After months of dodging the question until it became clear he was the only electable one.

Joke: That’s part of the psyop broooo

On the vape thing, I always find it funny when people conflate big tobacco and vaping industry. They’re completely separate aside from Big T initially desperately trying to get it banned and now trying to get it on it.

Oh I know, it’s just what I see in every thread when some kind of outage or major bug is discovered. Half the comments are hurrdurr probably vibecoded.

A large majority definitely hate it to the point of having blinders on for sure.

On one side you have corpo hype/lies, and the other is LLM is slop garbage and terrible for anything, also developers wrote perfect code before LLMs and now everything that breaks is AI slop caused.

They’re putting copilot in everything, it’s not just github that has copilot lmfao

“They’re burning cash too fast”

Their most recent earnings was 82.9B just last quarter, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

One of my cats absolutely loves cardboard cupholders.

Restaurants or retail = get fucked

Its definitely the latter, you don’t make it to this point without knowing how to play the game.

I didnt mean to imply one is entitled to forgiveness, though I doubt many of the people pearl clutching were actually impacted by his actions, particularly when it’s a bunch of hawkish Democrats who would gladly send the military to kill more innocents without a second thought but love trying to find ways to have moral outrage over Platner’s past.

There is some real problematic shit, but he’s saying the right progressive things, which is why the establishment is trying to fling as much shit at him as possible.

Because unless proven otherwise giving people the ability to grow and change is a good moral thing to do.

Mods my friend

Idk why babies don’t just pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

I think the reality is open source and normal people are who continuously push progress forward, how much of the internet scaffolding is literally on the backs of open source projects?

A shit load.

LLMs are no different, and I can’t agree with you that open source models are not a threat to the big players.

I’m not sure why you’re downplaying what I’m saying about extending access and lowering prices, yes of course corporations don’t do it out of the goodness of their capitalist hearts, but history shows that it does in fact reduce in cost over time, which was your initial point. “Oh must be nice for you that you can afford $20 a month and have your own homelab to self host models.”

I grew up lower middle class, my home was repossesed by the bank during the housing crisis and my parents divorced.

I moved out at 18 and joined the workforce and have managed to get a middle-class wage via my efforts and a bit of luck. I hate my job and the morons in charge but the job market is shit.

I love open source software and the ideas beyond knowledge and work should be shared with others so we can all benefit (which is unfortunately not how this capitalist system works) and yet we have Linux, we have an amazing amount of open source projects that people do simply because they want to. Those are the people we should support and the ones who freely train and fine tune open source models.

To your point about “software doesn’t become faster with time” mother fucker I remember windows 95, you’re delusional if you don’t think we’ve come an insane amount. I remember webpages taking minutes to load, interlacing vs non to help with image loading.

In the realm of LLMs, the software itself on the open source side has improved leaps and bounds in just the past 6 months on my same hardware.

I understand your negativity, it’s hard not to fall into it when the world is how it is right now and things feel like (and are) getting worse in most ways.

Phones require specialized hardware and designing, to run and produce, LLMs only require normal consumer grade hardware and the desire to learn how to make it work. Will it ever be mainstream? Based on Linux vs Windows/Mac, probably not, but that doesn’t mean it’s pointless or impossible.

I’d also assume better awareness, and screening procedures, much like audhd spectrum folks.

I’m just showing that as technology progresses and scales it generally becomes cheaper and peoples access increases, again were literally on the internet now and have phones in our pockets that can do it, whereas 40 years ago PCs were much more expensive and internet was slow as hell.

We shouldn’t trust big tech, I’m on Lemmy so that should be a bit of a given lol.

You realize a majority of Americans work at places where they can’t/won’t offer electric car charging, and live in apartments or similar where that’s also not an easy option.

You don’t have to delegate thinking, I’m sure many people will but it’s absolutely not a requirement for using LLMs as the intended tool they are.

On the topic of price, I’m sure people were saying the same things about books (oh must be nice you can afford books), then the same about computers and the internet. They eventually became more affordable.

Not even going to touch the “I couldn’t understand economic heardship” aspect.

Its getting better all the time, its crazy how much better consumer level hardware can run competent models (even if it’s lower params) these days compared to just 6 months ago.

I still don’t get it