Local coding LLMs are going to be the hot new commodity this year.

LAST WORDS

“I was never a SaaS. I was just Marty.”

Saw an ad last week for a startup pitching ‘Let AI in your bank.’

Basically, letting Clawed or other automated agents direct access to your bank account. Tie that to an automated travel agent and let it fly. Don’t remember their name, and if I did, wouldn’t want it spreading to ruin someone’s life.

Basically, the cryptobro/YOLO crowd, handed unexploded ordnance.

Been six days since the new Siri announcement. Still on the waiting list. Will reserve judgment until we actually get access.

Excellent way to encourage responsible disclosure.

/s

There are so many more worthwhile startup projects you can pour $12B into.

Given how connected these cars are, I bet there’s telemetry being collected on the state of that latch and how often the door is actually opened once the vehicle is stopped.

Another option is to put a weight in the driver’s seat. But if vehicle is stopped, the door is open, AND there is weight in seat, they’ll probably be able to tell. Plus, there are cameras pointed at the drivers.

One way is to have the vehicle turn on the AC remotely, BEFORE the driver enters the van. They have cameras on all sides and can check for that. Or through their phone and proximity sensing. This way, AC is off when nobody is inside, it conserves battery, and makes it still cool when driver steps inside.

Time for the Universal Life Church to step in.

As an ordained minister (and fully-paid Saint), would highly approve.

Prediction: Apple and Google appstores will require developers to submit their source repo to a ‘private’ LLM that will analyze it for bad behavior, then build, sign, and submit the binary. Microsoft won’t be far behind for desktop apps.

Best of luck to us devs.

Sudoku’s origin story.

Between DJI Action 6 and Insta360 X5 on the high end, and the cheap knockoffs on the low end, GoPro is in a big pinch. Unless they pull a totally new rabbit out of the hat.

There’s always been a short distance between SEO and manufactured opinion.

Was doing enterprise IoT consulting a while back. Asked why they needed to collect all the data? Nobody could answer. Someone finally said, so we can analyze usage patterns. I asked, “OK, but why?” Finally, someone said: “So we know when and where to advertise our sales.”

Also did automotive consulting work. Connected vehicles. Asked the same questions. I’m not too worried about my car collecting a lot of data. It’s so they can plan their next sales event.

Not that it’s OK to violate privacy. Just saying, the reason may be way more banal than we think

I never understood why a well-known brand like RayBan would want to be associated with this.

I call BS. Yield on high-speed, high-capacity RAM at scale is pretty hard to manage. If it was, Chinese manufacturers would have ‘flooded the market’ sooner.

It’ll take them years to get to the point where they can match the yield of Samsung, Hynix, Micron, or even Kingston. And those guys are all focusing on the highest margin packages.

Sorry, we’re all screwed until demand drops.

Pretty cool, but no mention of range distance or power use.

https://www.techspot.com/news/112343-samsung-chip-workers-reject-340000-bonus-sk-hynix.html

For context, Samsung offered the workers a one-time $340K bonus. Workers refused, since their competitor SK-Hynix has annual employee profit-sharing. SK employees are getting $477K bonuses this year, and $900K next year. The 18 day strike will cost Samsung around $250K loss per employee. This likely won’t be the last strike.

The disputes are over profits from HBM memory used in AI servers. Expect memory prices to keep going up.

In my old consulting days, a lot of work showed up when companies cut corners, laid people off they should not have, and generally made bad management decisions.

They would then show up, hat in hand, asking if things could be quickly patched and fixed.

99% of the time, the answer was that it needed to be rewritten. Often they would be forced to bring back some of the former employees since they had domain expertise, at multiple what they were paid before.

Guessing the same will happen here.

We are uniquely positioned to not only participate, but to lead in our category where the TAM is exploding at a step function rate.

A bit ironic they offer a service to keep away AI bots from scanning websites, but say AI use is making them so productive they have to lay people off.

So AI bad or good? Getting whiplashed here.