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by overgard 3mo ago
> 'Libre Office' did not 'win'. I think France and other parts of the EU are switching over to it. Although that's probably more due to Microsoft's aggressive behavior recently. Agree on the cost thing gener
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by overgard 3mo ago
That seems hypothetically possible, but kind of hard to do? I don't know a lot about training, but it seems like they wouldn't have exact control of the data that goes in at that scale (scraping the internet) so it seems like it w
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by overgard 3mo ago
> The default system prompt is opinionated (fine) but it has shit opinions (not fine). It took me a while to figure out why my agent kept saying “Use ABSOLUTELY NO COMMENTS” when dispatching subagents. GAH!!! So that's why its been
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by overgard 3mo ago
I do think open-weights models are going to "win" in the sense that they're probably going to be dominant when the hardware to run them becomes affordable. (which might be a while). Although I guess you could probably rent th
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by overgard 3mo ago
This isn't quite true: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB10922 The clearest part from the page: > Before the proliferation of generative AI, U.S. courts did not extend copyright protection to various nonh
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by overgard 3mo ago
So, code is not the only data they potentially have access to, and it might not even be the most interesting data. There's also whatever other things you plug the AI into: slack, email, internal documentation, etc. Also, a lot of peopl
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by overgard 3mo ago
I keep thinking about the Figma thing. If you're unaware, here's the google summary: ---- The Board Departure: Mike Krieger, Anthropic’s CPO and a co-founder of Instagram, sat on Figma’s board of directors. He resigned on April 14
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by overgard 3mo ago
I agree with his overall point, but I would point out: realism is not usually the point, the point is to look good. The problem with realism is once you get past "wow the computer can do that now", it's not very interesting -
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by overgard 3mo ago
Woof, I thought you might be exaggerating but I priced it out and you're right, it's actually way over $8000 now. I hate how the AI industry is making everything more expensive for everyone.
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by overgard 3mo ago
Also, offer a paid course
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by overgard 3mo ago
Massive business success? I don't know the financials since they're not published, but google says the acquisition cost low hundreds of millions. So they could throw away the code and rewrite it.
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by overgard 3mo ago
Oh good, the vibe coded prompt injection vector that casually accesses things in my home directory without permission is running on a vibe coded prerelease runtime using lots unsafe rust. What could go wrong?
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by overgard 3mo ago
I've been using Qwen 3.6 27B with LMStudio, and I was pleasantly surprised with it, although it was a little slow. I found mtplx last night, and it really wasn't an exaggeration to say that it ran the model 2-3x faster which was s
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by overgard 3mo ago
I think the main use case for AI bros is to setup a goofy looking dashboard, name it Jarvis to cosplay being Tony stark, and display stats for all the generated videos they're posting to social media. (I wish I was joking)
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by overgard 3mo ago
Experienced in what dimension? I've been using these tools for about a year and coding for 20+ years, and frankly these long horizon tasks are the OPPOSITE of what I want. I want quick iteration cycles so that it doesn't spend a l
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by overgard 3mo ago
They also randomly changed how copy-paste works in a way that made it really annoying to copy text. Vibe-coders pumping out features: this is the reaction you're going to get if you inflict this on your users! Nobody wants software tha
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by overgard 3mo ago
But don't you know that coding is solved? Only dinosaurs want to make their own decisions now! </s>
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by overgard 3mo ago
One of the things I'm baffled about with Claude code is it seems like it setup a really chunky VM on my computer, and yet by default it doesn't seem to sandbox anything. Also the newer models seem really aggressive about modifying
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by overgard 3mo ago
My feeling is that LLMs are an interesting technology. I don't feel currently threatened by them, and they're handy in the hands of people that can use them with discipline. However, I think the people controlling and creating the
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by overgard 3mo ago
Yeah, I think a lot of what web tech makes possible/standard in a UI is actually frequently things that add a lot of complexity with little actual value. Animations, a widget that looks different from the thousands of other widgets you
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by overgard 3mo ago
I don't think this analogy holds. I'll give you an example of why. One of my skills is graphics programming. A decade ago, a huge part of my job was writing special effect shaders for videogames -- kind of as a technical artist (a
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by overgard 3mo ago
Forming prompts is not a noteworthy skill. This is just a PM fantasy.
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by overgard 3mo ago
Such a bizarre train of thought. There's nothing inevitable about this future. Most people HATE what's being proposed. Why wouldn't you fight against something this shitty? These things cost hundreds of millions of dollars to
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by overgard 3mo ago
That's my understanding. I knew a guy that went through that, and basically they tried to treat it with opiate protocols and it didn't really work, and you have these overworked nurses that unfortunately just don't really kno
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by overgard 3mo ago
I don't think it's the technology they're threatened by, it's that it's weaponized against them. I know a lot of people in the game industry for example, and this is already an industry run by very greedy people wit
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by overgard 3mo ago
I don't know, the thing about most text slop is how little effort goes into disguising it (for now, anyway). I'm sure anyone dedicated can go undetected, but it's the really low-effort stuff that's generally the problem.
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by overgard 3mo ago
Compile times are a really underrated thing. My #1 gripe with C++ is waiting 10 minutes on a build, it absolutely kills flow.
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by overgard 3mo ago
I'd love it if marketplaces just banned AI books entirely. I see zero value in it. If I want AI text I can just go to AI it and it'll print out a books worth of text anyway; if I'm searching for a book I want something writte
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by overgard 3mo ago
That is an insane amount of code for something like this!
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by overgard 3mo ago
I think for something like this, creativity is actually a detriment. You're not going to win an award for an extra-special video, you don't really want to draw attention away from the couple towards your clever editing you know?

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