I've been using GLM-5.3-Flash on Ollama Cloud's $20/mo plan and using OpenCode's free models (mostly Muse Spark 1.3) to do a LOT of work and I would say that I hit a daily or weekly limit MAYBE once a month.
My usage plus reading about how tokens just keep getting cheaper and cheaper sounds like a great thing for "the rest of us" but not sure how the frontier AI labs are going to pay back all of their debt if this is the case.
(I get the inference is currently very profitable but if it's a race to the bottom on token pricing, even that won't last much longer)
So many people treat git commands like magic words, and then are terrified when they mess up their repo (example in this xkcd... https://xkcd.com/1597/)
Do the reading b/c there's a machine that has done all the reading so it's hard to add value if you maintain the anti-intellectualism of 2010s software dev.
> She ended up flirting with her GoPro cameras, hallucinating the sound of shamans beating drums, and accusing her electrical equipment of poisoning her with sound waves.
There is an interesting phenomenon called "the Firehouse Effect" that is similar but on a group level.
The idea is that if you take a group of humans and isolate them, they will begin to believe wilder and wilder ideas and communicate those ideas amongst themselves. This happens because the group is not routinely "reconciling" with broader society which in turn is slower to adopt new ideas.
It's named after firemen who would spend a lot of time together in firehouses.
Gwern has a great article [0] about commoditizing your complements as a strategy to both boost demand for your product and keep competitors at bay. (this was originally an idea put forth by Joel Spolsky).
He points out that Sun, a hardware company, was smart to work on open source window managers to make it easier to use their hardware.
In turn, they were dumb to create an open source language (Java) that could run on any hardware. This was a strange move as it dramatically reduced the need for Sun's specific machines.
Highly recommend the article as it has lots of other examples of this.
and do you ever look at the code afterwards? The 'software factory' gets exponentially nastier the longer it is kept running without someone with actual experience 'shoving it' back in shape ever so often ... and even then.
I've done the same but using Notion, and I've found really interesting to let the agents write a small "Dev Blog" post on a Notion page with what they built in the sessions, with screenshots, videos etc.
Also working with parallel sandboxes is a must: I use a manger session that read/write the issues from Notion and dispatch them to workers, it handles similar work to the same box to minimize merge conflicts.
PS: I'm using AgentBox for this (discl: I'm the author, free OSS): npm -g i @madarco/agentbox but now also Claude is releasing Projects (still rolling out) and Cursor had cloud agents for a while
trying to code while driving is a terrible idea, and it is not changed by whether complaining it about it is virtue signalling
"is a lot higher than the chances" - you killing people due to such stupid idea is far far worse, so that despite it being less likely it has far greater negative impact
This is exactly the kind of bullshit that's more signaling than anything realistic. Most people that use a headset in their car or have a chat with a LLM about system design, and sure, nowadays even push some generated code out, don't do this while speeding at insane speeds towards a family. It's 2026, some people might literally be in a self driving car.
Just horrible takes you're somehow equating using your mouth and brain in a car for any non car function to killing people.
I swear to God, you people are just amazing. I hope you never speak to your friends or family in a car. God forbid your child ask you a question. "Daddy, why are cows brown?" cause that would make you engage your brain and kill people.
Signalers... and now I'm ashamed for having posted three comments to this thread with no other contribution than agitating signalers, and myself in the process.
Same here. Inspired by both, I used to delivery videos over torrent to in door machines since at that time, there's no CDNs (or it was difficult to get one).
I've seen this used for distributing container images in networks with awkward network topologies (e.g. a lot of bandwidth within a site or sub-site but limited bandwidth to central registries)
- rapid and automated iteration based on the above
You quickly realize that building propaganda engines is getting easier and easier.
If you then fold in large amounts of data on individual's likes, dislikes and general political leanings you can build targeted propaganda tailored to each individual.
Or to use an example from the late 2000s:
someone is building the "Pandora (music app) of propaganda"
"You Are Two" [0] is a video that talks about what happens when the connection between the two hemispheres of the brain is severed.
If you've never seen it I HIGHLY recommend it if only to show how weird our brains actually are.
A good chaser to the above is Peter Watts talk on hive minds [1]. He was a neurology research and the author of the famous sci-fi novel Blindgsight [2]
Thank you for the link to Watts’ talk. It is a great watch and is certainly a great jumping off point for anyone writing fiction in the field.
It also could be one of the most terrifying talks I’ve ever heard, but since it is eight years old, I am going to just pretend all of the research he mentions fell through and I have nothing worry about.
Not just warehouses. In one facility here in South Florida a family member who is a general contractor, uses the storage just as you described, but a couple of units over, there is a gun range, a gun smith shop, a tattoo shop running out of these "self-storage" units. It's legal too, kind of strange how it would be, but I see cops at the range often enough.
A gun range being run out of a storage unit? I realize that Florida has gun laws that people would consider nuts (you can have a gun range in your backyard and nobody can really stop you), but I'd think that the contract of the storage unit would absolutely say no gun ranges.
Without splitting hairs, essentially they are self-storage units that are zoned for multi-purpose use. I don't know the right nomenclature to describe them. Heck, I saw a Jamaican barbecue outfit there. I am sure there is some "farming" going on in more than a few of these. Some photos (these are hosted on my own domain, I can't stand Imgur):
I may have expanded the definition of self-storage, apologies, but here's the place I was talking about. There is definitely storage and there are definitely guns and gunsmith shops. Crazy, hey? There are people living out of these, this part of Florida is bananas.
Ah ok, this makes a lot more sense. We have places that look exactly like this near my area of Florida as well, and it's 100% in the "industrial" zoned area. No homes, only commercial businesses and small industrial setups.
Really I don’t mind, I wish there were more archery ranges but I can deal. People all around are nice, all walks of life. But if someone from another continent were to drop in, their eyebrows would have a heart attack.
My usage plus reading about how tokens just keep getting cheaper and cheaper sounds like a great thing for "the rest of us" but not sure how the frontier AI labs are going to pay back all of their debt if this is the case.
(I get the inference is currently very profitable but if it's a race to the bottom on token pricing, even that won't last much longer)
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