Lobbying is legalise bribery, plain and simple. You pay money to get politicians to return the favor in terms of regulations and policies that benifit you (even if they are harmful to the general public)
Funny you mention this. I ask gemini what time it is, and it replies in a different language. I've checked all language settings, and they appear to be correct. Yet gemini just refuses to reply in correct language, and it only happens when I'm asking it for time.
One of my cousins built an ERP for a factory he was managing. It looked great, and seemed to work great. He has no technical background, and seeing the app work gave me real paranoia about my job security.
However, when I looked underneath the code, it was a mess. Biggest problem I saw in the brief time I spent looking at it's internals was that it wasn't using foreign keys in database. Sales invoices had customer info duplicated, and not referenced from the customer table like any sane developer would do. Same thing with purchase orders and supplier info.
AI coded apps look great at surface level, but contains huge footguns underneath.
Did they validate the result? Is it correct / accurate? If it is, then it passes the “good enough” test. For non-tech folks who just vibe code a fix, “technical debt” is not in their vocabulary. And if it works well, I don’t see the issue.
There was research showing how AI performance degrades as you go from green field into support. My guess ERP in question will break after some time as agent will add more bugs than new features. Plus recovering data will be extremely difficult.
The other day, someone tried to convince me to play Russian roulette. I was skeptical as it sounded dangerous. However, I validated the result by pointing the gun at my forehead and pulling the trigger several times in a row without anything bad happening. Now I'm been persuaded that it's good enough as a form of entertainment. Someone else told me it's still dangerous, but it works well so I don't see the issue.
The duality of LLMs is real. On one hand, they are solving unsolved math problems, on the other hand they get fooled by the strawberry test or the car wash test.
We see this all the time on reddit and HN, where some users are building crazy things with LLM and others are swearing by how useless LLMs are. Some people claim SWE will be dead in a few years, and others are claiming the AI bubble is going to burst anytime now.
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewars, regardless of which nation you're for or against. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
I'm not looking forward to it, them being strapped for resources provides a huge incentive to develop and release these smaller models. Even if they'd still release their models once they are able to comfortably service all potential customers via their cloud, running them locally would be almost impossible due to their size.
Chinese are pretty pragmatic. Even if they produce more expensive chips and memory, they are still going to focus on value. But who knows, maybe India will step up again like they did for Y2K 3 decades ago.
Unfortunately, India's focus is on everything but models. Hope I am wrong but the VCs there are now very risk free and are only investing in Snacks, Beauty and similar companies making risk free money due to growing income of population.
All the good talent moved to other countries due to this.
I agree. A meeting transcript posted recently from DeepSeek's founder suggests they're going to reach for larger models as soon as they can, and not look back. The model is already bigger than my machine can handle, though (I cannot put up with 25 t/s after getting used to over 100), so I'm not impacted.
The EU is not a state or some federation. It's like a NAFTA+
It unfortunately doesn't have the risk averse VC system (or pragmatic state driven like China) ecosystem to support the scaling required.
But if models will be commodities, maybe that won't be such a terrible thing longterm?
Personally I don't. Wasting enormous amounts of resources on a technology that doesn't make money, can easily be copied, and eats up everyone's energy while at the same time can be downloaded over the internet is kind of stupid.
The fact that China could catch up in what, two years, shows that this is a commodity.
We'll never have fewer open-weight models than exist now. They won't suddenly disappear when labs stop publishing new ones. In fact, people will keep improving them and will keep distilling new frontier models into existing open-weight models.
My conspiracy theory is that this is the new space race, and the CCP encourages this to show the world what Chinese engineers are capable of, and tank the Anthropic/OpenAI valuation bubble as a desirable side effect.
I was not trying to make that kind of argument, but rather a geopolitical one.
Retaining world-class talent and home-growing industries is no small feat. In Europe, we have been struggling with this, and I am not even entirely sure why.
A lot of world-class talent do not want to pay 50-60% taxes, so they move somewhere else. Not everyone, I'm just saying, it was a genuine consideration for me.
I'm neither pro China, nor pro US. I'm pro open weights models, and I'm pro cheaper hardware. At this point I don't see any american frontier labs releasing SOTA open weights model, and I don't see ASML/Nvidia/Samsung monopoly getting any competition from anywhere apart from China in the near future.
> I'm neither pro China, nor pro US. I'm pro open weights models, and I'm pro cheaper hardware.
yea i got that from your first comment ( although you removed crush American companies in _price_ ). you are pro cheapness at any cost even if its from your country's state funded direct geopolitical enemy.
China can always count on first order greed to win
same plan as always. stop from producing native capablity and then use the dependency to your advantage like becoming un attackable. cheap shit is more powerful that a nuclear shield.
You're clearly not an American and they will never catch up on hardware. I'm mostly curious why you are so excited for China to "crush" American companies?
Incursions into other nations "just because"? Economic wars, and support for foreign governments or armed groups that caused harm or instability to the entire planet? You know? Planet Earth?
Sanctions and trade policies that hurt ordinary people? Cultural dominance through Hollywood (Holy Wood, again with the sick ruling elite and their witchcraft crap), social media, brands, the poisoning of food and water on global scale?
Etc? Etc?
Most people don't hate "Americans" or their companies, they are just against your ruling elite. Live one day outside the united states and understand how the planet works for the rest of mankind and you might start to grasp on reality.
And yeah, China will catch up with hardware pretty damn soon. Jesus, you guys bought your radios from Japan not 50 years ago. Sorry, can't dominate the world's economy forever. Never happened in history.
No matter how much black magic, dark rituals, sick crap and sacrifices people on the top throws at the wall.
We're humans, after all.
So yeah, it is not against America itself or American companies, but against the ruling class. So naturally , people get excited about China entering into the match!
Come on. You can say all that nonsense about almost any other country.
Most everyone wants to come to America for the opportunity. Think an immigrant in China has the same economic opportunity as in America? Any other country come to mind?
American ultracapitalism seems to be approaching its final stages. That end can’t come quickly enough. If China helps speed it along, that’s a good thing for all of humanity.
No its pretty realistic. Nobody is losing their sleep when ultra-wealthy thief gets robbed for their stolen possessions or money made out of those, do they.
If the consolidated (stolen) IP of millions of books remains under US LLM company control, then at the very least there's a chance of justice to be served to the creators in the future - a large lawsuit victory and change to the legal system that results in the ill-gotten gains being transferred to the original creators.
If those proprietary models are distilled by the PRC, then that will never happen, because the PRC does not care about any sort of law (including their own) and will simply never return a single cent to the original US authors.
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