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by overgard 5mo ago
On the other hand, it would be really good if universities stopped being gatekeepers of prestige and status. It seems like some of the biggest idiots in high visibility posts right now come from the ivy league.. I'm not sure if an ivy
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by overgard 5mo ago
I can't help but wonder if the fundamental problem is just that we spent decades pretending that a university degree was some sort of useful job training in the first place. As a professional software developer, I think my computer sci
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by overgard 5mo ago
When it comes to LLMs and frontier models, "alignment" seems more marketing than anything. The doomers are marketing LLMs by making them sound much more capable than they actually are, the accelerationists are mostly either willfu
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by overgard 6mo ago
From what I gathered from (part of) the video, it's not about the HTML, it's the copy. Basically Google is accidentally/intentionally optimizing for copy that sounds like it came from an LLM or a LinkedIn lunatics post. I&#x2
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by overgard 6mo ago
I think they're implying that they might not want to damage the "Pixel" brand.
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by overgard 6mo ago
I do that all the time with my iPhone and my windows machine, sadly. Still not a particularly compelling feature, just speaks to how sad our modern ecosystem is.
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by overgard 6mo ago
I mean, I'm sure they absolute could build it and do a great job of it, but their incentives are all aligned to having you use web apps or buying from their store. A real linux would be absolutely counterproductive to those goals.
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by overgard 6mo ago
Dunno if it's the best brand in terms of bang for your buck, but I've bought a lot of shirts from "Have it Tall" on amazon and I have zero complaints about the fit. 6'4" and a pretty average build.
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by overgard 6mo ago
I mean, same on the struggle as a tall person, but doing that kind of research is pretty easy even without AI. Just find a couple brands that fit and some shops that sell them and you're pretty much set. I buy almost all my t-shirts fr
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by overgard 6mo ago
Do. Not. Want. Please keep your security nightmare out of the OS.
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by overgard 6mo ago
I mean blanket statements are bad and you don't want to be the last company running on Java 6, but all the same, it's equally bad to be the guys using the latest javascript build pipeline that came out three months ago and is undo
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by overgard 6mo ago
Hits home for me; although a lot of times adding complexity is not about your opinion as a senior developer but rather what the business wants. I've definitely worked jobs where I helped create microservice kubernetes nightmares, and w
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by overgard 6mo ago
I think it comes down to scale (there's like 2 trillion invested so far by very large institutions) and also AI hollowing out foolish companies that decided to go "AI native" and downsize and lose institutional knowledge. Whe
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by overgard 6mo ago
C# with WinForms and Visual Studio was a decent successor for a while, but for whatever reason microsoft decided to go all in on XAML and then a bunch of other half baked frameworks. I have no idea what to even use anymore if I wanted to ma
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by overgard 6mo ago
I dunno, on a subscription one would assume that minimizing token spend would actually be in their interest. Even for API calls I'm not entirely convinced they're profitable.
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by overgard 6mo ago
I know it's going to be extremely painful, but the sooner this ridiculous unsustainable AI bubble pops the better off we'll be. The more it inflates the more collateral damage it will cause, and we're probably already looking
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by overgard 6mo ago
I can't really say I agree with this, although I also hate the phrase "agentic engineering". I'm working on a licensing system for a product I'm building. I've used Claude a little bit to help out with it, but
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by overgard 6mo ago
I guess the problem I see here is that if the use case is "things I otherwise wouldn't bother doing", that's fine, but it's pretty niche. I dunno, if you're talking about a human "Agent" (like say in
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by overgard 6mo ago
I don't really understand the argument for these things being conscious. There's no loop or feedback cycle to it. If it's not handling a request it's inert.
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by overgard 6mo ago
The reason people anthropomorphize LLM's is essentially the fault of the tech companies behind them. ChatGPT doesn't need to have the personality it has, it could easily be scaled back to simply answering questions without emoji&#
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by overgard 6mo ago
I've been thinking of things I'd want an agent for recently. The problem is, everything I think of is something that requires using quite a few different websites, saving a lot of data securely, and working with a lot of sensitive
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by overgard 6mo ago
> I disagree with the overall premise: Before the acquisition, Bun had to figure out how to monetize at some point. Incidentally, Anthropic needs to figure out how to monetize at some point too.
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by overgard 6mo ago
Can't answer for an RTX 5090, but for an RTX 5080 16GB of RAM (desktop), I get about 6 tokens/sec after some tweaking (f16->q4_0). Kind of on the borderline of usable.. probably realistically need either a 5090 with more RAM or
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by overgard 6mo ago
I don't know why you're downvoted, I think that's a reasonable use of AI and it looks pretty good. Edit: I think I misread what you were saying, but I do think it's a nice poster! I get that design is going to have to av
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by overgard 6mo ago
It's really a matter of scale. Photoshopping something takes time, and unless you're good there are ways to tell. Typing something into an AI is so much faster which means you can do it at scale, and you don't need to be skil
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by overgard 6mo ago
At this rate they're not going to need to do layoffs.. nobody sane is going to want to work there.
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by overgard 6mo ago
Well, considering that AI generated content can't be copyrighted (afaik at least), I think we're in very different legal territory when it comes to AI creating things. While it's true that deepfakes could be considered libel.
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by overgard 6mo ago
Pretty mixed feelings on this. From the page at least, the images are very good. I'd find it hard to know that they're AI. Which I think is a problem. If we had a functioning congress, I wonder if we might end up with legislation
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by overgard 6mo ago
I dunno, I have some band posters that are pretty cool pieces of art that obviously had a lot of thought put into them (pre-AI era stuff). I don't think I'd hang up an AI generated band poster, even if it was cool; I'd feel w
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by overgard 6mo ago
Honestly, it's no wonder there's a lot of pushback. We have these irresponsible CEO's talking non stop about taking peoples jobs at a time when people are struggling to make ends meet, all while taking in insane cash infusion

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