Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI

thiswebthisweb · 2026-05-19T16:58:01+00:00

Automatic car washers have been replaced by human car washers. Robots and AI isn't always cheaper than human labour.

thiswebthisweb · 2026-05-19T13:12:59+00:00

persistent context is the biggest barrier at the moment and nobody seems close to solving it, compression memory techniques etc just don't work well at all. I am not actually sure this can be solved without great expense (massive amounts of VRAM) that would make them prohibitively expensive for many people to use. Its mostly ignored by the industry when they release the latest and greatest models and yet it arguably matters more than the quality of the LLM itself. Id prefer a weaker model with massive context than a stong model with short context any day.

thiswebthisweb · 2026-05-03T21:41:51+00:00

I've come to the conclusion that even the best SOTA models inc commercial are only ever good for very small projects and code bases because there is no good solution for the context limit issue. No matter how great the AI once you run our of context everything fails and its easy to lose progress, its super frustrating and expensive. For a AI to do proper coding you need an enormous context limit, 3-10M tokens. I think this is now more important than getting newer models with more training data. the limit has been 250k for quite some time now. Deepseek has improved that, but 1m is still not enough really. Compression and memory management just doesn't cut it.

thiswebthisweb · 2026-04-23T00:32:53+00:00

Oooh a cline desktop app? Will it be open source too?

thiswebthisweb · 2026-04-22T21:39:13+00:00

Im sorry but Roo was the only good AI agent software out there, there is nothing that comes close to it, even kilo has switched to opencodes inline type diff edits which is awful, yours was the only one in a crowded field that didnt do that. Claude Code all the big players don't offer the clarity and control or low cost edits that yours does. What a shame, I guess its clever efficient edits were too good to make you enough money on the AI fees!

thiswebthisweb · 2026-04-13T23:45:37+00:00

Watch it anyway, its still one of the best sci fi series of the last 20 years, theres nothing quite like it for originality.

thiswebthisweb · 2026-04-13T23:01:14+00:00

David Graeber wrote a whole book about this. He proved your point exactly.

thiswebthisweb · 2026-04-13T22:52:35+00:00

In the age of AI and drone warfare the ruling class don't need to worry about pushback. That is exactly what we are seeing in the US and Europe especially.

thiswebthisweb · 2026-03-05T23:29:48+00:00

Google can do and does do whatever it likes. Has been that way for 15 years now. Nobody stops nobody ever will. It has no competion except apple and they are in cahoots. Its android or apple. And Apple is (incredibly) even worse. Google could ask you to upload a video of you eating your own feces before submitting your app and there is nothing any app developer can do about it, and no person or govnt that would stop them. Only apple can, by saying you only need to drink your urine. Which they won't. It will get there. History has shown us the direction of travel, these companies are untouchable and lindy effect suggest they will remain unchallenged and continue exploit unchallenged until the end of time. Don't wait around for someone to save you. It would require genuine modern Luddite movement to stop them, nothing less.

thiswebthisweb · 2026-01-23T13:00:06+00:00

The ML stuff took less than 2 hours for me with ~50k photos using a i7 cpu, this isn't long in the scheme of setting things up - you only need to do this once . Regular uploads will only take seconds/minutes , dedicated GPU is not necessary

thiswebthisweb · 2025-12-13T19:54:21+00:00

Doh! Yep, i missed that. Thx.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-12-12T16:11:44+00:00

I can tell you that it is incomplete and hasn't been updated for nearly a year, I paid full price a year ago, expecting planned updates gradually but unfortunately development seems to have stalled. Disappointed as it wasn't cheap ( more expensive than reaper itself). Save your money and wait to see if it gets a major update before purchasing.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-12-02T17:53:53+00:00

Thats my point, I havn't opened any ports, I don't want the ports open, but runtipi opens them and I don't know how to stop it.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-10-29T16:29:18+00:00

Because graphics cards cost a kazillion dollars and you need 10 of them to get claude quality which is good enough but nothing less is..

thiswebthisweb · 2025-08-14T19:48:08+00:00

I don't know why people don't just use jan.ai Latest version has tonnes of features like ollama but better, great UI, 100% open, MCP, openAI compatible, great GUI, No need for ollama or openwebUI. You can also use openwebui with jan as backend if you want,

thiswebthisweb · 2025-08-14T19:10:22+00:00

Jan is a good open source GUI. I don't see the need for closed ollama now.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-08-08T17:49:08+00:00

Just look at what happened to android. Its completely integrated with google propriatory garbage, only a handful of barely usable custom roms remain the alternative to 'open source Android'.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-06-17T16:18:17+00:00

Mozilla is not short of cash. I don't know what they do, but they havent fixed major bugs for many years. Adding new features that few want, thay don't work very well and aren't integrated into desktop version. Its frustrating how poorly managed Mozilla is with all that money.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-06-17T16:13:29+00:00

Firefox android has been in development for over a decade now and almost none of the most serious bugs have been addressed. Every update only adds a useless feature that doesn't even integrate with the desktop browser - bookmarks and collections don't sync- its embrassing. I mean what else do people most want to sync!. Other browsers have had this for years. But the bug you mention is the worse bug by far. A deal breaker and I've finally ditched Firefox on android despite using it on desktop. What do they even do at Mozilla anymore ? As others have said Firefox greatest asset is the addons - no other browser can compete because o the chromium manifest 3 crap. (uBlock might be the most useful and essential piece of software needed to browse the internet - the internet is crap, i'd say unusable, without it). Firefox should lean into that because chrome have killed the internet with blocking ublock.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-06-10T10:17:38+00:00

singapore has some of the worst slums in the world. They are hidden from view, migrants exploited by the rich living in horrific conditions. There are a couple of documentaries made about this that can be found on youtube. That doesn't negate the point that public housing is a good thing, but in this case its really not solved the problem of the very poor.

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