or nitrogen, it really does just feel like malice

It could be another year or so I figured, but the writing is on the wall.

it’s truly perfect

don’t forget the proxy war in Ukraine

ggufs are available on huggingface, so it is open weight since ggufs can be converted back to safetensors, and the interesting part isn’t that it can run on Apple phones, but that it’s small enough to do so which means it’s very lightweight and will use less energy and run on smaller hardware setups https://huggingface.co/collections/prism-ml/bonsai-27b

it really is a neat synergy between nature and technology here

I shit you not, I’ve seen takes very close to this online

that’s right we need an at what cost narrative here

Well if you read through the article he notes how what bun devs say is inconsistent. One one hand they complain about being verbose, on the other they say all their code is LLM written. The LLM is apparently really great at translating huge amounts of code, but can’t keep track of memory allocations. They present the whole thing as a pure win rather than honestly explaining trade offs such as compile times. They never talk about how they arrived at decisions or what options they evaluated. I think the article is absolutely correct that this is a PR stunt by Anthropic. Rust might be a better choice than Zig, but it’s pretty clear the decision was driven by marketing here.

They don’t even have much of a military at this point.

I think that’s probably the plan, although at this point it feels like these are more of schemes rather than actual plans. They just kind of fly by the seat of their pants here. What they don’t seem to understand though is that it is an economic war more than anything else. The attrition on the front is made possible by productive forces in the rear, and from what I see is that Russia is in a vastly better position in terms of productive economy than Europe is. This whole idea of Europe creating some sort of a war economy is just fantastical. Europe lacks cheap energy to do that, and there are already huge problems in the civilian economy right now which is what’s leading to public unrest across Europe. Diverting even more resources to producing weapons is only going to worsen the social crisis.

it’s a perfect system

they do a lot of coping, amusingly reuters has an even better cope where they say Russia ‘tries’ to jam starlink while Ukrainians at least admit that it is indeed jammed https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russia-tries-jam-musks-starlink-systems-counter-ukrainian-drones-2026-07-08/

I suspect Russia would likely avoid doing that to be honest, but they do seem to have increasing success jamming them.

There’s also now the how row with Poland over UPA glorification which even the EU can’t ignore anymore. I kind of wonder if the west is getting ready to dump Ukraine if things start deteriorating fast on the front.

Incidentally, Ted Chiang wrote a great piece on how the whole killer AI trope is just capitalist projection. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway

that was such a good game too

Sure, trying things is how you figure out whether they actually work or not. But even there you do the math to see if there’s even a point in trying.

Yeah, if you have a reservoir to pump from that could make sense as well. I’m guessing different regions would prefer different approaches based on what’s available. They do mention concrete is recycled, so it’s not like new concrete needs to be produced either.

But it’s built in China with support from the government. Again, I don’t think they’re rubes and just threw a bunch of money at the company without asking any basic questions about feasibility.