Llama was not great, it was barely good, it wasn't very smart nor creative and had it's guardrails cranked up to 11. Local models didn't get interesting until Mistral and China entered the game. Meta still hasn't released it's image models which has been trained on 10s of thousands of my photos.
yeah, well, it was all we had, hence llama.cpp, ollama, r/localllama, etc, all of which look increasingly silly now that it's highly unlikely we'll ever have another Llama.
Yea I’ll give meta a bit of credit for that but I remember llama’s first release was a leak and i remember frantically downloading them just incase they would get permanently taken down but to everyone’s surprise meta decided to roll with it and embrace the open source community. Unfortunately they face planted with llama4 which was weird since they were supposed to have so much “talent” working on it.
The new SAM (segment anything) and SAM3D are actually impressive and good on them for releasing it to the public. They still need to release an image model.
I honestly believe the weird pursuit for “safety” is what sabotaged them, it seems to lobotomy models. It’s also the reason Stable Diffusion went from the hot thing to a joke. Stable diffusion 3 was so safe you couldn’t generate a woman laying down on some grass because that’s apparently dangerous for reasons unknown.
All models have had their “safety” and guardrails removed by the community and the world didn’t end.
>Adafruit’s Torrone had also said Arduino’s new documents “introduce an irrevocable, perpetual license over anything users upload.”
Yea that's gonna be a hard pass for me. Thank goodness for the Pi Pico which means I'll never have to use Arduino ever again. On a side note, the new Arduino IDE based on Monaco looked nice but made development so painful I just stopped. I had to keep disconnecting and reconnecting devices all the time to upload sketches when before with the old IDE that was never an issue. Everything Arduino feels like a regression.
They can’t detect me splitting my hdmi output, feeding one of them to a separate machine with a vision model to detect what needs to be detected and the same machine moving and clicking the mouse. People are already doing this.
Yes the channel “Basically homeless” has a few variations on this. Using electrodes to move your muscles to more practical a bot that moves your mouse pad for you to give you perfect aim. No anti cheat can detect that because there is nothing to detect.
Well when you’re coding on your own you can get into the zone and just “flow”. With an LLM you’re waiting for the result, you see it has changed things it shouldn’t have changed and while the over all result is a step in the right direction, you have to go back and fix a lot of the LLMs “corrections” which is super tedious.
I asked Claude to help me out with an issue I was having with a small renderer I was working on, it fixed the issue but also added a memory leak, the leak was easy enough to fix because I fully understood what was going on but if you’re vibe coding and don’t have the skills to debug yourself you’re going to have a bad time.
In the end I don’t like using LLMs for coding but they are good at solving isolated problems when I get stuck. I prefer it when they review my code instead of writing it for me.
I’ve tried the paid models through GitHub copilot and I just can’t find any of them actually useful for anything more than generating tests.
They can generate stuff, but generally I spend so long fixing it manually that it makes the time savings zero or negative.
Only thing I have found useful is the PR review bot. That thing is genuinely incredible at spotting tiny mistakes in massive PRs that make your eyes glaze over.
Yes people are amazing but they are also tedious, annoying, frustrating, unpredictable and undependable. Finding someone that will flow and synergize with you on a project is like winning the lottery. People love to talk the talk but when it’s time to walk the walk the reality and disappointment sets in. Work with enough people and this painful reality sets in very quickly.
However I don’t want an agentic or “A.I.” operating system.
It's not my problem that it's still challenging to find and work with people. I'm saying that it's where all most valuable the rewards are to be had. Unless I was mistaken and the goal is to do what is easy
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Yeeaaaah I'm exactly the same, but the LLM strat is actually "work harder not smarter" as far as I can tell. It substitutes quantity of work for quality, then lets you bulk-purchase quantities of work for cheap.
If you want to minmax the work, the only way is to actually do the work.
I feel like it made the experience worse. Just like removing the headphone jack made things worse. Want to connect a midi keyboard to your iOS device and play some instruments on GarageBand? Do you also want to use external speakers without Bluetooth latency? Well too bad!
I don’t know that world (midi and music) but these seems solvable with a dongle/external device. Some quick googling shows at least a few such devices that seem to do the trick. Obviously those cost more money but even with a headphone jack you’d need an adapter for the midi input to the iOS device right?
Then again, you have to realize that your use-case is almost a rounding error. There just can’t be that people, as a percentage, that have that need and it makes sense (to me) to optimize for the largest pie slice and let dongles/accessories cover the gaps for everyone else.
Right so I need to buy new hardware for something I used to do for free? You don’t need any adapters, just plugin the midi keyboard into the usb port. With the old devices a lightning to usb converter was needed but that let you do lots of other things as well. Let’s be honest Apple removed the jack to get people to buy their shitty AirPods. My solution in the end is to stop buying iPhones and Apple products all together.
>Right so I need to buy new hardware for something I used to do for free?
>With the old devices a lightning to usb converter was needed
So it wasn't for free. You still had to get dongles.
Personally, I just need an audio interface to plug in a guitar, a headphones and speakers into my iPad. I need to buy something, but nothing that I wouldn't have had to buy with a PC either.
It's not like what you are describing is impossible today. With the switch to USB-C, iOS devices are compatible with a vast number of affordable adapters. Some of which add features and ports that realistically couldn't be physically on a phone like HDMI or RJ45.
What percentage of iOS users use a midi keyboard with their devices? 0.01%?
My desktop audio interface plugs right in an iPhone (USB-C to C), no hub or dongle needed, and provides audio in/out, 5-pins midi in/out, microphone preamp, etc.
If it comes to the flexibility of improvising a jam session with inexpensive gear, we are in a much better place today than 10 years ago when phones had headphone jacks. And I say that as someone who uses wired headphones extensively and carries a 3.5mm dongle everywhere.
The switch to USB-C was the whole reason I went to iOS personally. Lack of a proper headphone jack does suck (the Apple USB-C to 3.5mm is quite good however). Too bad we can't have both
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