Steve @ fasterandworse @awful.systems

I write things on my blog sometimes https://fasterandworse.com/

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Did you ever see that A16z funded startup that was making a web browser that streamed the web for an intermediary server? It was fucken wild

Edit, I guess it was yc funded? https://jacobhrussell.com/blog/mighty

chrome-only

The whole concept of responsive really died in the arse with the onset of the full stack web developer.

I might be wrong but this sounds like a quick way to make the web worse by putting a huge computational load on your machine for the purpose of privacy inside customer service chat bots that nobody wants. Please correct me if I’m wrong

WebLLM is a high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine that brings language model inference directly onto web browsers with hardware acceleration. Everything runs inside the browser with no server support and is accelerated with WebGPU.

WebLLM is fully compatible with OpenAI API. That is, you can use the same OpenAI API on any open source models locally, with functionalities including streaming, JSON-mode, function-calling (WIP), etc.

We can bring a lot of fun opportunities to build AI assistants for everyone and enable privacy while enjoying GPU acceleration.

https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm

This is fucking hilarious. GIT is my favorite blockchain

Ok, you’ve convinced me

It's like how "marketing" became "UX research/design"

Glad you covered this. Can only imagine b-movie villain types sitting behind a desk telling their employees to work faster to produce the swill

Surprisingly, not a sexbot!

would be a good album name

Job interviews by AI avatars are real and happening, apparently https://www.404media.co/ai-avatars-are-doing-job-interviews-now/

I imagine Sam lecturing wasted teenage me at a party about the logical efficiencies of getting high on psychedelics vs beer and cigarettes. I’m trying to focus on his face while he just talks and talks and I’m teetering and sweating and he just keeps talking

Maybe I’m scarred but I have a reflexive distrust for any usage of “pumped” or “super excited” in a commercial context. No matter the subject.

They’re gonna start announcing real concrete nefarious-ass use cases real soon

Some CTO jobs will go away, but maybe they shouldn’t have been there in the first place

What if AI was only ever meant to be the Akinator?

It’s all about finding an angle, no matter how creepy, and going for it

It’s so frustrating to see how egregious the future tense has become in all the talking about these products. Also the anticipation of a killer app is never going to sound not desperate.

yeah, I'm wondering if this AI take is incorrect. I'll research it further

Good to know - thesaurus dot com is infected

https://bsky.app/profile/courtneymilan.com/post/3l4lwvra6r22e

is this what gaslighting is?