So K3 is open weights - it changes the dynamic quite a bit for the labs. Clearly in a way that is very pro consumer surplus for all of us - and better for research.
Also I think it is moving AI behavior in the direction of being pro-agency and tool shaped.
This is what I want to say:
Been playing w GLM 5.2 for the past week and it’s legit. If I can get this in a box sitting on my desk, I’m not sure I need much else
But this is probably what’s actually true:
Can imagine a guy running on a Pentium PC for the first time and being like, wow, I don’t need anything else. But actually we invent all sorts of cool new things we can use compute. So each frontier/adjacent LLM is cool but we’ll always want to use the next, better one
Dario says, “AI fundamentally changes what is possible with surveillance”, and I 100% agree — it’s also why you should use local models that you control and limit your data exhausts to closed AI companies.
ok fine Fable is a good model. like....really good. insanely good in fact. "clean up this old PoC and the research I had from the last couple years plinking away at the problem........oh, it's all working now wow. and you improved that thing. ummmm ok, I wasn't prepared for that to now be working wtf do I do next" good
Engineering is evolving faster than it ever has.
I think code and craft will always matter - even if we’re all salespeople and product managers at the same time.
I think Anthropic’s product is great - but there’s an aspect of how Boris markets Claude that rubs me the wrong way
Local models and Cloud inference will both always have their place.
Hard to see without step change differences in energy density or compact capabilities that you won’t want to serve things out of a monster cluster.
But there are reasons of privacy and embodiment that local models will win on.
The job is different, but you just can’t expect to have a scale product without technical people steering and inserting their taste into the code shipped into production.
The software engineers at OpenAI are busier than ever, even if the amount of code written by hand is near 0