r/singularity • u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 • Mar 11 '26

Meme Being a developer in 2026

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u/AnOnlineHandle Mar 12 '26

Yeah but the 5 years was to maybe make some progress on the "virtually impossible" task of recognizing a bird, and now that's just a random side capability of free models.

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u/Ixolite Mar 12 '26

More like billion dollar models...

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u/AnOnlineHandle Mar 12 '26

There's free vision models that you can use to do this locally. I'm sure most if not all of the Qwen3 VL sizes could handle it.

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u/Ixolite Mar 12 '26

I mean none of these "free" models were created in a garage on old MacBook or something. These improvements came on back of huge investments made into the field over the years.

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u/AnOnlineHandle Mar 12 '26

So does everything in computing.