Yeah, asking LLMs how they works is generally not useful, however asking them about the signatures of the functions available to them (the tools they can call) works pretty well b/c those tools are described in the system prompt in a really detailed way.
I’m guessing what they mean is that the valuation is so inflated at this point that the high dollar amount more reflects the likelihood of acquisition or IPO in the near term rather than some sort of substantive demonstration of confidence in the company and its founders.
No question that Ive is a legend, but I do think the fall of Humane (also ex-Apple) and the challenges at Meta, Apple, and Google in terms of VR/AR adoption (Meta Ray Ban, Apple Vision, Google Glasses and the new thing) are instructive here. The $6.5B almost feels like the largest ever aquihire.
Most people working outside the network layer are not familiar with the basics of IPv6 and how it interops with v4 systems. In fact, I would bet that many AWS admins are not familiar with dualstack VPC configurations, for example. This product name communicates clearly to those users what the value prop is.
> In fact, Cursor’s code completion isn’t much better than GitHub Copilot’s. They both use the same underlying models
Not sure that this is true. cursor agent mode is different from cursor code completion and cursor code completion is a legitimately novel model I believe.
There will probably be AI operating systems of some kind in the near future. I don't really know what that means, but whenever we get there I would really like there to be case law that forces monopolist OS developers to allow free trade when it comes to the application layer.
You are correct about compile time magic. Runtime magic is minimal (the code runs when and where you think it does). And yes, Starlight is a foot gun IMO. It takes a framework that is designed to be easily learned and makes it even easier to use, but at the expense of the learning.
Agree on Astro. It's great for documentation/blog sites but quite unopinionated so can easily be used for varied site structures. Unlike certain other frameworks, there is no magic in Astro. It generates very straightforward HTML.
This is one reason AWS Fargate is so good. No, it isn’t developer friendly, but it gives you performance that actually matches the CPU allocation while still abstracting the VMs.
This is a great article but one thing it doesn’t discuss is the importance of who the underlying cloud provider is. Many companies are pretty locked into AWS for better and for worse, regardless of whether they use things like lambda that are known for lock-in. Just the fact that you can use crunchydata, redis.com, and heroku is a reflection of being on AWS under the hood. Moving to something like fly.io or railway means introducing internet egress between your services.
Yeah, you know the “open-source X alternative“ branding has gone too far when we get to this point. With that said, this seems cool as far as being built on Google app scripts.
Based on everything I’ve read I’m firmly in the camp that what MM is doing is a net negative for the WordPress community, and I don’t envy the employees at his company, but this site feels bad faith to me. Meaning, its goal seems to be to hurt his reputation generally more than it is to inform regarding specific issues.
LLMs love writing this type of stuff.