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New comment by benfortuna in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"

benfortuna — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:59:34 +0000

At this point models are advancing way faster than we can figure out how to use them effectively. So having a generational advantage is not nearly as important as knowing how to use that advantage.

New comment by benfortuna in "Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says"

benfortuna — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:38:02 +0000

Even cutting back on meat can have an impact. Halving quantities in cooking etc. really is hardly noticeable.

New comment by benfortuna in "Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says"

benfortuna — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:29:08 +0000

> We can build resilience to the effects

Oh yeah, would love to see the resilience that would have prevented the Nepalese disaster

New comment by benfortuna in "GPU World"

benfortuna — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:03:05 +0000

>I am still learning how to use it

I find it interesting that we are still talking in terms of modifying our behaviour to accommodate the tools. Surely the point of LLMs is not to "learn how to use it" but as an extension of our own unique capabilities - the most personalised tool in all of history.

New comment by benfortuna in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

benfortuna — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:13:33 +0000

That just sounds like greed. It's not enough to be winning, I need to be winning as much if not more than everyone else.

New comment by benfortuna in "I spent twenty years becoming good at the wrong game"

benfortuna — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:29:49 +0000

Academia is not a waste of time just because it doesn't translate into "productivity" and wealth. Some people enjoy the pursuit of knowledge, and find great meaning in it.

Increasingly the arts are being defunded based on a similar argument, and humanity as a whole is worse off because of it.

New comment by benfortuna in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

benfortuna — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:35:57 +0000

Everything is opinion. A shared reality is just where opinions coincide.

New comment by benfortuna in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

benfortuna — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:39:19 +0000

> [..] developers that simultaneously care deeply about the craft of software development and really empathize with the customer. I do believe they might want to see a professional about a split personality disorder [..]

lol, I hope most coders are not this jaded.

New comment by benfortuna in "LLMs reward expertise"

benfortuna — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:44:41 +0000

Speaking of flexing..

New comment by benfortuna in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

benfortuna — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:48:44 +0000

I think it's fair to say that AI amplifies our abilities, but it needs to be in the hands of people that know what they are doing.

If developers are producing garbage to begin with, chances are they still produce garbage just at an accelerated rate.

New comment by benfortuna in "A retrospective of my time on the internet"

benfortuna — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:57:24 +0000

Isn't that a bit elistist to say everything changed when more people joined? The point is not the consumers of the Internet but the producers are what changed it - primarily with advertising and walled gardens.

New comment by benfortuna in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

benfortuna — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:59:16 +0000

The real answer is you should never build your business on ANY specific model. As usual avoid lock-in and switch when you need to.

New comment by benfortuna in "The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup"

benfortuna — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:49:45 +0000

It's a commodity in the same way that making music is a commodity (i.e. using production tools to make it sound good). But music today is so much more generic and boring than it used to be.

New comment by benfortuna in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

benfortuna — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:52:15 +0000

Requiring parents to police their child's every move is not going to end well.

New comment by benfortuna in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

benfortuna — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:51:00 +0000

Who is this "they" you speak of?

We have age verification for all kinds of things that can harm minors. Most of them have adequate penalties for breach such that operators of said harms ensure they comply (checks for ID when selling alcohol, entry to over-18s pubs/clubs, etc.)

There's nothing sinister going on here, just attempts to prevent social/mental harm to minors.

New comment by benfortuna in "Malaysia enforces ban on social media accounts for children younger than 16"

benfortuna — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:06:41 +0000

an age ban for meat would be interesting.. :-) all the rest have them so why not social media which clearly does harm to minors.

New comment by benfortuna in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

benfortuna — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:45:17 +0000

httpd

New comment by benfortuna in "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"

benfortuna — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:03:32 +0000

I think that's a lack of gravity. According to wikipedia antigravity is in fact impossible (under known laws of physics).

New comment by benfortuna in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"

benfortuna — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:16:47 +0000

You can make your own touch id pad if so inclined.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzB6m2VTxAg

New comment by benfortuna in "Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices?"

benfortuna — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:27:39 +0000

Why arbitrarily invent new meanings (for microservices) and new words (microlibraries) when there are already many adequate ways to describe modular, componentized architecures?

A totally valid and important point but it has been diluted by talking about microservices rather than importance of modular architectures for agent-based coding.