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_bypa

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    Comment #48602221

    For the people peddling LLMs this is actually good news: 1. Force AI down everyone's throats claiming it's going to boost productivity 2. See people lose valuable skills because th…

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    Comment #48602174

    The main skill you need to reach that level is the one they always keep practicing: shmoozing. Thinking is not required as an executive, so you cannot lose what you never had. And …

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    Comment #48570216

    Same with Cloudflare & Co: https://ianreppel.org/the-penalty-of-being-human/

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    Comment #48512152

    So you eat your usage quota twice as fast or pay for API requests twice as much.

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    Comment #48469182

    Isn't that kind of like a cache for agents across vendors and versions?

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    Comment #48469172

    There will be an agent that closes questions for being slightly off-topic soon if there isn't already.

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    Comment #48416194

    Up until I read "AI servers" I honestly thought the headline would say "workers," which triggered a secondary thought: "At least it's better treatment than Amazon warehouse workers…

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    Comment #48393276

    "Proffer a strongly worded capitulation" was probably too much for publication.

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    Comment #48336818

    > There is plenty of money to be made selling home layouts to police. Perhaps more to thieves who can make sure they break into a place worth raiding.

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    Comment #48336784

    Says company selling a solution. I'll have a grain of salt, please.

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    Comment #48316677

    That's why executives are pushing for LLMs everywhere in businesses: to ensure the floor goes up for everyone. A few productive stars who don't alter the expectations baseline for …

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    Comment #48313355

    Most people I know who are bombarded by worthless updates every minute either ignore them but don't bother to disable any or are glued to their phones anyway, so they are beyond he…

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    Comment #48307693

    The unreasonable effectiveness of regurgitated partial titles.

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    Comment #48216717

    TL;DR https://xkcd.com/386

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    Comment #48201581

    So true and it's been like that for ages. It's why I called these people rogue data scientists five years ago: https://ianreppel.org/how-to-spot-a-rogue-data-scientist/

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    Comment #48186098

    > Give up your weekends and nights. So you can work for an employer that expects weekends and nights too. At least people either burn out or they get used to the hustle...

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    Comment #48174397

    I suppose for people crippled by a traumatic memory it would be beneficial though I'm not sure if that could truly wipe it from your mind with all associated emotions and thoughts.…

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    Comment #48116775

    Looks and sounds interesting... Is there anything beyond glue that makes the Qwen models it uses better for development than what you get with local models through Ollama in an IDE…