I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.
Announcing The Stargate Project
The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefit for the entire world. This project will not only support the re-industrialization of the United States but also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies.
The initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. SoftBank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with SoftBank having financial responsibility and OpenAI having operational responsibility. Masayoshi Son will be the chairman.
Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI are the key initial technology partners. The buildout is currently underway, starting in Texas, and we are evaluating potential sites across the country for more campuses as we finalize definitive agreements.
As part of Stargate, Oracle, NVIDIA, and OpenAI will closely collaborate to build and operate this computing system. This builds on a deep collaboration between OpenAI and NVIDIA going back to 2016 and a newer partnership between OpenAI and Oracle.
This also builds on the existing OpenAI partnership with Microsoft. OpenAI will continue to increase its consumption of Azure as OpenAI continues its work with Microsoft with this additional compute to train leading models and deliver great products and services.
All of us look forward to continuing to build and develop AI—and in particular AGI—for the benefit of all of humanity. We believe that this new step is critical on the path, and will enable creative people to figure out how to use AI to elevate humanity.
@free_electron0 Scamming OGs trying to spin back the narrative in their favor and utterly failing after literally not making a single penny for weeks as their followers have been drained clean by their constant AI scams is going to be my favorite part of crypto history
everyone is talking about tokens now — FDV, supply, unlocks etc
I will save you guys all the trouble:
- build something people want and the token price wont tank
otherwise, it's just based on pure air and is not subject to reality
(obviously you need to tie the mechanics of the system to the token, i.e., like an L1 network like ETH or SOL — but that's so obvious that I don't think it warrants comment)
hope that helps
AI on the blockchain is easily the most hilarious incarnation of crypto. Just manifestly ridiculous.
Running a model involves a lot of computation, a lot of data, and queries that should be kept private.
If you want to run these in a distributed way, you're going to have to run that computation multiple times, store the data in multiplying places, and send those private queries to multiple entities, all of which multiply costs and multiply the number of entities that learn the query.
If you want to make this private, you have do some kind of crazy homomorphic encryption on the query and computation, which probably leads to an exponential increase in cost.
If someone is trying to sell you an AI token, you should tell them to get fucked.