Software people want to be “engineers” when it’s prestigious and (financially) beneficial, but avoid the actual classification when it comes with industry standards of behaviour.
This may be true (I'm sure it is, but I haven't verified) but the large majority of people do not know this, which is why hearing "my retirement account is going to be forced to by a bunch of spacex at a $2.5T valuation" makes them.... uneasy.
Until prices hit the large hyperscalers, I don't think most people are going to make significant changes. You might see a small set of open source projects related to self hosting put in an effort, but in general, I don't think so.
Some big-tech orgs (that have their own hardware) will take costs into account, but they already do that. The "optimization" is more likely to be business-optimizations; "this can be slower if it uses less memory", rather than inventing new stuff.
Note that I am excluding any of the big AI labs. They are definitely going to be working to figure out how to use less memory, but that's primarily not related to the direct cost.
I may be lambasted for saying this, but I do not believe that Fox (or any large media company, really) should be permitted to purchase direct access to the TV hardware of roughly 30-50% of american households.
In one of the most impactful and pivotal eras of new-technology-regulation, it is terrible that the most inept group of people possible are the ones making regulatory decisions.
I don't know how fast they reacted, but shortly after their documented time I started getting opus availability errors from fable requests, which seemed odd.
I'd also think that they would transparently degrade, just to prevent production outages for clients that are requesting Fable explicitly.
> Builds change overnight, new versions every month with small updates.
Small updates are in no way throwing away the entire thing. A monthly update is not a start-from-scratch redevelopment. The old version was not disposed of in the way you are trying to imply.
> Craftsmanship will always be in our hands, it's one thing we can never outsource to a machine.
I'm right there with you, but this last sentence concerned me a bit.
In my most other "industries", craftsmanship is not _dead_, but it's been pushed to the wayside for (significantly) cheaper and more available alternatives. You can still get hand-made leather shoes, but very few want to pay $1000+ for them. You can still get art and paintings that someone poured weeks of work into, but most people buy their wall-art and chachkas at HomeGoods.
The main difference is the disposability assumption, and software is _unfortunately_ becoming more and more "disposable"[0], in the same way other products are. This mindset doesn't align well with software that must continue to operate in order to support some process. A disposable countdown app, sure, throw it away, but anything built around long running business processes should not be treated in that way.
I have concerns that focusing on software craftsmenship frames the issue as "boutique and bougie and unneccessarily expensive" vs "what I need for my usage", instead of "maintable and trustworthy" vs "disposable".
[0] Is that an initiative that benefits large model providers like OpenAI/Anthropic? maybe, but that's not my point here.
It’s a supply and demand thing. Google would definitely be buying from nvidia and setting up themselves if nvidia had the capacity.
SpaceX/xAi/musk are currently in a good market for “happening to own 100k cards we have nothing to do with”, and are exercising that control as hard as they can.
IIRC the large majority of their hardware (at least one tranche, they might have gotten more later) was Elon effectively stealing it from Tesla for xAI, saying “I’m personally doing Tesla a favor, since they can’t fully utilize it currently”, and is now renting that (stolen) compute to subsidize SpaceX.
> While aliens who were inspected and admitted or paroled may request adjustment of
status, as a general matter the discretionary approval of such a request is extraordinary given
Congress’s intent that aliens should depart once the purpose for which they sought parole or
nonimmigrant admission from DHS has been accomplished.
These are great improvements, it's good to see Apple investing in improvements like this (especially with the Vision Pro) but I can't help but feel that they utility will remain very low until they make the Vision Pro look significantly less distopian than it does.
The form-factor is a significant issue for real-world usage, and it's kind of unclear if there is a plan for a future product line given its (pretty abysmal) initial receiption.
I completely agree with the outlook, but from a practical standpoint (in the last couple of years) I have seen the opposite. The SOC2 process is often transformative ("should" vs "is" are not the same thing).
Especially smaller startups, who grew somewhat quickly, and now "want to get SOC2 because customers want it". In practice this also (often, unfortunately) means "not all employees should have AWS admin creds, we should have some separation between environments, and we should know who has access to what".
For these companies SOC2 "requirements" can be the business-value line item that can get proper security and access-control patterns in place.