This is a pretty interesting project! Assuming one wanted to run everything locally, what’s the minimum viable hardware stack for near-realtime performance?

Coffee. Cliché, I know, and I’m not even talking about the watching-James-Hoffman-videos-before-prepping-my-4000-dollar-espresso-machine type of habit. Just the few minutes of preparing a cup the way I like it, and finding a quiet couple of minutes to drink it.

Tech company stock prices are buoyed by future growth prospects. If your competitors are all building shittons of compute capacity and you are not, that’s like signaling that you don’t plan to grow (at least in the current insane climate)

I think about this a lot, and have been vacillating between AI-driven cultural and technical stagnation due to it being so much easier to generate derivative slop rather than make something new from-scratch, and an age of cultural/technical acceleration because so many people have interesting but latent thoughts and now there are great tools to help get them out into the world much more easily.

It’s an open source design and prototyping tool like figma.

Hah I just opened it this morning for the first time in ages to work on a little OSS project and was amazed by how easy it was to switch between figma (which I use for work) and penpot. Never even occurred to me that it might not work well in Firefox.

The “could” in the title is doing some heavy lifting.

As predicted in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future.

Hello fellow X’er / elder millennial.

Love it. Gives a great, retro, Deluxe Paint-esque vibe.

Gasp! Now other companies will be able to produce rounded, silver rectangles!

To a non-religious person I think that is the exact definition of a faith-based mindset.

Right. And that somethingElse is probably not Unix

So what you’re saying is it’s not Linux, it’s somethingElse/Linux ?

How dare the Chinese AI companies copy what the US AI companies had rightfully stolen.

For copyleft licenses like the GPL maybe this would be true if the original, attributed code, along with all of the new alterations, modifications, enhancements and improvements, were also fed back into the machine, but even then it seems unlikely. Copyleft is explicitly about keeping derivative works in the public sphere, not really about ownership of ideas per se.

I wonder if anyone has fed Claude Code to Claude Code yet.

Right I was mainly thinking of urban air quality. You don’t really appreciate how huge of a difference catalytic converters and 4-cycle engines make until you go to a place where they aren’t as widespread (and obviously electric goes way beyond that)

Just converting some fraction of those shitty 2-cycle tuktuk engines to EV would probably make a huge different in air quality (I’d say noise too, but I think that’s probably 99% horn by volume)

If they’re serious about it it will eventually be made into a requirement for serious services. I could imagine federal regulations requiring online banking, accessing government services (including school-related services), and maybe even ecommerce and payment processing looking for this trusted info, and refusing to run otherwise. Like TPM on steroids.