Even my Linux PC talks to me through the terminal. It is just that it is very specific and technical but at the same time isn’t invasive and hogging my resources.
It is pretty cool that you can run an LLM in your terminal and generate valid tar or ffmpeg commands with natural language.
I practically live in the terminal, I’ve never seen an IDE that compares.
I’ve been working on my own agent harness/cli app for months and being able to run local models on my hardware, running my own software, in my preferred dev environment is great. 100% private, with nearly zero security risk.
I’ve got a framework desktop for this so it’s running 10W to 80W peak during generation, which is about two incandescent lamp sized light bulbs when in use. That’s totally disregarding the model training though.
I’m trying the new olma open models too, so hopefully they get better and I can have better accountability on the training side too.
I’m pretty opposed to the waste that Meta et all are generating for this stuff.
Windows as a whole is less useful than prior versions in significant ways. They presumably know this, but think they can make it better in the long run than it was before, without AI. But given that a lot of what they’ve done is tear out well-suited technologies for the problems people face on desktop OSes, and replace them with LLMs that aren’t as well-suited to the task, I’m not sure how they can justify that to themselves. I can’t imagine the justification is particularly good.
It’s good from their perspective. ‘AI’ will be, to their mind, a way to access skills without having to pay for the labor or learn the skills themselves. Never again having to deal with things like ‘employees’ or ‘paying people’ is something they’ve wanted for a long time, and now they’ve been told it’s in reach.
And the people selling AI to them are feeding on this desire. Not sure if they’ve also huffed their own supply, or if it’s a tailor-making-the-emperor-new-clothes situation, but either way the result is the same. ‘Just a little longer, bro! A little more power and water bro! And then we totally can all dance off into the sunset, hand-in-hand, leaving all those icky poor people behind and roll around in infinite money forever!’
It’s not that people are unimpressed, it’s that the product you’re shipping is:
It’s fucking cool that computers can talk now. Sadly, they are not super smart.
Perhaps a solution is to just replace the CEOs,not being all that smart is practically part of the job description.
Even my Linux PC talks to me through the terminal. It is just that it is very specific and technical but at the same time isn’t invasive and hogging my resources.
It is pretty cool that you can run an LLM in your terminal and generate valid tar or ffmpeg commands with natural language.
I practically live in the terminal, I’ve never seen an IDE that compares.
I’ve been working on my own agent harness/cli app for months and being able to run local models on my hardware, running my own software, in my preferred dev environment is great. 100% private, with nearly zero security risk.
I’ve got a framework desktop for this so it’s running 10W to 80W peak during generation, which is about two incandescent lamp sized light bulbs when in use. That’s totally disregarding the model training though.
I’m trying the new olma open models too, so hopefully they get better and I can have better accountability on the training side too.
I’m pretty opposed to the waste that Meta et all are generating for this stuff.
It’s good from their perspective. ‘AI’ will be, to their mind, a way to access skills without having to pay for the labor or learn the skills themselves. Never again having to deal with things like ‘employees’ or ‘paying people’ is something they’ve wanted for a long time, and now they’ve been told it’s in reach.
And the people selling AI to them are feeding on this desire. Not sure if they’ve also huffed their own supply, or if it’s a tailor-making-the-emperor-new-clothes situation, but either way the result is the same. ‘Just a little longer, bro! A little more power and water bro! And then we totally can all dance off into the sunset, hand-in-hand, leaving all those icky poor people behind and roll around in infinite money forever!’