It is crazy that I do not trust a multi-trillion dollar company who has forced labor in their supply chain to have my best interests in mind? It is crazy to me you would think they do not understand the concept of lip service.

These companies are liars. I do not trust liars. It has served me well.

I do. Citizens United. It is a pay-to-play system we have going on here and it is working exactly as designed. Bribery? Why no, that is simply a donation. With enough money and moral bankruptcy you can accomplish all sorts of silly things that are in direct violation of the constitution, the law, and even common decency.

That last line is wonderful! Thank you for this man. I honestly like the original more despite it's wordiness.

This makes me think of John Williams, an artist of great renown known for things like the Raiders of the Lost Ark OST and the Star Wars OSTs.

All of his stuff (or most of it) is repurposed and refitted chunks of other classical works. The beautiful part is, he does it so well.

Completely agree. Once I can reliably get open models doing what I am on Fable ultra I imagine I will switch for good. I am fortunate to have access to a decent bit of local RAM, 192GB of DDR5 at an OK speed. It is not enough and costs are well past absurd. In a few years time I envisage a setup that is sub $10k which can accomplish such tasks. The pace so far has been breakneck. That is all I personally need. That may change, but until true AGI I do think there will be a ceiling to how much I will pay for something frontier if it is only marginally better.

This is easier to say as Fable is good (even SOTA). But people have been were saying this continuously for the current model and for now the improvement are still coming.

A better question is would you settle for o3 now or pay 20$ or 200$/month for fable ? Because o3 quality is available OSS.

It is like the new IPhone, in some sort. At some point come a feature many would like to have, despite diminishing returns.

We will see how long labs can keep up and what the scaling curve look like, but I would be more worried into losing sota status to Chinese companies than letting them take the open non-sota approach.

IMO we are there almost. I had every iphone until 14 pro and still use this today. I know what the top of the s curve feels like. From a pure model standpoint weighed against every day use cases for every day people (the right way to measure when comparing to something as ubiquitous as a phone), the models already have diminishing returns.

I think there is also the case were companies will simply use different tiers for different tasks.

While the engineering team might need a cutting edge model (with the associated costs), the marketing department will be fine by something that can grammar correct or turn a few bullet points into prose. Likewise you already don't need Fable for Ticket -> RAG -> Reply with Faq knowledge or escalate workflows

That's already the case with other very expensive software like CAD packages were oftentimes you have different feature sets enabled for different employees.

"that can grammar correct" ... Did you do that on purpose?

I'll sneakily claim I did but the reality is English as a second language and I'm not yet ready to let a LLM do all the fun for me.

There is a lot of room for improvement still.

Fable or GPT 5.6 Sol regularly hand off obviously broken features in my mobile app.

QA is the bottleneck.

If vision capabilities and understanding of motion improve significantly, perhaps the models can tell that a list is not scrolling correctly, or a transition not animating as it should.

damn! how muhc you dropped for 192gb?

Yep, at those prices points I am most certainly just going to do whatever is in my power to run local. And to be honest, I think in the near future, we will get to a point where local models will be just good enough that it will not matter.

Pray tell, how would stepping closer to a dystopian hellscape help the internet from eating itself? Somehow, having omnipotent watchers is going to make the internet... more fun and welcoming?

I think he means that maybe it‘s for the best if „the internet“ in its current state dies, i.e. people move on from the current platforms towards other ones or real life.

That’s exactly what I mean.

You could do us a favor and start by signing off yourself.

I would much rather the games have cheaters than give someone like Riot access to Ring 0.

Fantastic. Every time I mix git and games I end up almost having an aneurysm.

Dang man, C & H taught me so much as a young lad. Unconditional love, amor fati, the importance of being yourself. I think the way he left it all was perfect. We were robbed of future delights but in the end it could not have been more in character. I hope Mr. Watterson is enjoying his final sebatical.

I hope he’s secretly drawing Calvin and Hobbes and that, somehow, the two are enjoying their adventures. As long as they are drawn, they are alive.

A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.

Me as well. I was struggling to make a pixel bot for, erm, research! It did not like this and kept insisting I was breaking some arcane TOS rule. I started just breaking the tasks down, something benign. Kept iterating and it could never get a holistic grasp of the task at hand.