I think linkedin is built with emberjs not react last i checked…
The problem with performance in wep apps is often not the omg too much render. But is actually processing and memory use. Chromium loves to eat as much ram as possible and the state management world of web apps loves immutability. What happens when you create new state anytime something changes and v8 then needs to recompile an optimized structure for that state coupled with thrashing the gc? You already know.
I hate the immutable trend in wep apps. I get it but the performance is dogshite. Most web apps i have worked on spend about 10% of their cpu time…garbage collecting and the rest doing complicated deep state comparisons every time you hover on a button.
There are many games for vr that cannot be done without the tech. It isnt all about immersion but facilitating unique experiences.
What held it back from mainstream imo is an inherent space issue (you need room) and a lack of multiplayer participation (need even more room). Compared to sitting on a couch in a small studio with a few friends, it doesnt stand a chance.
The other problem is most peoples first experience is with some shitty mall vr room where the “game” consists of free unity assets slapped together in a way that makes marky marks horizons look polished. Few people start off with something like the half life one.
I wont touch how profoundly i disagree with everything you said on reasoning (u clearly already have it figured out) but a fun test i have done with most of the big models is to give it some text input, maybe a short story, and have it rate it. That is, the prompt is, rate this from 1-10.
For Gemini and gpt, it almost always will give very similar scores for everything. As long as grammar isnt off u cannot get below a 7.
X ai on the other hand will rarely give anything above a 7.
Now when u prompt with, rate 1-10 with 5 being average, all the sudden the scores of openai and gemini drop and x ai remains roughly the same.
All of them will eventually give you a 10 if u keep making tiny edits “fixing” whatever they complain about.
Humans do not do this. Or more specifically, my experience with humans.
I genuinely do not understand what u are saying. Because reasons, because unfathomables? Everyone in last 15 years has been an npc? I have had countless deep conversations with people and i am an uber introvert.
This reads like someone who is deep into their specific pov. You cannot hope to have a meaningful conversation if you yourself are not willing to concede a point.
To the op u are replying too, arguing with people can have real consequences if u say something stupid or carelessly. There is a another human there. With a machine, u are safe. At least u feel safe.
I think it was a carry over from crypto days. Crypto terrible for energy etc etc. AI is also compute heavy so same deal. Regardless of real world use environment arguments are hard to sell because everything in modern life is terrible across the board.
I am pretty sure that the beef industry is far worse than data centers. Dont get me started on plastics.
Stronger arguments can be made “against” ai then energy use.
Everything in modern life is terrible compared to how it could be. There is quite a lot of room for improvement.
But compared to living in extreme poverty in parts of the developing world today or the life of a peasant in the Middle Ages? It’s much better for the vast majority of people.
It would have to get a lot worse to be as bad as subsistence farming or filthy slum life.
I think the most frustrating thing though is that many of our problems are self inflicted. The subsistence farmer and the slum dweller are victims of circumstance or societal forces far outside their control.
Thank you. I always thought the “we are getting dumber” was happening way before AI. There is now like 3-4 social media giants where anything viral is reposted across them all so it is really like one global “feed” of information.
Addictive social media has done infinitely more to zombify and destroy the attention spans of people than AI.
AI is more of a double edged sword I think. Depends a lot on how people use it. I think it's actually more likely to have positive effects on cognition than social media and especially scrollers like TikTok. Don't get me started on gambling.
Most arguments against it are built on some moral principle and not on objective reality of usefulness.
Crypto used to be the thing to hate but that made sense as the objective usefulness of crypto was meek. AI models were always crazy useful but prohibitively expensive. Youd need an entire team to build your models. Now you dont.
Agree to disagree. It is likely ai enhanced some where along the path to production. So many phrases reek AI but others do not. Is this a sprinkling of llm help or how a human genuinely writes, idk.
Out of curiosity, can you point to specific sections that reel of AI? I read the article and didn't see anything that immediately stuck out, but maybe I need to start looking for different signals.
> For our FL1 request handling layer, NGINX- and LuaJIT-based code, this cache reduction presented a significant challenge. But we didn't just assume it would be a problem; we measured it.
It’s not that the “it’s not just A, it’s B” pattern. It’s just that humans don’t write like that. You don’t go “I didn’t just assume; I measured”. People usually say something like “but we didn’t know for sure, so we decided to measure it”. The LLM text is over-confident.
> The choice to never invert raster images isn't a compromise, it's the design decision. The problem veil solves is exactly that: every dark mode reader today inverts everything, and the result on photos, histology, color charts, scans is unusable. Preserving all images is the conservative choice, and for my target (people reading scientific papers, medical reports, technical manuals) it's the right one.
It’s like a guy putting together a promo packet or something. A normal person would be a little hesitant and wouldn’t just go. “And what I’m doing isn’t because of constraints. It’s because I am making the right choices!”
It’s just an oddly stilted way of speaking in conversation. Imagine talking to someone like that in real life. It would be all like “And then I thought the problem was that the global variable was set wrong. But I didn’t just assume that, I verified it.”
No one’s accusing you of assuming it, dude. You don’t have to pre-emptively tell us you didn’t just assume it. Normal people don’t say that.
I don’t have much of a problem with LLM text because I just skip over flavor like this to charts, code, and tables but this is obviously LLM
Ah appreciate it. A year ago it was very clear when something was written by an LLM, but now you've gotta look for certain characteristics. I try not to infer to much, especially because llms are really helpful for non native English speakers to write faster.
I'd like to make it a bit more normalized to have public writing be transparent about if llms were used and how. That makes it quite a bit easier for readers to focus on the content instead of debating how something was written lol
I’m hopeful that future LLMs will be better at communicating information. If the facts are right, and the text is concise then I don’t care about the source. The problem is that the text is verbose bloviation.
“ deliver more than just a core count increase. The architecture delivers improvements across multiple dimensions”
“But we didn't just assume it would be a problem; we measured it.”
“ Instead of compromising, we built FL2. ”
Idk if i am now seeing this pattern everywhere because it is all AI slop or if people really do write this way.
Skimming it, this looks like they got a partnership with amd and tacked it onto an ongoing project as if it were planned. This confuses us as it makes it harder to understand how much was the rewrite generally or was it some hardware thing? Man, i used to really enjoy cloudflares technical blogs.
The problem with performance in wep apps is often not the omg too much render. But is actually processing and memory use. Chromium loves to eat as much ram as possible and the state management world of web apps loves immutability. What happens when you create new state anytime something changes and v8 then needs to recompile an optimized structure for that state coupled with thrashing the gc? You already know.
I hate the immutable trend in wep apps. I get it but the performance is dogshite. Most web apps i have worked on spend about 10% of their cpu time…garbage collecting and the rest doing complicated deep state comparisons every time you hover on a button.
Rant over.
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