Maybe everyone has it backwards. They shouldn't be mad at everyone pumping out AI shit. They should be mad at all the crappy stuff we were forced to endure that was no better than AI shit. The only difference is the crap doesn't cost anything anymore.

The emperor has no clothes.

The issue is discovery and perverse incentives. Search algorithms have needed a major overhaul for a while, and previously the existence of a thing was a proxy for effort, which some people use as a proxy for value (dizzying, I know). Now people have to evaluate the value of things directly, which seems to be causing a lot of anxiety, so they're defaulting to assigning a value of 0 to AI assisted works so they can continue using their old heuristics.

Great news everybody! I've invented infinite crap!

AMEN. If AI has made a developer into a curmodeon, I honestly would love to meet them.

The fact that in the 1950s and 60s our best and brightest from around the world dreamt of working for jonas salk or joining the space program.

for the last 30 years that same level of talent was aggressively pursued to give us Google Adwords, complex insurance-backed financial products, a corporate culture of feckless cowards in leadership, the best of us never stop interviewing. literally an epidemic of dystopian psycho-afflications due to doomscrolling that threatens to devolve future generations thanks to weaponized dopamine manipulation, advertising so pervasive that it could bring down entire goverments (or companies, which are now bigger), or an entire adult generation of intelligent loners who may never own a house...

But AI, AI is what people are mad at?

After 25 years in systems engineering, I was in a state of ennui with technology. I had loved building computers, hacking systems, gaming with my friends so much as a child I built a career out of it.

I worked at a large technology firm where we had a product release bottleneck due to 1 UX engagement artist who's talents were so in-demand we had multiple products backed up because this person had to give birth to a journey that wow, REALLY engaged you

IF a site that sold books, Adwords, Facebook, Twitter toxic-celebrity culture, an infatuation with ourselves and our devices...what if the emperor really has no clothes? what if we are all really lame, lonely bullies to whom the accumulation of wealth comes a cost of empathic and emotional intelligence and a desire to be non-human...

IS THAT THE GOAL? What are we doing here? Creating Optimus Prime, Agent Smith, or Hedonism bot? Maybe all 3 of them fighting for the future? Sold, I'll take it. I fight for Hedonism bot.

nothing AI could do could make me more upset that what humanity has done to itself over the past 30 years. If you are a subject matter expert in technology, NOW is your time.

I just read that the use of dating apps has decreased considerably.

Scammers taking advantage of the weak is more difficult when Joe-luddite asks an advertisement-free AI and eschews wading through a pagerank advertising platform or asking their home amazon-wiretap scams to find the truth themselves - a truth that they can engage with that is somewhat advertising free (for now?)

If you are angry about AI, then go ahead and leave.

Looks like it was misattributed as CC BY 4.0 but it should be CC BY-SA 2.1 Japan

You don't need to call it amateurish. It's free.

Those two ideas are not mutually exclusive. A thing can both be free and suck.

Here's a crazy idea. What if we are looking for AGI in the wrong place? We built a global internet. If we do achieve AGI maybe it will be a globally distributed one. If it did would we even know what to look for?

This is just awful. I can't even contemplate a more nuanced rebuttal because I don't want to engage with it. I feel more sorry for children today because of articles like this are being written about them.

I agree, this is like reading about how "lazy" or whatever my generation was when I was younger which we all know is BS now. It is angry assholes that want to an excuse to blame everybody but themselves for the state of the world.

I only learned about their CDN and protocol called Xet a couple of days ago https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/xet/index That puts it in the Cloudflare of AI models category.

SEM_EXTRACT, SEM_MATCH, WEB_SEARCH are pretty vague functions. Makes me wonder why you'd bother with the SQL part at that point and not just ask the question.

You need ways to sift through large amounts of unstructured data and do data analysis after. We created these functions to be able to use LLMs to parse unstructured data from the into structured data which we then process with a SQL like engine to map/group/filter etc.

I worried about this myself. 50% higher limits were nice but the flip side is you get used to it and then it just feels like they're taking 50% away. I'm not sure it's going to have the effect that Anthropic was expecting....or maybe that was the point. Who knows. I can see both perspectives.

Reminds me of the DBOS, everything's a database, ethos. https://www.dbos.dev/

Isn't "everything in a database" what AS/400 and PICK operating systems do?

Then there was Microsoft WinFS, which promised much but got killed in ~2003. A shame.

I'm excited about this and have some use cases already lined up but I'm continually worried about a grammar free-for-all and collisions as each extension author tries to modify the grammar. I'm hoping they already have something in place for that and I just haven't read about it yet. I'm concerned that you can load an extension and kind of mangle the interpretation of the syntax. Two author extensions could legitimately want conflicting parsers and there's no easy way to unload an extension in duckdb. Something like an explicit "GRAMMAR SQL" or "GRAMMAR GGSQL", etc would be nice.

Told them?

I have and the suggestion was received positively. Thanks for the suggestion to do that. DuckDB rocks!