alt Hacker NewsHave you reread what was produced by Claude Code before publishing ? This thing in one of the first paragraph jumps out:
> you end up with about 44 terabytes — roughly what fits on a single hard drive
No normal person would think that 44 TB is a usual hard drive size (I don't think it even exists ? 32TB seems the max in my retailer of choice). I don't think it's wrong per se to use LLM to produce cool visualization, but this lack of proof reading doesn't inspire confidence (especially since the 44TB is displayed proheminently with a different color).
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I agreed when I read your comment, but that turned out to be almost directly from the video https://youtu.be/7xTGNNLPyMI
From around the 2:20 mark he says:
“[…] actually ends up being only about 44 TB of disk space. You can get a USB stick for like a TB very easily, or I think this could fit on a single hard drive almost today”
So it’s just slightly altered from what was said in the original video. And the LLM rewritten version of it also says “roughly” where he said “almost”, and I guess 44 TB is pretty roughly or pretty almost 32 TB. Although I’d still personally probably put it as “can fit on a pair of decently sized hard drives today” (for example across two 24 TB drives).
Regardless, it’s close enough to what was said in the source video that it’s not something the LLM just made up out of nowhere.
Hard drives are currently scarce due to market factors, so it's not surprising that 32TB is the biggest in your local retailer, but 40tb+ ssds were a little more widely available a year or two ago.
Still obviously crazy to consider that any kind of "average" or common size, but certainly not outrageous, especially for someone working in that field.
Yes claude is being dumb/hallucinating. Yes it does exist, there are much larger drives than that produced by the main manufacturers
Maybe Karpathy used an LLM too. The 44 TB number, happens to match exactly the currently largest available drives sold for Enterprise by Seagate, not 40 TB, not 50 TB but 44 TB...coincidence ? - [1]
For SSDs record seems to be 245 TB - [2]
[1] - https://www.seagate.com/stories/articles/seagate-delivers-in...
"Seagate’s Mozaic™ 4+ hard drives supporting capacities up to 44TB are now shipping in volume to two leading hyperscale cloud providers."
[2] - https://fudzilla.com/kioxia-showcases-245-76tb-lc9-enterpris...