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New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

JustFinishedBSG — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:08:20 +0000

It's very hard those days to think of companies/people more arrogant than Anthropic/Dario, which is quite the achievement as the bar is very high.

If that arrogance was well placed at least you could somewhat excuse it, but the fact that it is so overtly hypocritical and based on false premises just makes it so much worse.

New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "Claude Opus 4.7"

JustFinishedBSG — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:25:47 +0000

Interesting, it doesn't seem intuitive at all to me.

My (wrong?) understanding was that there was a positive correlation between how "good" a tokenizer is in terms of compression and the downstream model performance. Guess not.

New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

JustFinishedBSG — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:54:32 +0000

Most of the cost (to the government) for Windows is "support" (in a very general sense) and that cost isn't disappearing with Linux.

Especially since it is easier to find badly underpaid (and not particularly competent) Windows sysadmins than it is to find badly underpaid Linux admins.

New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?"

JustFinishedBSG — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:30:03 +0000

> for the same reason math problems require one to show their working.

We don't put our transitional proofs in papers, only the final best one we have. So that analogy doesn't work.

For every proof in a paper there is probably 100 non-working / ugly sketches or just snippets of proofs that exist somewhere in a notebook or erased on a blackboard.

New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?"

JustFinishedBSG — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:26:54 +0000

> While it's noisy and complicated for humans to read through, this session info is primarily for future AI to read and use as additional input for their tasks.

Context rot is very much a thing. May still be for future agents. Dumping tens/hundreds of thousand of trash tokens into context very much worsen the performance of the agent

New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?"

JustFinishedBSG — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:23:42 +0000

I understand the idea but the way I work, a commit isn't "a" session, it's potentially tens of sessions with branching in each session.

I honestly don't know if I'm doing something very wrong or if I have a very different working style than many people, but for me "just give the prompt/session" isn't a possibility because there isn't one.

I'm probably incredibly inefficient, because even when I don't use AI it is the same, a single commit is usually many different working states / ideas / branches of things I tried and explored that have been amended / squashed.

New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "Just-bash: Bash for Agents"

JustFinishedBSG — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:52:59 +0000

What problem were you trying to solve ? ( not that you need to solve one. I’m just curious )

New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review"

JustFinishedBSG — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:57:56 +0000

https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588

New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "€5k Swiss cameras with zero electronics"

JustFinishedBSG — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:11:25 +0000

Well according to the website you cannot buy a fully mechanical lens anymore so it doesn’t appear to be true that they sell cameras with zero electronic anymore

New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs"

JustFinishedBSG — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:37:30 +0000

It's useless for LLMs and it's actually slower than Hailo 8H for standard vision tasks, so, why ?

New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

JustFinishedBSG — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:54:34 +0000

How, when foundries are a natural monopoly? How can you realistically create a startup to build a multibillion / multi year fab ?

New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

JustFinishedBSG — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:47:38 +0000

It could be 1 dollar a month, I'm still not paying to use my own ressources

New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "Mistral 3 family of models released"

JustFinishedBSG — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 10:10:25 +0000

I wouldn't trust LMArena results much. They measure user preference and users are highly skewed by style, tone etc.

You can litteraly "improve" your model on LMArena by just adding a bunch of emojis.

New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton"

JustFinishedBSG — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:42:59 +0000

There’s just no way to stop cheating client side despite what devs love to think. But server side anti cheat is much harder and requires more work; it’s much simpler to just install spyware / rootkits on the client and call it a day.

New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "The Principles of Diffusion Models"

JustFinishedBSG — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:38:11 +0000

CTRL-F: "Fokker-Planck"

> 97 matches

Ok I'll read it :)

New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "Typst 0.14"

JustFinishedBSG — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:40:31 +0000

Exactly my plan yes :)

New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "Typst 0.14"

JustFinishedBSG — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:24:45 +0000

Pandoc isn't a typesetter, it's more a translation engine between various typesetting languages (and it can then call the typesetter).

Pandoc is a ridiculously underrated and powerful tool but it solves a different problem. Someone still has to write typesetters ;)

New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "Typst 0.14"

JustFinishedBSG — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:23:38 +0000

I think I'm going to subscribe without any intention of using the app just as a "financing" donation.

I love, and hate, LaTeX and the idea of a LaTeX successor / alternative is incredibly appealing.

And the fact that they are aware that microtypography IS important and that they are working on it is a huge huge plus.

New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "Chezmoi introduces ban on LLM-generated contributions"

JustFinishedBSG — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:43:37 +0000

> Has the situation changed on AI code legally speaking?

I think the position has shifted to "let's pretend this problem doesn't exist because the AI market is too big to fail"

New comment by JustFinishedBSG in "Codex Is Live in Zed"

JustFinishedBSG — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 08:51:36 +0000

While your example is not AI related (should be handled by the LSP integration with "Rename Symbol") I agree that Zed's Next Edit Prediction model is *extremely* subpar. Imho they should either scrap it and just work on having a good integration story with third party models for the next edit (and maybe propose by default a partner model I don't know) or invest a lot more efforts into it.

But currently I sadly have to say the model's "help" is often a net negative.