looking for advice/suggestions:
anyone seen anything yet (uBlock ruleset, {tamper,grease}monkey scripts, etc) that can block the "talk to our prompt" widgets that have started showing up on too many fucking webpages? I'm getting sick of the things, and I haven't really yet found an exhaustive list of this shit from which to build up a list
reducing the 100r folks to “a gamedev studio” is abysmal, ew.
we already had quines at home. I’ll have to try see if I can budget quaking in my boots at scary-pictures-on-the-wall quines. hard call tho
in which karpathy goes "eh, fuckit":
karpathy tweet text
There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it.
The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.
skipping past the implicit assumption of "well, just have a bunch of money to be able to keep throwing the autoplag at the wall until something sticks", the admissions of not giving a single fuck about anything, and the straight and plain "well, it often just doesn't work like we keep promising it does", imagine being this fucking incurious and void of joy
I'm left wondering if this bastard is running through the stages of grief (at being thrown out), because this sure as fuck reads like despair to me
yep, a completely normal amount of non-specialist hardware that basically everyone has in their back shed. you just don't turn it on all the time because the neighbours keep complaining about the fan noise. practically anyone could do this!
til if I wanted the program to go faster I should've just been asking it to switch its runtime
For another layer or assembly/machine languages, technically they could have reverse engineered the actual native ISA of the GPU core and written machine code for it, bypassing the compiler in the driver. This is also quite unlikely as it would practically mean writing their own driver for latest-gen Nvidia cards that vastly outperforms the official one
yeah, and it'd be a pretty fucking immense undertaking, as it'd be the driver and the application code and everything else (scheduling, etc etc). again, it's not impossible, and there's been significant headway across multiple parts of industry to make doing this kind of thing more achievable... but it's also an extremely niche, extremely focused, hard-to-port thing, and I suspect that if they actually did do this it'd be something they'd be shouting about loudly in every possible PR outlet
a look at every other high-optimisation field, from the mechanical sympathy lot stemming from HFT etc all the way through to where that's gotten to in modern usage of FPGAs in high-perf runtime envs also gives a good backgrounder in the kind of effort cost involved for this shit, and thus gives me some extra reasons to doubt claims kicking around (along with the fact that everyone seems to just be making shit up)
d'ya....d'ya think they'll make it all the way along the path, to the realization?
for the love of god read the sidebar
pretty much my take as well. I haven’t seen any actual information from a primary source, just lots of hearsay and “what we think happened” analyst shit (e.g. that analyst group in the twitter screenshot has names but no citation/links)
and doubly yep on the “everyone could just be lying” bit
the wildest bit is that one could literally just … go do the thing. like you could grab the sdk and run through the tutorial and actually have babby’s first gpu program in not too long at all[0], with all the lovely little bits of knowledge that entails
but nah, easier to just make some nonsense up out of thirdhand conversations misheard out of a gamer discord talking about a news post of a journalist misunderstanding a PR statement, and then confidently spout that synthesis
[0] - I’m eliding “make the cuda toolchain run” for argument of simplicity. could just rent a box that has it, for instance
of things I've found in the space that do address this somewhat includes this (a list of domains of either explicitly full of slop or heavily supporting slop)
brave supposedly has something as well but, well, it's brave so it's a non-starter
this is a now-archived project that maintained a list of chat widgets
regarding instances of widgets, off the top of my head some places where I've seen chat prompts unhelpfully placed: pluginboutique.com, hetzner.com, most aws doc and product pages ("Explainer"). I think hydro.run also had some trash popping up (I have a block for it), but can't recall under which section
(DDG also pops some up constantly unless you have the cookies set, but that fails in fresh browser instances)