The current state of the technology is that you must read at least some of the code, but everyone keeps shipping tools that are focussed on churning out more and more stuff without giving you any affordances to really understand the output.

Claude Code in particular seems really uninterested in this aspect of the problem and I've stopped using entirely because of this.

> it's a sort of red pilled book that teaches you how to manipulate people.

This is not an unfair view of the book IMO. While OPs excerpt is lovely, the core of the book is all about getting people to say yes and do things you want them to do.

Carnegie is just so good at this, he's even managed to convince you that he has your best interests at heart by trying to teach you how to do this to people.

I'm sure lots of people felt this way about steam power too.

gemini-cli is not some volunteer maintained open source thing.

Google generally try to be good at accessibility and even publish conformance reports for most of their products https://belonging.google/accessibility-conformance-reports/

Does having 1 billion tokens mean more total tokens in the context window are actually good quality, or do we just get more dumb tokens?

the article is almost entirely about this, yes.

Current approaches require fancy tricks to fit tokens into memory, and spread attention thinner over larger numbers of tokens. The new approach tries to find a way to keep everything in a single shared memory, and process the tokens in parallel using multiple GPUs

I spent decades using vim and Emacs but having moved to GUIs a few years ago I can't see myself going back.

This whole TUI thing just seems like a fashion trend.

Having kids is pretty far down my priority list but like, there's more to life than earning money.

Sure, as long as you're comfortable, meaning you can find a good job that will work around your parental duties, and thst pays well enough you can rent or buy within a catchment area :)

Sure, that's doable. Millions of working parents in powerty in every G7 country can attest how easy it is.

I grew up only a notch or two above poverty, I know what it's like and you can still be a good parent and not well off.

You can't steal information don't be silly. You can just not have permission to copy it. Oh no.

Open weight models exist and are critical to us avoiding a future where you have to pay sama a slice of every engineers salary.

GitHub has been stagnant for so many years now. There was an extremely brief period where it was actually good and innovative at the same time.

They've started shipping stuff again, but it's mostly not stuff I want.