“Meta’s Free AI Isn’t Cheap To Use, Companies Say - Slashdot”
Llama 2 out of the box costs 50% to 100% more than for OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo
GPT-3.5 Turbo is rumoured to be ~30-40% larger than the biggest LLAMA-2 model
The AI bubble is being massively subsidised
“California Man’s Plot to Avoid Tickets With ‘NULL’ Vanity Plate Nets Him $12K in Fines”
Bwahahahaha!
“How Sam Altman Ran Afoul of the Keepers of the AI Faith | The Nation”
I really hope these articles mean that the religious nature of the current AI bubble starts to draw mainstream attention.
Making God by Emily F. Gorcenski
A fairly detailed overview of the history of the singularity cult that dominates tech today.
I have a Black Friday Bundle deal running for only $49:
Uncluttered, a 21k words on import maps and TDD Out of the Software Crisis, an ebook on systems-thinking in dev The Intelligence Illusion, an ebook on the biz risks of generative models Yellow, an oddball audio/video series
Listening to people talk about their productivity, esp. those evangelising LLMs, is like listening to an alternate universe where everybody is constantly writing novel-length emails
The biggest productivity issue in my life is the fact that the software we have to use is garbage
“Uncluttered: free yourself from Node with import maps and test-driven web development”
www.baldurbjarnason.com/courses/u…
Available as a part of a Black Friday bundle, that includes the course, two ebooks and a video/audio series for $49 USD
“The elevator pitch for Web Components | Go Make Things”
This. But also the fact that most of our existing testing/typing tools are effectively a fiction, but are the least fictional when applied to custom elements
Interesting interview.
The next door neighbour.
Hveragerði has been accused of being picturesque.
“Launching a new course with a massively discounted Black Friday bundle”
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/laun…
Launching a new course/web-book and it’s available with both my ebooks and a bonus video series in discounted a $49 bundle until Monday
Anyway, I’m probably going to be mentioning both the new course and the Black Friday bundle several times over the next few days, so apologies in advance. 🙂️
“Launching a new course with a massively discounted Black Friday bundle”
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/laun…
Excited and nervous. Launching a new course/web-book and making everything worthwhile I’ve done available for $49 bucks until Monday
“The Failed Commodification Of Technical Work — Ludicity”
This is what drove most of the changes to software dev over the past decade. The purpose of React and code copilots both is to let managers replace specialists with a CADT while still maintaining consistent output
“CSS { In Real Life } | Why You Should Hold Onto Your Devices For Longer”
The biggest environmental impact of computing—by a huge margin—is from manufacturing the devices. Emissions from bandwidth or storage are negligible in comparison.
“The Bluffer’s Guide to Managing The Development of Large Software Systems – Codemanship’s Blog”
I love this series of bluffers guides to texts that are important to software development. Highly recommended.
“The CSS property you didn’t know you needed 👈 - DEV Community”
And it looks like the isolate property is more widely supported than I expected.
“openai-message-to-board.md · GitHub”
It’s next to impossible for an outsider to gauge the accuracy of texts like these, but the fact remains that the entire drama surrounding OpenAI still feels unexplained and this sounds more plausible than not.