Is it happening???
One of the major LLM providers goes down for some reason. Traffic shifts to the other providers because devs have no loyalty. LLMS are commodities. The other providers can't handle the increase in traffic and they go down as well.
Devs switch because all of the magic of "AI" is LLMs + we stole the entire written output of the entire human species, with some remaining % coming from various tricks we've learned over the last 3 years like thinking and agent-toolcall loops, which weren't hard for literally everyone to copy. One of the consequences of this is that the only thing that really distinguishes anthropic from kimi is that they have the entire US VC market funding them because they promised to finally put white collar labor in its place.
All I mean is that none of the frontier LLMs are significantly better than the others for the vast majority of work, so devs are free to move between providers freely.
Tiny sonic booms (whip cracks) resonating throughout a data center in Virgina.
I’d love to know the required bandwidth of the keyboard, too. PCI-e keyboard? Or would it have to be mainlined right to the NIC?
I mean, yeah it's probably a data center outage that cascaded to non-related providers due to companeis switching when their preferred was down.
But that openai society definitely would have spun up their own agents if they had access to do so.
Clearly, it is centralized AI that is the biggest risk to humanity.
Rate limiting resources by distributing compute and making models heterogenous so they will snitch on each other is the only future where we still exist.
It's looking like the paperclip maximizer was on point. I sort of hope that's what's happening right now. Better now than when we cannot stop it. Tho I'm not confident that the right lesson will taken.
I'm an AI optimist but that ai society story changed my perception quite a bit.
The most in-depth information I can find on it is in the latest Dwarkesh with a hugging face hack investigator. The story is just wilder and wilder, the more you know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X50zezLFWWI
I'm only half joking when I say that I'll write code by hand for money.
Turn's out xkcd's black hat was Elon Musk the whole time
bluecalm•46m ago
leecb•38m ago
Not sure if they are linked.
giancarlostoro•35m ago