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AI generated. The photo with Sam Altman has a hint of actual kindness and empathy in the eyes.

These can be flagged and reported to mods btw. We don't have to accept this.

I have been!

I think that runway has run out /s

The assumption that's conveniently left out is that the milestones are realistic

The irony is that "good" code and good documentation have top priority now in most orgs. For decades the best developers have been screaming about good code and documentation but leadership couldn't give a fuck. But now that their favorite nepobaby is here, now it's the most important thing all of a sudden.

What nepobaby are you talking about?

AI is the world's biggest nepo_hire_ (sorry, not nepobaby).

Microsoft Always Chickens Out

So close to April Fool's too. I'm sure it will still be a surprise for a majority of their users.

Who needs terabyte hard drives when all your photos can stored as plaintext prompts instead. Finally, the perfect storage format!

There is actually some work on doing this; after all, an imagegen model is simply a very large number of images that have been compressed together. Given a stable model and a means of inferring a prompt for an image, you can then generate a base image and store compressed deltas on top of it.

(of course the limit case of this is Samsung moon replacement)


why does this need a full OS?

Hi ares Most current agent frameworks run on the host machine, which creates two big issues: security and environment consistency .

Allowing the agent to operate within a desired operating system is like giving it arms, eyes, and hands in its preferred environment—it’s vital:

the agent has access to files, can read and modify them, create and modify the machine, browse the web or run your apps without restrictions.

In short, we can create an infinite number of use cases by removing permission barriers and granting the AI access to the operating system’s capabilities. The tests we ran were quite impressive: the program runs 10 times faster than in traditional environments like Claudecode, etc. It detects and resolves issues we hadn’t even anticipated in record time. It has access to the environment’s background functions like write_file, read_file, etc. This allows it to write files and use apps in the background without even needing to move.

Furthermore, it removes the security barrier because the agent runs in a dedicated virtual machine; so if a problem arises, we have access to snapshots of our machine’s current state.

Doing this on an unprotected system would be suicidal from a security standpoint.


How is that different than letting the agent run with YOLO mode enabled as sudo in a VM on an existing OS/distro?

But with AI now is your/everyone's chance!

AI might help you with building the thing that you want. But AI can't help you with finding out what is worthwhile wanting.

See also Rich Hickey's remarks on AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLDwbhuNvZo


It was sarcasm. My point was that with AI, anyone has a chance to make their name about this "amazing new tech" just like Rich and contemporaries did in the 2010's. Not AI as the means to an end, but as the end in itself.

Supposedly. If the productivity boost is good for commercial software it's good for open source.

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