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singularfutur

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    Comment #47037540

    Anthropic optimized for "clean UI" metrics and forgot developers care more about not having their codebase silently corrupted. Every AI company relearns the same lesson: autonomy i…

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    Comment #47033655

    Moving the project to a foundation is smart. Most AI tools die when the founder leaves. This one might actually survive.

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    Comment #47016548

    Reverting a few trivial commits because of purity tests is a bad precedent. It rewards the loudest commenters and punishes maintainers.

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    Comment #47016370

    Looks polished. For me the switching cost is real since Screen Studio already works. If you can win on editing speed, captions, and clean exports that stay portable, there is defin…

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    Comment #47013575

    Humans did the actual work: framing the problem, computing base cases, verifying results. GPT just refactored a formula. That's a compiler's job, not a physicist's. Stop letting ma…

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    Comment #47002099

    Every release they claim it writes production code but my team still spends hours fixing subtle bugs the model introduces. The demos are cherry picked and the real world failure ra…

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    Comment #47001563

    COSS companies want it both ways. Free community contributions and bug reports during the growth phase. Then closed source once they've captured enough users. The code you run toda…

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    Comment #47000865

    Dark patterns are just polite robbery by corporations that realized psychological manipulation pays better than service. The grift is the product, not the bug.

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    Comment #46995634

    AI companies dumped this mess on open source maintainers and walked away. Now we are supposed to thank them for breaking our workflows while they sell the solution back to us.

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    Comment #46992788

    Funny how AI is an "agent" when it demos well for investors but just "software" when it harasses maintainers. Companies want all the hype with none of the accountability.

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    Comment #46986806

    Claude got smarter so we see less. Same playbook every SaaS uses when power users become edge cases. File paths aren't noise. They're the only thing stopping your LLM from hallucin…

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    Comment #46981218

    Anthropic is optimizing for enterprise contracts, not hacker cred. This is what happens when you take VC money and need to sell to Fortune 500s. The "dumbing down" is just the prod…

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    Comment #46974897

    This is exactly why I am betting on open source for the AI future. Local first, code I can audit, no black box APIs that change their terms overnight. The future of knowledge work …

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    Comment #46974089

    This is why I only run open source extensions that I can actually audit. uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, the kind of tools where the code is available and the developer isn't anonymou…

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    Comment #46972941

    This is what I love about the open source community. Twenty years later and people are still finding ways to make classic games accessible without DRM or platform lock in. Clean ro…

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    Comment #46967220

    The singularity is always scheduled for right after the current funding round closes but before the VCs need liquidity. Funny how that works.

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    Comment #46966899

    $60M seed to wrap git hooks in YAML config. The AI tooling bubble is just VCs subsidizing solutions looking for problems while developers want less complexity, not more.

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    Comment #46964033

    Another $200M for a company whose product most developers will never touch. VCs continue to confuse "hardware that sounds cool" with "business that makes money". This ends one of t…

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    Comment #46960673

    We don't need AI to teach corporations that profits outweigh ethics. They figured that out decades ago. This is just outsourcing the dirty work.

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    Comment #46960401

    fair enough, I read too quickly the article.

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    Comment #46957991

    Another closed model dressed up as "coming soon" open source. The pattern is obvious: generate hype with a polished demo, lock the weights, then quietly move on. Real open source d…

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    Comment #46957741

    This is not a technology problem. AI intensifies work because management turns every efficiency gain into higher output quotas. The solution is labor organization, not better softw…

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    Comment #46956793

    Discord says immediate deletion. They already leaked 70k IDs. Your biometric enters the permanent record somewhere. Discord, their vendor, or Utah. Someone keeps it.