Yes, people do need to take some personal responsibility, but also corporations engineering products that are unhealthy and addictive and marketers spending billions to convince people its good stuff… is not a great system.

Why does our environment need to be so adversarial?

They may not be useful to you… but you can’t speak for everyone.

You are incorrect on inference costs. But yes training models is expensive and the economics are concerning.

I would bet on LLMs being around and continuing to be useful for some subset of coding in 10 years.

I would not bet my retirement funds on current AI related companies.

I would agree that the interest will wain in some domains where they aren’t aiding in productivity.

But LLMs for coding are productive right now in other domains and people aren’t going to want to give that up.

Inference is already financially viable.

Now, I think what could crush the SOTA models is if they get sued into bankruptcy for copyright violations. Which is a related but separate thread.

What do you expect to replace LLM coding?

It makes me a bit sad that there is a whole article on a (very likely) mirage

Thanks this seems like really good information. I’ve never heard of this…

73 violations involving slave labour, 1 with child labour, am I reading that right?

500 million was specific to Claude Code, they are at 5 billion annual run rate and growing

I mean, I agree that a lot of money was spent training some of these models - and I personally wouldn’t invest in an ai based company. The economics dont make sense.

However, worst case, self hosted open source models have got pretty good, and I find it unlikely that progress will simply stop. Diminishing returns from scaling data yes, but there will still be optimizations all through the pipeline.

That is to say, LLMs will continue to have utility regardless if Open AI and Anthropic are around long term.

Some people are finding value in LLMs, that doesn’t mean LLMs are great at everything.

Some people have work to do, and this is a tool that helps them do their work.

The ‘cloud’ was a pretty big thing though… everyone used to self host, now only some self host.

AWS, GCP, Azure make a lot of money

Sure. Statscounter has a history of questionable data. They don’t have a representative sample of websites, and there are technical challenges.

Finland is a small population so would suffer from sample size issues.

What catalyst is there to drive an almost 4x market share growth? And the collapse of Mac?

Flip through a few countries, you can tell they are having issues with OS classification.

Yeah this is very likely bad data. This whole post should be deleted.

Yeah exactly!

Could this be attributed to the driver mix changing?

It’s quite possible tesla drivers are worse in 2025 than 2024

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I’ve never seen an LLM response be cavalier with credentials.

Lower population in of itself is a good thing.

It’s the change that is disruptive and will cause suffering in ways that are unique to the suffering caused by over population.

As population growth slows, the younger generation needs to support more elderly. Which means we need some combination of:

Working population being more productive. Population making do with less.

However you approach it, there will be segments of the population that are very unhappy.

The library is appealing to me because:

Precedence: pre internet I could connect to the library over a landlines and access the library and community news.

Expertise: not necessarily deep tech expertise, but with information retrieval, curation, education.

Community access: libraries are a municipal service with brick and mortar locations, and are heavily involved with community/public engagement.

For clarity, on the fediverse instance aspect. I was thinking more read only, with users being more official organizations with a barrier of entry vs. The general public. I personally wouldn’t want libraries to be moderating public discourse - this should be arms reach. And wouldn’t want them worrying about liability.

Public information (like safety bulletins for example) shouldn’t exclusively be sitting on a for profit ad platform, it’s bizarre.