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CoreDumped retweeted
hey sam, your mclaren is only used 5% of the time. this is a terrible allocation of scarce resources. have you considered taking the bus to work
sam: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources
“a lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data centre
but from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time
you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment
somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that”
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What is crazy is that the RTX 5070ti went up to $1,000+ and people are still purchasing it over the AMD 9070 and XT.
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Unironically, I don't know anyone who achieved anything meaningful with OpenClaw
NVIDIA’s CEO says OpenClaw did in 3 weeks what Linux took 30 years to achieve
"OpenClaw is probably the single most important software release ever. If you look at its adoption, Linux took some 30 years to reach this level. OpenClaw, in what is it, 3 weeks, has now surpassed Linux. It is now the single most downloaded open-source software in history, and it took just 3 weeks."
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The Claude C Compiler is the first AI-generated compiler that builds complex C code, built by @AnthropicAI. Reactions ranged from dismissal as "AI nonsense" to "SW is over": both takes miss the point.
As a compiler🐉 expert and experienced SW leader, I see a lot to learn: 👇
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New Engineering blog: We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C compiler. Then we (mostly) walked away. Two weeks later, it worked on the Linux kernel.
Here's what it taught us about the future of autonomous software development.
Read more: anthropic.com/engineering/bu…
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The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.
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"Programmers will automate themselves out of existence."
That's what they said. And programmers laughed so hard they couldn't respond.
Two years into the AI revolution, here's what actually happened:
What the doomers predicted:
1./ AI writes all the code
2./ Developers become obsolete
3./ Only managers and marketers survive
4./ Programming becomes a dead career
What actually happened:
1./ AI writes code that needs debugging by developers
2./ Developers spend more time reviewing AI output than writing from scratch
3./ The skill gap between good and bad developers got WIDER, not narrower
4./ Demand for senior developers who understand what AI can't do went UP
The brutal irony nobody saw coming: AI didn't replace developers. It replaced the developers who thought AI would do their job for them.
Here's the real shift:
- Junior devs who learn to prompt AI? Productive.
- Senior devs who understand system design? Irreplaceable.
- Developers who just copy-paste without understanding? Already obsolete (AI just made it obvious).
- Managers who thought they could skip hiring developers? Drowning in unmaintainable AI-generated code.
We're not laughing because we're safe. We're laughing because the people who predicted our extinction don't understand what we actually do.
AI is a tool. And like every tool before it, it makes good developers better and exposes bad developers faster.
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Every time I use Windows, my mind is blown by how infuriating to use this OS that runs on like 80% of the world’s PCs is
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It’s not quite Disney World but it’s certainly one of the happiest places on earth
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Hot take: The Raspberry Pi 4 is still a good computer for simple needs. And it's still $35 🤷♂️
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Huge thanks to all the open source projects that've made a lot of the tech we rely on in the world possible:
Linux
Git
FFmpeg
PyTorch & TensorFlow
Apache & Nginx
MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite
Chromium & Firefox
GCC & LLVM
Docker & Kubernetes
Also, all the open-weight LLMs... and all the programming language interpreters, compilers, and frameworks.
I can list 100+ more "niche" open source projects I've used & loved (e.g., OpenCV ❤️). But I just wanted to give a continued big thank you to the open source community for everything you do for humanity 🙏
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Intel’s not doing so hot lately. Meanwhile vendors are killing it at the RISC-V Summit in China.
One CPU got a specint2006/GHz rating of 10.4/GHz!
To put it in perspective, a i7-4790k (Haswell) scores 8.1/GHz.
RISC-V is hitting high-end desktop territory FAST:
