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Posted by allenleee 22 hours ago

RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?(scottjg.com)
638 points | 148 commentspage 4
hacker_mar 16 hours ago|
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AIMC 16 hours ago||
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moralestapia 22 hours ago||
Wow, phenomenal project and write-up, thanks for sharing it.

"no - not in any practical sense today, and "maybe" only in a very deep, borderline-impractical research sense."

This is why humans will always rule over crappy LLMs.

falcor84 22 hours ago||
Wait, why? This is exactly what I as a human would have said in this situation.

Or if you're referring to how the OP still decided to go ahead, I've seen AIs go ahead on impractical courses of action many times, and surprisingly succeed on some of them.

scottjg 14 hours ago|||
in fairness to the LLM critics, every time i ran into a minor speed bump in this project, it told me it probably just wasn't possible to get it to work well. the LLM did pretty actively discourage me from trying to get the whole thing working.

that said, since i was willing to ignore that aspect of it, it did accelerate getting the work done by a lot. it seems like it understands system programming really well, and did a good job navigating the qemu codebase. i have ~20 years of systems programming experience so i already knew what had to be done here. it didn't really guide the project much, but it did write a lot of the code.

moralestapia 22 hours ago|||
And I see that you succeeded in not doing it.

Congrats! Each one got what they wanted :).

csours 22 hours ago|||
I believe that LLM (and ML in general) tools really shine when they are developed and used AS tools.

Unfortunately, I also believe that market forces may push away from this direction, as LLM companies try to capture the value stream

lowbloodsugar 19 hours ago|||
Every major moment in my career has been me doing something that another human or clique of humans has said is impossible. If you think this is purely an LLM trait, I can't imagine you've tried to achieve anything important in the real world.
rvz 22 hours ago||
Exactly. AI psychosis is real.

Never let an AI tell you that you cannot do something practical for your own self for research, discovery or for fun.

The only thing that is close to impractical is expecting your non-technical friends or others to follow you without any incentive or benefit.

nothinkjustai 21 hours ago|
> As much as I hate to admit it, step one in most of my projects now is to ask AI about it. Maybe it’ll tell me something I don’t know.

It’s these people, not the ones who refuse to use LLMs, who are as they say, “cooked”.

linkregister 21 hours ago|
The author of the blog is not cooked; they're raw. Their inventive, multi-chain setup was tuff. Their PCI passthrough and qemu patches were straight fire. Unless you can point to something you've done this impressive, you're just an unc bro.
nothinkjustai 13 hours ago||
Fuck you got me there. Unc out