<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: basch</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=basch</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 18:00:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=basch" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by basch in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe the current implementation</p>
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<p>Or you answer to somebody else, which is how perpetually cannabilizing next quarters numbers to appease short term shareholders becomes more important than cost savings and using your labor pool time to solve actual problems.<p>Or when the sales teams bonuses are more important than the margins of the business.<p>There’s lots of reasons the “wrong work” gets pushed down and it’s not exclusively because “they aren’t listening” as much as “they are listening to someone else who matters more.”</p>
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<p>The writing is on the wall. We are headed for a world where everybody interprets everybody through a personalized model. (corporations too.)<p>Our models need to understand each other, we don't need to understand each other.  A call and response to the tower of babel. We eventually all learn to speak our own custom language known only to us. Our inner monolog moves externally, and we offload "understandability" to an external entity.</p>
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<p>It was very easy to see before this started that the models were just repetitive inflators.<p>It’s not that they should “scale back” their use as much as the metric should be improvement/tokens.  Tokens used is a denominator in any worth calculation.</p>
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<p>I remain unconvinced that hexane in the oil poses any serious risk.<p>It has such a low boiling point, it’s heated. It all evaporates out. What’s the mechanism keeping hidden undetected hexane in the product.</p>
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<p>There is also sunflower oil and high oleic sunflower oil, the latter, which after refinement is incredibly heat and shelf stable, and is essentially pure omega-9 monounsaturated fat.<p>The anti refinement process perspective is discounting that the end result is the perfect fat.<p>A similar thing can be said about hydrolyzed collagen with a little tryptophan added.</p>
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<p>>Seed oils probably aren't ideal<p>Except they are.  A refined monounsaturated fat is in the upper tier of perfect calorie.  It makes a lot of sense for omega-9's to be a major part of caloric consumption. The omega-3 and omega-6 when fresh and uncooked are also unnecessary demonized by the idea that they are immediately rancid. Like many things the problems arise from the implementation or how they are used, not the chemical itself.</p>
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<p>Buried at the end of the article is the real story. "Schlitz" hasn't existed since the early 70's. They cut costs and ruined the formula and brand. In 2008 it was "revived" and a new beer took the name. Now someone else is brewing a completely different reconstructed formula for "the last batch" and throwing the name on it, again.  And im sure itll happen again and again after that.</p>
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<p>since those headlines started ive felt it just encouraged inefficiency. "say as much as you can without saying anything." if you were accomplishing your task the need for more would end, thus there is incentive to never succeed.</p>
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<p>gpt-image-2 still has a very visible banding/artifacting, but nb2 and gpti2 each have their strengths to the point that its momentarily worth running the same prompt through both and grabbing the better result, then feeding it to the opposite model to tweak it.  both of them do a better job of not "getting stuck" regurgitating the same thing over and over when the base image comes from the opposite model. i tend to try and limit how many edits i make with gpti2 because successive iterations degrade the image much much faster.<p>huge waste of firefly credits tho.</p>
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<p>Whisk is a good example. They put out a pretty slick image manipulation tool that had infinite potential, and decided to just dump it and work on Flow instead, which while similar in features has a much more cumbersome interface.  They really dont learn what works well about something when shuttering it. Poor post mortem anaylsis.  Whisk very much could have lived on as a parallel evolution of interface over their image gen stack.  I know it was labs software, and should have been expected but man they love throwing away what works for what doesnt.</p>
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<p>Which somewhat ironically can import from github but not directly from aistudio..<p>It's a little crazy they still depend on microsoft as an intermediate between all their tools.</p>
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<p>The next version from that vendor. Or maybe the market commoditization.<p>You’re again conflating the product offerings from the capacity of the technology.  It’s like kinetic energy vs potential energy.<p>The real wait is for the cost in disk space, memory and electricity of pretraining a transformer to be something the equivalent of a raspberry pi can accomplish. Then all the style and design choices of the few current vendors goes away.</p>
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<p>People have a very strong tendency to go "current gen technology cant achieve x, therefore its impossible for this class of technology to ever achieve x"<p>Many many many of the problems with current gen ai will go away.</p>
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<p>well and where is the line between true intent vs lack of caring.  if bloat is a side effect of feature creep and project handoffs, slowing old devices is an "unintended" feature.</p>
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<p>The distortion is shockingly visible in images. Especially with any amount of generational iteration <a href="https://streamable.com/9x3s4r" rel="nofollow">https://streamable.com/9x3s4r</a><p>That said, this tool is incredibly lossy, garbling text, completely changing shapes. It also fails to remove the new gemini spark / placement that moved since yesterday.</p>
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<p>or just bloat. make no attempt that your newer versions are as optimized because newer hardware covers your inflation.</p>
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<p>I could see a kind of fun game / design tool / worldbuilding where you get a blurry world and you describe what you are seeing, and it comes into focus. The game world, mechanics, aesthetic, and playstyle build as you form your view. A sort of fog of war meets rorschach game.</p>
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<p>> If an LLM gives you an immediate, coherent answer, there's a risk you accept the framing too quickly instead of doing the harder work of questioning premises, testing alternatives and noticing what might be missing.<p>Arguably having a conversation with something so confident but random makes me more inclined to "verify before trust" instead of the usual "trust but verify." Im already very question premisy but interacting with ai 10x's that instinct. My skepticism level is higher because of temperature and seeing when I ask something multiple times I get dice roll answers.</p>
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<p>Did you look at the app? It's a todo list.  The idea of a multi gigabyte todo list  makes me uneasy.</p>
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