alt Hacker NewsI’m imagining a steampunk dystopia in 50 years: “all world production stopped, LLM hosting went down. The market is in free-fall. Sam, are you there?”
Man that cracks me up.
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“A lone coder, trained in the direct manipulation of symbols—an elegant weapon from a more civilized age—-is now all that stands between humanity and darkness.” etc
Just like the internet, or Cloudflare going down?
I remember hearing Karpathy refer to these outages as a worldwide "intelligence brownout".
Claude code cut me off a few days ago and I _seriously_ had no idea what to do. I’ve been coding for 33 years and I suddenly felt like anything I did manually would be an order of magnitude slower than it had to be.
The nice thing is unlike Cloudflare or AWS you can actually host good LLMs locally. I see a future where a non-trivial percentage of devs have an expensive workstation that runs all of the AI locally.
"We vibe coded the problem into existence but now the LLM is down we can't vibe fix it"
Everybody using the same three centralized inference providers? That would be as absurd and unrealistic as everybody hosting in us-east-1 and behind Cloudflare today!