Wobbles42

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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
This is the real point that needs to be made. You can argue that many parents are less than ideal parents, but that is not sufficient to justify having the state step in. You also have to show that the state is less bad. Decades of data on
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
I was almost certainly never going to be a parent for other unrelated reasons, but you have just given me a whole other list of confirmations for that decision that I hadn't thought of before. Thank you for that.
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
The purpose of a system is what it does. Undermining data protection and privacy is clearly the point. The fact that it's happening everywhere at the same time makes it look to me like a bunch of leaders got together and decided that
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
Likely it wouldn't get written at all. The most useful aspect of layered approval processes is people treat them like outright bans and don't blog at all unless it's part of the job description.
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
It was more fragile 20 years ago than it is today. It was more robust 5 years ago than it is today. Or at least that's been my impression. I can't back that up with hard data.
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
"Ideas for AI to help reduce headcount" sounds like the title everyone should start using on resignation letters. If anyone still resigns that is. They seem to have automated that too.
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
Imagine explaining AI to 1997 you. "It's like PKZIP, but backwards"
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
Their tools are very useful. To their customers. Not to their users.
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
The killer app for AI might just be unenshittifying search for a couple of years. Then SEO will catch up and we'll have spam again, but now we'll be paying by the token for it. Probably right around the time hallucination drops o
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
They have investors that paid for training of these models too. It could be argued that R&D for the next generation is a separate issue, but they need to provide a return on the R&D in this generation to stay in business.
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
And knives apparently. I recently encountered this randomly -- knives are apparently one of the few products that nearly every household has needed since antiquity, and they have changed fairly little since the bronze age, so they are used
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
It has stopped. Demand is now rising faster than supply in memory, storage and GPUs. We see vendors reducing memory in new smart phones in 2026 vs 2025 for example. At least for the moment falling consumer tech hardware prices are over.
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
Are LLMs slowly evolving to be more appealing to narcissistic personalities? Given the dynamics here that could be the main selection pressure on them.
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
This is exactly what is happening from a levels of abstraction standpoint. The difference being that compilers and related tools are deterministic, and we can manage the outputs using mathematical proof of correctness. The LLM's drivin
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
I feel the same. Frankly, I am not sure there is a place in the world at all for me in ten years. I think the future might just be a big enough garden to keep me fed while I wait for lack of healthcare access to put me out of my misery. I a
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
Companies aren't evaluating on "keeping an eye on technical debt", but then ARE directly evaluating on whether you use AI tools. Meanwhile they are hollowing out work forces based on those metrics. If we make doing the right
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
I sometimes wonder if the economics of AI coding agents only work if you totally ignore all the positive externalities that come with writing code. Is the entire AI bubble just the result of taking performance metrics like "lines of co
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
I wonder if there is a point where signal to noise in advertising gets so low that the industry itself collapses. Many people actively ignore advertisement at this point, but there is still enough attention to make paying for them profitab
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
If the LLMs don't start producing positive revenue soon, the consequences for society will be rather short term.
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
Translation: People want to use a tool and not be liable for the result. People not wanting to be liable for their actions is not new. AI hasn't changed anything here, it's just a new lame excuse.
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
If the five year old was a product resulting from trillions of dollars in investments, and the marketability of that product required people to be able to hand guns to that five year old without liability, then we would at least be having t
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
How can you give an agent a token without cryptography being involved?
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
The only hallucination here is the idea that giant equation is a mind.
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
"Agentic action" is just running a script. All that's different is now people are deploying scripts that they don't understand and can't predict the outcome of. It's negligence, pure and simple. The only reas
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by Wobbles42 8mo ago
I don't understand what has changed here. AI is just branding. At the end of the day it's still just people using computer software to do stuff. There is going to be a person who did a thing at the end of the day -- either whoeve
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by Wobbles42 9mo ago
This is primarily an article about restrictions that all makers are going to have to deal with. Gun control is just the casus belli. The comments here have already turned into a spirited discussion about gun control itself. This is a vali
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by Wobbles42 9mo ago
That is the root of most arguments I have seen, both pro and anti gun. If people fundamentally disagree about whether the government should have a total monopoly on violence they are unlikely to come to agreement on the issue of gun control
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by Wobbles42 10mo ago
Best defense against rats and mice is a ferret friend. Their odor is far more effective at deterring rodents than felines are.
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by Wobbles42 1y ago
So much this. Putting these walls up also makes life harder for actual customers, who now have to prove they are such every time they need to access said docs for whatever reason. As an individual engineer, if I have to jump through hoops j
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by Wobbles42 1y ago
This would be hilarious. I would support that change for entertainment value alone.

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