Yeah Runpods cold start is definitely not 250ms, not even close. Maybe for some models idk but a huggingface model 8B params takes like 30 seconds to cold start in their serverless "flash" configuration.
I think everything you said was wrong. Cursor is amazing now with the large context windows it’s capable of handling with Claude, especiallly at the hands of an expert programmer.
A junior writing simple code is the exact recipe for disaster when it comes to these tools.
Isn't that the opposite? The more experienced you are the higher the gains since you are able to see what it outputs and immediately tell if it is what you expected. You also know how to put on the best input for it to auto complete rest of it while you are already planning next steps in your head. I feel like a superhuman with it, honestly.
No, nor does it even include materials. That’s just the labor cost. The labor is almost certainly exploited, overworked in unsafe conditions, and underpaid. But still, terrible headline.
That's pretty much the whole dilemma now with decarbonization. We know how to generate electricity very cheaply with solar and wind. We just don't know how to do it at the right time.
It will take a lot of investment in storage tech (beyond lots of people using their EV car batteries as time-shifting storage, though that's certainly a good use!) in order to get prices smoothed out so that electricity generated at 1PM can be used at 11PM.
> We know how to generate electricity very cheaply with solar and wind. We just don't know how to do it at the right time
I’m not sure this needs to be a goal to be honest.
It’s more practical for us to become accustomed to agile tariffs and have our own batteries + charging the car when prices drop than to hope for large scale storage solutions. In the UK the average solar install now includes batteries as prices come down on them.
We can already do this today fairly easily, and with open tariff APIs plus more integrated devices it will become easier.
probably those who don't want to set uptime alerts, fine-tune configs, set up backups and restores (which are essential because sooner rather later someone always deletes a few rows/tables) and want to focus on business
I suspect we'd see a bunch of change. A difference of when we moved 6 to 5 days is in those times most business were closed on the weekends + generally people were more tied to one company for longer term. Plus 2 days off is very different than 3 in terms of alternate work opportunity.
From that a likely issue is a steep increase in people having second jobs so they work a 4 day job and a second 2/3 day job.
I suspect the 4 day week will work well for people with good salaries and market power, but encourage working class to 'work the weekend' in alternate jobs resulting in lower downtime.
For this I'd actually like a 4 day week but with it either more restricted business opening on Sunday type thing or significant wage multiples over 3 day weekends to encourage time off vs the 24/7 economy.
I suspect a lot of the people yearning for 4 day work weeks wouldn't actually want to return to the days when most stores and other institutions were closed on Sundays.
As somebody who lives in Germany where everything is closed on Sundays, uh, it really isn't that bad. It's fine, actually. I'll take 4 day work weeks happily.
As someone who went to school in a state where almost nothing was open on Sunday at the time it was pretty annoying given that I was usually pretty busy (or what passed for it at the time) the other 6 days.
These days I wouldn't really care because I have a lot of flexibility.
Reducing the number of days worked per week per individual increases (relative) overhead costs, including administrative costs, benefits (most notably including healthcare), and capital costs (because everything is being used less, but still devaluing). These are all real changes with real impacts.
Also of note, the increase in these costs from going down to 4 days will be substantially larger than the prior one (due to the smaller dividend).
Capital costs spent do not go up. An opportunity for saving exist. One extra day means less electrical costs. Admin costs remain static. These costs do not change unless you are hiring someone for that one day.
The costs are not going up substantially or at all for most 9/5 businesses
