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mdale

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    Comment #48624249

    I think the frontier will command premium for sometime just as slight better software developers were 10x's vs their peers as their architecture & development strategies and code a…

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    Comment #47741269

    Literal money transfer is not the point. It's about power and concentration of it to insulate future consolidation of power. Money is made up system to provide a relatively stable …

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    Comment #46913240

    I think it's just both companies building/ marketing to the strength of their competitor. As general perception has been the opposite for codex and Opus respectfully.

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    Comment #46535466

    Right, have to add strait up shooting US citizens to the list :/

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    Comment #45847559

    Almost like it's irresponsible to not require 2 factor now days.

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    Comment #45732679

    As the OP outlined 10x is common place now; where as my best day pre-AI may have been 500 LOC now 5K LOC per day is routine. So a few months on a solo project has produced ~500k li…

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    Comment #45549617

    Genie 3 is already a frontier approach to interactive generative world views no? It will be AI all the way down soon. The models internal world view could be multiple passes and mu…

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    Comment #45438890

    Was spending a lot with cursor switching between sonnet and opus 4.1s like 1500 to $2k a month. Was doing a lot of tabs in parallel of course. Output was like 5k lines on Good day.…

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    Comment #44984920

    The poorly named "Autopilot" is a good analogy. The LLMs can definitely help with the drudgery of stop and go traffic with little risk; but take your eye off the road for one secon…

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    Comment #44931891

    For an increasing set of product attracting attention and midshare is the product. Creator economy; open source projects that have many stars safer to use then ones that don't. AWS…

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    Comment #44600041

    How well does the average employee do it? The baseline is not what you would do but what it would take to task someone to do it.

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    Comment #44213619

    It's not racist to push baseless claims the opposition who is black was born in Africa and not qualified to run for office ? How else would you define racism if not across xenophob…

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    Comment #43531607

    I think it's fair to call out a action reaction flow that got us here; but if we can't see we have swag into something far more destructive to free speech as the article outlines; …

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    Comment #43114579

    It's like we go out to a twelve course dinner and get home and there is one 10 calories carrot on the table and we are tweeting to no end about our genius and our total transparent…

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    Comment #42754912

    There is an element global competition no ? Controlling more of global trade is advantageous. It's not that they want others you fail; they just want a bigger pice of the pie.

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    Comment #42754864

    Sure; but negotiations involve a give and take. You can't push things in the a direction if you just tout your purity and one side gives in and gets rolled over. I think some progr…

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    Comment #41747637

    I was in a co-working space where it said "earthquake take cover"; on everyone's phone at once and then the earthquake hit very soon after. I guess it was enough time to get under …

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    Comment #41543058

    At first I thought this article was going to be a about life expectancy for startup workers vs other companies

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    Comment #41001365

    My son web site: https://play-vista.com its runing on a raspberry pi. Written with help from ChatGPT/copilot ;)

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    Comment #40945534

    Interesting that they use the word criminals instead of hackers.. makes it sound like it was a physical heist rather than poor security practices on their part :)

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    Comment #40869928

    It's getting better and new UIs for it are being tested like Claude and artifacts. Sr. Eng adopted copilot and sung it's praises a lot faster then the jr engineers. Especially when…

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    Comment #40831096

    I like how mad Max thunderdome is a given at this point and the env work is just to prevent Venus #2

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    Comment #40373657

    I remember that ad. I think it did it for me as well.

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    Comment #39963926

    Makes opportunities for smaller companies to innovative/experiment to offer solutions / acquisition targets where tighter inference compute requirements makes or breaks the experie…

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    Comment #39914160

    Really enjoyed this journey. Could have extended into more modern tropes of singularity and mastery of energy the sun provides finding it's way into modern sci-fi.