Akuehne's comments

You should learn about RAG.

Then have whatever ai you used rewrite it with that knowledge.

This article/post mashes together two different things and gets both wrong.

"The American market has not been free" because companies use call centers and friction to retain customers? That is the free market. No regulator forced Comcast to have bad hold music. They did it because it's profitable and because switching costs are real economic phenomena, not government distortion. Rent-seeking has a specific meaning in economics: capturing value through regulatory manipulation, not through being annoying to cancel. What's described here is just transaction costs. Coase wrote about this in 1937. The complaint is literally "firms optimize against consumers in an unregulated environment," which is the free market working exactly as designed.

AI as "the great equalizer." Equalizing what? AI agents that negotiate on your behalf get countered by AI agents that negotiate against you. The asymmetry doesn't vanish, it escalates. The company still has more compute budget, more training data on customer behavior, and more incentive to invest in adversarial optimization than you do. You get a chatbot. They get an enterprise deployment tuned on millions of interactions. The gap widens.

China "wants AI as a public utility" is doing enormous work with zero evidence. China wants semiconductor independence and geopolitical leverage. Qwen is open-weight because Alibaba wants cloud customers, not because the CCP is running a charity. Commoditizing the model layer serves Chinese hardware and cloud interests exactly the way the post itself explains ("commoditize your complement") then inexplicably frames as altruism.

The punchline the post avoids: every historical example of "friction removal" at scale (Uber, Airbnb, Amazon) concentrated wealth upward, not downward. The middlemen died, the platform owners became billionaires, and consumers got cheaper goods produced by worse labor conditions. No mechanism is proposed here that changes that outcome. "An AI on a box under my desk" doesn't redistribute anything. It just means the rent extraction happens at a layer you can't see yet.

Rooting for the collapse of the US economy as a feature rather than a bug is a take that only lands if you already have enough money to survive one.

This is why I have always said, that a degree in CS is useless without some degree of passion towards it.

No professor can enable you for tomorrow, and a CS career is one of constant education.

I'm glad I learned some STM32 assembly, but with the resources available today, I wouldn't get anywhere near as deep as I did in the early 2k's.

I am building a local low power RAG system for the programing languages I like, but I'll still include stm32 asm.

The appalling thing about Spotify DJ/Radio is that it starts playing songs that cost them less to play, and intentionally leaves out songs that cost more. Regardless of what input you give it, it will fall back to the same slop for each subgenre.

Can we get some of the ancient Nvidia Teslas, like the p40 added?

Bought one for my wife

AI review in every step of the pipeline; from the ide to deployment.

Then it's all about who has the best models, and the most secure environment to run it all in.

So what benefits does this have over AWS EC2 Image Builder?

This surely won't lead to anything bad or reckless at all.

Building a local llm to manage my homelab, and eventually my life.

As long as I don't let it control the pod bay doors, I should be fine.

Just wanted to also reiterate how thankful I am that you took your time to let us know. It speaks volumes.

And just like that, China's competitive Dota scene will disappear.

I wonder how this will effect the Perfect World/Valve partnership.

Can these scripts be compiled into executables?