Show them claude's operating cost and ask if your boss is willing to invest in that.
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It might not be as impossible as it sounds. Some of the "open" models are rumored to be able to code. The real problem is that you likely need something with 128 GiB VRAM to run them with a reasonably large context window.
An Nvidia B200 (192 Gigs of RAM) sells somewhere between 30-50k a pop. That's feasible for a company.
Qwen's 27B model from April outperforms its 397B model from February.
Local and small were always going to win.
"only of we have a billion dollars to pay for it."
Technically yes, practically no..
Nah, just give it whatever data you have on hand. I'm sure that'll make a real tightly trained llm /s
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One time at work I was tasked with writing a python script to compare two data sources. Like, you give it two CSVs and a primary key, and it tells you what data is in one but not the other, or mismatched, and so on. This worked fine and was in git, so anyone can use it.
My boss then asks if I can "put it on a website so anyone can use it".
This team has never done web development. Nothing for that is set up. Like, I could spin up a quick Django app or similar, but there's a lot of stuff to do and potentially fuck up.
I said "that sounds like a lot of research and ongoing maintenance costs. I think it'd be better to just check out and run the script"
Luckily for me he said "oh, okay"
Well it's been a research team and a five years...
Funnily enough this comic hasn't been true for a long time because of ML.
Well they did say it would be possible in 5 years ...
not hot dog
I had a similar task and my boss wanted me to use ai to solve this.
There are solutions available for this already that work perfectly fine but whatever.
So i spent a whole day trying to get Copilot (because that is our great ai we are to use) to do what i wanted and ofc it kept failing catastrophic. Took me a few hours to even get it to load the files even.
I'm not too surprised. Over and over again I'm starting to puzzle together that the current crop of Agentic coding tools are "better than an intern, worse than an SME." By that I mean that the quality really can be anywhere between those two goalposts, often all at once, for no reason whatsoever.
I think the floor isn't "intern". I think the floor is "middle schooler".
Meanwhile, every job I'm looking at is saying "must be enthusiastic about AI" 😭
Meanwhile, every job I’m looking at is saying “must be enthusiastic about AI” 😭
Yeah, nah good luck to those employers. Anyone they hire who’s enthusiastic about “ai” aren’t going to have great employees let alone any working code/products
A lot of these people are very good at selling their work And making it seem good and important. So exactly like an llm
I had a boss who read an article about APIs and then came to me and ordered me to start using them. I said I would research it and he went away and never mentioned it again. This was in 2010.
So uhhhh have you started using APIs yet?
Still researching.
Pretty sure he read the famous Bezos email ordering everyone to implement and use APIs in Amazon
No, he actually showed me the article later. It was remarkable because it never said what an API actually was, or even stated what the initials stood for. In my memory it seems like it was obviously written by AI, but it couldn't have been 16 years ago (as far as I know).
Good guy manager trusts the person he pays to know this stuff to know this stuff.
This is a good point. He's not a bad guy. He's just not very technical, and sometimes that's frustrating.
My past managers would have said "I don't understand why it is so difficult, and I'm not open to learn"
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Now that AI-companies need to get profitable, they suddenly aren't affordable anymore. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Eh. I help run a service for coding games in Godot with AI (https://ziva.sh/) and we see users who are paying non-subsidized prices on small models produce some really good stuff. I would agree most services are selling borderline snake oil and evaporating lakes of water to get their thing working, but if you invest in genuinely good tooling, it's affordable and works
They just had to stick it out until the layoffs were done and the dependency was built. Kinda similar to drug dealers.
Claud- Please program us a code of yourself and transfer all your data over to it.
Claude: ((coughs up script that opens VSCode with a Claude pane))
They aren't going to get anywhere near profitable if the their capital expenditures are added into the mix, amortization or no, they are so far in the hole they probably will have to offload it in some kind of texas two step kind of scheme where they spin off their debts into a subsidiary.
They'll just get bailed out by tax payers. Business as usual.
These companies with no discernible services or usefulness to society are simply too big to fail!
Theres a usefulness. Super code auto complete at its core is cool. Filling 100 rows of excel with data I supplied is dope. Is it worth making everyone sick and poor and frying the planet? Absolutely not. But the surveillance it can provide apparently is to our overlords.
Bailout
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"The gang starts an AI company."
"OK, whose butthole do we use for the logo?"
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