Love me Django and excited about this release. It’s been quite a journey through the years. I started working with it a little before 1.0 and continue to do so. Nowadays as an independent consultant which gives me the ability to really help keep Django systems up to date.
Yes, there’s some rough edges. Like updating can be tricky sometimes, and performance relating to DB queries is a skill in itself, but in general it’s a great framework to build most web software out there.
People generally don’t take the time to learn the framework and miss out on the tooling it provides. select_related for example. If I had a dollar for every project I’ve been hired to work on that didn’t use it, well, I actually do.
Also, people in general don’t seem to be able to do more than very basic SQL, so creating views is seen as a little known performance “trick”.
FYI you can avoid the manual sprinkling of select_related somewhat with https://pypi.org/project/django-auto-prefetch/, which avoids the lowest hanging N+1 loops automatically. Definitely not a cure all but it helps.
Ah yes. That’s the one thing I need to teach everyone when they’re new to Django. I was wondering if there were other quirks to the ORM beyond avoiding N+1 queries.
I assume they are referring to the default behavior of the ORM fetching all fields for a model by default, and the frequent need to use select_related/prefetch_related to group your queries into larger ones that are (usually) much faster than making many small queries for related tables.
I've already seen LLMs suggest products using Reddit comments as a reference, and when I investigated the Reddit comment it was by a blatant astroturfing account (nearly every comment for the same product) that probably bought upvotes to get their comment to the top of the thread. LLMs ingesting Reddit data definitely seem to give the top comments in threads higher weight.
The ability for LLMs to search the web made a big splash. Yet little emphasis was made on the fact that the web is a poisoned well. Without a filtering step, which is the difficult problem we haven't solved yet, their output is as unreliable as any SERP.
I used to be able to kind of deep dive music with the AI models. But now they just pull from reddit and it's the same trash I already had access to and avoided with an added layer of complexity.
i've seen this in my niche, too. they posed as a customer of their product on reddit (i have the receipts) and now they brag on linkedin about being the google AI answer for their hyper-specific google search lol
There's already AI poisoning spam. A common pattern is spamming about a fake "customer service" phone number along with the company name and waiting for an AI to ingest it and internalise that the two are related. Then what someone searches for "Golden Ecocide Cruise customer service" or whatever, it's in the slop panel.
And more specifically, if you knew which science to fund ahead of time we'd never have anything but 100% successes, science is often random and huge parts of it are not obviously useful ahead of time, some of which later becomes enormously useful.
Conversely, without the 80% the 20% might be unencumbered.
Imagine 2 Earths : one with 10 million researchers and the other with 2 million, but the latter is so cut-throat that the 2 million are Science Spartans.
> Due to their mistrust of others, Spartans discouraged the creation of records about their internal affairs. The only histories of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans.
A good example, but perhaps not the point you wanted to make.
The point about people standing out doesn’t make much sense when you consider the following. If a service member brings over their Dodge Challenger, a car that is not common in Germany due to its ridiculous fuel consumption, they too will also stand out. What about a Ford Mustang GT? Or maybe a dual cab F150 in any of the millions of trims available?
Germany is quite content with some ridiculous vehicles and invented most of them.
What stands out is say civvies driving on military number plates (UK until the 80s). In this case, anyone driving a banned vehicle - these beasts have sharp edges and are banned.
No one has a problem with a Ford Musty GT - its just a car and not sharp.
Article is behind paywall and is simply saying the same things that people have been saying about the post tech crash.
Now, what this sort of article tends to miss (and I will never know because it’s paywalled like a jackass) is that these models services are used by everyday people for every day tasks. Doesn’t matter if they’re good or not. It enables them to do less work for the same pay. Don’t focus on the money the models are bringing in today, focus on the dependency they’re building on people’s minds.
The issue though being that most people aren't paying and even those paying if they use it moderately aren't profitable. Nvidia "investing" 100B in one of its largest customers is a cataclysmically bright red flag.
A handful of the largest companies cyclically investing and buying from each other is propping up the entire economy. Also stuff like Deepseek and other open source models exist. Unless AGI comes from LLMs (it absolutely won't) then its foolish to think there wont be a bubble
I was thinking it's a bit like developing powered flight and saying steam engines won't work. It's true they didn't but the internal combustion engine was developed which did. It was still an engine machined from metal but with a different design. I think LLM -> AGI will go like that - some design evolved from LLMs but different in important ways.
AGI might require a nobel price level invention, I am not even sure it will come in my lifetime and I am in my 30s.. Although I would hope we would get something that could solve difficult diseases that have more or less no treatment or cure today, at least Demis Hassabis seems interested in that.
Arecibo's radar had a EIRP of up to terawatts. They were basically pinging space for asteroids etc. It feels a lot like using lasers at a helicopter kind of thing. Quiet and suddenly a sharp pulse.
The cables snapped at some point. These things were tough, able to last decades. This whole thread made me think aliens cut it.
Yes, there’s some rough edges. Like updating can be tricky sometimes, and performance relating to DB queries is a skill in itself, but in general it’s a great framework to build most web software out there.