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bwfan123

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    Comment #49184460

    > no matter how “intelligent” AI becomes, intelligence is often not the main bottleneck to things changing in the real world A mathematician Terrence Tao said something similar in …

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    Comment #49184327

    > entertain a thought without accepting it Entertaining an idea is understanding it. And, there is some research to show that understanding an idea is believing it. Hence, understa…

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    Comment #49178860

    If you are in a hole, dig deeper.

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    Comment #49170068

    I am curious if there has been work to remove experts from an open-weights model. The goal would be to reduce the size to be able to run on desktop GPUs without compromising qualit…

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    Comment #49157731

    Take a look at the code. It is a conglomeration of python, rust, go, cpp etc. I was expecting lean C or C++ but all I see is a kitchen sink of code, the AI generated kind. No probl…

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    Comment #49157628

    > Now, we all pay the consequence, to the tune of hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars of wasted productivity from teams that have to deal with the resulting fall-out o…

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    Comment #49147529

    > how annoying it was to try to cancel Cursor Add it to the enshittified software list.

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    Comment #49147487

    > After almost every update, Cursor decides it now boots into the "Agent" view by default. You switch back to the IDE, restart the app - and you're back in the Agent view again. An…

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    Comment #49136427

    > Hacker News is no longer a web site of an elite hah, sorry, we are plebs out here.

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    Comment #49128019

    Thanks for the input. Let me check it out.

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    Comment #49125446

    > leveraged financial nukes inexperienced and FOMOed investors have assembled A lot of debris waiting to happen in data-center debt for sure. The next several years are going to be…

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    Comment #49124809

    > What could possibly go wrong A barometer of the mania and one for the history books. A 23 year old wunder-kind publishes a 156 page prophesy with a catchy title which was lapped …

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    Comment #49124695

    > Are you buying from a provider that isn't listed on open router already I am using openrouter with zdr guardrail which routes to any provider that supposedly doesnt train on user…

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    Comment #49124653

    > They announced it already I meant something I could download and run.

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    Comment #49124572

    Deja-vu from dot-com. The tech-wreck had similar hedge-fund road-kill. Munder net-net fund comes to mind. A lot of hubris and leverage on a thesis that is not proven, and liquidity…

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    Comment #49124357

    > Undercut the US AI providers and wait them out You could have said the same of linux - that it extinguished proprietary OSs at least for server usecases.

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    Comment #49124166

    > For the Code Agent tasks among the public benchmarks above, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 is evaluated with the minimal mode of DeepSeek Harness (to be released) as the agent framework …

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    Comment #49071576

    I guess it gets bigger with each passing day. Tens of billions goes to Hundreds of billions.

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    Comment #49071350

    > Not understanding to the core the software you wrote, is going to exploded in your face. Short-termism at its peak. Code maintainers will learn the hard way how to set the bounda…

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    Comment #49070674

    There needs to be wider reporting of this if it is true. Where are the journalists ? If this is true, it is scorched earth on the world's knowledge base. And the business models ar…

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    Comment #49016585

    > Well its clearly a stunt. If it wasnt we would probably be up to our ears in technical detail. LLMs are the script kiddies of the day.