I think they are implying that they believe models trained on their copyrighted information should be open-source.

Not 'open source' but 'free', of which RMS has very strong feelings about the difference.

> Most people don’t like computers. Nobody in tech wants to say that out loud. People tolerate computers. They use them because they have to. Given the choice, most would rather not think about them at all.

Which makes me think there's a lot more room for "virtual people." Imagine a very smart AI bot that could hold multiple conversations at once and remember a lot of things.

> So when someone suggests that AI means everyone will build their own custom tools, ask who "everyone" is. The three-person accounting firm drowning in client paperwork? They want the paperwork gone, not a new system to maintain. The regional logistics company with 40 trucks? They want the routes optimized, not Joe spouting off about this new system he’s been messing around with. The law firm billing 70-hour weeks? They want leverage on their time, not a software project to design.

What if there was a bot that was just smart enough to figure those things out, without needing traditional "software"?

To me, that's more what AI is, instead of adding chatbots to everything, and vibecoding everything.

that's a good way to frame it, but it boils down to: what is it that these entities or individuals do that is valuable and how do you replicate parts or the whole of it.

which is essentially the direction that were heading in: we're sequentially and iteratively building improvements.

what the logistics company did pre computers and even pre trucks was not all that different in many aspects.

the future will be via evolution not revolution.

The bits I watched were so captivating I had to take them off, otherwise I wouldn't be getting anything done this afternoon.

Honestly, someone could adapt it to a script and run it in a live theater.

Now I know what I'm watching tonight!

Can you dynamically load code via eval?

(I know, I know, it's ugly and has its own set of problems)

I think there was a fallacy that suddenly the whole of the general public would rush to stop eating meat and would accept a meat-like substitute; and that vegetarians craved something that tasted like meat.

This of course was completely false, but far too many people let themselves get caught up in hype instead of reason.

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I remember having an excellent veggie burger at a bar, and then when I went back a year later, it was replaced by Beyond or Impossible, and the bar tender was pretty open about how it was gross but their distributor pushed it on them. That of course pissed off the vegetarians who didn't like meat and had no desire for a meat-like substitute.

"Forgiveness is easier than permission" only makes sense when you know what you're doing and understand the consequences. (IE, paying taxes a little late in the US is okay because the fine is roughly the same as the interest of holding the money in the bank.)

In the case of solar panels, I'm going to assume the OP is talking about something like a grid-scale solar farm instead of rooftop solar production:

1: You need an agreement with "the grid" to get payment for the electricity you generate.

2: Feeding electricity into a power grid is a very dangerous thing, at a minimum the grid operator needs to make sure you aren't going to cause a fire or otherwise break their equipment.

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That being said: If you're a homeowner trying to set up a small solar installation, you can pair the panels with batteries and skip feeding into the grid.

> and cooking with an oven is more of a special occasion thing than the default cooking method that it was before.

That really only makes sense if for households with a toaster oven, single adults, childless couples, and retired people. A toaster oven makes a lot more sense for small meals, in part because it can heat up much faster than a full oven.

Otherwise, a daily family meal isn't a special occasion.

> On the flip side, when I’m not familiar enough with the technology to be on top of the architecture, I tend to not catch bad decisions that the LLM makes. This leads to the LLM building more and more on top of those bad decisions, eventually getting in a state where it can’t untangle the mess. You know this happens when you keep telling the LLM the code doesn’t work, it says “I know why! Let me fix it” and keeps breaking things more and more.

That exact thing happens with people too! Specifically when a cheap entrepreneur hires a novice developer and can't give the developer appropriate mentoring and reviews.

That's actually very true, I didn't realize. Huh, interesting, thanks.

"Secret Mall Apartment" is a documentary on Netflix that includes a lot of the videos that Townsend took during the whole project. (There's a few stills in the article.)

It's quite interesting to watch, because Townsend himself is quite the character. There's a scene where he's having an argument with his (now ex) wife that shows that Townsend has extremely different priorities than the typical person. (And why his first marriage failed, too.)

The BBC used a kinescope much longer than the US. (A kinescope recorded TV to film.)

The US pushed a lot harder than Europe for videotape because kinescopes dropped frames off of American 60i frame rates, but worked really well for European 50i frame rates. Thus the BBC continued to use kinescopes for a long time.