I mean the initial translation kind of works too.

And the airing of said laundry achieves what exactly? I don't see any knock on effect from that dirty laundry being aired, other than entertaining the masses with new scandal and signaling to the rest of the world that the US is not to be trusted.

> the airing of said laundry achieves what exactly?

No midterm routs in China.

For Europe, the answer is using homegrown metal, even if it is severely underpowered, and accepting that it will be running American and Chinese open-source models for the near future. (The French lobbyists looked likely to turn Mistral into another Arianespace, but they’ll be resisting implosion for at least another year.)

It's the feedback loop of democracy.

If you don't think it's important or needed, well, there is still a lot for you to learn.

You are delusional and indoctrinated.

US per capita spending on healthcare: $13,473 per person

China per capita spending on healthcare: ~$763 per person

Both have average life expectancy of 79 years. LITERALLY China has better healthcare, better housing, literally better in all the ways that count.

What does our "democracy" get us exactly???

sourness is a pointy quality. sweetness is more rounded and smooth.

When hn first started taking llms seriously maybe, 2-3-4 years ago (?) one of the most interesting recurring comments was that the real research goals in the field would be reducing cost, doing more with fewer parameters, making lean models, and generally improving efficiency. Of course, those research goals run counter to the need to raise capital and do massive real estate land grabs for data centers, so they are not being prioritized by the top firms running the bubble game.

Wow, I feel this deeply. I work with bad software. It is bad because people built it using tools that were designed to "make coding easier". I feel a cold chill imagining the level of institutional cruft that could be allowed to build up with unrestrained ai coding.

With that said - the process of fixing those old mistakes is greatly aided by llms... but you still need to understand what you are fixing, and understanding why giant blocks of code are copy-pasted everywhere, or why convoluted hacks evolved over time as reactions to bizarre underlying untreated bugs is, imo, ultimately a human/organizational/processes problem.

Anyway I think you are bang on.

There's a minimum threshold of knowing what you don't know that's needed I think.

Below that the AI will need to get good enough to compensate for people's lack of knowledge. But that will cost money so not sure how it's going to be balanced.

I have friends codebases where I had them just run a stupid simple prompt like "spawn subagents to find the top 5 worst issues in this codebase".

Wide open APIs allowing anyone to modify the database and charge customers among other things. The mere awareness of needing to secure things is lacking from most vibe coders.