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There's a massive difference between your kids vibe coding something and an engineer using AI to implement something. If you're unable to discern the difference, that's something t…

On the flipside, Apple has realized AI models are quickly becoming a commodity. By not blowing hundreds of billions in speculative capex, they get to focus on the bits that likely …

If anything, it's becoming more true. In the last month you already have Kimi K3 reaching competitive frontier performance (in practice, a bit behind Fable/Sol but close enough). S…

Sundar Pichai began the downfall of Google by most accounts. It went from an engineer driven culture to one of infighting, politics, and bureaucracy. It's telling when xooglers now…

Did you even read the post? The idea is to tie conversations to code. This is a more sophisticated version of something like doltdb, not a git replacement.

This is going to kill someone... you can't just make these calls for people. And it's DEFINITELY not a replacement for snowpack tests, etc. at the location you're going to visit.

small downsides like security holes? Those aren't small. Neither is creating a codebase that's an inextensible mess that even LLMs begin to struggle with. The reality is making goo…

This is probably one of the more level headed takes in the comment thread. There's been a concerted marketing push to frame AI maximalism as an inevitability. More or less a "it's …

A part of the puzzle that rarely gets discussed is something that predated LLMs entirely-- "software engineering" and "programming" have been conflated for a long time now and ther…

It's not entirely clear to me that the opposing argument is well-formed either. You constantly see numbers and statistics being wildly mis-used or overextrapolated.

It's not just that there's a circular deal it's that they're prevalent. And worse, with frontier labs IPOing seeking astronomical valuations that means a lot of the public is now e…

> the big providers are charging full freight for inference They're not and it's not clear why you seem to believe that. The immense capex for buildouts, training costs, etc. are n…

Generally, I agree because what happens is the messaging around AI is doing more, faster. Not using AI to deliver at a higher quality level, etc. But I think it boils down to incen…

Absolutely! Yes. This rhetoric of inevitability only benefits these AI companies.

Right. Which means tokens are actually being priced well under cost once you factor in all this datacenter/GPU capex. Also worth noting the datacenters are not purely for training.…

I'm actually currently studying this :) Honestly... not that dramatically. Each release is much more marginal. And quoted official benchmarks doesn't translate very well into the r…

The interior is also, frankly, very meh.

Having tried something similar, the perceived speedup does not, in the steady state, last. To get a quality, lasting, result you're ultimately having to carefully study everything …

Heck, you could do a decent amount with the CAS back in the TI-89.

on claude using bedrock it simply refuses to acknoweldge the existence of OpenClaw (Opus 4.7)

Fascinating, because I've seen the exact opposite across the PNW.

Yep. And this is why as hard as AI companies are pushing that these tools can be a replacement for expertise, it's ironic that the experts are the ones that often get the highest R…

Yep. Trust is easy to lose, hard to earn. A nondeterministic black box that is likely buggy, will almost certainly change, and has a likelihood of getting enshittified is not a ver…

Well, part of the problem too is there's zero accountability. Who decides what it means to be aligned and how does that evolve over time? No matter what, common people are quickly …

It's quite prevalent in tech too-- however, folks tend to be quiet because the "use AI for everything or else" hammer is being used across the industry.