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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Regarding the stochastic parrots: It is easy to see that LLMs exclusively parrot by asking them about current political topics [1], because they cannot plagiarize settled history from Wikipedia and Britannica. But of course there also is th
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Conflict of interest and disclosure posts are frequently downvoted.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
They are very advanced stochastic parrots that allow AI invested authors to suddenly write in perfect English. If Antirez has never gotten an LLM to perform an absolutely embarrassing mistake, he must be very lucky or we should stop listeni
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Vibe coding is sufficient for job hoppers who never finish anything and leave when the last 20% have to be figured out. Much easier to promote oneself as an expert and leave the hard parts to other people.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
We learn that before 2023 EUV lithography was worthless. "AI" is the only reason why China would want this technology! EDIT: Given the dramatic downvotes, I repent: China will use these EUV machines to build AI sharks with lasers
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
They found one React bug and spend pages on "frontier" "cyber" nonsense. They make these truly marvelous models only available to "vetted" "security professionals". I can imagine what the vetting look
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
I don't see the problem with fentanyl given that people have been using caffeine forever.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
The report is from cortex.io, based on only 50 self-selected responses from "engineering leaders" as well as from idpcon.com, hosted by cortex . All websites involved are vibe coded garbage that use 100% CPU in Firefox.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
I know who Kent Beck is and I'm not impressed by Agile and Extreme Programming. What I did not know and what the Wikipedia page revealed is that he worked for a YCombinator company. Thus the downvotes.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
No, that wasn't the question.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
So? His bio is literally one latest fad after the other. Now he joins the "AI" fad, what a surprise.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
How would a person who describes himself as a "full time content producer" know what is actually going on in the industry? https://substack.com/@kentbeck What software projects is he actively working on?
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Oracle's $10B Michigan data centre in limbo after Blue Owl funding talks stall(ft.com)
3 points by bgwalter 10mo ago|3 comments
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Open source has three main purposes, in decreasing order of importance: 1) Ensuring that there is no malicious code and enabling you to build it yourself. 2) Making modifications for yourself (Stallman's printer is the famous example
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
I think the decision of SQLite to keep its large test suite private is very wise in the presence of thieves.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
No it won't. People who aren't interested in writing specifications now won't be interested later as well. They want to hit the randomization button on their favorite "AI" jukebox. If anyone does write a specificati
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Sounds like DOGE, a resounding success!
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
He plans to IPO SpaceX and xAI, so this space data center fantasy benefits both: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musks-net-worth-hits-600-2022... He is a walking billboard.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
I have no idea what this Grok assisted article is trying to say. But the data-center-in-space hype is irrational. It hand-waves cooling and bit flip errors. It does not explain why we need chat bots in space (we don't need them on ea
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
The author teaches workshops for "AI" development. Next commercial please.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
The Misanthropic mafia is going through old comments to downvote when you criticize their IP stealing organization.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Thanks, Claude.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
It's a Misanthropic propaganda forum. They even have Claude agree in the summary of the bot comments: "The overwhelming consensus in this thread is that OP's fear is justified and Opus represents a terrifying leap in capabili
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Who is declaring the compatibility percentage? Given that GNU coreutils is GPL and Rust Coreutils is MIT, they must implement clean room development practices.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
They cannot write my code [1] and a photocopier also "wins" a philosophical discussion if you put Hegel snippets on it. [1] They steal it though to produce bad imitations.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
This gushing article omits the fact that multiple OpenAI researchers were on record saying that they were surprised by the early success of "AI". Of course the development was incremental, slow and unspectacular to insiders. After
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Because you have Cloudflare (MITM 1), Openrouter (MITM 2) and finally the "AI" provider who can all read, store, analyze and resell your queries. EDIT: Thanks for downvoting what is literally one of the most important reasons fo
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/2025/Q4/purdue-unveils-compr... "all as informed by evolving workforce and employer needs" “At the same time, it’s absolutely imperative that a requirement like this

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