> It’s also a “you can’t scrape us but we can scrape you” mentality these companies are getting into.
And the problem often isn't some advanced attack. It's enough to follow links with session params, generate endless urls or ignore robots.txt to turn a regular crawler into a load generator. A site owner needs crawler protection from specific behavior and not another list of known bot signatures
Our team migrated a chunk of internal parsers to local weights purely to kill off query costs. The cloud api bill dropped by two-thirds in a single month
> For example, the article suggests $1T from enterprise productivity tooling. A quick Google suggests the global enterprise productivity tooling market is only worth about $0.1T right now
We tried to justify enterprise assistant budget to the CFO last quarter. They sent us packing after asking exactly how many headcount reductions we could guarantee post-purchase, which stalled the conversation immediately...
A timeline turns contradictory instructions into an orderly sequence of updates. Without it the model just gambles between the old guideline and the new one on every run
As long as the relative time parser is hardcoded for japanese, english sessions are stuck with manual ISO dates. Wiring up dateparser or duckling would take an evening , so leaving that on the roadmap is an odd choice
Stories about Tim Cook sitting there being surprised by sales are total marketing. They simply ran out of memory chips because of the global shortage, so they repacked supply delays into a nice story about insane hype among AI startups. And hit two birds with one stone by throwing shade at their competitors
Apple hasn't been selling just ram for a long time, they sell vram. Try getting 512 gb of HBM on current Nvidia cards - it's gonna cost way more than $ 24k. And here you get the same amount of memory for weights right in a quiet unit under your desk
Put together a similar build with a couple of rtx 6000 Ada cards and Apple's price tag suddenly looks pretty damn reasonable
HBM itself is very expensive but it’s not really fair to compare to LPDDR or GDDR
They’re very different things.
The more logical argument to me is that Apple uses its upgrade price points as more than just direct BOM and rather as a proxy for things that are amortized across all their sales like support/warranty/etc so higher SKUs subsidize the costs of the lower ones.
And the problem often isn't some advanced attack. It's enough to follow links with session params, generate endless urls or ignore robots.txt to turn a regular crawler into a load generator. A site owner needs crawler protection from specific behavior and not another list of known bot signatures
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