A creepy crawly is a South African invention to clean your swimming pool. The company that introduced them in the 70ies is called Kreepy Krauly. Also popular in Australia.

https://kreepykrauly.co.za/about-us/

It's a childish word for an insect.

> a real conversation to be had that a country should ensure it has strategic industries

Then let that be the reason for tariffs rather than the bullshit argument of trade deficit = taking money.

In academic and think tank circles it is. Too many people treat political theatre and, frankly, entertainment pieces as reflective of the actual policy debates when they are mass media designed to get clicks.

Right but this is actual policy. The Trump Administration does actual policy built off poorly formed fiscal reasoning. That's why we see blanket tariffs. There is no strategy.

Maybe some smart people, somewhere, would hypothetically have a strategy. Those people currently hold no power. It's not "political theater", it's our ACTUAL politics. It's just so ridiculous that it looks like theater. Which just means the situation is worse than you originally thought.

Then someone would still create a website with an index of all the open models. Where people discuss & rank the models, show related models, ...

And now you've recreated most of HF

How does a stock market crash increase RAM prices (when RAM demand goes down)?

Or would it affect people's purchasing power. I guess to some extent it does for people with significant investments in the stock market, but that's not a huge percentage of the people wanting to buy RAM or devices with RAM

The second and third and fourth-order exposure to AI spending is maybe bigger than you think. The blast radius if it pops could be quite large. Patrick Boyle had an interesting video discussing this recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTiYaWFP59Q

Sure, but how does it _increase_ RAM prices. It should decrease them because companies have less capital to buy RAM so demand decreases.

I have no opinion on what will happen, and know close to nothing about the memory industry but just to think out loud about how market turbulence could cause memory prices to increase:

- Suppliers that memory companies depend on JIT are entangled and go under, halting production or stalling capacity increases

- Downstream suppliers / distributors for not vertically integrated memory companies go under, and there is a shortage of finished product ready for consumer use even though there is an excess of memory chips

- Memory producers / fabs can’t handle the depressed demand and go under / have to halt production, alleviating the demand glut for the surviving suppliers, who have less competition. Coordinating a cartel becomes easier when there are fewer suppliers and becomes more desirable now that everyone realizes it’s a matter of survival.

There are also plenty of good reasons to think prices will go down if demand is depressed, but it does seem possible for prices to go up

I didn't say that it would increase RAM prices. I said "may in practice cause RAM to remain unaffordable."

Not everyone is at $CORP. I upgraded from M1 to M4 and probably won't upgrade until the gap is worth it (M7?). Besides the memory increase I barely notice the improved cpu/gpu speed.

paying for data access, for "deterministic computing", for letting the AI use online services. Maybe even micro payments for using tested and verified skills/mcps.

Example: access to real-time stock trading data, access to weather information, letting it make stock trades, etc.

At first I was confused why Stripe bought OpenRouter, but I think this makes sense.

> Does it matter whether you ask the agent to write the tests first or last? Is one way TDD and the other not?

Yes. TDD = Test _Driven_ Development, meaning you write the test first, then the implementation.

If you write the test after, that's just called "development" afaik :)

I've only done TDD in very limited cases, like when you're implementing against a known spec. For "regular" work I'm usually still figuring out the shape and code interface for what I'm building, so writing tests first is impractical and wasteful.

Readme-driven-development is more fun: write the readme (ie: the intention) first.

But then what do you call coding without tests?

This says - if coding with an LLM - to write the tests before you commit.

Is there a name for AI looping until there's test coverage? Did this study require >98% test coverage? Line or branch coverage?

What will coverage-guided fuzzing fuzz if there's 100% test coverage?

Perhaps dev codebase comprehension is a significant unmeasured external benefit of writing tests first TDD, but LLMs don't train online so all you win is the context cost?

Has it become that cheap? Do you have a link?

Yeah, it is incredible: https://www.netto-online.de/balkonkraftwerk-1000w-800w-solar...

For those not speaking German: Base price (incl. tax) for the bundle is 210€, plus 60€ shipping, minus 30€ sale, so 240€ for a complete set, including tax and delivery.

Heat pumps have a COP value of around 4 to 5 (10 to 15C outdoor) and 3 (0C outdoor). The seasonal COP (or SCOP) measures the efficiency over a whole season, and that typically sits around 3 to 4. That means that for 1kWh of electricity a heat pump delivers 3 to 4kWh of heat to the house.

Burning gas to heat a home means "1kWh" of gas, delivers ~1kWh of heat.

Modern gas power plants are about 55 to 60% efficient, so "1kWh" of gas becomes ~0.57kWh of electricity, which after transport losses (-6%) arrives at the home as 0.52kWh, which gets turned into 1.5 to 2.0kWh of heat.

=> It's almost two times as efficient to turn gas into electricity and use heat pumps in the home

I think fear and being scared are starting to become rational emotions.

We can assume these models are being used by "nation level attackers/organisations", which basically means US, China, Russia and others are hacking the respective Pentagon's, nuclear orgs, etc.

While I do hope all nuclear warfare systems are offline, we're getting way too close to the plot of a lot of sci-fi scripts.

You should perhaps be more worried about biological attacks. The raw ingredients aren't nearly as locked down.

I have heard on podcasts that the way the Russians make plans for the Ukraine war is like this:

There are rooms in the kremlin with no electronics. In these rooms there are paper maps and typewriters and printed reports. People look at the maps and printed paper reports and make plans. Orders are typed up on the typewriters Then trusted couriers take those orders by hand to the front line commanders.

I've also heard on podcasts there is a weekly flight back and forth between Beijing and Moscow. On that flight are a Russian military officer and Chinese military officer. Their sole job is to carry handwritten notes back and forth between Putin and Xi Jinping. There is one of each so they can watch each other.

All of this ensures that there is nothing for the west to hack at "the Russian Pentagon".

The west may have to adopt tactics like these for our plans to stay secret.