Yeah, I can't even run AI on work hardware... I have been able to use it for writing small utils/libraries that I then pull into the work... but the divide is clear and I review all the code myself.

For a couple examples, working through an animated loader for html/js/css with an svg for the org. Another was working through a library implementation to work against an interface that was designed for Mongo, but the org is using SQL Server. Latest was a quick util to extract a zip file of pdfs into a 1bit(b/w), zopfli compressed png file per page.

Generally stuff I could do, but would take me a few days for research and experimentation vs an hour or two with AI.

Hard for me to even imagine being in that kind of work environment. I know that I don't always like the output for AI, and even will argue with it at times (often into submission), then ask it to restate.

For code gen and review, it's been pretty good since recent Opus versions, and I really like Fable's outputs (though a bit costly in terms of use). Fable is much closer to my own style for the couple things I've done with it.

I have yet to even consider replying to emails/messages with AI. I sometimes write a wall of text on my own, but it's entirely me.

IIRC, it was a decision based around not porting to 64bit in the newer versions of Windows. I agree it's a shame it didn't move forward... same for a lot of things that were in earlier versions that didn't make the cut.

FWIW, in a lot of cases you aren't expecting even thousands of simultaneous users, so SQLite is a perfectly valid option. Not to mention services like Cloudflare D2 and Turso which build on SQLite as a core with different features for scale/concurrency.

A lot of people manage to run several containerized applications on a single VPS behind a reverse proxy for personal or small groups. Managing a full rdbms takes work supporting multiple applications, or spinning up multiple instances per app in said containerized flows takes up excess resources, where SQLite would do the job just fine.

Not everything is going to be running 5+ nines of operation with distributed workloads. Plenty of real things run on a decent server with a good enough backup system in place.

IIRC, depends on the SSD size.. larger sizes had 2x the bandwidth, so it depends. That's combined/offset with the M5 improvements even further.

This is actually very similar to some ideas I've been having for a while... that having a smaller entry model that knows enough about "expert" models that themselves are smaller to hand work over to could be better/faster/lighter in terms of working through real problems vs the megalith ones we currently use. Highly distilled experts and coordination with a fallback mode to a larger model option.

afaik there is some research at this area. Also the new apple foundation model uses related idea. they process the whole prompt and based on prompt load required experts and use only these experts for generation. It doesn't require fitting full model into memory or per token ssd streaming

The only possible legit argument for blocking Chinese models is to force US orgs to use US based providers/models. And despite the fact that I and a lot of others cannot or should not use Chinese based models, they should be generally available as much as anyone in any other nation has access.

It's a lot like the guards against dealing with security issues.. I'd rather they be found and fixed then to try to stop people from being able to discover in the first place. I mean, where does that stop, do we let AI security scanners not tell you you have a SQL injection for fear someone might exploit it? They already can and they might use something else that tells them as much.

I tend to use this quite a bit to squash working branch commits before a rebase... though I'll also tend to use commit --amend locally as well. I try not to have long-lived branches, but when I do, I squash and rebase against the upstream main/master pretty often to reduce drift.

FWIW, there is some decent tooling options for C# with Razor + HTMX that are worth looking at. From JetBrains and others.

Yes - with C# websites - I default to Razor (and htmx) Very fluid, imo.

How are human behaviors like greed, desire for power and laziness injected or accounted for in the simulation? Greed and power climbing don't go away under communism, and the use of forced labor is often the means of overcoming inherent laziness with a lack of reward under communism, generally speaking and even that has diminishing returns in practice from historical evidence.

Would also be interesting to include Fascist-style socialism as an economic model in addition to the "mixed" and "communist" targets. Which, as implemented in China has been relatively successful, despite the societal flaws encountered.