It still would need to go to the cloud so you can see the chat from another device logged in to the same user.

YouTube has multiple different products. YouTube as a company do not call your attention a product. There isn't a product team that is in charge of people's attention as a product.

>So the question is not whether to use files. You're always using files. The question is whether to use a database's files or your own.

It's the opposite. A file system is a database. And databases can recursively store their data within another database.

Yes, the current meta for ctfs, which includes challenges for exploiting binaries, is to just throw an LLM at it.

Assembly is still source code so really it comes down to if the copy protection is obscuring the executable code to the point where the LLM is not able to retrieve it on its own. And if it can't someone motivated could give it the extra help it needs to start tracing how outside inputs gets handled by the application.

>Remote APIs need hand-crafted endpoints for every possible agent action.

They already need a remote API for every possible user action. MCP is just duplicate work.

One thing not addressed is the incentive for large software packages to make their own repositories that bypass this queue in order to have instant updates.

Bottom tier computers were more than $25.

They still are. They always have been.

Since the introduction of the OG Raspberry Pi, 14 years ago, there's been an ongoing cognitive problem wherein people look at the price of a brand new, never used SBC that can purchased from a reliable retail company.

Then they also look at the price of a used corpo PC (that is bigger, and noisier) that some rando in Iowa is selling on eBay.

And then they boldly compare the prices of the two things as if these details just don't exist.

But the details do exist. The details show that the two things are not the same. They can never be the same.

One is a shiny fresh apple that is free of blemishes, and the other is a bruised old grapefruit that someone has already started eating. They're both fruit, but they're very different things.

>the predictions vs what actually happened is a massive gap

AWS is still charging a highway robbery price for internet bandwidth.

>hide old videos they cannot monetize

All videos are monetized. Some videos don't do rev share with the author, but YouTube still gets the ad rev.

Demonetized videos show fewer or no ads. It's something they implemented because advertisers don't want to be associated with some kinds of content.

I think at this point all videos have ads. Demonized videos not having ads hasn't been a thing for what feels like years.

Demonetized

Big brands don't pay the big bucks to buy placements on run-of-network channels (ie. small random channels).