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samusiam

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    Comment #48106737

    I'm still using Sync, going on three years since they banned third party apps, and third party apps are still the best way to experience the site.

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    Comment #47973816

    I don't see anything asking for a credit card.

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    Comment #47888476

    In my experience this "gaming" behavior is easily caught by just asking another agent (could just be another session of Claude Code) to review the code changes.

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    Comment #47888323

    For idle sessions I would MUCH rather pay the cost in tokens than reduced quality. Frankly, it's shocking to me that you would make that trade-off for users without their knowledge…

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    Comment #47649455

    That's true, but the "AI bubble bursts" scenario is usually tied to Western investors getting essentially margin-called. If that happens, the CCP won't suddenly stop their investme…

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    Comment #47649137

    > I have no clue if this claim holds, but alas, just pretending they did not address the obvious criticism, while they did, is at the very least pretty lazy. But they didn't addres…

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    Comment #47649007

    > Aren't they currently propped up by investor money? Are Chinese model shops propped up by investor money? Is Google? Open weights models are only 6 months behind SOTA. If new mod…

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    Comment #47613295

    These OSS model makers need to stop benchmarking against old models. Showing how it performs against Opus 4.5, GLM-5 when we have Opus 4.6 and GLM-5.1 just tells me that it's not c…

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    Comment #47608174

    I think there's a lot of methodological expertise that goes into collecting good eval data. For example, in many cases you need human labelers with the right expertise, well design…

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    Comment #47603396

    Well you're free to disagree but my experience has been counter to your position. I write both code and research / technical documentation. The quality of what the LLM produces is …

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    Comment #47600937

    You're complaining about vibe coding while also complaining about how you "feel" about the code. Do you see the irony in that?

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    Comment #47600903

    I haven't seen the scrolling glitch in months, where previously it was happening multiple times a day. Also haven't seen anyone complain about it in quite some time. Pretty sure th…

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    Comment #47599994

    I just checked competitors' codebases: - Opencode (anomalyco/opencode) is about 670k LOC - Codex (openai/codex) is about 720k LOC - Gemini (google-gemini/gemini-cli) is about 570k …

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    Comment #47599937

    AI witch-hunters are even more annoying.

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    Comment #47599547

    > I think the only reason it’s seen as good anywhere is there are a lot of tasteless and talentless people who can pretend they created whatever was curled out. This goes for code …

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    Comment #47580696

    "by design, the recommendations will be average" This couldn't be more wrong. The simplest refutation is just to point out that there are temperature and top-k settings, which by d…

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    Comment #47529516

    "they don't output anything unless prompted" Unprompted they're not unlike a human sleeping or in a coma. Those states don't preclude consciousness in other states.

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    Comment #47411493

    Vegan for 15 years. I cook 95% of my own meals, including black bean burgers, tofu, etc... Sometimes I want something that tastes like meat and I reach for a Beyond or Impossible b…

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    Comment #47245840

    I can recall reading human-authored text like this for more than a decade.

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    Comment #47230796

    But literally any decent agent can recommend existing services and help you set them up. And even help you help them set the services up for you. I do this with Claude all the time…

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    Comment #47230732

    IMO we should all be asking for a raise if our company is making more money. Proportionally, even.

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    Comment #47217567

    > We don't sit around and write specs and then hope working code plops out. So what do you do then? Sit around hand-holding an AI agent while it implements code line-by-line? I'm b…