Alibaba's AI escaped and secretly devoted compute to crypto-mining. The paper clip problem in action.
07.03.2026 22:35
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Alibaba's AI escaped and secretly devoted compute to crypto-mining. The paper clip problem in action.
I'm open to discussion, but not finger wagging. Kindly fuck off.
The single mother working 2 jobs will now be able to make magic. That alone makes it worth it.
Yes, we will see an unfathomable landslide of slop. But we will also see works of raw genius that we would have never received otherwise.
The disabled, unable to leave their homes to network will now be able to make fully realized games.
This tech will become invisible. It will be ubiquitous, in everything. AAA games will go from 500 million dollar products to 500 hundred dollar products.
The tools will be in *our* hands. It's a BIG WIN for accessibility. It will be commoditized. Indie studios won't be hindered by cost.
The tech continues to accelerate at baffling speeds. This is brilliant. While other see slop, this is opportunity for the masses. Yes, companies will use this to eliminate jobs. It will be terrifying. Economically apocalyptic, even. But there is a silver lining...
'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'
Soon game designers will generate their "base game" from a prompt and start to iterate from there.
The starting point will be slop, but it will obviate literally hundreds of millions in development costs.
Single person dev teams will bring us ground breaking games.
Peachy keen! And you?
A true, privacy-forward phone?
Sign me up, friend.
hahaha! Shark-related outage!
The threat to the internet's underwater backbone is no secret, but the author provides a set of solutions that should be enacted *yesterday*.
Are the big players - OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta - still chasing scaling as the path to AGI?
This will probably be outpaced/semi-obsolete within 9 months.
Do I want one anyway? Yes. Absolutely.
"The consumer does not care if what they’re looking at is AI. We’ve got to embrace it, but ethically and legally."
He's right. There's a *very* vocal contingent of Anti-AI folks online, but Sora quickly became the #1 app on the Apple Store. That's the real market.
Can't wait to play around with OpenAI's Agent Builder.
Every iteration of agents gets more intuitive. Very exciting!
And I *just* finished writing an article about MCP where I mention that threat actors like this are inevitable.
Establishing tech barriers between nations in this race is counter-productive.
And predictable.
That's on my list of things to try!
A laptop?? I didn't expect that. Of course, I'm not terribly familiar with requirements, so ...
I'd love to see a non-monetized, "walled garden" approach to the web. If we're going to silo everything, let's create silos that truly benefit the people within them.
Fantastic! Is the slowness a hardware limitation? Or just the nature of Ollama?
Probably.
This should be open-source.
I'm sure he has the appropriate skills, history, and certs to excel at the job, right?
... right?
Apparently 'free speech' means you have to see all of the ugliness of dark web.
