Please no llm posts?

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I definitely see a future race of who can accelerate open models and their usage locally with realistic desktop hardware.

I fully await my ai in a usb box. The models are plateauing and some clever company is secretly working on this already I’m sure of it.

Imagine baking in a model weight set in ROM with an analog computer doing what otherwise takes way too much power in digital form.

Meanwhile nothing really seems to matter anymore but Zephyr which has become almost Linux like in its escape velocity. Every vendor on earth now supports it, and these guys follow the money.

Rust seems to have modest support in some places.

With AI I don’t know language really matters anymore.

Language still matters because writing robust code in C requires discipline on many fronts, and LLMs will often do the minimum to get code running (as will most humans) unless prompted further. Rust protects you from some of these issues and gives you greater confidence that changes will not introduce bugs.

On hardware? Usually hardware issues or quirks are a bigger issue than memory honestly.

AI is trained with an overwhelming amount of web-related code that is open source. For embedded, not only is the training set smaller, but much of what's publicly visible is not of great quality.

ikr? ive been really hoping to be embedded already but Zephyr/C seema still the pragmatic choice for most embedded.

bump up to EmbeddedLinux and i think Rust wins ovr C

This greatly implies online advertising is dead, that the internet as something useful to humans is soon becoming questionable.

Why would anyone be surprised by this outcome? No one should be surprised.

Why go back to a centralized model at all. Guess which project isn’t suffering in this whole debacle of GitHub? The one git was made for of course.

Copilot probably wrote the code confidently and it was never looked at by a human then yolo’d out to meet the pointy haired bosses arbitrarily short timeline to then look good to his boss and so on

radicle.xyz to avoid centralization again

Disappointed to see only one mention of this.

With Radicle you can continue to work locally with all issues etc intact, even if your “main” host is down. You can also sync through other hosts in the network.

GitHub is down days of that week that end with day these days. If I were a paying customer I'd be cancelling soon. GitHub is sort of foundational at this point and when its down nearly every day of the week it cannot be foundational.

There's still repercussions to the unaligned variable length instruction set that is x86 though, and the decoder and prefetch have to deal with the insanity that falls out from it... ultimately limiting how parallel the instruction decode and dispatch can be.