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New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

NothingAboutAny — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:37:30 +0000

I mean you only need at add the stipulation that there was clear negligence or malice in your instructions to the agent. like we already do with a bunch of other crimes.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "GPT-6 Astra"

NothingAboutAny — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:44:43 +0000

yeah for me it's "I wanna add this new thing to an existing system" and the AI responds "we should just add some arbitrary state here to facilitate this feature". The real issue is the existing system needs to change entirely to facilitate, I know this, Good developers know this, The AI however knows the shitty solution would solve the immediate problem because it's been trained on shitty solutions. the problem could simply be the AI doesn't have all nebulous loose context I have about the goals of the project and future plans, but I would have to write a novel to give it that context.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Fastpotify"

NothingAboutAny — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:14:41 +0000

It truly has been one of the worst UX experiences and poorly made apps that ever made it to mainstream. I remember a decade or so ago there being a bunch of buzz about them in software dev because they were a microservice node.js/react stack or something with each UI element or portion of back-end having a separate dev team. I can vividly remember thinking "oh that's probably why when I change song sometimes the album art doesn't update." they're living proof your product doesn't even need to be that good you just need to be first to market and not really piss anyone off.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems"

NothingAboutAny — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:21:51 +0000

I think it is useful to remember, because enough people think these things have genuine motives desires and treat them in that way because of that misunderstanding. they think theres a person in there with morals that would or wouldn't lie because of some devious reason and forget simply the context filled up and the truth was "forgotten".

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems"

NothingAboutAny — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:55:24 +0000

you're still mistaking that Claude "knows" anything, it doesn't know or think, it's a word prediction algorithm and there is nothing stopping a word prediction algorithm from predicting falsehoods.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Taste Is All That's Left"

NothingAboutAny — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:54:03 +0000

I'd believe it, my spotify breaks all the time now and I seem to remember them announcing none of their devs code anymore. not 10 seconds ago I had to force close it to get it to stop playing music on my phone.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English"

NothingAboutAny — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:01:31 +0000

I tried "be concise and respond in a blunt tone" and all that did was add a section to the bottom of every response "here's the blunt concise truth <1 million bullet points>"

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

NothingAboutAny — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:18:53 +0000

I do this in Unity because allocations/GC cause hitches. it's pretty normal thing to do there's even the built in pooling libraries so you can pre-allocate 10,000 gameobjects when the game starts. I haven't played with ECS/DOTS yet but I assume it does something similar.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity"

NothingAboutAny — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:27:54 +0000

The CSIRO renewables plan factors in only 2-4 hours of battery capacity (way less, with some already built) with the rest of the backup coming from existing pumped hydro and an existing Natural Gas plant. one of the reasons nuclear looked worse in the report is that they would have to actually build a nuclear power plant. it might not make direct sense to build nuclear given what already physically exists, but apples to apples it's not quite as clear.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity"

NothingAboutAny — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:04:46 +0000

it's much much more expensive, people like to repeat the line that solar is the cheapest form of energy while hand-waving away batteries and grid upgrades required. I did the napkin math a while back but a battery bank for 10's of thousands of homes for 48 hours costed as much (more?) than just building a nuclear power plant.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

NothingAboutAny — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:08:15 +0000

For me in Game dev, codex has a habit of checking every argument for null and then silently early exiting the methods when true. I have explicit instructions for it not to do this - but it still does. I haven't done any c# outside game dev but I have no idea why people would want their programs to silently fail.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "AI children's books, body horror edition"

NothingAboutAny — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:42:56 +0000

the lack of effort has been the main thing for me since this all started. you give people a tool to do something easier and instead of doing more WITH the tool they do this instead. is anyone out there using AI to make more higher quality children's books than were possible before?

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Steam Machine launches today"

NothingAboutAny — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:50:48 +0000

there's probably ~$150 in the ram and ~$100 in the SSD alone, not to mention everything else. we gotta have data-centers though because, uh.. well, we gotta have em.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

NothingAboutAny — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:21:32 +0000

I dont understand if AI is so good at code why are people buying software? couldn't musk just generate his own IDE with the spacex brand behind it?

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

NothingAboutAny — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:06:35 +0000

I dunno if it even is because isn't that spelt trawling? just looked it up and they're both correct fishing terms sigh

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

NothingAboutAny — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:51:50 +0000

there's an Ice cream shop in my city that has obviously generated all their signage and menus and everything else, even on their website the photos section has AI generated people smiling and happy next to the sign. I get that it's a small business that has probably saved a couple of G's on design/code but it's all so sloppy and obvious.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "The dead economy theory"

NothingAboutAny — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:22:57 +0000

this time we're automating humans that can do anything that humans can do. you should be asking what happened to the horses which were replaced by the tractors. the answer is elsewhere in the thread, their pop dropped 88% or w/e, we didnt need them anymore.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "The dead economy theory"

NothingAboutAny — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:10:13 +0000

> I foresee a wave of entrepreneurship coming.

why would anyone pay anyone else for anything when they could just get an AI to do it? any service would now be worthless, there will be people with hardware and people without. 3 futures:

one where the hardware is shared.

one where it is not.

one where the first person with enough of it kills everyone else.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Can we have the day off?"

NothingAboutAny — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:21:06 +0000

I went through a big back and forth with a small startup where I initially negotiated in at 3 days a week. Eventually they said "we really need you the full 5 days" and I explained that I'm gonna do the same amount of work regardless and they could pay me 40% less by agreeing to 3 days. they still wanted me 5 days, so I took the job and just coasted those 2 days from home, they were still very happy with my performance, I ended up quitting in 6 months because I wanted my hours in the day back.

I really think management still doesn't get it.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

NothingAboutAny — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:54:09 +0000

For coding the worst I've seen recently is gemini using or suggesting library methods that dont exist in c# which it catches when it builds the project (something I've told it to do to catch these.)

but for research it makes shit up all the time, I asked GPT5.5 to make me a build for Rogue Trader and not only did it use out of date info, it made up a bunch of skills that were NEVER in the game. I attribute that to there not being enough online information in the wikis or whatever but I wish it would just say "I dont know" instead of hallucinating but I know that's not how the tech works.