realistically any 'huge' frontier model that takes a rack of H100s to infer against is probably going to have downtime no matter who runs it.
downtime is always going to 'scale' poorly against loads that require a lot of hardware thrown at them, even with lots of good fail-over -- probably worse for the small vendors because they don't have the contracts supplying them with hardware first so availability is already at a premium for them.
so, I guess i'm saying yeah I hope frontier-level-models get out soon in the open arenas, but I suspect the same or similar level of exclusivity will exist as long as they take that much compute to operate.
only the biggest POS tools have bad ergonomics on the industrial side. The real quality tools, the ones meant to be used on the factory floor or in a production line, think of human ergonomics first .
I would probably be considering that as I took a file to my laptop in order to keep it from cutting into my skin as I used it.
I applaud the ingenuity, but I detest the concept of aesthetic-first engineering without a thought for the human user of the thing. Vote with your dollar.
In the case of parent : I admire your ability to cope and the chutzpah it took to take a file to company property.
on a side note : I think it's absolutely fascinating in every Apple thread watching users trade tips on how to avoid electric shock, electrolytic/chemical pitting, and skin cuts like it's just normal computing worries. You folks have some thick skin to keep at it. I would be rubberizing the whole damn thing after the first zap.
>I suspect the story is entirely made up, based on that detail alone.
... why?
Google has a zillion employees and the story didn't even end altruistically on their side, what the fuck would the point of fictionalizing this encounter be? typing practice?
I get that it's kind of supposed to be an advanced jab at google "The world will end before you speak to a human", but cast the shade on the perpetrators rather than saying that the victimized side is lying.
do something that is hard with a lot of engineering depth to humble yourself about what wise people were capable of before LLMs.
My honeymoon ended and reality struck when I was LLMing together cuda kernels for poker solvers a few LLM-gens ago.
it got solved, but boy was it a slog -- but on the bright side it was an LLM-based endeavor that forced me to learn a whole lot about cuda kernels, that was a pretty cool side effect.
as for titles, who cares? I vote for grand poobah.
it took me like 6 weeks and 12 chat sessions to get Anthropic to essentially end the conversation with "Yeah, whoops, we'll forward that to the dev team." when they cut my max sub short by 4 hours.
that's the single reason I am no longer a customer. I don't feel like shoveling money at non-communicating phantoms.
4 hours of credit wasn't by any means worth the time, what irked me was the casual disregard for lost customer value.
are you making an argument that businesses worldwide somehow are known to make well thought-out, rational, wise decisions that are in best interest for the business and efficiency of running it?
because most managers I know in my professional life go with the vendor that buys them dinner or slips them tickets for box seats.
No judgements, I have no one in that race -- it's just something that triggers my 'weird language' detector.
A rare spotting of the Lebowski 'The royal "We"' in the wild.
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