More likely, it's going to be whether frontier models advance enough that most people would be willing to pay for them. Right now they don't, but a model you can run locally for free on hardware you already own is very compelling because, while they're not as good as Frontier Models, they're still pretty good.
Tools like Opencode demonstrate that when you box them in tightly enough they can actually be pretty competent.
Which is also absurd because other automakers have other less annoying options. I had Hondas that just vented outside air just to the defroster vents without disabling the re-circulator. The Tesla Model 3 can send heated or AC chilled air to the defroster by tapping the defroster button to cycle options.
Many of the the alerts are technically accurate but do you really need an alert on your phone that your door is open as you're getting in/out of the car?
> I believe most newer cars do this and there are good reasons for it.
That's an incredibly vague and dismissive statement to support lazy engineering.
If the intent is something like preventing CO2 build up in the cabin then they could periodically open the mixing value when the car is set to recirculation to refresh the cabin air.
It doesn't have to be a binary control. I've owned cars with manual mixing valves to let you control the amount of outside air gets circulated into the cabin.
I have a new Volkswagen and there's an annoying amount of arrogance behind the technology decisions in the vehicle that really sour the experience.
Perhaps the most annoying is that many notifications like "you can't do that while driving" are toast style notifications that disappear before you can notice or read them.
It has 360 degree cameras but it gets to decide when you can activate them. Want to know if you have enough room on the passenger side to go around a vehicle stopped in front of you without scratching up your tires? Too bad, the car doesn't detect a parking spot.
Wireless charger refuses to charge phone and puts up a notification saying it can't charge it any time you place your phone on it. There's a menu setting to disable the wireless charger, and that puts up a persistent notification telling you to re-enable wireless charging.
You put the re-circulation fan on, perhaps because you don't like smelling exhaust fumes? Car quietly turns it off again in the not to distant future.
You adjusted your volume, car readjusts it for you because reasons. You can see some of those reasons buried deep in the menu system, but not all of them. Car will adjust your volume again at a later date without your consent.
The car sends notifications about the status of the car but doesn't update or remove them when they're no longer true. I wake up most mornings to several "Your doors are unlocked" notifications but the doors are locked. Did they unlock? Why did they unlock? How long were they unlocked? Nobody knows...
Walk away car locking? Works 100% of the time when get out of the car at home and walk two feet away from the car. Fails to work the first time you park it downtown and someone rifles through your car and steals your charging adapter.
You got home and are unloading groceries from the trunk, the car is going to honk at you that the trunk is ajar before you can even get inside the house. You'll receive alerts on your phone that the trunk is open as well.
Car honks any time a door is left open or the car isn't locked even if you're standing less than 2 feet from the car holding the key.
You have a charge schedule setup so your car only charges during off-peak times. Want to charge at a pay-charger or outside of that schedule? Sure, just click the button on screen which permanently disables the charge schedule and requires to you go deep into menus to re-enable it.
Similar situation with State of Charge limits. Want to charge to 100% for a road trip? Sure that's the new permanent setting, and we're going to remind you it's bad to charge to 100% all the time.
Tesla gets dumped for so much, but their software is so well tuned compared to this garbage.
Where are all of the emissions coming from? I keep hearing that automobiles account for a small % and that trucking and shipping account for the majority, but you're saying shipping is only 1%.
Our energy aggregator is a non-profit Community Choice Aggregator with over 250,000 members that ensures 50% of the energy they purchase comes from renewables and 75% of all energy purchased is carbon free. And for an extra $0.00750 p/kWh you can opt into your consumption coming 100% from renewable sources.
I haven't done any in-depth synthetic benchmarks but I had my Hermes agent run some and I ran a couple directly on the LLM Gateway that showed similar results.
Hermes reported 18.45 tok/s consuming the llama-swap endpoint across the wire. Locally I got 19-19.1 tok/s on the gateway. I'm running the Qwen 3.6 27B Q6 model (qwen3-6-27b-q6-k) off LM Studio and it's less than 0.3s to first token.
