I took 5 years of latin, a year of college french and 2 years of high school german. I can speak or read exactly zero of those languages. I have never taken a Spanish class.
I spent 3 months in central america 15 years ago and even _today_ I can converse a little bit in spanish and read spanish reasonably well. There is nothing better than total immersion.
I already built an operator so we can deploy nanoclaw agents in kubernetes with basically a single yaml file. We're already running two of them in production (PR reviews and ticket triaging)
It's not that it's cheating _in the market_, but if people have an obligation to their employers, etc, to keep information confidential, then they are stealing from their employer by cashing in on it, as sure as if they had taken money from the till.
Even an O3 quality model at that speed would be incredible for a great many tasks. Not everything needs to be claude code. Imagine Apple fine tuning a mid tier reasoning model on personal assistant/MacOs/IOS sorts of tasks and burning a chip onto the mac studio motherboard. Could you run claude code on it? Probably not, would it be 1000x better than Siri? absolutely.
100x of a less good model might be better than 1 of a better model for many many applications.
This isn't ready for phones yet, but think of something like phones where people buy new ones every 3 years and even having a mediocre on-device model at that speed would be incredible for something like siri.
There are a lot of people here that are completely missing the point. What is it called where you look at a point of time and judge an idea without seemingly being able to imagine 5 seconds into the future.
Think about this for solving questions in math where you need to explore a search space. You can run 100 of these for the same cost and time of doing one api call to open ai.
An on-device reasoning model what that kind of speed and cost would completely change the way people use their computers. It would be closer to star trek than anything else we've ever had. You'd never have to type anything or use a mouse again.
I basically just _accidentally_ added a major new feature to one of my projects this week.
In the sense that, I was trying to explain what I wanted to do to a coworker and my manager, and we kept going back and forth trying to understand the shape of it and what value it would add and how much time it would be worth spending and what priority we should put on it.
And I was like -- let me just spend like an hour putting together a partially working prototype for you, and claude got _so close_ to just completely one-shotting the entire feature in my first prompt, that I ended up spending 3 hours just putting the finishing touches on it and we shipped it before we even wrote a user story. We did all that work after it was already done. Claude even mocked up a fully interactive UI for our UI designer to work from.
It's literally easier and faster to just tell claude to do something than to explain why you want to do it to a coworker.
Well, that's the thing. You have to shut your programmer brain off and turn on your business brain. The code never really was that important. Delivering value to end users is the important thing, at least to the people that count.
Tim Bryce, one of the foremost experts on software methodology, hated programmers and considered them deeply sad individuals who had to compensate for their mediocre intelligence and narrow thinking by gatekeeping technology and holding the rest of the company hostage to them. And, he said upper management in corporate America agreed with him.
If you place a lot of value in being a good programmer, then to the real movers and shakers in society you are at best a tool they can use to get even richer. A tool that will soon be replaced by a machine. The time has come for programmers to level up their soft skills and social standing, and focus their intelligence on the business rather than the code. It sucks but that's the reality of the AI era.
I think we (developers) need to get over that. Code was always the means to an end, which is providing a product to solve a problem, not the end itself.
It isn't, no one is buying code on it's own - but it's a component of the product. I dislike the phrasing above since it assumes the two are distinct things.
I spent 3 months in central america 15 years ago and even _today_ I can converse a little bit in spanish and read spanish reasonably well. There is nothing better than total immersion.
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