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by bionhoward 1y ago
The point is it’s sucking your data into some amorphous big brother dataset without explicitly asking you if you want that to happen first. Opt out AI features are generally rude, trashy, low-class, money grubbing data grabs
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by bionhoward 1y ago
Rust for everything, I could explain but it would get rude
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by bionhoward 1y ago
Rust feels easy for me, could it be we’re just used to what we use more? Anyway, it’s all pretty easy, what’s the use arguing which of multiple easy things is easiest?
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by bionhoward 1y ago
Wouldn’t a breakpoint or log message require the code to compile and run in order to work?
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by bionhoward 1y ago
Doesn’t compare, because Cursor has a privacy mode. Why would anyone want to pay OpenAI or Anthropic to train their bots on your business codebase? You know where that leads? Unemployment!
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by bionhoward 1y ago
Meh, what’s the point if it’s got no privacy, which companies want to let OpenAI read your codebase? Cursor keeps winning because of privacy mode IMHO, there is no level of capability which outweighs privacy mode
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by bionhoward 1y ago
That time to first token is impressive, it seems like it responds immediately
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by bionhoward 1y ago
Is this a “bullshit injection?”
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by bionhoward 1y ago
Is this really surprising given how VC funded capitalism works? Spend money to build amazing technology and gain market share, then eventually flip into extraction mode. Yes, a pullback will kill some weaker companies, but not the ones with
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by bionhoward 1y ago
What about Amazon’s work in formal verification research and Apple’s machine learning research? [1] https://www.amazon.science/tag/formal-verification [2] https://machinelearning.apple.com/research
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by bionhoward 1y ago
Can’t GitHub just stick to its core business instead of rushing into AI slop? The growth of vibe coding absolutely already benefits GitHub if they maintain the core business. If they fuck up the core business rushing into AI, then aren’t th
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by bionhoward 1y ago
gRPC might be great tech but it’s not accessible enough to have caught on. Those in charge didn’t do enough to make it widely usable by everyone. MCP started from an accessibility direction, which is why it’s catching on. Headaches are inev
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by bionhoward 1y ago
Cursor has a privacy mode with zero data retention and no training
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by bionhoward 1y ago
AI studio has humans reading all your work tho, that’s not acceptable for many use cases
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by bionhoward 1y ago
gemini app is really funny because they ship ridiculously complicated features like this before fixing the basic ability to have a chat history with apps activity turned off Imagine the meetings where they decide to add personal illustrated
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by bionhoward 1y ago
Anthropic goes hard on the virtue signalling but I still don’t get how anyone manages to satisfy “Customer may not and must not attempt to (a) access the Services to build a competing product or service” So I just avoid it and generally thi
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by bionhoward 1y ago
This is great, My 2 cents since I see a Boolean: what if that setting were an enum every operator started with AiMode::Off so we can consciously opt-in, plus then Zed could have more AI Mode levels besides just on or off? Maybe there could
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by bionhoward 1y ago
Yesterday I wasted a few cursor max requests on Gemini 2.5 Pro because it couldn’t wrap its mind around the fact that I was modifying a nested folder (./workspace/crate existed, and I told it to modify that, it kept modifying none
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by bionhoward 1y ago
Could a Mistral acquisition signal Apple realizes open source AI is a major selling proposition for their premium hardware? Seems like it could be a good thing if Mistral “rubs off” on Apple
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by bionhoward 1y ago
does claude code have a privacy mode with zero data retention?
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by bionhoward 1y ago
What makes you say Google is explicit about the fact they have humans and AIs reading everything? It’s got a confusing multi-layer hierarchy of different privacy policies which hide what’s happening to folks’ conversations behind vague lang
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by bionhoward 1y ago
is sending your whole codebase to xAI a good idea?
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by bionhoward 1y ago
Citations! Perplexity does the best job with references. Also labs seems superior to artifacts / canvas because it incorporates research in advance of building apps, enabling it to gather data for the app and check docs
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by bionhoward 1y ago
It’s absurdly dumb, agreed
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by bionhoward 1y ago
it reads, “competing products or services” — not “training competing AI models” with their outputs Also, who the fuck wants a codebase they can’t train models on
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by bionhoward 1y ago
That’s what everyone acts like the ToS forbids, but the language of the ToS as written is much more (infinitely) broad
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by bionhoward 1y ago
Given the Anthropic legal terms forbid competing with them, what are we actually allowed to do with this? Seems confusing what is allowed. No machine learning work? That would compete. No writing stuff I would train AI on. Except I own the
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by bionhoward 1y ago
This is a cool concept, but for comparison, I can’t help but wish there was more comparison between the treatment group and a control group that doesn’t see any universal pretraining data. It’s good to compare various model sizes and evalua
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by bionhoward 1y ago
If moving faster is a most, then open source AI could move faster than closed AI by not needing to be paranoid about privacy and welcoming external contributions
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by bionhoward 1y ago
FYI, there’s a correctness issue in the part about correctness contracts: valid_opts = ['A', 'B', 'C'] if v not in valid_sizes: valid_sizes is undefined

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