Not just 20 extra people. I’m seeing a funny trend in my company where managers decide to get into vibe coding and they get super excited at getting something somewhat functional running, so now they’ve been presenting “their work” and expecting developers to merge their heaping trash in. That’ll require quite a few more people.

It depends on what you consider worse. Deepseek will outright refuse to answer a question, but other models will happily answer with poisoned data.

See for example, grok translations of neutral questions about israel completely changing the questions: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXpK0BvFOUn/

and israel investing in influencing the output of chatgpt: https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/rj00kxqzaxx

Both are forms of censorship and both are bad, but personally I’d rather an AI shut up than slip in misinformation. If someone is going to take AI at its word (which people shouldn’t do, but you know how people are) then the misinformation will be taken as truth, but a message saying “I can’t discuss such things” will make someone turn elsewhere for answers.

Now ask western models about israel.

These politicians are either gigantic morons or malicious pieces of shit. Probably both.

I look forward to when CXMT scales up and provides cheap memory. The memory cartel will cry about unfair competition, just like when Japan was kicking ass with memory in the 80s.

Chatgpt came out in late 2022. Are you arguing that because the AI bubble didn’t pop yet that it’s not a bubble? The internet persisted but that doesn’t mean the dot-com boom wasn’t a bubble.

CPU manufacturers were getting jealous at the other hardware manufacturers claiming shortages in this artificial scarcity scenario.

I’m saying that every form of progress comes with challenges and downsides, and this saying of “Next generation will be fucked” is a cognitive bias every generation has had for a pretty long time.

Change is not necessarily progress.

Oh boy, guess we can look forward to more vibe-coded slop which will make it an even bigger pain to use.

They should try entering the desktop GPU market.

I thought smart glasses could be kind of neat, but no way in hell would I get a pair from Meta.

This isn’t the first time that the memory companies have colluded to raise prices. It’s perhaps one of the more extreme instances, yes, but with the AI excuse going away, things will have to go back to reality, especially as China ramps up production and ruins the cartel setup we’re currently stuck with.

That’s assuming everyone’s devices crap out during this year or two while the AI and memory companies play pretend that they’re actually going to use up all this memory.

For a while, but when the AI bubble pops and as China ramps up production, we’ll hopefully see the memory cartel eat shit.

I do, that’s why I refuse to buy anything so that they can have more supply.

It’s not just desktops, it’s phones and laptops and consoles

Good thing I don’t care about any of those things enough to pay the rip-off prices. I’m fine with my 4 year old phone and 10 year old PC. If they crap out then I’ll replace them with some cheap old crap. I don’t need high specs, there isn’t much worth running these days.

Maybe. Would be nice to have multiple options at least.

Oh, so that’s why when I use the snipping tool and paste it, it’s a png instead of another format that could take up less space.

Maybe sodium ion will be a suitable replacement.

Thanks! I was blown away by the quality of voice work in a game back then. Combined with the story, it was a real treat.