Also a disconnect switch for the telco signal. Yet in my experience phone, even when turned off, a phone may send out a signal periodically anyway for tracking / triangulation purposes.
However to avoid that, removal of the battery is required. A disconnect switch for power would do the same?
I think moving to micro-PCs is the answer, and then having an add-on to get a telco-signal. Why trust Motorola? Start at grass roots where possible. Everything needs to be open-source and based on open standards. No trojans, telemetry or remote overrides.
Maybe the product is an adapter case for a Pi that adds a screen, battery, antenna and whatever else is required to make it a smartphone alternative?
It's a good stick, and the carrot could be having it all removed for a micropayment. Really, there should be a way to do that across a range of sites all at once.
Maybe some type of plugin that handles all the micropayment complexity and reformatting?
"If you are being targeted even the Rasperry Pi you just ordered might be compromised."
Is that like owning a car and having some third-party (who?) remotely cut the brake cable because the manufacturer fitted that "feature" in stealth? Or maybe they did something more benign (ie disable car speakers) just as a reminder as to "who is the boss?"
An alternative internet would be possible: maybe you could setup a kickstarter campaign and aim to ride on the back of Starlink, or Amazon's upcoming Leo.
One problem you face are high profile leaders apparently being "replaced" with ones that are a lot more "conformist." So yesteryear's Bezos might've said yes, today's Bezos: no. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqlEtPBNgLc (members only)
I think what would be cool is to have a device with all of Gemini's content available for offline browsing. Every few hours changes can be downloaded to keep it current.
This is similar to Bill Joy and his unlimited music device in about 2000.
Having something local means superfast response times, even if there's a delay in freshness.
The key is moderation. I suppose it could end up like a magazine. Maybe charge micropayments to have content included with that fee changing according to a slop-scale?
It's a good idea to couple with something like the upcoming Linux handheld - Mecha. Need multi-TB SSDs - maybe AI can help navigate? Have different versions according to how much storage the user has available.
Maybe there's demand for something local that new AIs can train from. Something other than Internet Archive.
Are there any products that can minimize online-time by building a backlog of jobs to run when online, but also enabling a pause for offline-time?
Also, websites could queue requests, eliminate the AI thumping, and notify the client when their request is allowed? It's like queuing up for a niteclub and eventually getting passed the droid-hostile bouncer.
To avoid CRAZY SaaS charges. I left a comment further down about how the challenge is first getting a reliable stack running underneath whatever ends up being fast-coded. The trend will be more decentralization - I think that'll be AI 2.0. Increasing centralization is AI 1.0.
But if that was a goal, or a marketable feature, SaaS and cloud would have competitors out there selling software with perpetual licenses to be run on premises
Yes, the vendors want subscriptions and cloud and not owning anything, but customers also don't want to hire people to operate the infrastructure required to run this stuff themselves. That's the whole point of SaaS, and why some companies just run entirely on that model and basically have no in-house IT staff
That AI means you can write and run your own payroll system doesn't mean all of a sudden a world of people with zero technical skills can start doing it on their own
...unless they have an agent "IT Guy" who can either do it for them or show them what to do. Perhaps UIs will change and be designed half for a human operator, and half for the IT Guy to copilot with them.
The person with zero technical skills could start learning primitive technology: youtube.com/@primitivetechnology9550 - living off the land really is the job for the unemployed. We've done it before! As long as there is a safe place to actually do it and a planet that can support it. Those'll be the problems.
"This entire stack could give you computing power equivalent to a 25k euro/month AWS bill for the cost of electricity (same electricity cost as running a few fridges 24/7) plus about 50k euros one-time to set it up (about 4 Mac Studios). And yes, it's redundant, scalable, and even faster (in terms of per-request latency) than standard AWS/GCP cloud bloat. Not only is it cheaper and you own everything, but your app will work faster because all services are local (DB, Redis cache, SSD, etc.) without any VM overhead, shared cores, or noisy neighbours."
Makes me think there will be these prompts like "convert this app to suit a new stack for my hardware for locally-optimized runtime."
How are people building the best local stacks? Will save people a ton of money if done well.
Speaking of AI taking over the world, have you seen how many projects on ShowHN are using GitHub? Do you think that's by accident or is it trying to normalize a place for an AI to lurk about like a crocodile hanging around a river outlet?
"There's clearly a way to leverage these tools to turbocharge your productivity, like at least 2x or maybe even 10x. But what is it?"
Many will keep it a secret, a few will share, the remainder will turn it into a product. You could spend hours on HN and find best practices floating around. At some point a product will come along and equalize everything.
I don't think people mean to keep it a secret. It took me literally 2 hours to type my answer, because it's deeply ingrained as muscle memory and habit. It's probably much easier to explain in a two-way call, or better yet, a class.
Much of the time people don't even appreciate these answers; they get angry because what they really wanted to hear was that it's impossible.
But sometimes it's useful to rephrase thoughts and put it out for criticism.
If that article is to be believed, there are organizations that are really working well in the areas of "Design Engineering" and "Context Engineering." It would be worthwhile aiming to work at one of those firms, if it is difficult to get to 10x productivity alone.
There's also probably going to be a new area of management consulting helping firms get to that high level of AI integration - could be a few years out, though.
I am thinking now a new type of organization could also arrive, like a Palantir 2.0.
CEOs will outsource their entire IT function to it after firing a lot of their staff. Also startup CEOs will sit down with a hologram and tell it what they want to do, and why they think they are uniquely positioned to execute on their vision compared to other humans in their field. The robot/hologram may end up working with a few humans in the same area, creating competition between them, but will eventually aim to drive them all to the ground in the end, like HAL.
But companies should be much more careful about where they host their "proprietary" code. Maybe some companies will start inventing their own languages and keep it in-house? Groups of companies may aggregate around their own AI? Why not groups of developers?
I shelved a music/entertainment/ticketing/touring startup from 15 years ago, built with Django that launched but never got any real users, as I put it on hold to focus on other things (crypto.) Perhaps people should look at working with multiple startups simultaneously and sticking with the one that takes off. If you got 10x productivity tomorrow, how are you going to leverage that? I like the idea of skipping equity and just have portions of revenue be returned to staff in real-time... "shortening the incentive-loop." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882238
Because 10x productivity not only f$$$$$ average developers, it f$$$$$ investors to, right?
However to avoid that, removal of the battery is required. A disconnect switch for power would do the same?
I think moving to micro-PCs is the answer, and then having an add-on to get a telco-signal. Why trust Motorola? Start at grass roots where possible. Everything needs to be open-source and based on open standards. No trojans, telemetry or remote overrides.
Maybe the product is an adapter case for a Pi that adds a screen, battery, antenna and whatever else is required to make it a smartphone alternative?
Also, looking forward to Mecha Comet.
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