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New comment by MisterPea in "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"

MisterPea — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:43:39 +0000

This is a double edged sword for me, I've dabbled with the Antigravity CLI and it is better but I got a lot of LLM use out of google's chaotic decentralized quotas.

gemini-cli had it's own quota, antigravity had it's own quota, and ai studio had it's own free tier quota and I managed to make use of all of them super cheaply.

Now they're finally unifying everything and cutting down, which is less of a cognitive load to keep track of quotas but also fewer benefits

New comment by MisterPea in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

MisterPea — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:38:09 +0000

I exclusively use gemini models and this has been my experience.

I mitigate it by creating dense planning docs for everything and executing iteratively.

Lot's of time wasted on procedure unfortunately

New comment by MisterPea in "Meta targets May 20 for first wave of layoffs; additional cuts later in 2026"

MisterPea — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:44:31 +0000

Big side effect of these layoffs is that new talent is reluctant to join, even for more pay.

Stability is going to come at a large non-monetary premium these days

New comment by MisterPea in "Claude Design"

MisterPea — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:25:42 +0000

Stitch has been very good for me to prototype some designs, and the exporting design feature is great.

But jeez, is it buggy, slow and unintuitive at times.

Complete shift in google's old engineering culture of high quality - they seem to be shipping quickly in favor of stability

New comment by MisterPea in "FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale"

MisterPea — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:07:38 +0000

The amount of RAM needed for this is crazy to think about. And then there's Youtube...

Silver lining of current RAM prices is that it changes the cost-benefit analysis of improving underlying software which (hopefully) gets implemented in open source.

New comment by MisterPea in "Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels"

MisterPea — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:22:01 +0000

thank you, will have to check this out

New comment by MisterPea in "Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels"

MisterPea — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:21:52 +0000

Interesting, my levels have always been chronically low and I feel no effects from daily 5000IU

New comment by MisterPea in "Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels"

MisterPea — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:59:47 +0000

I tried a 1000 IU vitamin D pills to no avail. Bumped it up to 5000 IU and still saw very marginal bumps in my blood tests

I think I might try daily 10000IU after showing my doctor how little it's moving the needle for me

New comment by MisterPea in "Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol"

MisterPea — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:24:56 +0000

Not really, this is just effectively a new supply side platform for advertisers. Retail companies will just allocate a percentage of their marketing budget to OAI instead of Google/Meta

New comment by MisterPea in "Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO"

MisterPea — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:04:59 +0000

I am still surprised many people trust him. The board's (justified) decision to fire him was so awfully executed that it lead to him having even more slack

New comment by MisterPea in "Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05"

MisterPea — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:25:15 +0000

I've heard it's only on mobile? I was using gemini for work on desktop for at least 6 hours yesterday (definitely over 100 back and forths) for work and did not get hit with any rate limits

Either way, Google's transparency with this is very poor - I saw the limits from a VP's tweet

New comment by MisterPea in "Google AI Ultra"

MisterPea — Tue, 20 May 2025 23:49:20 +0000

I'm afraid they're going to lower the limits once Ultra is available. I use Gemini Pro everyday for at least 2 hours but never hit the limit

New comment by MisterPea in "Google’s two-year frenzy to catch up with OpenAI"

MisterPea — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:08:26 +0000

They're in a tough spot where the CEO does just enough to stay, but they need someone better.

They lagged in AI, but the new Gemini 2.5 Pro is incredible. They built an incredible tool in NotebookLM but failed to market it

New comment by MisterPea in "Open source AI is the path forward"

MisterPea — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 17:00:24 +0000

That's a separate problem which affects small to large players alike (e.g. ScarJo).

Small companies interests are aligned with Meta as they are now on an equal footing with large incumbent players. They can now compete with a similarly sized team at a big tech company instead of that team + dozens of AI scientists

New comment by MisterPea in "Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles"

MisterPea — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:30:47 +0000

Vegas is the best destination for business conferences, but yes I agree with your point.

The line connecting NorCal to SoCal is so much more productive that any other line being prioritized is crazy to me.

New comment by MisterPea in "Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles"

MisterPea — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:24:30 +0000

Trucking - lots of agriculture and other transport shipped through 99

New comment by MisterPea in "Leaving LinkedIn"

MisterPea — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 17:29:33 +0000

Every engineer of a company of this size says the same exact thing.

IMO more about growth of the engineering teams that lead to any specific culture deteriorating.

New comment by MisterPea in "Leaving LinkedIn"

MisterPea — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 17:24:55 +0000

Just for another perspective, I've worked at a few companies including LinkedIn as a backend developer and I think LinkedIn is probably around 70-80th percentile in code quality.

There was significant emphasis on code quality at least on the team I was on, and an ever improving culture.

I did work on one voyager task though and I remember it being a nightmare

New comment by MisterPea in "Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey"

MisterPea — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 19:17:27 +0000

Cook's best trait is being reactive very well. What he lacks in the Jobs "magic", he has in the ability to react to industry incredibly well and do better than most.

I have little doubt Apple is going to be a major player in AI, especially in the non-Nvidia hardware space after playing around with MLX

New comment by MisterPea in "Bad stuff going down at the American Sociological Association"

MisterPea — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:59:18 +0000

> Public funding ought to equal public results. Both to the claims, the paper, the raw data and the peer reviews.

One of my biggest gripes with academia. More and more are universities and those who run it act like private corporations than non-profit research institutions