All of those are opinions about programming. Which framework, which language, etc.
Conversations about which model to use aren’t conversations about programming.
A better analogy would be some topic that you can’t discuss without it boiling down to which text editor you should use. It’s related to programming, a little. But it’s not programming.
Are there any other comparable options? Seems like every distro i’ve tried before this wanted to be windows or macos, and didn’t succeed at being either. I like it for not trying to be them.
That said, every time I peek under the hood (or into the omarchy git repo) i get pretty worried the whole thing seems glued together with a bunch of vibe-coded scripts
A super impressive feat, but also the games art style is like having bleach poured into my eyes. Am I just the wrong age for this specific retro nostalgia? Probably.
1-10 million drones. At $400 a pop that’s $400,000,000-$4,000,000,000. A lot to throw at a single attack when you don’t actually know what defenses are in place. Maybe there is an EMP. Are you willing to spend a billion dollars to find out, while also murdering hundreds of thousands of civilians?
And these are either autonomous drones (more expensive?), or fpv with the fiber optic line out the back - either way you have to get them in range without being detected somehow.
In short, i think this is an unrealistic scenario - fun to imagine as a horror-sci-fi idea but unlikely to be deployed. Just one opinion.
This isn't a game of Command and Conquer with fog of war turned on. Of course they would have intel on exactly what they are going to attack. One cruise missile is about $4 million.
China already has created a UAV that is designed to launch at least 100 drones. If they can make that 1000 drones and then fly out 1000 of these motherships at one time, that's already 1 million.
And yes the drones would be autonomous, there's no reason for any person to be controlling them in the age of AI.
So then my $400/each price tag is wrong - it’ll be much higher. If nothing else, the high price of gpus and ram might be saving us from an attack like this lol.
But also, 1000 carrier drones is a lot easier to shoot down than 1mil drones.
An attack like this might not be today, but in 10-20 years? If a country can develop this technology where multiple cities or military bases are completely overwhelmed by a swarm of drones, and all the politicians and generals are taken out by AI-controlled drones, why wouldn't they invest in it? As far as I can tell, unless some sort of localized EMP is developed, I don't know how an attack like this can be stopped. Maybe some sort of RF beam but I'm sure the devices can be shielded from that.
It's much more effective than a cruise missile because you can just blow up weak points on bridges, buildings, take out entire military bases, etc. Even 1000 of these drones would be extremely effective but 1 million would be devastating.
> all the politicians and generals are taken out by AI-controlled drones, why wouldn't they invest in it?
Because that’s an abhorrent thing to do. Because then you have to occupy people who don’t want to be occupied. Because the nation you just destroyed has allies who have the same weapons. Because that nation has the same weapons. Because killing “all the politicians and all the generals” will become impossible immediately after the first time this is used - assuming it’s not already impossible today.
Jets aren’t single-use. A better comparison would be something like a tomahawk missile, which costs ~$2mil each (not counting r&d costs, launcher costs, getting them there costs, etc).
The US spent $11.3b in the first six days of israel’s war with iran. So not an unprecedented amount of money, just a lot to put into a single attack that could fail, and that mostly kills humans, and that requires a shit ton of logistics to make happen.
And yet both these technologies are being used to subvert democracy and suppress opposition… almost like it doesn’t need to be fully automated fascism to be fascistic.
Please send the download link for qwen 3.5-plus.
Also, who cares? If you have the hardware to run a ~400b model i don’t think you count as a home user anymore.
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