William Gibson himself worked on it so my hopes are high. All great books are difficult to adapt and none of them will ever match what we imagined ourselves while reading them.
I'm hyped for this, hope it makes justice to the book. The cast looks spot on, let's see how they imagined Freeside, Chiba and my favourite: the orbital Rastafarian colony Zion.
I grew up on a farm, we had a lot of goats and on the weekends and summer I had to help out herding them between feeding spots, keep an eye on them (they're so good at jumping fences). I was very lonely and coped by reading all Jules Verne's books and then while herding the goats I'd daydream my own book spinoffs (with me as the main character, of course). I'd invent entire worlds around me in those oak forests. It's hard to explain how important that was for me, I now look back and cherish that time, those goats.
Yes. The "surprising" part of the article is when the castration is performed.
(So this doesn't end up just another RTFA thread, an interesting factoid: the "bellwether" is the castrated -- and thus relatively docile -- sheep that wears a bell, helping track the flock.)
1) Claude Code (Claude Teams Premium seat) plus pi.dev (self-hosted GLM-5.3) at work, Claude Pro at home. Opus 5.5 Extra effort for ~99% of the prompts.
2) Not really, messed around with Openrouter and Deepseek for some stuff that Claude refused to do
3) I use Claude Desktop (Linux) and a heavily modified pi.dev at work VSCode as IDE. At home just use the iOS app and Claude Desktop (Windows).
4) No
5) I have Hermes Agent setup at work and home but don't really use it.
At dayjob we're also using self-hosted GLM-5.3 via our flavour of pi.dev but teams still have discretionary power over using Claude Code or not (there's a team's budget to spend on whatever the team decides). Some teams like mine still like to use Claude Code for a lot of the work but most stuff doesn't require the latest and greatest LLM and can be done with "lesser" LLMS by simply throwing a lot of tokens and compute to it.
Why not an arachnoid form factor with wheels too? Like the tachikomas[0] from Ghost in the Shell world. It usually drives with its wheels but when needed it can use its legs like a spider/insect would. Much more efficient and versatile (and stable) than bipedal form factor IMHO.
They do have those, but the leg mechanisms don't have the same dynamic range as a humans' so they end up getting stuck in doorways, narrow stairwells, or other places which assume bi-pedals. Making them narrow enough to fit, makes them too short to reach the same heights assumed for adult humans, so they can't do the same thing.
The height vs width form factor kills the whole idea as a general solution.
I wonder if we're missing the much simpler thought of "Heelys for robots?" Put wheels in the feet so it can move with a quickness, but also let them step around when they need to maneuver into our spaces.
might struggle to get into narrow spaces that a human could fit. wheels and legs do seem like a good idea though and a robot on rollar skates does sound awesome.
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