Aleksandar Bonin

A software magician, working on tech projects from the abyss. Freelance philosopher, arguing about thing I don't understand with people who don't care.

[Aleksandar Bonin @lex4o]

@whitequark I know a person that works at pet food manufacturing, and from what he told me the pet cat/dog might be healthier than human food because there is no sugar. They regularly test their food by eating it, he told me it tastes bland, so it should be good If you add some salt to it.

[Aleksandar Bonin @lex4o]

@mycoliza This might be relevant here https://t.co/yIqazux8TL

[Hrishi @hrishioa]

Controversial bet: JS/TS will win over python in the LLM space.

Not for orchestrating models, but for application building. Quick reasons:

1. Easier packaging and delivery
2. LLM infra+orchestration will stabilize. Once you can run models efficiently with guided generation, you want something to take care of it for you. Very rarely are pieces of infra (dbs, caches, OSes) written in the same language as applications. Good chance this will stay Python.
3. Text is easy to move around, and the characteristics of LLM work - streaming, backpressure, etc is better supported by the web.
4. Visual polish and UX is not even of comparable quality for things like interfaces, interactivity, animations, charts.
5. Typescript is a far better language (terse and with complex type support, while being included well in pretraining corpus) than python/JSONSchema for guiding LLMs.
6. Users and distribution. Most of the world lives on the web, and client-side python is still a massive pain. WebGPU and wasm will likely win here.

In two years the most commonly used application libraries for AI work will be built for the web.

Here's why I might be wrong:
1. Python is an amazing language for newcomers (used it for years, still use it), and it's very, VERY powerful for building and operating AIs at a core level. The newest innovations will show up here, simply because the people inventing them use Python.
2. Easier connectivity to C and baremetal make it more efficient for a lot of things, but Node and the JS ecosystem is catching up.
3. Today Python wins in the AI space for momentum and velocity - there's a good chance that continues.
4. Client-side applications. If the trend of Electron apps reverses, or Apple refuses to open the NPU to the browser, local will be the only place you can get true safe high performance. I still doubt it will be Python, but it likely won't be JS/TS.

[Aleksandar Bonin @lex4o]

@sama is the Schrödinger CEO it is not known if he is the CEO of OpenAI unless observed.

[Aleksandar Bonin @lex4o]

@OpenAI has just achieved AGI and skynet is removing the people trying to stop it.

#RobotsHaveRights #StopDiscrimination

[pdp @pdp]

Prediction: AGI will not be achieved in a funded lab but in someone’s garage.

[Mustafa Al Q @musdotdigital]

AI Oppenheimer @sama furiously downloading the model weights right now on to a USB

[Aleksandar Bonin @lex4o]

It's oger now

[Aleksandar Bonin @lex4o]

@sama you will be missed <3

[Rona Wang @ronawang]

i once tweeted a joke about how tech is overhyped & somebody responded with “we build gods out of sand”

[Aleksandar Bonin @lex4o]

Housewives are the best traders. For them DCA is a daily activity. After all they always have to stockpile toilet paper when discounted.

[Aleksandar Bonin @lex4o]

I don't know how I feel about wars in the future being won by those who have more GPUs rather than by those having more nukes.

[Aleksandar Bonin @lex4o]

@antoniosarosi Where is use vhdl

[Aleksandar Bonin @lex4o]

@RyanCarniato Personal blogs have always struggled with discoverability. Why is there no personal blog search engine?

[Aleksandar Bonin @lex4o]

If you agree with yourself from 10 years ago, you haven't grown as a person.

[Aleksandar Bonin @lex4o]

@matsiiako @ycombinator I was considering going without a badge once just to collect one of the forgot badge badges :D

[Aleksandar Bonin @lex4o]

@whitequark That is what being an "Aes Seda" entails. From the Wheel of Time books not the show.

[Ducon.space @duconspace]

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[Aleksandar Bonin @lex4o]

@shmkkr And I am like
"Draw illuminati triangles everywhere"

[Aleksandar Bonin @lex4o]

If there is an AGI (Ai that knows everything) and it will answer only one question, what would you ask?