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New comment by CookieCrisp in "How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving"

CookieCrisp — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:04:55 +0000

I’m not worried about becoming like them, and I have never once seen complaining about them or calling them out work positively for the person doing it. But, I’ve found acting confused and asking them for more detailed information has helped.

New comment by CookieCrisp in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

CookieCrisp — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:24:53 +0000

Hear hear! It took me a bit but I've reached the point where I'm enjoying just "growing". I think we grew up in a world that molded us to compete, and to judge ourselves based on others, but I think with AI we're going to reach a point where our hobbies are going to be just seeing what we can accomplish for ourselves.

New comment by CookieCrisp in "Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things"

CookieCrisp — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:16:28 +0000

10 minutes of AI doesn’t ruin someone from programming or solving fractions either, it just lowers the ability short term. Likely not by making someone dumber but instead impacting motivation. Give someone a calculator and then take it away and you would get a similar result

New comment by CookieCrisp in "Reasons to Dislike AI Coding"

CookieCrisp — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:02:56 +0000

They’re looking for reassurance to avoid fear. The same way we all do when we see that someone has been in a freak auto accident, we try and find some way to tell ourselves “oh, that wouldn’t happen to me”

New comment by CookieCrisp in "FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks"

CookieCrisp — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:57:45 +0000

I spent three months in another country where I didn’t apeak the language very well. Hard not to see life’s brutal realities from that position

New comment by CookieCrisp in "Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art"

CookieCrisp — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:59:27 +0000

He did alright, he might have been right 20 years ago too

New comment by CookieCrisp in "FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks"

CookieCrisp — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:04:14 +0000

I was incredibly more naive and idealistic 2 years ago. Seeing the world more accurately than I did before has been quite the shock

New comment by CookieCrisp in "Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs"

CookieCrisp — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:23:28 +0000

I just will never understand how you all can have your head so deep in the sand.

New comment by CookieCrisp in "Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs"

CookieCrisp — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:42:16 +0000

LLM's are already transformative. I get thinking it isn't going to solve all the world problems, but, companies throughout the entire world are already using it at enormous numbers. Transformative means it changes the world, it already has. It does not mean it changes your life.

New comment by CookieCrisp in "Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?"

CookieCrisp — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:28:12 +0000

Indeed, I’ve heard so many people misunderstand it because of this type of wording. Like there is still some plan and series of steps we’re following - which really misses the whole point and why it’s worth knowing in the first place

New comment by CookieCrisp in "Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?"

CookieCrisp — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:24:23 +0000

What did people do 500 years ago?

New comment by CookieCrisp in "I don't want to read what you didn't write"

CookieCrisp — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:33:35 +0000

That’s like, just your opinion man.

I disagree, but I think neither of us are going to benefit from continuing this discussion.

New comment by CookieCrisp in "I don't want to read what you didn't write"

CookieCrisp — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:52:03 +0000

I think there are a lot of situations unaccounted for here

- people writing in a non native language

- people insecure in their writing

- people not used to writing in industry terms

- people with the curse of knowledge that are aware that they can’t write for a general audience well

Surely others too. None of those mean you have to read it, but I have gotten immense value from reading some things people have had ai write (and I’ve seen a ton of junk as well)

New comment by CookieCrisp in "Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August"

CookieCrisp — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 02:27:25 +0000

Nah, I used $1500 in api prices last week, after caching (8900 ignoring caching) for what amounts to $50 a week. They’re nowhere near api prices yet

New comment by CookieCrisp in "Xiaomi MiMo v2.6"

CookieCrisp — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:27:34 +0000

The US is meeting with China to discuss the threat of AI… May be fine but, i’m wary

New comment by CookieCrisp in "Saving another 100TB of RAM"

CookieCrisp — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 03:22:30 +0000

And yet the world still turned

New comment by CookieCrisp in "Iranian banks' SSL certificates are being revoked due to OFAC sanctions"

CookieCrisp — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:44:44 +0000

Hahaha, that’s a good joke

New comment by CookieCrisp in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

CookieCrisp — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 23:41:00 +0000

Classic example of victim blaming. Not the company generating the ad, not the company approving it, but the person who is trying to block it, and then ACTUALLY did stop using Adsense.

New comment by CookieCrisp in "Feeling Sad about AI"

CookieCrisp — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:47:31 +0000

One of my early programming jobs was bringing a print newspaper to the web. I was actually going through some of my emails from that time yesterday, which brought back a lot of memories. I was largely despised by most of the staff. Some told me the internet was a fad, others assumed I thought I was better than them. The editor kept insecurely saying “I know you think I’m a dinosaur and don’t want to hear what I have to say but…” the thing is… I didn’t think they were dinosaurs at all. I had enormous respect for them (it’s why I applied!), I knew the internet was inevitable and wanted to salvage as much as I could of what I loved.

The internet did change their industry and the world. Many of them did lose their jobs. That is what technology does. Efficiencies mean someone somewhere is no longer needed. That was hard for me to accept for a long time, but if you have programmed professionally long enough you have almost definitely indirectly contributed to some job loss. (And new jobs as well! But… to the people who do lose their jobs, there is little comfort in that)

I think what is worth keeping in mind though is 1) wishing something away wont make it so, so it is best to do your best to avoid putting your head in the sand, and 2) while many many people will be completely uprooted (sometimes in miserable ways) that is not at all a statement about them. The journalists of before were and are still incredible people, the brick layers too. Us doing work that wasn’t automatable before did not make us better than them, or even more creative than them.

New comment by CookieCrisp in "Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue"

CookieCrisp — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:39:03 +0000

No, but it makes sense to me that we’d need to go through this step to get where we want to go