- What you do at Initech is you take the specifications from the customer and bring them down to the prompt engineers?
- Yes, yes that's right.
- Well then I just have to ask why can't the customers take them directly to the vibe coding software people?
- Well, I'll tell you why... because... engineers are not good at dealing with customers...
- So you physically take the specs from the customer?
- Well... No. My secretary does that... or they're faxed.
- So then you must physically bring them to the software people?
- Well... No. ah sometimes.
- What would you say you do here?
- Look I already told you, I deal with the @#$% customers so the prompt engineers don't have to. I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people, can't you understand that? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!
This is the problem with so many modern companies. Instead of focusing on building great products that their customers will enjoy using, they're trying to build relationships with users.
Maybe I'm overthinking things, but to me "user" implies a different more subordinate role where you take what you get, there's no "the customer is always right" when it comes to "users".
> It turns out that NSFW activities account for "well over half" of Grok's traffic, according to a new report in The Information that cites two former employees of the SpaceX-owned company.
> Well over half of Grok's overall traffic is driven by pornographic images and videos, adult role-play chats or other such activity, according to the report
I think companies should do this too, in a smaller scale. Proxy all LLM traffic to and from your employees, and use it to fine tune a smaller local model.
Doesn't "real" distillation use the logits instead of the final tokens? I would classify this more like using a model to generate synthetic training data.
Looks really nice. You might consider adding some presets to make it easier to get started, like some common neural net architectures and other use cases for TikZ.
How would you best utilize a model like this for coding? I take it it's not meant for vibe coding a full app, and the reasoning probably makes it unsuitable for autocomplete. Would you use it to implement specific functions? I looked at one of the coding benchmarks used, Live Code Bench, and it seems to be problem descriptions with sample input and output, and then a solution with a single function or class.
Seems like a really good model to use in an IDE when you still want control over the code structure then.
Am I understanding the ballooning part right that this doesn't allocate all of the VM memory from the host until it's needed, and releases memory automatically when it's not needed anymore? So you can overprovision memory with multiple guests as long as the guests aren't using the memory at the same time?
Google recently released their paper "Image Generators are Generalist Vision Learners" about exactly this. They fine tuned Nano Banana pro into what they call Vision Banana which can do segmentation etc.
Is this another circular investment to help pump up the stock valuation? Why would Google need to rent that much compute?
> Google parent Alphabet has made a windfall from backing SpaceX, which was worth $12 billion at the time of its 2015 investment, and is looking to go public at a valuation of over $1.75 trillion
If Russian GNSS receivers wasn't affected they wouldn't need fiber optic drones, Ukraine is jamming both the small and large drones. Russia have both their own Kometa system to try to filter out the jamming signals, and plenty of Chinese tech as well.
Russian technology is very dependent on both western and Chinese tech, yet they couldn't even defend their own oil refineries in St Petersburg or make any relevant progress along the front in years.
Not only Poland, they have jammers around St Petersburg as well which affects Finland, there have been reports about boats losing GNSS reception in Swedish waters, etc. This has been going on for years.
It's not completely true, but there are hundreds of thousands of visas given to Russian tourists each year by European countries, something that's hopefully will get corrected soon.
> According to data cited in Wednesday's letter, which was seen by Reuters, 477,878 Schengen visas were issued to Russian citizens for tourism in 2025, up from 440,558 in 2024.
- Yes, yes that's right.
- Well then I just have to ask why can't the customers take them directly to the vibe coding software people?
- Well, I'll tell you why... because... engineers are not good at dealing with customers...
- So you physically take the specs from the customer?
- Well... No. My secretary does that... or they're faxed.
- So then you must physically bring them to the software people?
- Well... No. ah sometimes.
- What would you say you do here?
- Look I already told you, I deal with the @#$% customers so the prompt engineers don't have to. I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people, can't you understand that? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!