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New comment by bentt in "Nvidia is the central bank of AI"

bentt — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:41:24 +0000

AMD and Intel would be HAPPY to replace them, and plenty capable.

Game consoles like PS5 have been AMD for a few generations. Steamdeck/Steam Machine are AMD.

But really, Nvidia has no reason to leave gaming behind. They can just start dialing back their ambition on the gaming side and providing GPUs that aren't too useful for inference or training. All gaming needs is stability so that devs can aim for something. Games looked great 20 years ago and they'll look great 20 years from now, as long as developers know what they are building for.

New comment by bentt in "Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds"

bentt — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 02:24:59 +0000

very cool! Can we get a link to a not terrible website with real information?

New comment by bentt in "Creativity is the new moat"

bentt — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:32:04 +0000

I like this angle. You also need enough technical ability to know what is now possible. People are very used to being limited by technology and by the limited resources of human implementation. Getting un-used to that is a new form of creativity which should be fostered. This should in turn lead to more ideas being tried, more iteration on those ideas.

It's going to make for a lot of stuff, and a lot lot lot of it will be slop. It might be too exhausting to wade through. So there will be generative creativity to produce that mountain of new stuff, but then there's editorial capacity (taste?) that will be able to choose the meaningful results which should get further resources and development.

Both of these will be needed!

New comment by bentt in "Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract"

bentt — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:52:20 +0000

In creative fields, unions can produce great things but only when the people move freely and independently (see SAG, SWG) of the companies. It becomes more project based.

I’d prefer to see a “Video Game Artists Guild” than a Blizzard wide union.

New comment by bentt in "iPhone Duo"

bentt — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:09:03 +0000

I like the idea, but I really want iPhone Nano.

New comment by bentt in "Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract"

bentt — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:05:06 +0000

This is probably the beginning of the end for Blizzard as an identifiable company. MSFT will just absorb WoW, Overwatch, and Diablo and spin up new internal studios to support them rather than have their feet held to the fire by a union. They did it with Halo. Of course, it produced garbage, but that never stopped Microsoft.

New comment by bentt in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

bentt — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:11:53 +0000

Meta’s strategy is to know you better than you know yourself. Then they will make you forget yourself. Then they will make you pay.

New comment by bentt in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

bentt — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:30:08 +0000

I'd rather throw my computer in the dumpster than let Meta install something like this on it.

New comment by bentt in "I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer"

bentt — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:39:24 +0000

I am deeply curious if there are people that would not benefit from this.

New comment by bentt in "A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found"

bentt — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:07:12 +0000

Is this what all those Flock cameras are for?

New comment by bentt in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

bentt — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:04:34 +0000

> before AI agents existed, projects with this level of data and depth might've needed to be monetized in order to justify the resources to bring it to life.

Yes, this was exactly what I meant in OP.

New comment by bentt in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

bentt — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:02:44 +0000

It’s true. It feels like that age may be revisiting us. Makes me happy to see stuff like this which isn’t upselling something.

New comment by bentt in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

bentt — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:32:20 +0000

We might recognize that the economics of making such a fascinating and artful experiment like this have completely changed. No ads. Not asking for anything except your attention, and then delivering an outcome that is fascinating and honestly, far beyond what a person would be incentivized to build before AI tooling.

I loved it and feel inspired from it.

(It looks like it's getting a lot of traffic and might get hugged to death)

New comment by bentt in "Fastpotify"

bentt — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:25:59 +0000

There is a lot of gray area between vibe coding and zero AI. Get over that too.

End of the day this person is solving a good problem and sharing the work. This is what we want.

New comment by bentt in "California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law"

bentt — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:12:32 +0000

Can’t think of a better outcome than Meta guaranteeing all parents that Linux is the safest OS for their kids. Steam Machines under every Christmas tree.

New comment by bentt in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

bentt — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:12:43 +0000

Sure, that's a thing. But it's much different than building a multiyear strategy to use that data as the financial basis of one's entire operation.

New comment by bentt in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

bentt — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:56:30 +0000

Honestly, I've been a Cursor subscriber for a while and it was just momentum. Still, I rank OpenAI as the worst actor among the big AI companies. I think OpenAI's playbook will be a repeat of Facebook. Users are the product x 1000.

Cursor/SpaceX/Grok is a different beast. I think they will cheat other companies but I'm not convinced yet that they have it out for users. We'll see. I'm certainly not some kind of Cursor lifer or something.

We should all move to OpenCode anyway. :)

New comment by bentt in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

bentt — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 03:22:36 +0000

I'd need to have a problem I couldn't solve with current models for my eyes to wander.

New comment by bentt in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

bentt — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:20:46 +0000

While this isn't great for users it seems like a pretty standard circling of the wagons in preparation for the next phase in the battle for frontier AI dominance.

Ironically, as a Cursor and Claude subscriber, but not an OpenAI subscriber, this will push me back to Anthropic. I don't feel good about giving OpenAI money directly, but I've found switching to GPT 5.6 Sol now and again in Cursor to be useful. Now I'll probably just forget about OpenAI models.

New comment by bentt in "Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30"

bentt — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:46:14 +0000

Went from training AI to people hooking AI up to it. Slop as a service.