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New comment by 2ndorderthought in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

2ndorderthought — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:23:01 +0000

Is that on a single 3090? I need to change my settings it sounds like

New comment by 2ndorderthought in "Docker images are hundreds of MB; a full game engine compiles to 35MB WASM"

2ndorderthought — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:17:58 +0000

It's more or less an abomination. Dropping the frameworks and js jazz you could have most of the features of either of these sites served in the kb range. It would save millions of dollars in electricity, billions in infrastructure, and be more secure.

New comment by 2ndorderthought in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

2ndorderthought — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:12:27 +0000

I've seen it on here even.

New comment by 2ndorderthought in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

2ndorderthought — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:11:10 +0000

Yes that strong. Its only lacking in context length, but it's not that small there and it gets caught in circles more often then say a 1t parameter model does.

That's why a lot of people have been freaking out about local LLMs since april. There's finally a decent model that runs locally on a GPU or two that can do agentic programming at a reasonable enough tokens per second.

New comment by 2ndorderthought in "Unitree GD01: China's $537k rideable transformer robot is now in production"

2ndorderthought — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:08:12 +0000

I could see some applications for it. But they are selling it as a mode of transportation?

New comment by 2ndorderthought in "AI data center project sucked 29M gallons of water"

2ndorderthought — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:59:10 +0000

By whether or not it is disrupting other users access to the resource like what happened in the article? By how much it effects our very finite water table. Things like that sound reasonable to me

New comment by 2ndorderthought in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

2ndorderthought — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:28:11 +0000

Why use zig when you can use odin?

New comment by 2ndorderthought in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

2ndorderthought — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:23:27 +0000

Qwen3.6 27b is a really strong model.

New comment by 2ndorderthought in "GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills"

2ndorderthought — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:58:27 +0000

You see we socialize the losses and capitalize the profits. Works great for everyone

New comment by 2ndorderthought in "GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills"

2ndorderthought — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:50:23 +0000

Management literally doesn't realize that you can't exactly vibe code a serious project? Maybe they just don't care and it's an experiment. Super low risk I guess, depending on the city they might pay the floor cleaner more than that.

New comment by 2ndorderthought in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

2ndorderthought — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:47:54 +0000

It's an important touch point for other code owners. I guess if no one is looking at the code anymore why even do an AI code review. It's kind of theatrical?

I seriously don't know how people are working like this now. I'm on my ass looking for work and in the last month it feels like everyone has completely lost their minds.

New comment by 2ndorderthought in "GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills"

2ndorderthought — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:45:09 +0000

It's out there. Maybe it's not serious but it is kind of a weird thing to post on multiple job boards.

New comment by 2ndorderthought in "GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills"

2ndorderthought — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:43:16 +0000

All these luddites out here. The cats out of the bag. Get with the program. Give the AI nukes already.

New comment by 2ndorderthought in "GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills"

2ndorderthought — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:03:37 +0000

Yea it's vibe/agentic coding. That's what about half of the current jobs are right now. It's really sad. Saw a vibe coder job today, 20bucks an hour

New comment by 2ndorderthought in "GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills"

2ndorderthought — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:02:04 +0000

Laid off ai workers are cheaper. I saw a job posting for a vibe coder, 20 bucks an hour.

New comment by 2ndorderthought in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

2ndorderthought — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:44:42 +0000

It looks like they are switching to ai only code review. It will go to shit for sure lol

New comment by 2ndorderthought in "Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw"

2ndorderthought — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:40:59 +0000

If they tried to lock down local models more people would use them. They would also have to take down a few us companies in the process who would go down fighting for certain.

New comment by 2ndorderthought in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

2ndorderthought — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:37:45 +0000

Believe it or not I am only 27 days old.

New comment by 2ndorderthought in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

2ndorderthought — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:19:31 +0000

Basically "screw any part about employees working together do what I say fast". What a shame. I love the AI bros who think utopia is coming, 4 day work weeks, etc. more like "get screwed, work more, for less, in worse environments".

New comment by 2ndorderthought in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

2ndorderthought — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:21:10 +0000

Completely agree. I would even shift the 18months up a bit. I have been impressed with qwen3.6