Both the AMD Ryzen 395/495 and the Spark have terribly slow bandwidth, their performance is slower than a M2 max, akin to just an M4 Pro or RTX 4060.

Why? Loads fine on iOS 27 Safari.

Firefox on Android: scrolling is lagging, and when scrolling to far the text takes time to appear. Even text that was already there before.

The main animation is hungry.

If you were only paying $20 for LLMs previously then you were getting very low usage / little done.

I wouldn't allow your terminal full disk access, that's quite a risk vector.

That's legitimately a good idea. I just contributed more to open street map in 5 minute than I have in 15 years.

"The corpus, and the refresh that changed the answer" ... hello Opus 5.

It wasn’t just the LLM language, the sections “The corpus” and “What the data supports” were disjointed and unconvincing. Likely due to lack of human wrangling. Unfortunately they were the core of the analysis.

I found the article very hard to read. I have never used Opus 5 so not even negatively biased.

My brain at some point refused to read past paragraph 3 and I just felt defeat.

An article talking about astroturfing but so tone deaf as to not even rewrite its ai generated content to be human readable.

It truly feels like the dead internet.

Well done on getting that far. I noped out after the first sentence, and kicked myself for not realising it just based on the title.

EDIT: oh, hang on, I read some other comments, and it turns out there's an AI disclaimer - and, now I check again, it's true! There is! Well, fair enough then, but I think this disclaimer should come literally right at the start

I'm at the stage where I automatically assume everything as AI assisted, but am still willing to engage if there is some effort to humanize.

There is less than zero effort on this one. I don't even think the author read the output himself.

The article does state clearly first that it was first drafted with AI, I appreciate the author's honesty. I wish all AI-assisted articles would do the same.

Even better would be if the draft were written _first_ by a human, then edited in collaboration with AI.

I largely agree with this take. Unfortunately I think capitalism's political pressures have too much of a grip on society for there to be meaningful changes to the power dynamics that perpetuate the status quo.

We have the power to change this

Vote for the candidates that are willing to change the status quo.

I can't vote in America. The rest of the world is at the mercy of those within America that can as long as we're dependant on American products and services.

That's true, but you can support and encourage policy that would reduce your country's dependence on the US, especially when it does so by supporting local products and services. Not only would that be good for your local economy, but you gain resilience and security.

You can work to limit your own dependence a little as well. Seek out FOSS products and alternative services and replace what US run services you can as often as you can with them. Reject small conveniences that require giving large amounts of your data to US companies.

Surely it's simply software that has its own kernel, that could be booted to from BIOS/uEFI or any other low level hardware initialisation process.

Yeah that can't be right, my M5 Max gets almost those speeds and certainly lot faster than what they're claiming the M3 ultra gets. Maybe they didn't have the model setup right or were running it with some unnecessarily high quant (>=8bit).

Considering how far backwards Google has gone since the release of the 3.x models, the brain drain they've let happen, the lacklustre software ecosystem and their track record with product management ... I would say they're more likely to drop trying to compete at the frontier and try to focus on something else instead.