> The trend, hinted by stuff like GPT-4o and proven by MetaQuery, looks modular.
Could you make this more explicit? What modularity is hinted at by 4o? The OpenAI blog post you cite (and anything else I've casually heard about it) seems to only imply the opposite.
Completely unrelated to anything I'm just taking this as an opportunity to yell this into the void while nix is on topic:
I have a theory that a problem for Nix understanding and adoption out of all apparent proportion is its use of ; in a way that is just subtly, right in the uncanny valley, different from what ; means in any other language.
In the default autogenerated file everyone is given to start with, it immediately hits you with:
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ foo ];
How is that supposed to read as a single expression in a pure functional language?
Also, though it's not "new information": "Making AI that is smarter than almost all humans at almost all things [...] is most likely to happen in 2026-2027." continues to sail over everybody's head, not a single comment about it, even to shit on it. People will continue to act as though they are literally blind to this, as though they literally don't see it.
^ This is publicly new information, and the 2nd part especially contradicts consequential rumours that had been all-but-cemented in closely-following outsiders' understanding of Sonnet and Anthropic. Completely aside from anything else in this article.
See also the Mark 14 torpedo, the primary American torpedo in WWII, which didn't actually work for the first 2 years of the war because they had never bothered to actually test it because it would be too expensive.
I don't really understand where the dividing line is between Jungle and Drum and Bass, but I'm pretty sure Foregone Destruction is on the DnB side of it.
Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In An Electric Guitar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n02tImce3AE
Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In A Guitar Amplifier? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcBEOcPtlYk