This is simultaneously incredibly condescending and hopelessly naive. Politicians understand perfectly well that a 1% wealth tax is not a small tax on wealthy individuals. That's the whole point. They are engaging in basic political rhetoric when they say things like "a mere 1% tax".
It's an attempt at muddying the waters. It's what he excels at. This is the same guy who called Sam Altman "a force of nature". That is his level of judgement.
If you genuinely can't imagine how anyone would object to somebody taking other people's creative output and distributing it for free against their wishes then you probably need to work on your imagination a little bit.
I'm very firmly opposed to holding back societal and technological progress based on people's egos so that certainly won't be one of my projects.
There's no real harm done, I recall seeing a couple of studies showing that piracy doesn't meaningfully affect sales. If the work was worth anything, it'll get paid back by the thankful reader who can afford to pay.
Only it's been shown time and time again that piracy does not destroy the profit motive.
As a personal anecdote, when I used to pirate things, I still bought things in the same category, ie: I would pirate movies and I still bought movies. I would pirate games and I still bought games.
I don't think it affected how much of each thing I purchased by much, but I don't really know.
Tested and proven to be true, really. You're just being weird about it.
My entire life has been one continuous run down the shit slide driven by "the profit motive".
“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.
This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple “I must,” then build your life in accordance with this necessity [...very long quote...] A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
Everyone else, please go touch grass, we have enough books about milking farms.
That's fine but not really relevant to my point. Saying you can't even imagine how people could have an issue with somebody taking other people's work and distributing it for free is pretty baffling.
No, there's no joke, you might have just misread the article (the 3,800 number is the number of internal GitHub repos the employee had downloaded on their personal computer / had access to on their own GitHub account)
>Unless you're thinking Alibaba is going to ship chat logs to some government ministry that will then dole out proprietary information to new competitors (which doesn't seem logistically feasible)
That's exactly the fear, and why would it not be logistically feasible? The threat is definitely a bit overhyped, but China has a longstanding track record of aggressive corporate espionage.
The Artificial Analysis benchmark results are pretty underwhelming. Roughly the same "intelligence" as MiMo-V2.5-Pro for over 3x the cost. We'll have to see how that translates to actual usage but it's not a great sign.
I didn't take the price into consideration when writing that. I meant to point out that even if they have similar scores, the Flash model might be smaller than MiMo or Kimi, which would by itself be a win
That said, haste makes waste as the price point completely invalidates that
The notion that this GOP Oversight Committee sincerely cares about corruption is obviously laughable, so I can only assume this is all being done at Elon's behest.
It's a literal cult. They have to believe there's some magic future where they magically end up controlling the world still, because otherwise they've been pumped for money they couldn't even afford.
Human developers don't produce code at such a rate, and their judgment is, on average, better. So one, the review doesn't make you feel like you're slowing things down much, and two, the problems are less hidden.
I can only presume you work with talented people somewhere that is not representative of most companies. You're definitely overestimating the average programmer's abilities.
Well, the AI's judgment (i.e. if you accept it) leads to a codebase that cannot handle evolution for more than 18-24 months or thereabouts. If you bother to look you can literally see it rotting at 5x speed (all while passing all tests, especially the ones it writes, right up until the point it collapses and cannot be saved). Since most software codebases last longer, whoever is in charge of the judgment - be they average or not - is obviously doing a far better job than today's LLMs.
I don't agree and in my experience the rot happens way faster in handcrafted codebases with constant requirement ratcheting. You resort to shortcuts and code duplication to avoid breaking existing things. This is just the reality when you work under stress in a growing company. AI is much better at keeping up without deteriorating it.
I tend to agree. Taking shortcuts are one thing, not daring to refactor along the way another. I would only do this in low stress situations due to the risk of producing new bugs or issues, and just lacking the time to properly update tests etc. Opus 4.7 sometimes makes suboptimal design decisions, especially in terms of overcomplicating things, but I have not seen it produce an actual bug in smaller changes in a long while.
The other is using Agents as critical reviewers. I've let Opus 4.7 review PRs by very senior people. Most of the suggestions are meh, but usually there's at least 1 or 2 that improve the code base unequivocally.
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