But there are different groups of "we" with very different views on what AGI should be.

AGI to you may be based on merit, AGI to Sam Altman will be how fast it can get rid of you.

Although they struggle with basic English, odd considering they are already thriving with AGI

"...now find me another laptop with a GPU around the performance of the laptop 5080, and 128GB of RAM the GPU can access."
For the market that must run local AI as fast as possible on a portable device. Wonder what application needs that?

"That's great, but it's inflexible and of limited use."
It won't be able to kill people nearly fast enough.

"...coding agents make designing and writing new code very cheap. "
Writing new code has always been "very cheap" as long as you don't care if it works.

"With the right tools and toolchains it shouldn't be hard to automate the process of building a custom engine for each new model that comes along."
Sure Sam, it's all easy. That's why no one has to work any more.

"The cost of doing this would be small compared to the cost of training the model in the first place, so really we should just be doing this as a matter of course. "
That would depend on the answer to "should we be doing this at all?"

"For a 30% speed-up it would certainly worth the effort of building those toolchains."
Killing people 30% faster...priceless.

What is it promising?

Co-ops work well for utilities, what greater utilities for a co-op than AI?

To be Amish still requires land, there won't be any of that either. Billionaires own everything, your job is to die and there's an AI for that.

The best models will look nothing like the models of today, how long that takes is hard to predict. AI companies are in a race to grab as much wealth as they can, not to finish developing AIs that are useful and responsible. "Responsibility" as applied to AI is responsibility to investors.

There will always be improvements, but AI is fundamentally more sociopathic than the worst human on the planet. That will not change because sociopaths control it.

Will AI be "worth the price" when deaths are part of the price? It's coming.

Do not use that word, it's just more grift.

...then the people should own it. Non-negotiable services are utilities, Sam Altman needs to be cut out of utilities, with prejudice.

Of course they do, they have 7 layers of bonus receivers.

You think they had great quality control of their software before, just wait!

But if "everything" is defined by Sonos's corporate perspective, it may well be right. The beauty of AI is that AI will ultimately decide how things should be. If you don't like it, you're the problem. And you might not like the solution even though billionaires will.

Sonos is mid-fi gear that is multi-room. That is literally what it is, your comments aren't a criticism but merely an observation of who they are. Interestingly, before the app catastrophe, the popular opinion of Sonos on /. was that they were a premium hifi vendor and I was a heretic for calling them mid-fi. Now I'm considered a Sonos fanboy yet my positions have never changed. They have an interesting product with little competition, and as a company they suck.

You may not think Sonos sounds good to your standard, but your standard is not a "sound everywhere" multi-room standard.

Sonos is NOT an "IT nightmare", so if you have "too much experience with" that hopefully potential employers will stay away. Sonos is also a potentially good solution for apartment living, it provides some unique features and allows for installs that can be easily moved and do not require external equipment. I realize that may be graduate level thinking for you though.

"I had a few friends get completely hosed by the infamous app update."
Perhaps you had a few friends who said they were, it was popular to complain about for a time. Virtually everything said about Sonos then was false or misleading. The app had always sucked, it got worse and caused problems but the app was not required for operation of the equipment.

"When they sorta bricked all installs in one move I did laugh."
Except "they" never "sorta bricked all installs", but I'm sure you laughed because you're an immature douche. I've operated Sonos gear since the very beginning of the company, my "install" was never bricked. In fact, the garbage app releases never really affected me because when I ran "the app", which was seldom, I ran the MacOS version which was not affected.

"Clearly no one bothered to even review the Test Plan let alone the results."
That seems to be true, but your understanding of the issues is as bad as theirs. Sonos has sucked as a company recently, and you suck as a commenter on that company.

"I will never sign up to anything that smells of vendor lock in. Oracle, Salesforce, Microsoft, Are the kings of this."
Yes, you will and you have. Do you drive a car? No one cares about your posturing and ignorance on display.