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mumbisChungo

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About mumbisChungo

an idiot

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48560858

    Already has.

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    Comment #48153454

    go back to reddit ;_;

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    Comment #47940061

    One dev's salary to give a 10 person team unlimited approximately free agentic coding for the foreseeable future, plus privacy.

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    Comment #47923179

    >Qwen 4.6 36B Did the author mean Qwen3.6-27B? Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

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    Comment #47836230

    A good faith dollar-focused rebuttal would probably involve one or both of directly addressing the claims of the cost-benefit analysis or discussion of costs to the tax base not co…

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    Comment #47801573

    sitting in a local pub watching a musician I've never heard of play original music and absolutely loving it rn.

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    Comment #47801526

    I think it's shortsighted to dismiss the utility of these technologies for learning. I find personally that putting the LLM into an argumentative state then having it challenge my …

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    Comment #47801387

    this is why oldschool chat > social media curating for trust and expertise and diversity of opinion

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    Comment #47716712

    Agreed, people should only enjoy the features of it that I enjoy the way I like to enjoy them. Enjoying it the wrong way is at best stupid, possibly even evil.

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    Comment #45441585

    TL;DR: You might think the people doing politics are manipulative ladder climbers, but they're climbing the same ladders available to you, so you should be one too.

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    Comment #45263692

    clear scoleciphobia if I've ever seen it

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    Comment #45111186

    I just find that I learn faster by interrogating (or being interrogated by) a lossy encyclopedia than I do by reading textbooks or stackoverflow. I'm still the one doing the doing …

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    Comment #45110671

    I don't think there's anything I could tell you about the companies I've built that would dissuade you from your perspective that everyone is as intellectually lazy as your project…

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    Comment #45110603

    >ones thinking power is diminished overtime by interacing with LLMs etc. Sometimes I reflect on how much more efficiently I can learn (and thus create) new things because of these …

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    Comment #45032277

    Seems completely unenforceable. My companies have posted an awful lot of job ads in earnest over the years that haven't found suitable candidates, despite an absolute barrage of sl…

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    Comment #44974636

    [flagged]

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    Comment #44963802

    Yes, it was a sad moment, years ago now, the day I realized that I'd likely never travel to China. Sadder still to acknowledge I'd feel safer doing so than entering the modern US.

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    Comment #44916054

    After using steam for over 20 years I'd say I feel quite neutral about steam, but actively disdainful toward the alternatives.

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    Comment #44880000

    No matter how right the AI crowd is, elements of it are/will be a bubble. No matter how right the bubble crowd is, the market becoming irrationally exuberant for a brief period of …

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    Comment #44865397

    AI/ML dev is just boring old SWE but now you've got some new ingredients in the mix.

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    Comment #44626988

    And chess players stream as their primary income, because there's no money in Chess unless you're exactly the best player in the world (and even then the money is coming from spons…

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    Comment #44598569

    Again, the more I know about it the more complex it seems to me, which is the opposite of what you're saying. So many ways to exert control over it between fine-tuning, RAG, and lo…

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    Comment #44597803

    My personal framing of "Agents" is that they're more like software robots than they are an atomic unit of technology. Composed of many individual breakthroughs, but ultimately a fe…

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    Comment #44568512

    The more I learn about prompt engineering the more complex it seems to be, but perhaps I'm an idiot.

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    Comment #44552477

    One time my teacher used a computer to make a math test for me, but then told me I couldn't use my computer during the exam. I dropped out of school immediately.