xantronix

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by xantronix 6mo ago
> On the other hand, I’m not sure how much design will still matter once AI agents are the primary users of the web. When the surface dwellers have become crazed by disease and war, and their lands contaminated with the detritus of broke
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by xantronix 6mo ago
I'm with the author here; I don't really feel like dealing with people's PRs on my personal projects. The fact that GitHub only implemented a feature to disable PRs in February is absolutely baffling to me, but I'm glad
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by xantronix 6mo ago
He does provide adult content on his site, to be perfectly fair.
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by xantronix 6mo ago
idk how impactful that is, you can't really live in a house made of shit bought from Temu
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by xantronix 6mo ago
I was really fucking hoping we weren't at the part where "cloud terminals" doesn't seem farfetched and paranoid and yet here we are. Jesus Christ.
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by xantronix 6mo ago
The thing with LLMs is that it is very, very easy to adjust the weights across the entire model to sway responses one way or another. Previously, in the hypothetical case one wanted to rewrite history, it would be a much more involved ende
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by xantronix 6mo ago
I reread your comment and I think you might be sincere. To address this point: > If you're not seeing these same successes, I legitimately think you're using it wrong. I'm not sure how you could say that, considering I&#x
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by xantronix 6mo ago
Please explain, I'd like to have a productive dialogue about this. I assume you are referring to my boss?
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by xantronix 6mo ago
Thanks friend. I really appreciate that. This is genuinely hard right now.
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by xantronix 6mo ago
Is this pace necessary? I feel like this is causing people to consider code to be disposable, and I think that both are a massive mistake.
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by xantronix 6mo ago
Believe me, it is very dysfunctional. As I've mentioned to your first replyer, my boss has only had developers for less than a year. This is an operations team I was assigned to in order to provide them some much needed tooling. The
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by xantronix 6mo ago
Beg pardon? I've been doing this for 20 years. My boss has been a boss for two years and has only had developer headcount for less than a year. This degree of pressure is unprecedented in my career.
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by xantronix 6mo ago
I don't want to get too much into the details but I don't work in or for the Valley and I don't think I'll ever be able to afford that sort of expenditure on computing. A down payment on a car, or a vital medical proced
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by xantronix 6mo ago
I'm definitely all in on self-hosting, though I rent my compute and pay for bandwidth with Linode and storage with rsync.net. The LLM bit though, personally, is just not for me.
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by xantronix 6mo ago
> stupid amounts for takeout Aw hell. You found my vice and my own cognitive dissonance here. If I want to truly stand by my convictions, I should probably cook more and log off. Waiting for signs that the tides are turning and that p
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by xantronix 6mo ago
Mind if I use this as a copypasta for the future? This checks off every point people bring on LinkedIn and elsewhere. In all seriousness though, writing code, or even sitting down and properly architecting things, have never been bottlenec
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by xantronix 6mo ago
I meant to reply days ago, but, if I were to hazard a guess: • Tom Scott's brand is Tom Scott the Creative Vision, and Tom Scott the "It's Ready When It's Ready". Sacrificing either would drive away the audience. •
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by xantronix 6mo ago
As much as people on Hacker News complain about subscription models for productivity and creativity suites, the open arms embrace of subscription development tools (services, really) which seek to offload the very act itself makes me wonder
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by xantronix 6mo ago
I'm glad you've posted this comment because I strongly feel more people need to see sentiment, and push back against what many above want to become the new norm. I see capitulation and compliance in advance, and it makes me sad.
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by xantronix 7mo ago
I don't think Tom would ever do that. From firsthand accounts from people I know who know Tom, that would be extremely out of character and not consistent with their moral compass.
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by xantronix 7mo ago
Amen brother, this one will be for me and all my homies.
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by xantronix 7mo ago
I guess I could just curl up into fetal position and watch the world go by. But that's no fun. Why not dream big and shoot for the moon with kooky goals like, say, having an underground, community-supported internet where things are
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by xantronix 7mo ago
Thank you so much again for introducing me to this. The closest thing I was aware of, or at least most aligned with my interests previously was permacomputing, and maybe CollapseOS; the community aspect is really cool and something I'
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by xantronix 7mo ago
This is a very normal thing to be the top comment on an article on how to use Claude Code.
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by xantronix 7mo ago
...I love this. You have made my day, thank you.
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by xantronix 7mo ago
Constraints are beautiful.
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by xantronix 7mo ago
We're not anthropomorphising LLMs themselves as the bogeymen here. They are simply the spear tip held by the locus of power. If we do not have conceivable means to produce models of our own accord, for our own usage, do we really hav
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by xantronix 7mo ago
> If you have a project you would have open-sourced, and you don't do that for fear that the LLM god will steal it, what's the point of building it at all? To prove to myself that I can, and to solve problems in a way I enjoy.
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by xantronix 7mo ago
I have been mulling this over and I think I have some solutions in mind, at least for myself. • No more sharing my project work as open source. No more open discussion. I don't care how badly I want to show the world; if I'd lik
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by xantronix 7mo ago
I think misleading claims should be headed off with strong consumer protections. The predatory entrants in this industry should be shut down, leaving the others who do make expensive gear but actually put effort into proper engineering rig

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