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New comment by beering in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

beering — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:04:29 +0000

You make it sound as if Codex is for people who know what they want and Claude Code is for people who don’t know what they’re doing.

New comment by beering in "'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused"

beering — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:55:45 +0000

This is not true because many older AI disciplines were not machine learning. A lot of work was put into tree search, logic programming, etc that we don’t count as ML. Older NLP work had little or no machine learning either.

New comment by beering in "Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation"

beering — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:11:49 +0000

That’s wild. Are you at a university that bans using the OpenAI APIs directly?

New comment by beering in "Greg Brockman interview [video]"

beering — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

The OpenAI non-profit is now one of the biggest non-profits in dollar-denominated assets. If the goal was to make the non-profit really big and well-funded then that seems on track. But not clear to me what it would do to advance its mission.

New comment by beering in "Italy moves to Airbus A330 tankers"

beering — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:45:20 +0000

Come on, you can’t say you can’t be bothered to read the document and also double down on your interpretation of it in the same breath.

New comment by beering in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

beering — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:38:10 +0000

Yeah, the move to take in only white refugees from SA was a clear message to their voter base that it’s about race. They could have chosen not to do that and have some plausible deniability, but they wanted to make that point very publicly.

New comment by beering in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

beering — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:30:36 +0000

Sure, it’s temporary. But what if you’ve been working in the US for a while, like your job, and want to go permanent? Does it make sense to have to give up your job, move back home where there may not be a US consulate, and then apply from there? Or just apply for permanent residency? Why does your physical location matter if you’re in the country legally already?

If the intention was to limit the number of people becoming permanent residents, then they could have done that explicitly. But by doing it this way, they are just fucking with people. And the talent that built our tech will take all their knowledge and skills back to their home country.

If the intention is to strengthen other countries by stopping their brain drain, then this would be a good move.

New comment by beering in "Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son"

beering — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:34:49 +0000

I suggest your LLM radar is a bit out of tune.

New comment by beering in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

beering — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:29:52 +0000

It doesn’t matter how good the harness is if the model does a bad job of planning and continuing from long context. A good harness cannot overcome a weak model.

New comment by beering in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

beering — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:28:43 +0000

Isn’t the implication there that Uber works because the drivers shoulder more costs and make less money, but Waymo won’t work because they have to shoulder all the costs?

New comment by beering in "AI-assisted engineers are burning out, is this fine?"

beering — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:34:40 +0000

Charming praise for Anthropic’s low rate limits. It’s a selling point over codex I hadn’t thought of.

New comment by beering in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

beering — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:14:18 +0000

It’s a false equivalence to say that intellectual property is property. Taking your car deprives you of your car. Taking your idea lets civilization advance.

New comment by beering in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

beering — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:23:10 +0000

A lot of the space outside of the convex hull is just untried things. You can brute-force trying random things and checking the result and eventually learn something new. With a better heuristic, you can make better guesses and learn new things much more efficiently. There’s no reason to believe that kind of guess-and-check is outside of the reach of LLMs, or that most of our new discoveries are not found the same way.

New comment by beering in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

beering — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:16:02 +0000

I’m very confused as to what you are asking here. Do you think OpenAI does not serve ChatGPT to EU users already under EU law?

New comment by beering in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

beering — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:12:55 +0000

Yeah, I think we can all agree that personal computers were a mistake.

New comment by beering in "Bear spray is exploding in the trash near Yellowstone National Park"

beering — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:11:04 +0000

Seems rather wasteful for tourists to buy a can of bear spray, carry it around for a week, then throw it away. But sad that coming up with some kind of system to hand it off to the next tourist is hard? Otherwise everyone would use the rentals and there wouldn’t be so many in the trash.

New comment by beering in "Elevated error rates on Opus 4.7"

beering — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:18:35 +0000

with Anthropic you’re giving money to Elon Musk. Seems like a pick-your-billionaire world we’re in now

New comment by beering in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"

beering — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:57:54 +0000

I think this is a thing, maybe need to upgrade your codex cli.

New comment by beering in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"

beering — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:57:02 +0000

Codex Cloud has been in the chatgpt app for quite some time now. If you click out of the new dialogs then you can access your cloud threads

New comment by beering in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"

beering — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:51:14 +0000

Can’t you just turn off training on your data in the settings?