Because LLMs are the new tulips.

No, but *do* blame the Israeli government and their supporters.

Schadenfreude is priceless; no finite amount of money can match it.

There will never be a shortage of people who use the wrong tool for the job, and/or just use the tool wrong. Thus, unless bots 100% take over, there will probably be a decent number of jobs in cleaning fucked up systems.

Eight gigs and constantly swapping.

"All repairs tend to destroy the structure, to increase the entropy and disorder of the system. Less and less effort is spent on fixing the original design flaws; more and more is spent on fixing flaws introduced by earlier fixes."

Microsoft Windows in a nutshell (even before AI)

Yes, but that's not a legal argument.

Maybe AI (AWKI these days) is worth something after all?

We use both in production here; but, let's be VERY CLEAR: there is absolutely NO FAIR COMPARISON between a locally hosted model on above-average hardware and what Anthropic (and I assume others) is offering with their, currently, subsidized plans.

Sure, go far back enough (and yes, I was on computers at that time) but surely he's not saying, "Man, computers were better when you could only run one process at a time, and the operating system let you do literally anything" etc etc and if so, the answer to that is, you can still do that if you want .. you just can't do it *inside* somebody else's software architecture. You still own the hardware, do whatever you want.

huh? it's trivial to write any code you want and run it on your phone

But with respect to your "dawn of the PC era", unless you wrote the operating system, you couldn't write and run code that could do anything and everything your computer was capable of - only code that could do what the operating system would permit you to do.

That's no different today.

Indeed, it could very well be a reinvention of Visual Source Safe.

D'oh. Mod me down; I deserve it for my fuckup.

Perhaps it's intended to be used by their AI?

Since they don't intend to release it, though, I hardly care. If its useful to them, then it's useful to them.

Saudi Arabia is our friend!