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Comment by mikestorrent

15 hours ago

I am seriously concerned that, despite 20 years of coding, I might not be able to anymore

Sure you can. It'll just take a little while to shake the rust off. It's like riding a bike.

Or maybe it's all gone forever and we're all brain damaged now. Spooky! I think there's a pretty low probability of that, and even if it was true, worrying doesn't help!

Turns out depending on a cloud service you have no control over for a critical capability - such as coding - is not a good idea. ;-)

  • However it's not a worse idea than all the other things we rely on cloud services for like banking, healthcare, booking a taxi, ordering food, navigation, communication...

  • ;-)

    as if you're supposed to buy like 8 H200s or something or code by hand is the solution

    I don't get how this is a gotcha, there simply is no world where everyone has their own self hosted frontier model

    • > as if you're supposed to buy like 8 H200s or something or code by hand is the solution

      People like GGP who have been coding for 20 years presumably are perfectly capable of doing so by hand. Or should be.

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