Well - I think the writing was on the wall when they announced they were going to be for-profit. Slippery slope and all that, but I’m sure some of this is because they’ve been giving out free tokens for years.
Yes but they would only need enough to keep the lights on and pay the engineers.
When you're a for-profit company, especially a public one (which I believe they're looking to be soon), you can't just maintain homeostasis. Your investors want growth every quarter.
Conceivably if they stayed non-profit then they could charge just enough to maintain the project, and they wouldn't necessarily have to have ads.
The lights being billions in hardware and plant investment, possibly power generation and operations and maintenance, attracting and retaining top 0.01% of engineers.
In addition if you don't keep up with SOTA +/- 10% you instantly lose all customers. There is zero stickiness.
“The limits now are so bad that a business that relies on it would need bigger plans.”
Isn’t this the goal to some extent? They’ll probably have the standard “light” usage plan for weekend warriors or normal folk looking to play around. Companies that mandate usage and provide the subscription for hundreds of employees will have to cough it up, and will have no problem doing so if they want to compete with the others (or so the hype would allude to).
Is this not the case for OTC drugs? Specifically, the two mentioned in the article. I rarely take either of them, but if my doctor tells me to take 1 ibuprofen every 6 hours or so, if I halve that am I actually doing more damage?
In general, taking a lower dose than recommended can cause problems, but aside from antibiotics, the problems are probably going to be from insufficiently treating the underlying condition, rather than the medication itself. Most OTC drugs give a single recommended dosage for all adults, so some people will necessarily get a lower "effective" dose than others (eg. a 200 lb man compared to a 90 lb woman).
> Specifically, the two mentioned in the article. [...] but if my doctor tells me to take 1 ibuprofen every 6 hours or so, if I halve that am I actually doing more damage?
With the caveat that I'm not a doctor, you should be fine: the only effect of acetaminophen is pain suppression, so if the pain is tolerable, then you should be fine. Ibuprofen has some anti-inflammatory effects that could be important here, but realistically, if the anti-inflammatory effects are the primary reason for the prescription, then your doctor is more likely to prescribe naproxen or celecoxib.
But if this ever comes up for you again, probably the best solution would be to tell your doctor/pharmacist "I have a high pain tolerance, would it be okay if I take less?", since in my experience, medical practitioners are generally pretty happy to hear when you want to take less drugs.
I have a degree in design - it's one of those frustrating fields where laypeople really do believe they are experts. Mostly because... they can "see" it. It's easy to propose a change to a design. "Just move it to the right. Or left. Or make it green".
The end product is SUPPOSED to be simple to digest and understand, but the process behind that artifact is enigmatic. It may have taken months to determine the proper layout structure for a government website, but a certain end user can still say "Well... I would rather have the navbar on the right side."
Some of it is probably vocabulary as well. Software has jargon - design has jargon, but laypeople know how to say "bigger, smaller, right, left, red, blue". Frustrating, and part of why I left the field.
I agree — right now it's "all eyes on AI". They are moving fast, I don't think there's some evil plan behind the scenes. They're trying to build software super-weapons, and they're trying all sorts of different things because they can iterate quickly.
Of course the articles are going to get to the top. It's all anyone is thinking about, and has been for the last few years. I keep wondering if we're going to reach some sort of inflection point where the hype starts to die down, but then another "tool" is released and everyone is convinced that this is the one that will take the jobs. It's a bit tiring, but this is the brave new world.
Question for you, did these tools replace software / design consulting as something you relied on in the past?
This is a success story I've been hearing more recently. Restaurants, contractors, plumbing, 1 person startups... I'm wondering if this is because the barrier to entry is now lower - or if these tools are actually moving work away from small software teams or individual devs.
IMO this is the crux of the "AI Eating SWE" scenario (along with other knowledge work...) I'm sure it's a little bit of both. If this was something you were going to pay a designer and a developer for, it changes the outlook.
From my perspective, it feels more likely that with cheaper software we'll see a rush of people building their own, but once it gets sufficiently complex it then needs to be maintained, or improved, and it becomes more work than the initial weekend POC.
Back when I was a lowly web dev intern - I was able to finish most of my work rather quickly. Obviously, instead of going above and beyond - I found a way to browse Reddit in the terminal.
My manager was non-technical, and so anytime he walked past my desk it appeared that I was hackin’ away. I had (and still do) have my terminal set up to be black background with bright cyan text.
I don’t know much at all about materials - but wouldn’t this be a little “fuzzy”? If they’re using heat to expand/contract whatever material, I imagine there’s a degree of variance with the starting state / ending state - depending on the environment the “soft robot” is in.
A static amount of electricity may only be able to move the wings so much in a cold environment, right?
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