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ChrisLTD

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About ChrisLTD

Website: https://chrisltd.com

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    Comment #49156170

    > Yet, we all trust these things. We trust them - in large part - because we know that professionals took the care and responsibility to build the foundations correctly. And if the…

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    Comment #49156042

    > upper management who are already eliminating these assembly line, JIRA-ticket-taker software jobs en masse Is there any proof of this?

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    Comment #49123301

    > I fully admit that we have been surpassed by the machine in the ability to entertain. Why though? Daily here on HN, posts are pilloried for being AI generated and full of AI trop…

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    Comment #49085926

    This is certainly overstating the difference between compiled code and the source code. If I write an if/else statement, I understand what the computer is going to do when it's eva…

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    Comment #49047440

    There are other benchmarks for that

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    Comment #48994305

    "Our AI makes your workers X times more productive" "Our AI takes the drudgery out of X, Y, and Z"

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    Comment #48984032

    The datacenter antipathy is odd, but then again so are the AI corps' marketing strategy of making everyone afraid for their jobs and the future of the species.

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    Comment #48983818

    If Linux doesn't qualify as open, then what does?

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    Comment #48983724

    and if you're an author that lives outside the United States?

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    Comment #48983662

    If the US implements export controls and China doesn't, it would kill the market for OpenAI and Anthropic.

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    Comment #48959952

    Why would this law make things worse? What would your proposal be for fixing what you’ve identified as the underlying problem?

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    Comment #48958787

    You have to start somewhere, no? We have laws against stealing and murder and folks don’t usually go around saying they should be removed from the books because some people still s…

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    Comment #48910069

    So why do you recycle? Based on your argument, you're just wasting your own time or "shooting yourself in the foot".

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    Comment #48908232

    I've been using Parakeet Multilanguage locally, and it's super snappy

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    Comment #48832406

    It's illegal to build dense cities like Manhattan in most of the United States. And while most people want to live in a Manhattan'esque area, plenty (like me) do.

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    Comment #48821169

    If anything the first movers would theoretically be the first to destroy their own labor markets and economies.

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    Comment #48809178

    The Supreme Court gave Trump immunity, stymieing Democratic attempts at holding him accountable for crimes he was accused of in his first presidency. Holding him accountable this t…

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    Comment #48739528

    Yeah... Sonnet becomes the new cheap model, and some Fable class model becomes the more expensive/better one.

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    Comment #48739387

    Their valuations don't make sense as just programming tools, period. Forget about if they are still human driven.

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    Comment #48699043

    It's decent at rote coding tasks, but I haven't seen these things be reliable enough outside of that specific task to make the claim that it can do the work of any information work…

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    Comment #48689309

    What would it mean to be incompatible with the other 5.x models?

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    Comment #48689150

    Startups and early stage businesses have always had less intelligence (when intelligence would be measured by the number and quality of their employees) than larger businesses. Tha…

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    Comment #48689107

    If it's a new generation why isn't it GPT-6?