Every F35 is exported with a killswitch. and you think this is a silly decision? its not silly, its gatekeeping, iam sure this will get much strict in future, where even developing a frontier model can get sanctions from US. IMO Every country need AI sovereignty and its right time to form a group or consortium of nations to fund and build an equally capable frontier model that is accessible to all others. AI should not be confined to certain nations, the way nuclear capabilities are restricted.

There's no kill switch. The F35 advantage is the mission data files that are frequently updated and allow the F35 to classify targets and threats. Essentially the US and partners collect the electronic signatures of enemy radars and package them so in a conflict the het can draw a box with a S400 label.

So it doesn't have a kill switch, it just stops being useful when it can no longer regularly phone home? That sounds awfully close to a killswitch to me...

This killswitch claim is false and would be a huge vulnerability if it existed.

You don’t need a fancy kill switch, just stop sending parts and updates, any sustained conflict will do the work.

Any F35 bought by Europe is nothing short of lunacy. You don’t buy from people hell-bent on having conflicts with you.

The UK alone produces 15% of the parts required to assemble the F35. Around 25% of the jet is manufactured/produced by the other partners of the program.

Heck the F35B only exists due to the UK demanding it. They have access to the source code (and so do Israel).

Due to political engineering some significant parts are manufactured in partnership countries. That supply chain is also a vulnerability for the US albeit to a lesser degree.

Except the Israeli versions obviously. These are at least on par with domestic.

Iam not sure about this, may be true. But in general exported products are always less capable. Be it f35, brahmos or s400.

I feel with current government decision to block Fable, this is not a mere opensource issue, considering how US government restrict frontier models, what we need is sovereignty for every country. If not they will release every model with a kill switch in future like F35.

This should be a lesson for other countries to invest in building frontier models, so that they dont depend on the mercy of one country.

As a European, we obviously want to, but are systemetically incompetent on every level. It permeates everything. Even if tides were to change rapidly, it would require decades of growth. The US has been consistently marinating themselves in their odd but productive culture for decades and it has paid off.

It arguably started after WW2 when the transistor was invented; appearantly it was also simultaneously invented in France, but just never got the kind of serious development that it got in the US.

Domestic AI means spinning up new fabs I think, and maybe power. Maybe an entirely new foundry could work. Or market dynamics and/or architectures change and it becomes 10x cheaper to run a 1T-class model.

its not too late for Europe. if China can try, iam sure Europe can also. If not iam sure one day it will be like How Lockheed martin restricts F35 with a kill switch.

A Startup using gitlab or github or bitbucket also have the same risk right?

For self-hosted GitLab or BitBucket, no. GitHub enterprise (self-hosted) also no (though that is rather rare).

We are only talking about saas. every saas have access to your data at disc or storage level.

>Agents do a really bad job at keeping codebases organized. If you do a disciplined way of development with agents by keeping all Documentation in markdown format, repo structure, Decision records and architecture, they do absolutely organized. Every new module should be documented and the editor configuration and coding patterns can be given as reference. this worked well for me. and it make enhancements, extensions development without any big troubles.

Woeking from home is not easy. Went to depression and took medication for two years. Social isolation is a big thing.

Curious when NVIDIA monopoly will ends. China will sure release something that can runs on commodity hardware. I wish they will soon.

ente means mine in Malayalam language. it's said to be one of the toughest Indian language to learn. FYI.

Interesting, in Indonesia Ente means you. Derived from Arabic word Anta.

Fascinating how sometimes in different languages one word can have opposite meaning and the other times one word can have similar meaning.

Maybe it's the pronunciation - ente means "mine" and ante means "yours" (in Malayalam) which is what perhaps you may be referring to? (Former South Indian kingdoms and South East Asia have historical cultural ties due to trade and conquest, and thus they share some common words, which I assume is, largely borrowed from Tamil and Malayalam).

Some people use ante to mean yours in the northern region, but it is not common in the southern region.

Ente also means "duck" in German.

> it's said to be one of the toughest Indian language to learn.

By who? My SO is now passably conversant in Malayalam after watching their cinema during the covid lockdowns (~1y to 2y).

By other indians. And indian military use malayalam to communicate, so that enemies cannot intercept. There was a report that chinese started learning south indian languages. Most movies use neutral phonetics (written language) where as spoken language is tough to understand and have many regional vriations.

100% agree after building a production ready platform ground up. it took 3-4 months but without AI i would never had been done with a team of 3. one thing to note that AI is weak at Front end. So, we did the entire front end without AI.

If you properly keep documents, architecture, and decision records, token consumption can be pretty less. Iam managing everything with two codex plus sub. Repo size is 300 k loc ( backend).