how convenient

the rust community is trash tho. such bad personalities all around. "mirrors" the issues with the nix community tbh..

I agree that the rust community tends to be pretty toxic, but I don't think that is a good reason to avoid tools just because they use rust under the hood. You don't have to participate in the git dev community, let alone the rust community, to use git as your VCS.

I think one thing about git needing rust (or python or Perl) is that each language dependency adds another good sized chunk of storage for the language and its tools/packager, I have a relatively light project using Tauri Svelte and code mirror, my build directory/cache becomes 18gb in the blink of an eye, that's a whole bloated modern operating system as a side effect of building a text editor, I should just wrap webkit-GTK around a redbean with some js libs in a directory, script the middleware in Lua and call it a day :D And don't get me wrong I like the development workflow with Tauri, it feels very performant, and easy to reason with, just the sheer disk space makes me boggle!

astra is more parlor tricks than real gains tbh

i swear they trained in on threejs in particular so those idiots on twitter could spam their garbage demos

I strongly disagree. I'm working on a semantic model for Lojban, heavily AI assisted, using multiple models. I have basically all popular frontier models doing research and panel debates. Astra and Fable are both noticeably ahead of everything else including their previous iterations. When it comes to reviews, they can also find more issues in others (or even their own) code.

I'm sure that's part of it, but I run it side by side in my review bot, and Astra medium effort consistently catches more issues than Sol 5.6, using fewer tokens.

For coding it's a little harder to tell, but at least the prose feels a little better.

and that hunger for compute has made it so true personal computing freedom is inaccessible. A convenient future where all compute is for rent only..

Yes, LLMs with unbounded capabilities can just be tantamount to viruses.

i think (criminal) negligence is more like it

AI parlor tricks yet again

why wouldn't the FSD company itself integrate into insurance? they have the error rate data which is king for insurance. seems like free real estate.

I think that's a smart point and seems likely to be attempted.

It presents interesting questions, though. Right now, insurance companies are incentivized to fight for their customer in court against the other driver because they don't want to pay out.

But if the FSD provider is also the insurer, they aren't a neutral party if the dispute is between whether FSD is to blame or if the driver is to blame. It could become adversarial, let's say if the data in the car shows the driver wasn't looking at the road at the moment of the crash and therefore wasn't ready to take over for self-driving.

There might be ways around this, but it's a challenge to overcome. I'd want my insurance company to protect me against my FSD provider, too.

(My point is complicated by the fact that liability coverage is separate, admittedly. My insurer might not want to pay out if I was driving drunk, for example.)

Waymo is first to market by retrofitting a bunch of Jaguars nobody else would buy. They can keep that arbitrage up for a while.

They've already started using other models, both ioniq 5s and I think Zeekrs.

I agree that Waymo doesn't need to ramp up manufacturing themselves until they really start hitting walls with vehicle makers, or want tighter integration with the vehicle.

Conveniently the same CM builds the Jaguar SUVs and fits Waymo hardware to vehicles.

it's not marketing. it's an internal culture (emphasis on cult) that's high in its own supply.