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ed_mercer

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    Comment #49219156

    > I don't think we'd see two people talking as being weird. We do, it's known as the halfalogue and has been found to be more distracting/annoying. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…

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    Comment #49217954

    can't you just buy a used same class motherboard from a marketplace?

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    Comment #49203172

    Same here. You can press space after going to the next building as a workaround.

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    Comment #49191141

    So it's basically a Claude Desktop clone?

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    Comment #49130202

    Elevators drive me crazy. One of the worst sins I've seen is an elevator that says, “Sorry to keep you waiting,” while continuing to hold the doors open for the entire sentence. Ju…

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    Comment #49121403

    https://archive.md/8FZkq

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    Comment #49120622

    AI meaning Claude or Codex, because Gemini is a laughingstock for coding. Also Gemini was mentioned only once in the article.

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    Comment #49118527

    > the dark ages of 2025 This made me chuckle. I do think we are seeing exponential improvements over the years and that we don't always notice it happening because we're right in i…

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    Comment #49117760

    if DeepMind is such a great place to work, why have several leading researchers recently left for Anthropic and OpenAI? Are the problems limited to certain teams, or are the report…

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    Comment #49092910

    I guess they could add a parameter cursorIndex defaulting to 0!

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    Comment #49082575

    renders fine here on firefox android, black text on slightly yellow tinted light background

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    Comment #49064930

    >LLMs are expensive and are only going to become more expensive Prices per token are dropping roughly 10x per year for the same quality of model. Bills are going up because AI agen…

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    Comment #49054459

    I cannot recall the last time I committed manually, let alone rebase manually. An agent can do it for you faster and without making mistakes.

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    Comment #48943046

    No, Pichai is just once again sitting with his thumb up his ass while Gemini is getting owned by better models. https://www.reuters.com/business/google-gemini-launch-delaye...

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    Comment #48941958

    AFAIKI Fable = Mythos but with more guardrails

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    Comment #48905036

    This is awesome. I think the much bigger use case here is building web equivalents of apps that are only available on iOS/Android.

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    Comment #48885154

    what is Anthropic going to do on July 19 though? Drop Fable and watch their users flock over to gpt5.6? I don't see it happening.

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    Comment #48867545

    > At Apple, our teams are constantly developing breakthrough technologies I sure hope they weren't referring to Siri here

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    Comment #48843670

    >Delegation for deeper work Except that you can't actually delegate since connectors and tools are not supported.

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    Comment #48838208

    Cool, just 20 years too late.

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    Comment #48826630

    So then, why have the junior engineer in the first place?

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    Comment #48811779

    > It's also good to act as an agent orchestrator. Any chance you would elaborate?

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    Comment #48801333

    Seems rather random though that it's #1. Fable had way more upvotes.

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    Comment #48768316

    I feel like OP is still in the year 2025. > The AI will have gone off the rails multiple times and you will only notice it later when you actually try to use the software. Except t…