It’s easy to blame money, for it’s the most visible and measurable metric in a technologically driven culture. But other scholars have pointed to technology itself as being the issue, the relentless chase of data-driven efficiency, not money, which is just a secondary effect downstream. We went from being a tool-making species, to using tools to organize every aspect of our lives. I recommend Neil Postman’s Technopoly and, of course, good old Uncle Ted.
On the other hand, not paying with money for quality content is breeding the even worse cancer of shallow ad-driven content. Where the only thing that matters now is enough of an illusion to generate a click, horizontally scaled with AI-slop to trawl coverage of every possible search term.
Success of online advertising model seems to have destroyed a lot. It is now so bad that even if you pay you get the advertisements... So you end up with worst of the both worlds...
Where do people on HN meet these devs who are willing to do this sort of thing, and get anxious about being 3 months behind the latest and greatest?
In my world, they were given 9 years to switch to Python 3 even if you write off 3.0 and 3.1 as premature, and they still missed by years, and loudly complained afterwards.
And they still can't be bothered to learn what a `pyproject.toml` is, let alone actually use it for its intended purpose. One of the most popular third-party Python libraries (Requests), which is under stewardship by the PSF, which uses only Python code, had its "build" (no compilation - purely a matter of writing metadata, shuffling some files around and zipping it up) broken by the removal of years-old functionality in Setuptools that they weren't even actually remotely reliant upon. Twice, in the last year.
You just need to be a frontend dev in a very overstaffed team (like where I work) and then you need to fill up your day doing that and creating a task per every couple of line changed, and require multiple approvals to merge anything.
It takes me ~1 week to merge small fixes to their build system (which they don't understand anyway so they just approve whatever).
Without more information I'm very skeptical that you had e.g. Claude Code create a whole app (so more than a simple script) with 20 cents. Unless it was able to one-shot it, but at that point you don't need an agent anyway.
That isn't really what being behind implies. We've known how to multiply matrices since ... at least the 70s. And video processing isn't a wild new task for our friends at AMD. I'd expect that this would run on an AMD card.
But I don't own an AMD card to check, because when I did it randomly crashed too often doing machine learning work.
I have a 9070 XT... rockm ATM is unoptimized for it and the generation speed is less than what it should be if AMD isn't fudging the specs. Also the memory management is dire / buggy and will cause random OOMs on one ruin then be fine the next. splitting workflow helps so you can have one OOM crash in between. VAEs also crash from OOM. This is all just software issues because vram isn't released properly on AMD.
Sometimes it is a little more work to get stuff setup, but it works fine I've run plenty of models on my 7900 XTX wan2.1 14B, flux 1.dev and whisper. (wan and flux were with comfyui and whisper with whisper.cpp)
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