WoW. I was thinking about building a new home recently, but now I'm thinking about pitching a membrane-tensioned tax haven, cuz last time I checked, temporary structures are exempt from property taxes. This is like the ultimate real estate hack.
At least folks like me care about it. My local hardware is more than enough to handle my app, but given Spectrum's internet service is as fickle as a broken fiddle I'm forced to rent a dedicated cloud gpu that sits idle most days. However, I would save a serious chunk of change if I could boot up a GPU snapshot in ~10s. I evaluated various options a while back and, while modal.com was the fastest, it still took around a minute-ish. Granted, my use case is unique, but I imagine this could be a decent solution for gpu-poor ComfyUI users.
After reviewing this rewrite this morning, my only logical conclusion is that it's an elaborate marketing operation orchestrated by a super-secret Deno operative.
Ah, I nearly forgot about magic.dev. I took a quick peek to check up on them. Welp, last social/blog activity was in... 2024. But hey, their careers page still says they're hiring! So they must be doing just fine.
Yeah, but one is free and the other one might make you a billionaire.
If you think about it, about 30% of the biggest businesses out there are based on this exact business idea. IRC - Slack, XMPP & co - the many proprietary messengers out there, etc.
Having generated ~250k web design images the past few months, I've concluded generative models, circa 2026, still suck at it. Presumably because the difference between an 'OK' design and a 'Great' one is pretty darn small and far too nuanced. That said, Imagen easily takes the cake for workable design creativity, but even then, it takes 1000ish gens to get something decent, maybe 200 if you aren't too picky.
I personally dont think Anthropic thinks this is a hit product per se. Its all about keeping the hype alive - we all saw what 'SaaS-polcalypse' did.
The amount of hype is too much for me - its smoke and mirrors. A firm that knew it was on track to change the world (as much as they have been boosting) would not do this. Much like how Apple kept complete silence about the iPhone and then shocked the world.
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