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New comment by aoeusnth1 in "We replaced Node.js with Bun for 5x throughput"

aoeusnth1 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:11:33 +0000

Why is a map lookup measured in ms instead of us? Something is seriously wrong with these benchmarks.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust?"

aoeusnth1 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 04:36:43 +0000

> Wobbly assumption that increasing the size of these models yields better performance.

I'm assuming you disagree that larger models are better? Can you expand on what indicates that AI will hit a wall in scaling given the evidence of the last 9 years of scaling transformers (or other models)? Where on the plot does the line go from exponential to flat?

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

aoeusnth1 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:09:22 +0000

How would you know if it wasn't an extrapolation of current knowledge? Can you point me to somethings humans have done which isn't an extrapolation?

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

aoeusnth1 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:26:02 +0000

You could reimplement it as public domain on your machine, and then edit it by hand and copyleft your own edits.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing the GIL"

aoeusnth1 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:50:35 +0000

Citation needed? Tall tasks are standard practice to improve utilization and reduce hotspots by reducing load variance across tasks.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

aoeusnth1 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:06:56 +0000

I don't think he's misleading, I think he is valuing Claude's contributions as essentially having cracked the problem open while the humans cleaned it up into something presentable.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

aoeusnth1 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:29:51 +0000

I think your theory might be missing an extremely relevant and timely counterexample?

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

aoeusnth1 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:14:00 +0000

Unclear how much damage the designation will do to their dealmaking ability in the meantime. How long will it take for the court to reverse order?

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

aoeusnth1 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:49:20 +0000

I imagine they're also benchgooning on SVG generation

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

aoeusnth1 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:21:18 +0000

It absolutely has quasi-identity, in the sense that projecting identity on it gives better predictions about its behavior than not. Whether it has true identity is a philosophy exercise unrelated to the predictive powers of quasi-identity.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory"

aoeusnth1 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:18:42 +0000

I'm an environmentalist and I agree with this framing. The solution is going to be painful and must increase prices on products and services that fossil fuels are currently the cheapest solution for. If you're not willing to personally sacrifice anything to reduce fossil fuel consumption you can see why carbon taxes are not popular, right? France's protests against them, for example, are a good example of a populist reaction against attempts to regulate the economy to have less emissions.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

aoeusnth1 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:20:42 +0000

Amazon has 350K corporate roles, so yearly layoffs of 16K is only 5% - if you assume some modest re-hiring in lower-cost locations, this is just a relatively standard (at least lately) pivot out of high-cost US roles into other lower-cost economies.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant"

aoeusnth1 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:34:25 +0000

It's easy to miss the value in something you don't do. I do fermi estimates in my head all the time and it would be exhausting to constantly pull out my phone to calculate things, to the point that I would stop attempting it as much as I do.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos"

aoeusnth1 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:16:37 +0000

Nothing. American empire isn't yours to control - people can hate what America is doing without recommending any personal change to your involvement in it.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Why senior engineers let bad projects fail"

aoeusnth1 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:53:19 +0000

That's insane. I think about 80%+ of the projects I see attempted succeed in at least some limited fashion. Even the failures in retrospect produced some insight into the right way forward and were necessary as part of research.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

aoeusnth1 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:50:09 +0000

So changing cash flows (fee money) isn't real enough now?

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Changes to Android Open Source Project"

aoeusnth1 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 06:37:46 +0000

Cost, I assume. It’s expensive to do releases, both in CI and release operations costs.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

aoeusnth1 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 07:26:28 +0000

But not in the causal chain. The building happened because someone was willing to pay for a fungible asset. An asset is only fungible if there are buyers.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

aoeusnth1 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:34:17 +0000

I’d start by reading the comments you are replying to.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

aoeusnth1 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:47:31 +0000

The cost of free users is much lower because they are served lite models, hit quota limits quickly, and can't soak up tokens by using agents. The main capacity usage is from agent loops, which is universally behind a paid tier.