It's profitable for NVidia, because they're not actually doing anything with it, they're just selling all the hardware that everyone else needs.

They're about to get a BIG bump in usership, when Manivest V2 goes dark.

Glad to see nore progress on this, but damn, it sure is slow goings. Not to mention that there's been an obvious need for this for at least a decade.

Par for the course in much of the software industry. It infuriates me, as well.

This one took me a second.

Port 22.

Not really, no. There's a LOT of gripes with what we colloquially call "Generative AI", and almost none of them are applicable to CGI. To name some of the most significant ones...

• They exist because they were trained on MASSIVE amounts of real human works, virtually none of which was given with the creator's consent.
• They aren't being built for the benefit of humanity, they're being monopolized by a very small set of powerful scumbags, looking toake a peofit and further cement their power in the world.
• They are exerting a VERY real and significant strain upon our collective resources, both economic and physically-necessary, to the point that they are causing suffering in the world, that will only get worse.

I actually heavily disagree. One of the WORST things you can do for user experience is defy their expectations for input. E.G...

• Users expect to have characters appear, where the cursor is, when they press character keys
• Users expect to have the character in front of the cursor be removed, when they press [Delete]
• Users expect to have the character behind the cursor be removed, when they press [Backspace]
• Users expect to have some kind of submission action take place, when they press [Enter]
• Users expect to be able to click on things that look clickable
• Users expect to not have elements on the page move underneath their fingers (I.E. as they type or click things)
• Users expect the contents of their clipboard to be pasted at the cursor position, when they perform a Paste

Breaking these rules by masking certain inputs generally makes them feel HORRIBLE to use.

Banks, for example, love to do this. I hit [1], [0], and [0] on the balance transfer form, to transfer $100, and I end up with a transfer for $1.00, because the validation forces a decimal point to be injected.

I think there are niche cases where keystroke rejection can make sense, but it's basically never worth the effort. And phone numbers is NOT one of them. When I buy stuff online, and get asked for a phone number, I'm virtually always pasting it in, because the only number I give out on the internet is a throwaway, and I don't have it memorized. More often than not, it gets rejected, because it was copied as "(XXX) XXX-XXXX", and the form doesn't like the formatting, even when that formatting is auto-applied anyway, as you type.

Good form validation involves letting users enter whatever the hell they want (within a max length restriction), and giving good feedback when it's not acceptable, indicating what needs to be corrected. Also, auto-completion goes a long way, when possible.

It still really surprises me that this isn't being pitched for general-purpose products. NO company should be able to release a product that relies on proprietary servers, without a certain guaranteed timeline of official-support, or having a plan in place for how the product can remain usable, post-official-support. Surely that could only have broadened support for the idea.

Sure. The myth is that you can the "awesome at everything" and "do it all super quickly" bits together at the same time.