the code. They just make things that look like they will work. And then a human has to maintain it (or keep paying billions of dollars for Claude to try to fix it).

This “guy” isn’t explaining anything. The entire article is written by AI. It’s the same bland writing style everywhere now.

Is nobody extremely tired of the AI slop articles??

The tizen version is finally close to release. I don’t use a Samsung TV but in-laws do and I don’t like installing the dev version.