If you take their cookie for dropping their bombs - it seems like you’ve earned whatever blame comes your way for the people you kill. It never seems like much blame makes it back anyways

I hope the rest of the world follows suit. Can you imagine the human misery venture capital could inflict by pursuing this vertical?

Yes, it already exists and it's called dating apps

Dating apps are dead. Get with the times. It's 2026.

> Not building the technology deprives humanity of benefits or simply places AI in the hands of authoritarian powers

Can someone clarify this for me? How far along would the open weight models be without the frenzied pace of the frontier labs?

As a non-US citizen, which authoritarian powers is he referring to? As far as I'm aware, the US is the only country using frontier models to conduct air strikes on civilians and orchestrate assassinations of foreign governments.

> As a non-US citizen, which authoritarian powers is he referring to? As far as I'm aware, the US is the only country using frontier models to conduct air strikes on civilians and orchestrate assassinations of foreign governments.

Israel is doing that too.

I believe Russia and Ukraine have both also used AI powered autonomous drones in warfare at this point - tho probably not frontier ones, since they need to run on device or else they're not autonomous.

> Iran and Houthi rebels used Anthropic's Claude AI to target US warships and build hypersonic missiles — Houthi rebels also used the bot to code ballistic missile guidance systems

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

And the source for the claim does not even clear the bar for r/bodybuilding, because it’s “trust me bro.”

Yeah the Chinese fear-mongering falls a bit flat when coming from a point of maintaining US supremacy

I'm pretty new to choosing compression libraries - I started with zlib and was delighted at how much faster and smaller zstd made things.

Since we kind of need a default "Need to compress something? Use this!" setting - would you prefer zlib over zstd, or something else for that role?

The only reason to pick anything but zstd is that platform support might be better.

If your platform/sdk/browser/standard-library comes with zlib/gzip/.. then it's often easier to just pick that.

No new dependencies is always a win. App size. Security, etc.

Otherwise, if zstd is easy to add, IMO I would always prefer, zstd, lz4 or brotli.

zstd or lz4

Great read - the main takeaway I had was “Spokes has an insane replication protocol for a database (Git) with such low write rates”. Leader/follower + LSN Binlog, WAL, whatever - just not their distributed systems nightmare coordination system

Yes, but much more slowly. And if they realize halfway through implementation that there is a better way to do it, but they are under pressure to deliver, they wont have time to rewrite it and will live with the consequences of that decision forever

> And if they realize halfway through implementation that there is a better way to do it, but they are under pressure to deliver, they wont have time to rewrite it and will live with the consequences of that decision forever

I've never really seen that. What I've seen is the much pragmatic take of marking the source code with a few comments to highlight the problematic areas and then goes on with the implementation. Refactoring can always be done later when the first batch of value has been extracted.

There's always tradeoffs to balance and perfection is something you inch towards, not something you get done in one go.

Speed doesn’t matter.

I take it you're not working at a startup?

I’ve worked at plenty of startups. It still does not matter, it never has.

For beings with finite lifespans, time is precious

it does if you are writing the checks, it doesn’t if you cashing the checks

I genuinely doubt it. Amdahl’s law will always reign supreme.

"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."

...as Mickey Mouse was fond of telling me as I waiting for the ride at Disney World. Or it was my drill instructor. can't remember which.