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by bwfan123 2mo ago
> Please hire more McKinsey consultants who say they’re AI experts You have to recognize that a vast majority of enterprises fall in the category of "Dumb IT". To them, IT is a cost-center and overhead as their main line of bus
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by bwfan123 2mo ago
> At some point mimicking a thing becomes the thing. You can have a long conversation with AI about pain and suffering, but you have felt it and AI hasnt. The difference is that, for us humans, words are grounded by something other than
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by bwfan123 2mo ago
> expert C++ programmers as what they imagine a good C++ will look like Mojo looks nice but with coding agents the landscape has shifted at least in my view. There is no need for DSLs and abstractions that reduce human cognitive load. So
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by bwfan123 2mo ago
> The AI bubble is just waiting for the first player to scream mercy and cut capex as they simply can’t afford to throw more cash on the burning pile. That will be the trigger that implodes this bubble Deepseek v4 and Kimi k3 have tighte
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by bwfan123 2mo ago
> Cyberpunk dystopia vibes right. Abstractions taken to the max. When tech solves problems that only 0.001% care about. NFT smelt similar.
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by bwfan123 2mo ago
> CLAUDE.md is mostly powerless against the reinforcement learned crap. When you dont know the cause, you dont have a fix. Thats the biggest issue i have with all of AI is that we dont know how it works, and yet we think it will be great
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by bwfan123 2mo ago
AI is just another tool in the arsenal of tools for both developers (Linus [1]) and movie makers (Ben Affleck [2]). These are expert practitioners in their fields intelligently opining on AI, and they are promoting it not as a magic machine
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by bwfan123 2mo ago
"The question is whether letting it sit higher is a difference in degree or in kind, and we don't think it's in kind" I was scratching my head reading it. The cognitive load was high with cryptic sentences like the above
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by bwfan123 2mo ago
From the tweet: > Still not sure what that means, but some analytic number theorists seem excited ie, I prompted AI and it put out a giant pile of tokens. I dont know what it means, but I hope someone gets excited. Mathematicians are now
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by bwfan123 2mo ago
> overzealous peddlers and hacks They are the marketing wing of the AI ecosystem. Their recent article on how SpaceX would drive 500B in data-center revenue was ludicrous-mode. Lets revisit this in a few years.
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by bwfan123 2mo ago
> Jarred prompted Claude to try again, and it spent a day and a half coordinating about 60 Claude subagents, which this time went much deeper: between them, they ran 2,400 shell commands and wrote hundreds of Python scripts.1 If there is
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by bwfan123 2mo ago
Next step: Burn the weights of these local models into an asic that ships cheap on a laptop (AMD/taalas looking at you), and I will be a happy camper. Make it pluggable so I can select a model I want. I use qwen3.5-coder currently on m
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by bwfan123 2mo ago
> It even comes pre-quantized and with a MTP/drafter model Glad to see the extra engineering effort that went into creating this local model and making it run well on a consumer device. I use qwen3.5-coder, and am waiting to kick th
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by bwfan123 2mo ago
Just tested muse-glimmer:30b-mlx on my laptop. Works great although a bit slow.
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by bwfan123 2mo ago
> no matter how “intelligent” AI becomes, intelligence is often not the main bottleneck to things changing in the real world A mathematician Terrence Tao said something similar in a recent talk [1]. That, intelligence is bottlenecked by
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by bwfan123 2mo ago
> entertain a thought without accepting it Entertaining an idea is understanding it. And, there is some research to show that understanding an idea is believing it. Hence, understanding an idea and not believing it is very effortful. [1]
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by bwfan123 2mo ago
If you are in a hole, dig deeper.
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by bwfan123 2mo ago
I am curious if there has been work to remove experts from an open-weights model. The goal would be to reduce the size to be able to run on desktop GPUs without compromising quality. For a focused usecase - say coding, you dont need a model
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by bwfan123 2mo ago
Take a look at the code. It is a conglomeration of python, rust, go, cpp etc. I was expecting lean C or C++ but all I see is a kitchen sink of code, the AI generated kind. No problem with that, but it is inconsistent with the messaging. I
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by bwfan123 2mo ago
> Now, we all pay the consequence, to the tune of hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars of wasted productivity from teams that have to deal with the resulting fall-out of this usage of “AI”. Brandolini's principle in acti
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by bwfan123 3mo ago
> how annoying it was to try to cancel Cursor Add it to the enshittified software list.
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by bwfan123 3mo ago
> After almost every update, Cursor decides it now boots into the "Agent" view by default. You switch back to the IDE, restart the app - and you're back in the Agent view again. And the setting that controls this is moved
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by bwfan123 3mo ago
> Hacker News is no longer a web site of an elite hah, sorry, we are plebs out here.
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by bwfan123 3mo ago
Thanks for the input. Let me check it out.
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by bwfan123 3mo ago
> leveraged financial nukes inexperienced and FOMOed investors have assembled A lot of debris waiting to happen in data-center debt for sure. The next several years are going to be interesting with more of these type of blowups. This is
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by bwfan123 3mo ago
> What could possibly go wrong A barometer of the mania and one for the history books. A 23 year old wunder-kind publishes a 156 page prophesy with a catchy title which was lapped up by the silicon valley elite and funded to the tune of
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by bwfan123 3mo ago
> Are you buying from a provider that isn't listed on open router already I am using openrouter with zdr guardrail which routes to any provider that supposedly doesnt train on user data. I also use fireworks (directly, not via openr
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by bwfan123 3mo ago
> They announced it already I meant something I could download and run.
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by bwfan123 3mo ago
Deja-vu from dot-com. The tech-wreck had similar hedge-fund road-kill. Munder net-net fund comes to mind. A lot of hubris and leverage on a thesis that is not proven, and liquidity matters. Data-center debt will likely see similar debris in
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by bwfan123 3mo ago
> Undercut the US AI providers and wait them out You could have said the same of linux - that it extinguished proprietary OSs at least for server usecases.

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