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New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Please don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:14:03 +0000

I use flash 3.5 a lot. Its significantly worse than gpt 5.5.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "ChatGPT Work"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:53:40 +0000

Always was better IMO. I just pinned the browser app as a desktop app and have been using it that way for many months. Works great.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:36:58 +0000

I don't know that we can have nice things. If two companies produce a similar widget but one is higher quality in no visible or articulable way... Which one will sell better, the cheaper or more expensive one? What if we as consumers can't really definitely tell when one is prone to failing in 1 year instead of 5? It takes too long to find out and by then the more expensive one is underselling and forced to enshittify.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:31:55 +0000

I don't think it can give you story beats you shouldn't be aware of yet. Those beats wouldn't be fed into the prompt until the event happens. LLM can't spit out what it doesn't know.

It might indeed fail to reveal something it should but even that i think is unlikely if the harness steers it hard enough.

I think it could be fun. If you're always given 4 choices of what you can ask the NPC then your choices can be too obvious. If its open ended then you have to think a little what to say and ask.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:16:36 +0000

I frequently steer the AI mid convo though. So much so that I find it useless to share the original prompt. I don't know how best to capture that.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Lenovo saying RAM prices may never go back to how they were"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:12:13 +0000

We need like 3x the RAM to get the same value you were before.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "AI's Affordability Crisis"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:13:58 +0000

How could Trump ban tiktok then? And Fable for that matter.

Maybe you're somehow legally allowed to distribute and download the weights, but most of us can't run GLM 5.2 at home.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:34:46 +0000

Yes, absolutely. I use the largest interval any time I can get away with it!

Every Jan 2 I start saying "last year" and every Dec I say "see you next year"

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:41:43 +0000

What year is it? If you're running a barebones server, just use certbot. It'll automatically renew your certs. Very easy to set up and it's been stable for years without touching it.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:35:30 +0000

New rule: when emailing someone, you need to include their name. If you do that, the email delivery gods will correct typos in your email address.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:31:56 +0000

I thought the same for a long time but now i don't know. If your computer is compromised, they can exfiltrate your password, but with a hardware key they can't, so i think that's legitimately more secure than password+otp. It still needs a pin though to protect against device theft. I bring this up because there's been a ton of compromised developer packages recently and windows itself is being attacked so even if you're pretty good about protecting yourself, you still might get screwed.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Exif Smuggling (2025)"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:20:46 +0000

ComfyUI embeds workflows in the EXIF data. It's very handy. Would be a little sad if they stripped that out but there are alternatives. I suppose if it's only cached images and not manually downloaded images it wouldn't be bad. It'd probably break some website somehow though.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Claude Fable 5"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:10:41 +0000

The only reason I still read the output at my day job is because I still need to send it to another human for review, and I'd be embarrassed and ashamed if I let some slop through. For my hobby projects.. there are definitely parts I don't know how they work.

Maybe we need some form of long-term training. How long does the code that the AI wrote stick around before being rewritten.

I guess we can do this retroactively too if we could somehow tag AI-written lines of code in the VCS, then in a couple years we can check which parts lasted.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Claude Fable 5"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:01:13 +0000

Might need some additional prompting? I haven't tried fable but gpt 5.5 and gemini 3.5 flash are... Ok on first pass but if you're specific about what you want they can usually get it.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "GitHub Copilot App"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:30:46 +0000

Doesn't lock you out at all. Codex already had a companion app for mobile so you can send prompts to your desktop app while you go about your business. The infrastructure is there. Server might move from your desktop to cloud at some point but not much changes. Still needs somewhere to run.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:33:12 +0000

Could be. I've been using most of the technologies you listed for over 20 years so none of that is really hard for me anymore.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:48:22 +0000

I work in big tech but dabbled in games. Games are much harder. Lots of math and you have to process 8 million pixels in 16 milliseconds, in addition to running your physics and NPC AIs. Big tech is 90% CRUD and 90% squabbling over variable names and we somehow think pushing a bit of HTML in 500ms is both hard and acceptable performance.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "You can just say it"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:38:53 +0000

I was going to say... Sometimes I load up my context with a ton of data. The output is shorter than the input.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:10:21 +0000

Then we should create LMGPTTFY, then it's at least apparent and the recipient needn't click.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:18:58 +0000

Is it called "trio" state because 3 of the 5 states are not supported?

I also like how True is -1. Beautiful all around!