gee I wonder how their models learned Chinese?

How come people these days treat jobs like its a social gathering?

Free food? Free massages? Low effort work? High salary? High social status? For a while I knew someone who lived in oakland and refused to commute across the bridge to the office because they couldn't be bothered.

We are social creatures and naturally want to socialize.

The same people who bully the ones that actually do the work for not being fit for “company culture”. I had a similar experience before where I over delivered every task, but that wasn’t enough because I refused to join pizza parties and other “team building” activities.

I want to work with people I like and who's company I enjoy; it's not all about executing the task with maximum efficiency. I can replace you with a solid robot worker before I can find another awesome human.

You can come back now. The pizza parties and other "team building" activities are gone. Until they realize they could record them as training content for the robot AI models.

Working with others only works if you work with others

A self-contained CUDA inference engine for LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B (hybrid conv + GQA-attention MoE, 8.5B params, 1B active) targeting a single RTX 3060 (12 GB) using flash-decoding. MIT license.

I wonder if "battelites" might be profitable. Like an pay-per-usage energy grid in space with battery backup that can beam power around to other satellites that might not have easy access to power, or have their power grids temporarily obstructed.

China has a couple going at the moment.

When did "hate the customer" become a thing?

Microsoft always hated their customers. And their competitors. And their suppliers too. The only people they don't hate really are their shareholders.

The phrase "there's a sucker born every minute" is well over two centuries old.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_...

Your satisfaction is your margin is their opportunity.

Look at generational C-suite shifts in Silicon Valley. Post the financial crisis, all regulatory efforts concentrated on banks and brokers for a decade, and tech firms were given a free rein. Boards apparently chose 'growth over anything else' types to lead.

When Google beat their antitrust suit

I use DeepSeek v4 flash with CoPilot and it works pretty good.

If anyone is looking to hook it up to copilot, I made a proxy script to handle the connection a bit back that might be handy: https://gist.github.com/g023/c2bb7b540ffe64cee76023f18f6f936...

Terminal-based chat application powered by *locally installed* llama.cpp, featuring an auto-managed server backend, reasoning modes, and 7 built-in filesystem tools for interactive AI assistance with a focus on only allowing read only agentic access to system and only offline-focused agentic commands (for now). Powered by the g023/g023-Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF:IQ2_M model.

We need more personal level AI solutions instead of so much corporate centered solutions.