Cal Newport

Remember when I said a lot of independent researchers could duplicate bug identification using smaller models?

Yeah, that's probably the case.

You could have a bug finding system tuned to do bug finding with a good harness on it that's made to test and look for bugs and be better at it.

They could run on probably like a 50 billion parameter model.

A lot like coding harnesses.

I think Cursor is discovering this.

You can build these custom models that are not massive and are perfectly good at producing computer code, and you put the right harness on it, it's very effective, much cheaper to run.

This is the reality.

We need the, I don't know, cars very well.

I was going to say like the Ford Taurus.

That's a 90s reference, right?

But we just need the normal consumer cars.

And these companies are still working on the F1 cars to try to impress everyone so their IPOs can succeed.

They don't like this message being out there because a world of narrow AI application, they don't have an advantage anymore.

Like, well, who's going to have the advantage of computer coding?

Well, everyone, these models aren't so big.

And then it's who's going to build the smarter harness.

And some company that does nothing but think about harnesses is going to have a tool that people prefer.

Like there's no moat.

So they want it to be about mythos.