overgard

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by overgard 3mo ago
I'm not involved in this community, but I watched Andrew's interview with JetBrains a few weeks ago and I was really impressed. I don't currently have a project that would benefit from zig, but it's a language I want to
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by overgard 3mo ago
Honestly I also think most vibe-coded projects are just.. kind of bad ideas. Which is fine! It's good to be able to determine an idea is bad quickly, there's value in that, but I think people ignore a really important aspect of cr
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by overgard 3mo ago
I've been using Claude since January, and whenever I run CCUsage I've been noticing the overall cost creep up pretty much every month. (I'm on a subscription so this would be the hypothetical billing if I were on API prices I
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by overgard 3mo ago
None of that changes that it's a statistical prediction machine. This isn't me speculating, it's just literally what it is. You can buy a book on how to implement one (I have one!) The fact that it solved a math problem doesn
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by overgard 3mo ago
Yeah, I've started reaching for local models more. I'll use frontier models at the current cost for tasks that the local ones aren't great at, but when the rug pull inevitably comes, to me they're not worth 1000-2000 a m
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by overgard 3mo ago
Uh, unless you're living with your well-off parents in perpetuity or you already have FU money... good luck with that. I'm pretty sure my landlord isn't going to accept "money doesn't matter anymore because of AI!&q
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by overgard 3mo ago
> My biggest gripe with AI is that I struggle to come up with even one real problem that it has solved in my daily life, and that of my family and friends. I wish I could upvote this a thousand times, because this is exactly my experienc
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by overgard 3mo ago
This whole you need to "adapt" to LLMs thing is bonkers to me, because there's practically no skill in using an LLM. It took me a weekend to learn how to use a coding harness, and the skill pretty much generalizes to all codi
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by overgard 3mo ago
I think the differentiation going forward is going to be if you're a person that understands things or if you're a person that delegates your understanding. I don't think there's going to be a lot of economic or social v
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by overgard 3mo ago
I think we're finding measures of "productivity" in almost all fields are pretty bad and AI is a great way to game them. PR's, papers, etc. We have to stop looking at volume-of-stuff as a useful metric.
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by overgard 3mo ago
LLMs are statistical prediction machines, they're always going to produce the most "average" code because they reproduce what they're trained on. Average code is bad , and it's going to get a lot worse as people&#x
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by overgard 3mo ago
I think people are making a bad assumption that features = profit, and that we're going to be trapped in a red-queen race to move in place while shipping features at an astonishing rate. I don't think this is going to happen. Befo
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by overgard 3mo ago
How many other technologies required death threats for adoption?
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by overgard 3mo ago
It reminds me of people that get upset when other people aren't drinking as much as them at a party. It's like they need other people to consume the thing because they suspect that maybe their consumption will look a little proble
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by overgard 3mo ago
Yes, I understand how copyright law works. Disagree with the judge -- googling a book summary worked just as well in the past. "It can write a book report" is not that amazing.
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by overgard 3mo ago
I think this is a flawed analogy. In the past when we had a new way of doing something that obsoleted the old way, it replaced it because it was an obvious improvement. I mean, stop motion is cool, but obviously there are limitations. The
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by overgard 3mo ago
I think their moral failures are just a bit more visible at the moment. I don't think the other companies are much better. Maybe they're more competent at not running afoul of the law. If this is the kind of thing that makes peopl
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by overgard 3mo ago
Eh, I don't think Apple is particularly ethical or anything (I very much dislike their app store policies), but if you have to choose between two devils Apple is vastly preferable because they're not after my data or my job.
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by overgard 3mo ago
I don't really know, but from what I've heard it sounded kind of like a wearable amazon echo. Because I guess reaching into your pocket for your cell phone is too big a lift? Kind of fits with OpenAI's MO of only selling thin
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by overgard 3mo ago
It's so dangerous that we need to wait at least a month to release it while building the hype non stop!
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by overgard 3mo ago
If you're using their services, you're more or less giving them their data. (Dunno if that's your situation, just saying)
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by overgard 3mo ago
Didn't Anthropic pay like $3 billion dollars or something for their IP theft? And yes, I'm going to keep calling it theft. Comparing a kid stealing a song off limewire to a company stealing the entire internet is not the same thin
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by overgard 3mo ago
I mean, Trump turns on people in an instant depending on his interests.. he's not a reliable friend. He is, also, very thin-skinned and he (probably?) knows his base is extremely against datacenters. (It's hard to ignore that poli
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by overgard 3mo ago
It sounds like a possibility, I will grant. However, I think having their dirty laundry aired at a time when they're losing enterprise customers to anthropic is going to be extremely painful. "IP theft from a competitor" is a
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by overgard 3mo ago
Not me, at this point I would be perfectly happy with a licensing board.
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by overgard 3mo ago
I'd really love to see OpenAI use ChatGPT to mount their defense. Eat your own dog food! It should be PhD level right?
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by overgard 3mo ago
I think you're incorrect here, what's being put under the microscope is not Apple, it's OpenAI and as a consequence a large swath of the AI industry. (It's the same people moving between the same companies -- probably si
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by overgard 3mo ago
Nope, OpenAI is the equivalent of a rich kid spending his parents money (they certainly aren't making it). As soon as VC dries up and the hyper scalers stop subsidizing them the bills are going to come due very quickly. https:/&#
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by overgard 3mo ago
Use local hardware if you can people! Chatbots are a luxury anyway and the local ones are catching up. You don't need the fanciest bells and whistles. Don't believe the narrative that you're "falling behind" if you&
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by overgard 3mo ago
That doesn't make any of it morally excusable. "The other guy is just as bad!" is an argument for toddlers. The reason why "the other guy is just as bad" is we've removed real consequences from these companies

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