Looks nice but not open source
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xiphias2 commented on Jules, our asynchronous coding agent blog.google/technology/go... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
What kind of things are you coding while “on the road”? Phone addiction aside, the UX of tapping prompts into my phone and either collaborating with an agent, or waiting for a background agent to do its thing, is not very appealing.
Mainly thinking about what are the minimum testable changes that I can give to codex to work on the background.
Tapping the prompts in is the easy part, but async model is different to work with, I feel more like a manager, not a co-developer.
xiphias2 commented on Jules, our asynchronous coding agent blog.google/technology/go... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Good to see competition for Codex. I think cloud-based async agents like Codex and Jules are superior to the Claude Code/Aider/Cursor style of local integration. It's much safer to have them completely isolated from your own machine, and the loop of sending them commands, doing your own thing on your PC and then checking back whenever is way better than having to set up git worktrees or any other type of sandbox yourself
I agree but I just love codex-1 model that is powering codex and see pro 2.5 as inferior.
It's interesting that most people seem to prefer local code, I love that it allows me to code from my mobile phone while on the road.
we have always been building in the open, and so is Ollama. All the core pieces of Ollama are open. There are areas where we want to be opinionated on the design to build the world we want to see.
There are areas we will make money, and I wholly believe if we follow our conscious we can create something amazing for the world while making sure we can keep it fueled to keep it going for the long term.
Some of the ideas in Turbo mode (completely optional) is to serve the users who want a faster GPU, and adding in additional capabilities like web search. We loved the experience so much that we decided to give web search to non-paid users too. (Again, it's fully optional). Now to prevent abuse and make sure our costs don't go out of hand, we require login.
Can't we all just work together and create a better world? Or does it have to be so zero sum?
I wanted to try web search to increase my privacy but it wanted to do login.
For Turbo mode I understand the need for paying but the main poing of running a local model with web search is browsing from my computer without using any LLM provider. Also I want to get rid of the latency to US servers from Europe.
If ollama can't do it, maybe a fork.
xiphias2 commented on “No tax on tips” is an industry plant newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee
What confuses me most is when you are given the option to give a tip before any service has been given. On deliveroo, for example, I have the option to tip the driver while I'm at the checkout. Why would I give a reward for good service when I have no idea if the service is even good? There's already a rider fee as part of my bill, so it doesn't make any sense to me to give them more money at that point
It might be a way for them to prioritize your order before others as they see how much money they earn, so actually it's a bidding process disguised as tipping. I'm not sure if it's shown in the backend though, but I have seen things like this in other delivery apps.
>Brussels is reacting with new support plans
Pure insanity. The money the government or the EU in this case, has, comes from corporations who pay taxes or people who work for the corporations and then pay taxes.
The government financially supporting corporations is just giving the profits of one company to another company. Which does exactly nothing to make the economy at large better. It also punishes successful corporations, because they now have to pay for the losses of other sectors.
What is desperately needed are better conditions for business. First and foremost the electricity prices have to come down. You can not have successful industry with electricity prices this high. The entire continent is suffering from it yet the measures taken to do anything about it are miniscule. Europe needs energy production right now to keep it's industry afloat.
Energy prices in Europe went up because US didn't want Europe to import cheap gas from its natural neigbour continent.
Everybody who really wants knows which country benefited the most from the Nordstream pipeline being destroyed.
Of course I agree with all the other points that you have made, but at least this part wasn't just Brussels administration.
xiphias2 commented on I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well goto10retro.com/p/vibe-co... · Posted by u/ibobev
4o is not even a coding model and very far from the best coding models OpenAI has, I seriously don't understand why these articles are upvoted so much
xiphias2 commented on OpenAI delays launch of open-weight model twitter.com/sama/status/1... · Posted by u/martinald
An interesting comparison.
Table saws sold all over the world are inspected and certified by trusted third parties to ensure they operate safely. They are illegal to sell without the approval seal.
Moreover, table saws sold in the United States & EU (at least) have at least 3 safety features (riving knife, blade guard, antikickback device) designed to prevent personal injury while operating the machine. They are illegal to sell without these features.
Then of course there are additional devices like sawstop, but it is not mandatory yet as far as I'm aware. Should be in a few years though.
LLMs have none of those board labels or safety features, so I'm not sure what your point was exactly?
They are somewhat self regulated, as they can cause permament damage to the company that releases them, and they are meant for general consumers without any training, unlike table saws that are meant for trained people.
An example is the first Microsoft bot that started to go extreme rightwing when people realized how to make it go that direction. Grok had a similar issue recently.
Google had racial issues with its image generation (and earlier with image detection). Again something that people don't forget.
Also an OpenAI 4o release was encouraging stupid things to people when they asked stupid questions and they just had to roll it back recently.
Of course I'm not saying that that's the real reason (somehow they never say that the problem is with performance for not releasing stuff), but safety matters with consumer products.
xiphias2 commented on Nvidia won, we all lost blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/po... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
TSMC can only make about as many Nvidia chips as OpenAI and the other AI guys wants to buy. Nvidia releases gpus made from basically the shaving leftovers from the OpenAI products, which makes them limited in supply and expensive.
So gamers have to pay much more and wait much longer than before, which they resent.
Some youtubers make content that profit from the resentment so they play fast and loose with the fundamental reasons in order to make gamers even more resentful. Nvidia has "crazy prices" they say.
But they're clearly not crazy. 2000 dollar gpus appear in quantities of 50+ from time to time at stores here but they sell out in minutes. Lowering the prices would be crazy.
This is one reason, and another is that both Dennard scaling has stopped and GPUs hit a memory wall for DRAM. The only reason AI hardware gets the significant improvements is that they are using big matmuls and a lot of research has been in getting lower precision (now 4bit) training working (numerical precision stability was always a huge problem with backprop).
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So... not the blog spam that was previously prioritized by Google Search? It's almost as if SEO had some downsides they are only just now discovering.