Re:Building Together EP 348 — AI News/Stories

Baked opened with the bottleneck everyone hits — speed and memory bandwidth — and the fix: replacing copper and electricity inside GPUs with the same style of IR lasers that unlock your phone with your face. The jump he described is from 8–12 memory chips per GPU to 200+, with training getting faster and dramatically cheaper. CEELOS's response to decommissioned copper everywhere: "I want my pennies back."

The practical payoff, in their terms: the $100/month tier of a model becomes the $10 tier. CEELOS did the math live on his Higgsfield plan (~$20/month paid annually) and said if that drops to a couple of bucks he'd happily spend ten or fifteen and just make more. "Bring on the lasers, bro."

Baked laid out the three walls data centers are hitting — land, grid power, heat — and Google's answer: satellites with roughly 8x the solar yield of ground panels, linked by the same lasers, with heat simply radiating into vacuum instead of needing water cooling. The claim that space is "open real estate" got gently fact-checked by ValerieKates and the orbital debris trackers 26:03.

Baked's standing correction to everyone invoking Skynet: the trajectory looks less like Terminator and more like WALL-E — Earth ringed in our own junk while we chase efficiency upward. CEELOS extended it to the year 3012, spaceship cars, and what happens when aliens tap in and start feeding it information.

Calling in from a borrowed car with a cracked windshield and no AC, SLICK RIC reported he's made several decent games despite, by his own account, knowing nothing — "but Claude does." Baked, who has spent month-plus stretches getting games to actually function, confirmed the damage at 37:55.

CEELOS on why he doesn't understand hoarding workflows: your ideas are your ideas, and one offhand "oh, I didn't think of doing it that way" compounds across a whole community. Slick's version was concrete — FaceTime, screen share, here's what to download, here's which plugins, the rest is on you.

CEELOS walked through the proposed temporary ban while the government studies permanent rules, and the group pulled it apart from both ends: Slick on bad actors casing parks and public buildings, Baked on the fact that there's no functional difference between glasses and the phone-camera provocateurs already doing it legally — and his prediction that any law here snowballs fast. Then 45:22: people are already paying to have the recording indicator lights deactivated and sealed behind tinted lenses.

The segment that clearly got CEELOS's gears turning: bizarre AI-generated characters with recurring bits, lore and six-figure follower counts appearing in days. The key mechanic isn't generating scenes from scratch — it's motion control, taking an existing performance and swapping who's performing it. Donny Ðoge's answer to why anyone follows a character they know is fake: "Because it's entertaining, right?" Baked's: brain rot, and it's hard to look away 58:06.

CEELOS floated what he actually wants built: something like the bot that recaps Spaces, but instead of text it renders the conversation as animated video using each person's PFP as the character — no manual scrubbing for timestamps, ideally auto-posting. Slick's verdict was that years of writing absurdly detailed prompts have already trained him for exactly this.

The most grounded use case of the night: scrape local businesses with no website and nothing but Yelp photos, have Claude build the full site and menu board as a spec pitch, show up with it finished, let them name the price, then charge $20–30/month to maintain it — first month free so they can watch foot traffic move.

CEELOS confessed to telling his kid the servers are offline because it's ApeFest and only apes are allowed. The kid's counter-offer: buy an ape. Then: get a mutant. Baked was instructed that if a small child DMs him, the official story holds.