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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.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "The bottleneck was never the code"

NothingAboutAny — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:47:23 +0000

I've had seniors tell me my entire career that writing code was the easiest part of their jobs.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Codex for almost everything"

NothingAboutAny — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:12:49 +0000

I feel the same way, the AI browsers and the Agentic team of agents stuff I just really dont understand why I would want it. I use AI every day but theres always a clear separation, as in I'm using it to get an output I want, not getting it to use things for me. It screws up the output maybe 30% of the time, so why would I risk it actually being able to do things and touch stuff I care about.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

NothingAboutAny — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:28:04 +0000

yes but if a dev pushes a line of code that wipes the accounts of millions of users at a fintech, the dev will get fired but the CEO will get sued into oblivion. if the agent isn't responsible, you HAVE to be, cause angry people wont listen to "it's no ones fault your money is gone"

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

NothingAboutAny — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:29:27 +0000

yeah for me even with other people, the amount of times you think "it would be easier for me to just show you" is maybe 30% of interactions with agents currently.

perplexity keeps trying to get me to use "computer" and for the life of me I can't think of anything I'd actually do with it.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project"

NothingAboutAny — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:21:12 +0000

A thing to remember is that bisphenols are everywhere, products/coatings/dyes/chemical processing, it's everywhere in the production and logistics of everything. I understand this concern with headphones specifically (heat + moisture + contact), but the stuff is in your clothes, your cooking utensils, your food packaging, the farm that grew your food, the feed troughs the cows eat out of etc.

with rigorous avoidance you can hope to reduce the amount in your body by like ~50% apparently but you can't get rid of it all because it's everywhere. unless you live off grid self-sustained and grow your own vegetables and have no plastic in your environment. so im not sure how much of a concern this study is or not.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Vibecoding #2"

NothingAboutAny — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:32:45 +0000

>Has everyone started using agents and paying $200 subscriptions?

If anything in my small circle the promise is waning a bit, in that even the best models on the planet are still kinda shitty for big project work. I work as a game dev and have found agents to only be mildly useful to do more of what I've already laid out, I only pay for the $100 annual plan with jetbrains and that's plenty. I haven't worked at a big business in a while, but my ex-coworkers are basically the same. a friend only uses chat now because the agents were "entirely useless" for what he was doing.

I'm sure someone is getting use out of them making the 10 billionth node.js express API, but not anyone I know.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

NothingAboutAny — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:54:57 +0000

I have extensions for the sites that need them and everything else is fine? occasionally I guess there'll be something in another language I want translated but I just copy paste the text into google translate or similar. what sites out there are so unusable you'd need an LLM to fix them for use?

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

NothingAboutAny — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:48:00 +0000

I'd pay $10 a month for a browser, I pay that much for music and TV shows and I spend more time in a browser. I'm sure the market doesn't agree with me but I pay more for things that are less useful.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

NothingAboutAny — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:43:00 +0000

man not a single one of those examples sounds like something I'd need, or even need an AI agent to do. I keep seeing the ads for AI browsers and the only thing I can think about is the complete and utter lack of a use case, and your post only solidifies that further. not that I'm disagreeing with you per se, I'm sure some people have a workflow they can't automate easily and they need a more complicated and expensive puppateer.js to do it. I just dont know what the heck I'd use it for.

New comment by NothingAboutAny in "Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model"

NothingAboutAny — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:22:29 +0000

I saw similar discussions around robotics, people saying "why are they making the robots humanoid? couldn't they be a more efficient shape" and it comes back to the same thing where if you want the tool to be adopted then it has to fit in a human-centric world no matter how inefficient that is. high performance applications are still always custom designed and streamlined, but mass adoption requires it to fit us not us to fit it.