I'm getting exhausted from all these AI vibe coded projects. Like this is cool, sure, but it's less cool than if someone had figured out how to do it themselves instead of having Claude do it. It's like chasing the dragon but for coding projects.
You chase the dragon by figuring out the problems over potentially a long period of time.
They are figuring out the problems and releasing various levels of POCs in a fraction of the time. It may not all be correct, but with how quick it is, there is plenty of time for refactoring if necessary.
> it's less cool than if someone had figured out how to do it themselves
Those people had 4 years to reverse-engineer iOS 16 on their own terms. I don't think there was any overwhelming technical motivation to spend time on a project like this.
I mean the GKC is a compromise considering the high cost of larger storage capacities for carts, driven especially by AI. They're just upfront about it. Sony and MS have been doing "game key discs" for years now but didn't provide a clear label for it.
There is zero rebound when it lands, that's a bit weird. I replayed that part a couple of times, it doesn't look like there is any vertical velocity at all when it lands, which, given SpaceX's ability to do this with much heavier objects should be no surprise but it makes it look as if the vehicle has very little mass. If the tanks contain 250Kg of compressed air (which means it is pretty much liquid) and you toss that out in ~1 second or so then you'll be near the end of the depletion so if the vehicle would be launched just a little bit higher it would slam into the ground instead of gently landing. There isn't much reserve there.
er, but it's also being propelled. Maybe they are able to ease off the thrusters so it's a soft landing.
I do think that this could only work for a short timespan and getting it to work perfectly each time with variances in weight would be hard. I'd imagine the thrusters and the tank would would wear out over time too, would be a nasty landing if only some of the thrusters worked.
His other company catches rockets, and there's no telling what mass would be remaining when it lands, since the exact path would only be estimated prior. I doubt it would have made a difference if it had 150kg off, whatever computer is controlling the thrusters is calculating in real time.
Any pressurized tanks or vessels have a finite lifespan. The multiple cycles from high to low pressure over time cause stress fractures in the tank. Take scuba tanks for example. They require periodic testing to certify that the tank is still safe to be filled to over 3000psi.
That said this car not only would cost stupid amounts of money but would also require specialized expensive lifetime maintenance.
Lastly as for the rocket flips and insanity I can only see that making sense to use in one scenario and that is a collision detection and the jets fire and the billionaire driving is magically saved and does die.
So they used some AI/drone-type balancing to work on gas tanks, then made it work for something as big as a car. That's the tech.
They were tossing around an oversized shell of a car and it is only physically capable of holding about as much as it used in the short demo, is that about right?
So what even is the point of this thing? What possible function in the world does this farting car serve besides... driving up Tesla's stock price?
>One dentist I saw for a number of years would try to insist I needed a dental implant for a missing molar and if I didn't all my teeth were going to come out alignment.
I'm in the same situation! I had an impacted molar when I got my wisdom teeth removed, and this dentist who is otherwise okay mentions it every time. I'm skeptical of its necessity and nice to see someone in the same boat
Yeah there was just a story about how there are hundreds of billions of dollars in "non-cancellable" debt obligations to build AI data centers. But they're building far beyond current demand, I feel like the collapse is inevitable.
I'm sensing sarcasm but is it not true that the scale of obligations is unsustainable?
As for preparation, I'm not sure. I have a 401k that I'm worried about. I'm too young to really remember the dotcom bubble, let alone have any stake in the stock market at the time.
When the bubble bursts it will depress valuations across the board, including the valuations of the good companies that will survive to eventually own significant market share. Buy those at those depressed prices and wait a decade.
The trick will be learning to tell the difference between the Google's and the pet.com's of the AI era. The trick during the dotcom situation was to look for companies that had actual gross profit and were reinvesting it, rather than companies that only had theoretical profit based on nonsense like market share and eyeballs.
Take Amazon as an example. They were $107 a share in 1999. By late 2001, it had fallen to under $6. Now they are $250. It still took almost 10 years to recover.
Is there anyone in the AI sector that is making profit and re-investing it? I guess that really only applies to Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc. that other lines of business to prop up their AI divisions, vs. companies like OpenAI and Anthrophic. I wonder where NVIDIA will land...
Google is making money on it. However, that's coming at the expense of the very free web they built it from. So they have a different problem that may be unsolvable.
Worst part is that some of the companies that survived the dot com era are the new "...but on the internet" companies except now it's "...but with chat bot"
It's half sarcasm, half my frustration in the way ai crash proponents behave in general
if you proclaim that there's an inevitable doom - propose preparations *people you're talking to* can take
when I hear about nuclear doom, I see preppers discussing bunkers and how rich people buy land in Argentina to evacuate to
when I hear about stock market crash, I see people discussing some famous super-investor moving his money into coca-cola, because food would always have a demand
even bloody "the end is nigh" apocalypse junkies continue with "go to church" (or smth similar) in the very next sentence
what can YOU suggest ME as the next action? not for the government to do something, not for the whole market - how do you suggest ME to prepare? what do you suggest *I* will experience?
at best, our approximation of ai bust is the dotcom - and that happened beyond current generation's memory. At best surviving context is "and the ruin left a lot of cheap fiber laid out all around the world", so... we'll get a lot of cheap ai then? good
Nobody Knows. The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Having cash in reserve to deploy in the aftermath of a crash is golden. If that happens you look great, if that doesn't happen for the next 5 years, you miss out on the interim gains.
Keep investing, diversify, have some reserves. Try to be less anxious about things. Exercise, sleep, be grateful for things you have.
Not every inevitability can be mitigated. We're each and every one going to die. The sun will die. The universe will wind down. Embrace it, don't pretend you can avoid it.
Except we don't get cheap AI this go round. It's just a bunch of e-waste that can't even be repurposed into server in the closet back at the office because each server needs about 100kW of power.
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