- AI isn't bound by need for rest, vacations, sick days, or labor laws
- AI doesn't bounce from company to company, taking your business knowledge with it (actually this isn't technically true based on the practices of AI companies, but that's not a technical requirement)
- AI doesn't join a union and stop work in demand for higher pay or workers rights
This is what CEOS and capitalists are thinking. For capital, the best outcome is to not have any labor at all. And if you can do that when your competitors can't, then you have a huge market advantage. (Slop notwithstanding)
I'm not saying this is a "good thing" but this is what drives the market. Less labor revenue in the long term and money printing machines.
I'd like to see some software that can be used to connect and hack them (which has been already proven possible), erase any data, then fill their memory with tons and tons of out of place images. Take real traffic images, flip them in different orientations to slow down future training, throw in nonsense, etc. Leaving them in place and making them unreliable is a better solution - they can always put up another camera.
A Little Brother solution: they want data, give them so much bad data the rest of their data becomes worthless. But it only works on a mass scale.
I have to say this is one of my favorite things about local Qwen and Qwen code, it seems a heck of a lot faster that Claude and feels better to work with.
Problem is it is nowhere near as smart, so what speed I get in conversation gets killed by iteration.
Its pretty easy with a system like Readwise. Yes, that's ANOTHER system, but its one system to quickly just add articles like these to an inbox and read them another time, in plain text.
Of course, it doesn't work 100% and certain sites are hostile to it and do stupid javascript tricks "for the views".
Mostly, I use it to put it on a reading list later, and to get around really, really abusive ad driven sites.
Remember, Open Weight doesn't necc. mean local. They are probably running on a larger version online, closer to Claude specs. (lol and probably distilled from Claude)
This is how I feel about AI coding in general. I see business users getting excited about building 60% of an application themselves - but have zero clue that the remaining 40% will take 5x as long, and oh, by the way, you now have to maintain it for the next decade - and what happens when you leave and no one can figure out why payroll doesn't work anymore?
I didn’t take it that way at all. I took it as “I was blinded from the actual solution because my vision was artificially narrow due to my past experiences with this person.” They didn’t ask for help, their partner intervened for them with a completely different and more direct approach.
I have a kid going thru this right now. It’s very disheartening and frustrating to see, because even with coaching and help, they don’t see the help and suggestions as solutions because they simply can’t see it. And as a parent you don’t want to have to intervene, you want them to learn how to dig their way out of it. But it’s tough to get them to dig when they don’t believe in shovels.
I might consider F1 in that case as it has gained in popularity a lot, and technically it’s owned by a U.S. company, but I’d never think of it as a U.S. league.
Claude can use use tools to do that, and some different code indexer MCPs work, but that depends on the LLM doing the coding to make the right searches to find the code. If you are in a project where your helper functions or shared libs are scattered everywhere it’s a lot harder.
Just like with humans it definitely works better if you follow good naming conventions and file patterns. And even then I tend to make sure to just include the important files in the context or clue the LLM in during the prompt.
It also depends on what language you use. A LOT. During the day I use LLMs with dotnet and it’s pretty rough compared to when I’m using rails on my side projects. Dotnet requires a lot more prompting and hand holding, both due to its complexity but also due to how much more verbose it is.
I’d say they are batting .250 like everyone else.