bandrami

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541.
by bandrami 8mo ago
I'm certainly sympathetic to that argument, but if you scroll way back this thread started with the question of whether or not AI is transformative, and if it is neither faster nor better that would suggest "no".
542.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Well like I said in the sibling post to this one I'd expect really any of the software vendors in my professional or personal life to release either more rapidly or with a wider array of features than they were a few years ago, and t
543.
by bandrami 8mo ago
I'm annoyed enough by coworkers asking "is the server down?" that I try not to do the equivalent to other people at their jobs, particularly doctors.
544.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Let me amend that: one of my vendors has a new diffusion-based noise-reduction plugin that's pretty good though the resource usage is still too high. I imagine that will come down as they improve it. And that's pretty cool. But it
545.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Yeah, I don't get why what I said bugged you so much either. This is downthread of people talking about the idea that was pretty current maybe 15 years ago that 3D printers were going to be like washing machines and everybody would jus
546.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Well, if it's in production, it's not at my company, any of my vendors, or for that matter any of the software I use in my private life; the pace of all of that is exactly what it was 2 years ago. When it shows up I'll form a
547.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Robots have been able to do that for decades now
548.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Right but this agentic stuff was supposed to be the wave where we would finally actually see increased output, so we should probably be seeing it soon if it's real. Like, my dev team should definitely have the actual code they keep tal
549.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Math. Places you might use Wolfram or Sage.
550.
by bandrami 8mo ago
No, you did a great job arguing my point: it's a market in the tens of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of units, so somewhere between saltwater aquaria and golf
551.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Stuff that's going into production now (actual production, not startup MVP production) would have been being written just before Claude Code came out, so pretty much by definition no. There's some copilot-style assisted stuff in t
552.
by bandrami 8mo ago
> I hope this changes when it becomes a lot harder to throw hardware at the problem Maybe, but I have terrible news for you about how much easier it just became to throw software at a problem
553.
by bandrami 8mo ago
People just aren't buying them. They're about as affordable as any other hobby AFAIK
554.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Humans will eventually have to work with the code, generally at 3am with alarms going off and three tiers of bosses yelling at them on the phone
555.
by bandrami 8mo ago
It's really not over. Somebody has to actually put something into production with it first.
556.
by bandrami 8mo ago
I mean, the demoscene is still around too, in the sense of some number of people still do it.
557.
by bandrami 8mo ago
> It's now possible for people to buy affordable CNCs, laser cutters and UV printers. And for the most part they just aren't
558.
by bandrami 8mo ago
This. Part of my role is assessing and recommending what if any AI implementations we might add to our production and I did this experiment because my boss's boss did it himself first and sent me a screenshot with the caption "con
559.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Unfortunately DC found out something does stop you from doing that, namely activists who flood your public meeting and say that a new bus line designed to meet the needs of young urban professionals is a gentrification accelerant and must
560.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Where did they get 11 million hours of screen recordings?
561.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Well, no, it's very much a contested area, with a neighboring nuclear-armed power claiming it is not independent, a nuclear-armed global hegemon very deliberately being ambiguous in its statements about Taiwan's status, limited di
562.
by bandrami 8mo ago
That's fine. Right is better than now.
563.
by bandrami 8mo ago
They're literally text generators so that's... troubling
564.
by bandrami 8mo ago
The problem with tool use is that I usually find I only need it for one component of a pipeline. So in this case mentally I would be tooling it as cat /usr/share/dict/words | print_if_mammal | grep -v 'e' but I
565.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Yesterday I asked mistral to list five mammals that don't have "e" in their name. Number three was "otter" and number five was "camel". phi4-mini-reasoning took the same prompt and bailed out because (at l
566.
by bandrami 8mo ago
> On device AI is much better for the customer than it being in the cloud Which is exactly how you know it will always be nerfed. The last thing these guys want is to take their claws out of our data.
567.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Is there a coding use-case for Claude that is not "spraying in all directions"?
568.
by bandrami 8mo ago
It was intended for situations where the keyholder is a middleman between Google's API and the end user.
569.
by bandrami 8mo ago
It's the deed that's old; in the case of Columbia it's that it holds the northern half of the Anglican church's glebe[1] in Manhattan (Columbia is the largest private real estate owner in NYC), which is not only held tax
570.
by bandrami 8mo ago
That's a can of worms (along with the northern border of India and everything between Lebanon and Egypt) that will get you a million angry emails no matter what you do.

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