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jimmaswell | on: GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
No killer product? Coding assistants and LLM's in general are the single most awe-inspiring achievement of humanity in my lifetime, technological or otherwise. They've already massively improved my and others' lives and they're only going to get better. If pre and post industrial revolution used to be the major binary delineation of our history, I'm fairly confident it will soon be seen as pre and post AI instead.
pdntspa | parent | next
I know right? 8-year-old me dreamed of being able to articulate software to a computer without having to write code. It (along with the original Stable Diffusion) are Definitely one of the coolest inventions to ever come along in my lifetime
zozbot234 | parent | next
Coding assistants are currently quite hard to run locally with anything like SOTA abilities. Support in the most popular local inference frameworks is still extremely half-baked (e.g. no seamless offload for larger-than-RAM models; no support for tensor-parallel inference across multiple GPUs, or multiple interconnected machines) and until that improves reliably it's hard to propose spending money on uber-expensive hardware one might be unable to use effectively.
dash2 | root | parent | next
This is an argument against the grandparent's points (1) and (2), not their point (3).
zozbot234 | root | parent
It's one clear argument for the (so get to work!) part.
sunir | root | parent
Computers get better and cheaper. That’s not a forever problem.
doctorwho42 | root | parent
Source?

GPU and RAM prices have definitely not made consumer PC's cheaper than they were before bitcoin blew up or before AI blew up.

Maybe you could make an argument that they are more cost efficient for the price point... But that's not the same as cheaper when every application or program is poorly optimized. For example why would a browser take up more than a GB or two of RAM?

And I'd postulate that R&D to develop localized AI is another example, the big players seem hellbent that there needs to be a most and it's data centers... The absolute opposite of optimization

bitexploder | parent | next
No killer products... just robots that can do vulnerability analysis at the level of a decent security engineer and write code without tiring.
allan_s | parent | next
I've also been using the LLM in Posthog and it has been impressive. I need to check if I can also plug a MCP/Skill to my actual claude code so that I can cross reference the data from my other data source (stripe, local database, access logs etc.) for in depth analysis
chris_ivester | root | parent
This might be up your alley - have Posthog and a ton of other SaaS tools connected so you can run analysis across quant/qualitative data sources: https://dialog.tools
Covenant0028 | parent | next
> Coding assistants and LLM's in general are the single most awe-inspiring achievement of humanity in my lifetime

Landing a man on the moon is way more impressive. Finding several vaccines for a once in a century pandemic within a year of its outbreak is and achievement that in its impact and importance dwarfs what the entire LLM industry put together has achieved. The near-complete eradication of polio, once again, way more important and impactful.

jimmaswell | root | parent
Those are all good things, but with the current AI boom we've invented something with the potential to invent those kinds of things on its own, if not now then in the near future. It's far more important and impactful to invent a digital mind that can invent an arbitrary number of vaccines than to just invent one vaccine, no matter how hard it was to invent the vaccine by hand.
rimliu | parent
yeah, painting yourself into a corner at 10x speed is hardly the most awe-inspiring achievement of humanity.