Chewy

Pretty big deal to be able to deliver instantaneous video generation with time-to-first-frame under 100ms. Removing the latency that has always stood between an idea and the output. A fundamentally different speed of iteration.

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My take: I'm guessing at the rise/re-emergence of lower-level languages like C or Go (or something after). Mostly because the key advantage of higher-level languages was to make it easier for humans to write code quickly (and with fewer errors), but that advantage kind of/mostly goes away for agents. And the performance you "gave up" for human programmability as a tradeoff seems less worthwhile if it's not humans writing the code. (The counterargument is that when humans are still doing code review, we'll probably optimize for languages that are still easy to read and understand. But the more we trust the output of agents, the more I think that points toward lower-level languages.) I think you bring up an interesting question about runtime safety, which also might suggest: If you want low-level, why not Rust? My current take is that agents aren't screwing up things like memory safety too much - thats seems like easier thing for them to get right. Plus you can pipe code through good static analysis tools or type checkers ad nauseum, and the robots are tireless at tackling any resulting errors. (And so much less training data with Rust.) But where they screw up is more about semantics. Either they were prompted in an inherently underspecified way (because English is underspecified, or because it's exhausting to be 100% precise), or because they are - at least currently - forgetting to make decisions that align with other decisions/goals in the system. That's probably because they aren't great at managing the full context or prioritizing tradeoffs (again: underspecified). None of these problems seem inherently "easier" in a higher-level language, and something like Rust by itself doesn't solve those either. Long answer. Probably wrong =). It's a wild time.

As a guy who works in tech, is building with AI, and writes a weekly newsletter on the topic, I can't explain as well as Ben Affleck. How is that possible?

Hollywood is cooked

So far “telling a satisfying and well-written medium-length story” has proved far harder for LLMs than mathematical proofs, music generation, research reports, code, and many other forms of work. The technical reasons are pretty clear, but they are supposed to be language models

Higgsfield is the most morally bankrupt and anti-creative tool in existence. Seriously, wtf is this messaging? You think they care about creatives at all when they opening brag about destroying creative jobs? Every tactic they employ is disgusting. Absolutely vile company.