Groq was the preview of the broadband era of LLMs for me. I remember asking a question on the demo site and the answer text showed up near instantly. Far faster than I could read. This was ~1 year ago and pre-acquisition.
It wouldn't continue in any real form. Maybe cholesterol conscious and devout buddhists will still try to adhere, but beyond that I don't see what the point would be.
It would be like how Ozempic lead to a mysterious quieting of Body Positivity/Health at Every Size advocates. They were a vocal minority, there was much "debate" and cri de couer from many sides and now its all evaporated without a farewell or explicit winding down.
There is already massive industry lobbying against lab grown meat, resulting in bans in states like Florida[0] accompanied with propaganda about "processed" vs "natural" food.
Were lab grown meat to be available today at a cost lower than regular meat, it is apparent that there would still be huge amounts of animal ag dollars spent on lobbying against and demonizing these things, and millions of people who would fall for the propaganda.
You can compare this to renewables now, even though they may be far cheaper per kwH, and the Trump admin's push to halt all renewable projects and do everything they can to prop up the viability of fossil fuels.
This means the vegan movement would need to continue to exist as does the environmental movement.
Echoing that. 99 Bottles really was an institution. It had the feel of a proper local pub: warm, a little scruffy, and full of character. The walls were covered with bottle caps from all kinds of beer brands — probably more than 99, honestly.
And if you made it through all 99 beers on their list, you got a small plaque on the wall, about the size of one of those e-ink grocery price tags. It was a great tavern-like atmosphere, and the kind of place that felt increasingly rare even before it was gone.
I just am always in awe of successful business owners who don't leverage their success into a business loan to buy the building or one nearby. I grew up in Austin, and there are a few businesses that have no business still sitting on their little plots to obvious places are: El Patio and Dirty Martin's. How are they able to stumble along with low prices and old school menus? Well, they own the property they sit on.
Time and time again, I see businesses fighting against rent-seeking landlords who are happy to remove a well-loved successful business for an extra few hundred a month. It's happening right now to Yard Bar (my favorite weird spot in Austin right now).
I know it's a thin margin business, but I wish every successful spot would take every damn dollar they made and at least by a comparable property so they have leverage against these landlords. It's a pointless destruction of value that doesn't have to happen to profitable well loved businesses.
But you can turn off brain. Try make self idiot. Save brain energy for important.
Smarty speaks in idiot. When smarty speak like that is consistent. Idiot understand fast.
It would have been hilarious if the author spoke like a caveman in his video or had a section in that article where he explained his conclusions like a caveman.
I use my Openclaw setup to record notes I don't ever want to remember the details of. Here are some examples:
Storing my Health Insurance's Member ID, RxBin and other data.
Recording the serial number of a product I will be calling technical support for.
Organizing files to be more logical and deduplicating or consolidating as needed.
Whenever I want this info, I'll just ask my LLM to pull it up.
I want to use local LLMs, and in fact I have enough VRAM (12GB) and RAM (96GB) to do it but I gave up because it was pretty buggy with the Gemma 4 26B (A4B?) Q4 models. It also meant I had to give up local voice transcription because I needed all my VRAM dedicated to the LLM.
The other thing is I will ask an agent via Telegram to code stuff, so I want an agent that is smart enough to do it all. I prefer brute forcing with money right now. I hate when LLM make bizarre mistakes, I end up spending way too much time figuring out the issue.
I use Openrouter, so hopefully no one has built a perfect replica of me in their storage. I flip between models too.
But to be clear, I am living dangerously with agentic workflows in general. Haven't been burnt yet (other than accidentally running up a huge Gemini bill which made me switch to Codex Oauth and Openrouter for cheap Minimax 2.7)
I am moving to a commander/orchestrator model to use both frontier and cheap models and eventually a better local LLM once I buy a 5070 Ti, 3090, 64GB Mac M1 Max, 128GB Strix Halo (probably missed that train) or the AMD R9700.
Local isn't viable yet on an economic basis, API costs are so low that you're better off taking advantage of the bonanza. As local models become more performant, so too will the ability of providers via Openrouter be able to offer them cheaper than your likely payoff period for a $4K Mac Studio 128GB. e.g Gemma 4 31B is impressive, but it costs practically nothing via Openrouter. Given that there are a ton of providers for open models, I doubt there's any subsidy going on because the providers are faceless and interchangeable.
At least, that's my theory.
The big advantages of local on a business level are:
- Freezing your model's exact settings once you've locked in some kind of workflow that works just fine.
- Guarding against insane token usage from LLMs who have been told to never stop until they figure out the solution OR setting up an LLM run incorrectly. (The last one happened to me with Gemini 3.1 Pro)
- PII or some need for on-premise only LLMs.
Any particular reason why you switched? I've been using Gboard for years, especially the text to speech in four languages. In the past few weeks, there was an update where the TTS feature is now in a separate "panel" of the keyboard, and it hardly works at all.
In English and Hebrew it stops after half a dozen words, and those words must be spoken slowly and mechanically for it to work at all. Russian and Arabic are right out - I can't coax any coherent sentence out of it.
I've gone through all permutations of relevant settings, such as "Faster Voice Dictation" (translated from Hebrew,I don't know what the original English option is called). I think there used to be an option for Online or Offline transcription, but that option is gone now.
This is ridiculous - I tried to copy the version information and there is no way to copy it in-app. Let's try the S24 OCR feature...
17.0.10.880768217 release-arm64-v8a
175712590
ראשית (en_GB)
2025090100 = גרסה עדכני
Primary on-device:
No packs
Fallback on-device:
Packs:
ru-RU: 200
I'll try to install the English, Hebrew, and Arabic packs, though I'm certain that I've installed them already.
