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  • They should have called this "WishingWell". I'm wishing them well, but some of these projects are so over the top pie-in-the-sky silly, and funded with $0.25.
    by itintheory
  • It seems highly suspicious that all the target cost estimates are for $150-$400, regardless if it’s a bench for pelican on bicycle, or a clone of AAA game.

    It reminds me of scam eshops where everything cost $random dollars in a hope that someone will enter a credit card number.

    by tomaskafka
  • the estimation-engine is a work in progress. defs needs some work
    by matthewbarras
  • Mixed in with all these aspirational positive things is some sad person trying to get a better Microsoft Teams client.

    https://fablepool.com/projects/76

    by DannyBee
  • Before putting in money to this small anonymous website, I'd love to hear about the people behind the project. There's a single mention of 'Barras Industries', but not much mention about them online, or what else they've worked on.
    by xpct
  • fair comment! i'll add a link but we're at barrasindustries.com
    by matthewbarras
  • We have entered the GoFundMe era of vibe coding.
    by rickcarlino
  • goVibeMe
    by matthewbarras
  • I feel like using Fable in the name is a mistake, who knows how long that model will be around.
    by fuddle
  • Even if that product disappears, OpenAI will never Anthropic forget it.
    by fragmede
  • But it sounds like FableFool so it has that going for it.
    by comboy
  • It's how they name classes of models, presumably this implies something about the relative quantization / size of model, not about the specific performance. E.g. Fabel 5 will be better than Opus 5, better than Sonnet 5, etc. The 5 is the version number of the particular iteration / training run at this class of model.
    by vlovich123
  • I don't think using the name Fable is wrong, but I think a pool of Fables should be called a Grimm, or possibly an Aesop.
    by CobrastanJorji
  • xda-developers.com vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O2_Xda
    by aaronbrethorst
  • You could call it aiproductsexchange.com
    by an0malous
  • I'd love to see Anthropic (or someone with mythos access) create a cybersecurity version of this. So that I could create a pool that says "find security concerns in this github repo." Then the report from mythos gets sent to the code/project maintainer and revealed to the public (that paid for it) at the 90 day mark.
    by sigmar
  • sounds like FableBugBounty
    by stevefan1999
  • The target codebase cannot improve beyond the point that the reports are incorrect and a waste of money.

    There is also the question of whether humans can waste so much time reviewing AI code that the vulnerability is not patched before it is exploited. Another one is whether when the human is removed from the loop that the codebase becomes more vulnerable in some other ways.

    by sublinear
  • For your information, a group of Mythos-approved users at Apple, Google, Microsoft, and several other Project Glasswing partners have already been doing this for the past few months. We just can’t share many details publicly yet.
    by guessmyname
  • So the completed sample was estimated at $0.35, actually cost $0.52, but spend $0.55

    This bot is almost as bad as I am at estimating projects.

    by TrueGeek
  • Did it not charge anything for the estimation itself? I wonder what model they’re using for that
    by pitched
  • > Build a completely greenroom, open source AWS

    > est. total target $516.00

    Lol

    by MeetingsBrowser
  • "Solve Garbage Collection in C# for HFT · $10.00 raised of est. $200.00 target"

    This can't be serious.

    Broader point I am making is, what differentiates genuine ideas from the token burn? What happens when the pool exhausts but the task is not done?

    by GodelNumbering
  • market decides - just like kickstarter
    by matthewbarras
  • lol saw that one too

    "A thorough written survey of why .NET garbage collection causes latency spikes in HFT contexts"

    i'm like, dude, just rewrite in Zig if you want that control back, not all of your compute goodies will come from Redmond

    by pmarreck
  • It's already solved (by humans) for Java, which can now be used for HFT. It seems like it's possible to do for C#.
    by WorkerBee28474
  • The sarcastic solution is to use C# bindings to a non-GC language. Put all available memory under control of a pool allocator and enjoy the perf gain.
    by kevin_thibedeau
  • It indicates the level of trust people have in the platform, and the combination of the product-platform behavior. If someone with the wherewithal to solve garbage collection for C# for HFT could actually describe why GC in C# was a problem, they wouldn't be asking for $10. But for $10, for something something you're dimly aware of is a problem? I'd throw $10 at some nonsense I read on the Internet.

    > What happens when the pool exhausts but the task is not done?

    Have a stupider LLM aggregate similar questions.

    by fragmede
  • You keep putting money into the slot and pulling the lever
    by bethekidyouwant
  • From my 10 years in the .net, it seemed C# devs will pretty much do anything to avoid using the right tool for the job or solving the immediate problem at hand.
    by asp_hornet