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by apercu 8mo ago
HN is where I keep hearing the “50× more productive” claims the most. I’ve been reading 2024 annual reports and 2025 quarterlies to see whether any of this shows up on the other side of the hype. So far, the only company making loud, concre
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by apercu 9mo ago
I mean, you'll still get blamed even if management pushes you to work in a manner that "breaks stuff". There is very little accountability in the upper echelons these days (if there ever was) and less each day in our current
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by apercu 9mo ago
This is similar to how I prompt, except I start with a text file and design the solution and paste it in to an LLM after I have read it a few times. Otherwise, if I type directly in to the LLM and make a mistake it tends to come back and ha
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by apercu 9mo ago
I just can’t with “both sides” when one side is increasingly becoming lawless and reckless.
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by apercu 9mo ago
I agree wholeheartedly, and the technocrats are complicit with the GOP here. It's funny how “free markets” keep producing the most expensive solar prices in the developed world. Don't get me started on Healthcare (I just moved bac
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by apercu 9mo ago
? Cars don't "eat" horses. I wouldn't equate "making redundant" with "consuming"
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by apercu 9mo ago
"Back then, the minor inconvenience of seeing a few ads seemed worth all the benefits of access all the internet had to offer" Yes and no. I complained about ads to a partner back in 1999. He seemed surprised, and said something t
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by apercu 9mo ago
I have a lot of opinions about LLMs, and most are not positive due to the error rate, the security nightmare, the IP issues, the ecological impact and the hype, hype, hype that stands in direct opposition from my years of experiments (start
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by apercu 9mo ago
That was sort of my experience as well. I already had more than a decade of development experience, asked maybe two questions in a 6 month window (not easy ones), and instead of answers got negative remarks. Never logged in again. I should
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by apercu 9mo ago
I've met all sorts of people and they're generally not dumb, so it’s not mass stupidity but maybe narrative capture. When media incentives align with wealth and power, propaganda becomes pervasive and people absorb it without real
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by apercu 9mo ago
So, yea, the latest IOS and MacOS are pretty terrible and user hostile, but they are miles from the issues with the latest Windows OS.
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by apercu 9mo ago
Sarcasm goes whooosh.
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by apercu 9mo ago
Because apple can play hard(er) ball in 12 or 18 or 24 months when this (likely) irrational spend spree dies? Business is a little more nuanced than this audience thinks, and it’s silly to think Apple has no leverage.
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by apercu 9mo ago
Thanks. I didn't think my comment was super nuanced.
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by apercu 9mo ago
"Apple is smart. If the AI capex cycle flattens in late '27 as models hit diminishing returns, does Apple regain pricing power simply by being the only customer that can guarantee wafer commits five years out?" That's th
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by apercu 9mo ago
My post was sociological - yours is technical. Are you on purpose not having the same conversation or are you confused as to whether or not I think abliteration itself is marketing?
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by apercu 9mo ago
It might be a generational thing. When I started out as a sysadmin it was all shell and glue and different syntax on the 8 different flavours of *NIX I worked on between '94 and '97, then I found Perl suddenly you could actually b
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by apercu 9mo ago
Thanks for reinforcing the point. Repetition is always the clearest form of insight.
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by apercu 9mo ago
Just giving a human a compliment.
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by apercu 9mo ago
“It's almost like a cartel of shitty treatment.” Thank you. I love it when someone poetically captures a feeling I’ve been having so succinctly.
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by apercu 9mo ago
Don't even bother, it's not a good faith argument.
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by apercu 9mo ago
I rarely eat pork, but saw some ridiculously cheap bacon at the store last week. When I got home I noticed it was 12oz instead of the (historical) norm 16oz.
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by apercu 9mo ago
Easily stolen.
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by apercu 9mo ago
Grok is arguably not uncensored, it’s re-aligned to a specific narrative lane. “Uncensored” is simply a branding trick that a lot of seemingly intelligent people seem to fall for.
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by apercu 9mo ago
I didn't mean to imply a conflict of interest, I'm wondering what product or service offering (or maybe feature on their messaging app) prompted this. No other tech (major) leaders are saying the quiet parts out loud right, about
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by apercu 9mo ago
A large percentage of my work is peripheral to info security (ISO 27001, CMMC, SOC 2), and I've been building internet companies and software since the 90's (so I have a technical background as well), which makes me think that I&#
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by apercu 9mo ago
I haven't ever figured out why search is so hard for so many websites, including some that I've worked on. Even using third parties (like Keyoti) I've had trouble. In one case I solved a lot of issues with Elastic, but it&#x2
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by apercu 9mo ago
Oh, didn't know that. That's lame. I could see using an iPad for automation, triggered by midi, but I use an Air for that (and even if I used an my Pro, I still have to use a USB C hub because for some reason Apple things 1 (or 2)
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by apercu 9mo ago
My electric bill was up 35% year over year from 2024 to 2025 - only two of us live here and there were no infra changes or new appliances. I really need a solar solution but I feel so far out of my wheelhouse.
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by apercu 9mo ago
I bought Logic maybe 8-9 years ago, and get free upgrades.... If I had paid $5/mo it would already have cost me ~$280.00 more than I paid. Even if I had to purchase an occasional update (assuming they were reasonably priced), I'd

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