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New comment by bigbluedots in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

bigbluedots — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:17:10 +0000

Yes, programming language discussions can be vibes-based and therefore low value too, but sometimes the more concrete aspects of the languages at hand, e.g. language features and tradeoffs are discussed. That is something that I'm not seeing in equivalent AI discussions.. there is a lot of how a particular AI model "feels" to interact with.

New comment by bigbluedots in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

bigbluedots — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:31:22 +0000

These threads seem to have become exceedingly vibes-based. Yes, something may now be cheaper or more expensive or whatever, but there is no way to objectively measure quality (except for "trust me bro" benchmarks). So the discourse is people saying that for them, this or that model was better - which is a very low value data point.

New comment by bigbluedots in "Steam Machine launches today"

bigbluedots — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:17:50 +0000

Like what? Provide examples please.

New comment by bigbluedots in "I canceled my French tutor and built an LLM tool that does it better"

bigbluedots — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:52:20 +0000

Wow That Is Fantastic And I Am So Glad To Hear It, You Have Really Put In A Lot Of Effort!

New comment by bigbluedots in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

bigbluedots — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:07:39 +0000

Enterprise customers care about things like guardrails and data safety. xAI has always been anti guardrails, and who knows if you can trust them with your data.

New comment by bigbluedots in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

bigbluedots — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:55:36 +0000

No company that uses Cursor now is going to be ok with using xAI models.

New comment by bigbluedots in "Delacroix's Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople Restored"

bigbluedots — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:30:09 +0000

Not a drop of blood to be seen anywhere!

New comment by bigbluedots in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

bigbluedots — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:48:56 +0000

It might be time to start interacting with agents using grug speak only

New comment by bigbluedots in "Jira Is Turing-Complete"

bigbluedots — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:36:28 +0000

Well, you did say all. Is there a minimal set of exposed features that must be exposed for a workflow engine to be included?

New comment by bigbluedots in "xAI joins SpaceX"

bigbluedots — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:09:51 +0000

Yes, because launching then immersed in something that will greatly increase the launch weight will help...

New comment by bigbluedots in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

bigbluedots — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:51:01 +0000

I'm hoping it's a human with a taste for satire

New comment by bigbluedots in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

bigbluedots — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:39:38 +0000

All hail your new overlords!

New comment by bigbluedots in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

bigbluedots — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:34:22 +0000

That's fine, you do you. Everyone gets to choose for themselves!

New comment by bigbluedots in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

bigbluedots — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:22:29 +0000

Go look it up, he doesn't

New comment by bigbluedots in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

bigbluedots — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:20:55 +0000

Who is "us"? You are not me.

New comment by bigbluedots in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

bigbluedots — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:05:05 +0000

It is nice to hear someone who is so influential just come out and say it. At my workplace, the expectation is that everyone will use AI in their daily software dev work. It's a difficult position for those of us who feel that using AI is immoral due to the large scale theft of the labor of many of our fellow developers, not to mention the many huge data centers being built and their need for electricity, pushing up prices for people who need to, ya know, heat their homes and eat

New comment by bigbluedots in "All it takes is for one to work out"

bigbluedots — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 02:04:34 +0000

At some point you don't need "the one that gives you joy". You need the one that pays the bills and feeds the family

New comment by bigbluedots in "AI World Clocks"

bigbluedots — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:50:05 +0000

Is there a "draw a pelican riding a bicycle" version?

New comment by bigbluedots in "AI World Clocks"

bigbluedots — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:45:11 +0000

I just realized I'm running late, it's almost -2!

More seriously, I'd love to see how the models perform the same task with a larger token allowance.

New comment by bigbluedots in "Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?"

bigbluedots — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 01:32:47 +0000

Don't know, probably? I'm a linear reader