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by overgard 4mo ago
I've been seeing a lot of drama around price increases in games, but I just don't find it to be that bad. I mean, 25 years ago a new game cost $50, and now that huge open worlds are common and the playtime can be in the hundreds o
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by overgard 4mo ago
That's not my experience at all, my doctor's have prescribed plenty of things off label. No special waivers.
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by overgard 4mo ago
I feel the comment about brevity. One of the things that annoys me the most using LLMs is I'll ask it a simple question and get like 2000 words back, or I give it a gentle correction and somehow it takes my one sentence clarification a
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by overgard 4mo ago
Curious what model you're using that works well on a 16GB card? I very much want to use my 5080 for inference, but everything I've tried so far has either just not been good enough or painfully slow.
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by overgard 4mo ago
> AI is better at this than you. You just won't admit it. And it's going to get 10,000x better than you in just a short while. It's just not though. Plagiarizing some shit it stole off github does not make it intelligent.
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by overgard 4mo ago
I think a better analogy should be: should you take a job writing a Star Wars movie if you're not a fan of Star Wars? (or sub in: Star Trek, or Dr. Who, or any other recent nerd property that's been kind of ruined by people who do
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by overgard 4mo ago
You know what? Gate keeping can be a good thing. Some gates exist for a good reason. I think "are you actually interested in doing this?" is a very reasonable gate. I'm not saying all coding needs to be a passion project, obv
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by overgard 4mo ago
Isn't coding solved and we should all be out of a job by now according to Dario? Or what about AI 2027 -- we're only 6 months away! Time to build a bunker!! LLMs themselves aren't snake oil, they're just a useful technol
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by overgard 4mo ago
In my personal experience, I wouldn't bother with 16GB cards for coding -- the useful models are _slightly_ too large to work at any reasonable speed
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by overgard 4mo ago
Having a second card doesn't really work well for gaming.
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by overgard 4mo ago
Assuming the $100/m claude subscription is still around in three years.
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by overgard 4mo ago
I haven't yet, but I just bought a 128GB M5 Max 40 core which I'm hoping can do it (if not, it's a good laptop regardless, I actually need that amount of RAM for non-LLM stuff)
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by overgard 4mo ago
This sounds useful, but isn't this the problem that ipv6 is supposed to solve with 128bit addresses? (I'm not really familiar with why IPv6 never really seemed to take off -- does NAT block incoming IPv6 traffic? (I guess that&#x2
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by overgard 4mo ago
I don't think being nerdy makes someone virtuous, that's true. However, I think SV of 20-40 years ago had a distinct culture (best symbolized by Woz) that's basically been lost to the MBA-types and the hustle culture bros. So
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by overgard 4mo ago
The real problem during the pandemic is most of the stimulus money went to the already wealthy. Higher cost of living is because we keep printing money, that money goes to banks, and inflation ends up being an implicit tax on the poor who a
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by overgard 4mo ago
Yes, heavily.
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by overgard 4mo ago
Here's a fun exercise, go look at the current tech billionaires and tell me which guys (it's basically all guys) you're super stoked about having a billion dollars because they're using it to do so much good for the worl
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by overgard 4mo ago
There's probably a lot more PHP code to regurgitate, while I'm guessing a lot of Swift apps are proprietary. That's the problem.. they aren't coding from principles, they're pattern matching their training data
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by overgard 4mo ago
Who are these imaginary people going to websites and just being like "I'm not spending $10 on this!! I'll just clone it with $500 worth of tokens!"
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by overgard 4mo ago
Well, they're selling a non-essential commodity in a highly competitive industry with about zero lock in or customer loyalty, using the standard VC playbook of "capture the market then worry about costs". I don't see spa
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by overgard 4mo ago
From what I've heard, personas give a greater chance that the LLM will answer confidently.. and also a greater chance it'll hallucinate something when the data is sparse. Supposedly "grounding" the personas on real docum
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by overgard 4mo ago
I don't think we're going to be "dependent", because I can't really think of anyone that "needs" this stuff (well, unless you're like attempting to build a business off skills you don't have). I
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by overgard 4mo ago
I said "cost", not "cost me". I use `ccusage` to track what my unsubsidized token spend would be since I'm sure these subscriptions won't stick around forever and I want to have a realistic idea of what these t
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by overgard 4mo ago
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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by overgard 4mo ago
It was made available in my subscription so I tested it out. I'm glad I tested it in a subscription, since I'd be pretty irritated if I had spent that amount of money accidentally in API usage. I guess what I've learned is wh
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by overgard 4mo ago
Well, in the brief window that I got to test Fable 5, my brief review is: somehow an (already specced!) minor feature in my 150k loc codebase ended up costing.. $153! For like, an hour or two worth of work and maybe 8 or 9 requests overall.
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by overgard 4mo ago
I'd have to see the implementation in the editor to really know if I'd want it or not, but my initial impression is that I don't think it's something I would use. I've worked on a couple of products with in-editor c
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by overgard 4mo ago
When I use these models, I honestly can't tell much of a difference between any of the frontier ones. Admittedly I'm not sitting around benchmarking them during the hype cycles, but as a coder I have zero issues switching to whate
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by overgard 4mo ago
You should probably be more pessimistic about Meta. Look at their last major venture, the Metaverse, which was basically embarassing. Their AI strategy is incoherent.
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by overgard 4mo ago
I just looked at ccusage for a personal project. In 5 days (doing it as a hobby) I've managed to spend $250 in API tokens on a $200 subscription. 5 days, and thats on one computer (I split time using 3 of them). If I had to pay $2000 a

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