It's not a binary choice though. We have the technology for an OS to enable sideloading for people who want it and disable it for people who don't...

It's a race to see which runs out of steam first: AI investment or Ed Zitron's schtick.

I'm more than a little worried about his mental state since so much of his identify seems tied up in AI collapsing and also in people rejecting AI. Both of those things seem unlikely.

Lol, basically. I do enjoy his consistent doomerism though, even if it's just for a laugh.

At $0.02 per image, it's prohibitively expensive for many use-cases. For comparison, the cheapest Flux model (Schnell) is $0.003 per image.

How many images do you need? What are the use-cases that need a bunch of artificial yet photoreal images produced or altered without human supervision?

I think people still expect a lot of trial and error before getting a usable image. At 2 cents per pull of the slot machine lever, it would still take a while, though.

Schnell isn’t AR and doesn’t do editing.

Fair but the Gemini "flash" branding implies it's their model for speed/scale in my mind.

yes, too expensive for my use case.

    Service            Cost per Image   Cost per 1,000 Images
    Flux Schnell       $0.003           $3.00
    Gemini 1.5 Flash   $0.039           $39.00

Similarly spec'd laptops can be found for ~1/2 the price. I don't think a deep economic analysis is necessary...

The computer you listed is specifically designed for running local AI inference, because it has an APU with lots of integrated RAM. If that isn't your use case then AMD 9000 series should be better.

Not just local AI inference, plenty of broader workstation workloads will benefit from a modern APU with a lot of VRAM-equivalent.

It seems like a lot of "agentic features" these days don't really require LLMs. The dinner reservation agent is basically just Kayak for dinner reservations. They're even working with the reservation vendors to ensure compatibility. I suppose it's easier to describe the restaurant type you're looking for in a chat window than a dropdown menu?

All of the foundational models are converging on the same performance. For most use cases you can swap Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google's top models interchangeably.

Barring some major methodology breakthrough, the next decade for AI will be about building software and hardware that actually makes use of AI, beyond Chatbots, which Apple and Amazon are positioned to do as well as anyone

Does the author really feel alone? There's posts like this on the front page of HN everyday. If you don't want AI to be useful for coding then you can find a way to convince yourself it isn't.

Surely, at the bare minimum, you can use it for boilerplate and auto-complete, which in itself is often a massive time savings.

While I agree SEO and click-based ad revenue have degraded the media greatly, we should still be very concerned about the potential collapse of journalism. Proper journalism requires large budgets, trained journalists and things like reporters traveling to war zones. These things can't be replaced by your favorite Substack. They require wealthy media entities.

It's a blog post about whether GPT 5 lived up to the hype and how it is being received, which is a totally legitimate thing to blog about. This is Gary Marcus's blog, not BBC coverage, of course it's slanted to the opinion he is trying to express.

Yeah which is exactly what the post you’re responding to is commenting on.

It’s a classic HN comment asking for nuance and discrediting Gary. It’s about how Gary is always following classic mob mentality, so of course it’s not slanted at all and commenting about the accuracies of the post.

So ironically you’re saying Gary’s shit is supposed to be that way and you’re criticizing the HN comment for that, but now I’m criticizing you for criticizing the comment because HN comments ARE supposed to be the opposite of Gary’s bullshit opinions.

I expect to read better stuff on HN. Not this type of biased social media violence and character take downs.

Yeah, but, he did "play with it for about an hour!"

Sure, that's fine, but the question is whether or not that's interesting to the HN crowd. Apparently it is, as it made it to the front page. But I agree with GP's criticism of the article; if I wanted to know what reddit thought about GPT-5, I'd go to reddit. I don't need to read an article filled with gleeful vitriol. I gave up after a couple paragraphs.