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New comment by automatic6131 in "Better Models: Worse Tools"

automatic6131 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:53:56 +0000

Humiliation-assisted prompting. it's the future.

New comment by automatic6131 in "Orbital Data Centers: Why the Hype Outpaces Reality"

automatic6131 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:45:28 +0000

Almost no one said those were impossible, just hard. This is completely different. Rather like... a train in a vacuum tube hard. Definitely harder than making a subway with autonomous trains under a modern city. And much harder than being a third rate AI lab, though Elon did hit that target perfectly.

New comment by automatic6131 in "Chip Off The Old Block"

automatic6131 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:10:38 +0000

Is it too eugenecist to hope those losers won't reconsider and stay childfree? I think it would be for the best if I didn't have to meet them at parental things.

New comment by automatic6131 in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

automatic6131 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:09:04 +0000

>because they don't try to be quite so antagonistic to us in everything they do.

Just because the many headed dragon is trying to bite your sailors' heads doesn't mean you should pilot your ship into the whirlpool

New comment by automatic6131 in "How to Earn a Billion Dollars"

automatic6131 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:19:10 +0000

You're asserting a dichotomy that doesn't exist. One can both create and extract at the same time.

That's why we're here debating, because one can create value, and one can extract value. Both statements are true and easy to argue for. The synthesis is that creating value also grants licence to extract since it's impossible (possibly even theoretically impossible) to define exactly where the line between the two is.

New comment by automatic6131 in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

automatic6131 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:48:40 +0000

"let's go the opposite way"

Do you have any popular open source projects? Or are you just an Internet gremlin?

New comment by automatic6131 in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

automatic6131 — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:47:47 +0000

If inference was profitable - they'd tell us. Msft, goog, public companies. They'd break out the numbers and show us, if they were good.

But instead, all we get is known liars going on podcasts and repeating "stylized facts" that aren't literally true about their supposed profitability on inference, from companies losing billions per year in a situation where they don't have to tell the truth.

That is VERY far from a convincing argument that they are profitable. So I can & will safely conclude that the opposite is true.

New comment by automatic6131 in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

automatic6131 — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:25:59 +0000

It will end slowly, and then very suddenly.

The demand for AI simply doesn't exist at the real prices. It barely exists at the current subsidized rates - Microsoft, Google, Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI are spending hundreds of billions to make mere billions.

And then these data centers will be worthless, future ones won't get built, memory demand will evaporate on the spot.

New comment by automatic6131 in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

automatic6131 — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:07:18 +0000

"You asked a simple question. They lobbed a document."

Oh look, another blog post that should have been a comment. No slop blogs either, loser.

New comment by automatic6131 in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

automatic6131 — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:16:35 +0000

Will it be a WeWork moment? I hope so, I want some comedy gold (I cannot afford the mineral kind).

New comment by automatic6131 in "Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late"

automatic6131 — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:20:23 +0000

I just realized what the "AI summarize" feature is for. This kinda turd. I'd never wanted to use it, because either I wanted the joy of reading whatever it was - or needed the details in full because it's documentation. Now, finally, a use. Manmade horrors of daily life.

New comment by automatic6131 in "Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late"

automatic6131 — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:41:49 +0000

This article is written atrociously. It's geniunely unpleasant to read the basement tier slop like this. It doesn't matter if it has a salient point because this article could have been a comment.

New comment by automatic6131 in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

automatic6131 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:33:38 +0000

> Why do they think they are "helping" with hallucinated rubbish that can't even build?

Because they can't tell the difference between what the machine is outputting, and what people have built. All they see is the superficial resemblance (long lines of incomprehensbile code) and the reward that the people writing the code have got, and want that reward too.

New comment by automatic6131 in "Hear your agent suffer through your code"

automatic6131 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:28:00 +0000

We could have the roblox oof but then there'd be the possibility of giving (a certain) amateur world backgammon championship participant money

New comment by automatic6131 in "Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects"

automatic6131 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:06:29 +0000

No actually it's the worst case

New comment by automatic6131 in "AI Perfected Chess. Humans Made It Unpredictable Again"

automatic6131 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:47:11 +0000

I think I'm just salty (and overfitting) that my cousin studied one opening to a stupid depth and beat me ~10 games in a row with it

New comment by automatic6131 in "AI Perfected Chess. Humans Made It Unpredictable Again"

automatic6131 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:49:08 +0000

Define "average" and "very good" - it's quite easy to become good enough to beat all your friends and family (as long as you haven't made friends at the chess club or chess competitions). But if you want to do your best at the local chess competition held in a school hall at the weekend against all kinds of people, from little kids to pensioners, then yeah, you're going to need to spend lots of time studying openings, learning end game theory, and solving chess puzzles.

New comment by automatic6131 in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

automatic6131 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:30:42 +0000

> mapped capslock + J K L I

This is such a good idea that it makes other peoples machines nearly useless for you

All credit to https://tonsky.me/blog/cursor-keys/

New comment by automatic6131 in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

automatic6131 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:48:17 +0000

>All that has to happen is for people to stop reproducing

And if they don't?...

New comment by automatic6131 in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

automatic6131 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:53:00 +0000

There is definitely value in that, but that value is outweighed - dominated, even - by the incentive produced to fix outcomes, incentivized by that money put on the line.