Yesssss. think there is a wealth of opportunity here in strictly non-scalable, probably even strictly non-profitable ways.

Where "founder" paints exactly the opposite image of what it really does unlock: everyone being able to build or tweak a little app they need; tailored just for their use cases.

A market size of a few people, a dozen, or a hundred, who can now get software that exactly services their niche. Something you'd never ever convince someone to build or maintain for you beyond the "smart niece/nephew" charity.

Could be a website for your local soccer league, a Bible reader with different font and bookmark treatment, a chart of your home canning cellar where you can send some jam to your friends and they send you kimchi.

There are probably nigh infinite tiny microcosms of unserved automation and functionality need like this. Where you can make the computer do what YOU need, not what a minimum of thousands-millions of other people mutually needed in the least common denominator.

There might even be a few larger needs in there we've missed, because they never got the chance.

Same here. I'm curious what others loving Qwen are doing differently, because it constantly hits this issue for me. It's been great for autofilling blocks, but difficult for me to use agentically.

Oh that's a fun idea... I've been poking at a "ghost phone" that synthesizes a personality and matching voice, which rings at random times on an old candlestick rotodial handset.

"Conspiracy call-in" on a CB radio would be a good variation!

Love to see it! Feels like the sort of give-a-damn that past Google was more about, versus challenging to do at present Google.

> With Google’s support, [researchers at the University of California San Diego] plan to deploy a datacenter built from 2,000 Pixel smartphones

Ah.. well maybe success here will give internal folks some ammo for enabling more reuse of the mountain of Android (and Chromebook) devices.

Meanwhile I'm looking at 20 year old Suzuki light trucks with a 25% import tariff because American autos STILL absolutely refuse to make non- Monster Trucks

We're all on the list, just getting ranked up or down

Finally! Bootstrap for AI Wrappers

It often selects for a confident first shot, which is why we see these orgs drift towards lots of engineers who can blast out code but cannot maintain or evolve any existing systems proficiently. On rare occasion that is even the hiring goal!

This is the exact problem. Some people can flip between one shotting for interviews and going deep for real work, but they are extremely rare.

As a senior, I would much prefer a candidate who can discuss options more than write code - the writing itself is secondary, especially with AI. I want to see someone grapple with tradeoffs, clarify what they know and what breadcrumbs they want to follow before committing to a solution.

We might be undervaluing consistency. You can plan for reliably stupid. Harder to rely on Often Smart, but Unpredictably Stupid.

I supervise quite a few Masters students. In my particular setting, believe me, LLM stupid for the top three chatbots is easier to work with than real human stupid now. We passed that threshold earlier this year.

The one thing we know FOR CERTAIN is that having actually read the article is not a prerequisite for consciousness.

The number of people posing questions that are already directly addressed in TFA is impressive.

Neither is having read other comments before posting one. There are about 100 of them that start with "we have no definition of consciousness" which is not novel or helpful.