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by echelon 7mo ago
> I get it. LLMs are cool technology. I don't think many of you have legitimately tried Claude Code, or maybe you're holding it wrong. I'm getting 10x the work done. I'm operating at all layers of the stack with a spe
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by echelon 7mo ago
Or the uno reverse - that's what the anti-AI crowd is experiencing in their inability to adjust to the coming reality. You're just going to have to make peace. I don't know how y'all can cope with being angry at progress
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by echelon 7mo ago
CogVideoX continues to be an academic powerhouse model. So many papers built on this little thing.
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by echelon 7mo ago
> I forgive you for your lapse in judgement. I "don't forgive you" for considering this a lapse in judgment, because you still have some things to learn. (I'm kidding of course. All of this framing is rather silly.) b
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by echelon 7mo ago
> I think we are talking about different timespans. I am talking about change in the world after decades of something like that happening. How those Senior Engineers will know how good software looks like if they would never write it the
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by echelon 7mo ago
Germany and the EU will probably kowtow to the US if the DMCA requests or lawsuits are brought by big enough players. Big money interests rub shoulders with US politicians, US politicians deal with their overseas counterparts. Therefore, bi
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by echelon 7mo ago
Naysayers need to realize that very soon humanity will have a permanent presence on the moon. One that will outlive us all. That's beyond exciting.
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by echelon 7mo ago
> Reaffirming our commitment to child safety "We tried to build an even deeper panopticon to enslave you. Drats, you and your Democratic process. We thought we'd pulled the wool over your eyes claiming it was for the kids. We&#
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by echelon 7mo ago
This totally misses the point several ways. It's not software. It's the fact that distribution is owned and taxed by outsized players that live as gods and control the experience for the rest of us. You might not care about Google
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by echelon 7mo ago
Billions of years of evolution and we increasingly understand what the genome does. And that's about as random as it gets. I think we'll be fine. This feels more like Y2K panic than grounded in truth. Senior software engineers gui
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by echelon 7mo ago
Without data, this is just a bunk excuse to defend the walled garden practices. With data, it's an engineering target. They could just 429 badly behaved clients.
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by echelon 7mo ago
Products don't live because they're good. They live because they provide value for a short amount of time. Nothing lives forever. The life of a product is short and over in the blink of an eye. They're playing this game optim
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by echelon 7mo ago
A world where hyperscalers don't dictate the technology choices of 99.99% of people and totally control distribution. A world where platform taxes and gatekeeping don't stifle innovation or put a ceiling on startups. A world where
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by echelon 7mo ago
And given the related front page HN post a few days ago, the whole idea for the post might just be one giant Open Claw automation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553798 Edit: opened the post, yep.
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by echelon 7mo ago
LinkedIn's whole business model is gatekeeping their database. They're scanning your extensions to make sure you aren't using third party tools to scrape LinkedIn. It's stupid, but they're trying to stop people from
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by echelon 7mo ago
I'm not interested in adopting an inferior closed source weight from a geopolitical rival. The open source weights argument was the one thing China had going and that I was seriously cheering them on for. They could have been our savio
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by echelon 7mo ago
> We are at least 1 year and at most 2 years until they surpass closed models for everyday tasks that can be done locally to save spending on tokens. Until they pass what closed models today can do. By that time, closed models will be 4
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by echelon 7mo ago
Why is pessimism, virtue signalling, doomerism, etc. so prevalent on the internet these days? It wasn't always this way, was it? Am I misremembering "the golden years"? Is it the failing economy? The K-shaped economy? The pol
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by echelon 7mo ago
Historically successful. Draging a bunch of PHP files onto an FTP client is harder than modern dev practices. If you've got a modern frontend of any kind, you're already beyond this.
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by echelon 7mo ago
Matt got upset because they forked his open source project and built a hundred million dollar revenue business on top of it without contributing anything back to WordPress. He'd have more of a leg to stand on if WordPress wasn't i
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by echelon 7mo ago
You can't stop it. This is just progress. All software that isn't delivered over client/server to thin clients is now subject to being trivially cloned.
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by echelon 7mo ago
> Yes definitely compare it multiple times to WordPress and nobody will think of calling their lawyers. It's not illegal to make product comparisons. That's just competition.
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by echelon 7mo ago
All PHP is going to be replaced with single binary Rust apps. Talented teams will build the atoms for most apps - blogs, CMSes, ticket systems, forums - and it'll be easy for end users to configure. Rust is easy to code gen and deploy
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by echelon 7mo ago
> difficulty of generalizing chamfers/fillets. There's a reason that basically all FOSS CAD packages have struggled with it. Could you decompile CAD, run it through an LLM, and call it a day?
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by echelon 7mo ago
The only exciting leak would be the Opus weights themselves.
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by echelon 7mo ago
What's special about Claude Code? Isn't Opus the real magic? Surely there's nothing here of value compared to the weights except for UX and orchestration? Couldn't this have just been decompiled anyhow?
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by echelon 7mo ago
"Approach Sonnet"... So not even close to Opus, then? These are a year behind, if not more. And they're probably clunky to use.
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by echelon 7mo ago
The Stripe horror stories are adding up, making me think startups will move to different platforms. A friend in China recently got shut down by Stripe for a perfectly legitimate business. They moved to Creem. Stripe cares about big business
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by echelon 7mo ago
That would be fantastic. I think even being the Lakitu camera in Mario 64 would work. And you're right, it would kick ass for strategy, sim, and sports games. I wonder if folks have tried building the movement and camera before the mai
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by echelon 7mo ago
I like VR and immersion in theory. I like being able to look around, but I absolutely hate the movement controls. I know some people complain of motion sickness, but that doesn't bother me. I just want controls like Mario or Zelda on a

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