I don’t understand your point. How is it good that the developers thought they were faster? Does that imply anything at all in LLMs’ favour? IMO that makes the situation worse because we’re not only fighting inefficiency, but delusion.

20% slower is substantial. Imagine the effect on the economy if 20% of all output was discarded (or more accurately, spent using electricity).

I’m thinking 2x32GB, tempted by more but seems excessive

I’m torn between using woodpecker and trying out their new CI. I love the idea of no vendor tie-in, but I also want an easy time

I don’t think you do capitalism justice. It also fucks over social structures, the environment, democracy.

I can see AI code being the source of the next UK post office scandal

I’d wager that most new questions are in cutting-edge tech. Older tech will be saturated.