It's not good for conversational use cases as it can take 1-2 minutes to respond to a prompt.
I have two Hermes Profiles running, one is a personal assistant that manages my backlog and provides me morning reminders, solicits for evening updates, and will run overnight research projects for me. The other profile is a coding helper for personal projects. I can ask it to make changes and it will churn for 15 minutes, submit a PR, and notify me that the PR is ready to review. It's faster than me at basic coding tasks.
It's an interesting idea. Tools like Grammarly exist to help with business communication. I wonder if there's a space for a Social Media or online writing assistant to help people. I for one could probably benefit from a tone shift away from acerbic troll.
I'm using an Intel Arc Pro B70 which has 32 GB of VRAM. It's estimated to get ~35-45 t/s at $21-27 $/t/s. An RTX 5090 is ~61 t/s at ~$33 $/t/s.
So in terms of raw power Nvidia is effortlessly still king, but in price-to-capacity Intel is best in class.
Intel's Battlemage GPUs also natively support SR-IOV and GPU partitioning which allows you to isolate workloads. This is useful in homelab environments if you have workloads that benefit from GPU acceleration. I was able to split the B70 into 4 virtual GPUs and hand them out to Frigate NVR, Plex, and other workloads.
Opencode has been a huge productivity accelerator. I have two Hermes agents that I'm training to support my workflow with pretty good success. One is a personal assistant who manages my backlog and keeps me on task, follows up with me on items, and will put together research briefs. The other I use a general purpose coder and research and it's about 50:50 with the tasks I've given it. In fairness though, the task it failed at left me scratching my head to figure out as well.
MinWin was the response to Longhorn. When most of the major goals of Longhorn failed to ship and those that did resulted in Vista, Microsoft did a reset. The MinWin project was a massive cleanup effort that promoted cleaner API boundaries and layer separation that defined a minimal bootable NT core at the bottom with reduced overall dependencies.
WinRT was introduced as an alternative API/runtime layer alongside Win32. Both WinRT and Win32 used COM concepts and ran ontop of the NT executive. WinRT was a modern async first object oriented natively sandboxed capability-based runtime that supported built-in projections over manual COM.
Microsoft tried to encourage everyone to adopt WinRT and the new sandboxed App Model on Windows 8, Windows RT, and Windows Phone. It used modern concepts and was more secure than the uncontrolled legacy surface area that Win32 exposed. They shipped those devices with Metro, a new "desktop" interface and didn't allow Win32 Apps. Unfortunately they shot themselves in the foot by shipping full Win32 based Office on Windows RT. This demonstrated that yes Win32 could run on ARM. After that, things fell apart and Microsoft decoupled many WinRT features from the WinRT/UWP model.
WinUI is an interesting UI framework that sits on top of this stack and is decoupled from it. This allows it to be updated independent of the operating system.
I think I'm agreeing with you but its also not something easily dismissed. The DRAM Cartel has been found to be distorting the market on numerous occasions by various regulatory bodies. There is a boom-bust cycle that occurs with DRAM and Flash memory. The Cartel claims they always lose despite the fact that demand seems to always steadily rise.
The pandemic caused once such boom-bust that resulted in a rather large downturn in demand in 2022-2023 referred to as the pandemic hangover. During that time demand dropped following overspend during the pandemic and members of the cartel drastically cut production at times to keep prices above cost. Even after the demand recovery began in 2023, the cartel members were slow to increase production and made little to no investment in production capacity in 2024-2025. Creating a shortage.
The AI hype cycle has exacerbated the shortage by creating speculative purchases and then panic buying. Remember the shoe company that pivoted to AI?
So Cartel market manipulation is partially to blame for the over 100% increase in prices and the shortages.
Tools like Opencode demonstrate that when you box them in tightly enough they can actually be pretty competent.