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New comment by briga in "Mark Zuckerberg creating new Applied AI engineering company, reorganises teams"

briga — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:52:55 +0000

Astonishingly. I just find it funny that one person can be responsible for wasting hundreds of millions of dollars and still keep their job.

New comment by briga in "Mark Zuckerberg creating new Applied AI engineering company, reorganises teams"

briga — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:43:05 +0000

What are the odds that Zuckerberg would still be CEO if he didn't have a majority stake in the company? From the outside it seems like he has made one terrible financial decision after the next. Can anyone be surprised that things aren't going smoothly given his track record?

New comment by briga in "Devin Review: AI to Stop Slop"

briga — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:04:38 +0000

I was being partly facetious and I think this is probably the way things are going. I guess it's just hard to stomach that devs will end up relying on these tools more than their own intuition. But I suppose that ship has sailed already for a lot of people.

New comment by briga in "Devin Review: AI to Stop Slop"

briga — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:47:12 +0000

I can foresee a future of induced demand, where by making PRs "easier" to review, you will end up with way more PRs to review, leading PR backlogs as backed up with PRs as ever. Except now dev teams will have trust-me-bro LLM reviews convincing them that they don't actually need to do full code reviews on code they're putting into production. What could go wrong?

New comment by briga in "Gemini 3"

briga — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:27:56 +0000

Every big new model release we see benchmarks like ARC and Humanity's Last Exam climbing higher and higher. My question is, how do we know that these benchmarks are not a part of the training set used for these models? It could easily have been trained to memorize the answers. Even if the datasets haven't been copy pasted directly, I'm sure it has leaked onto the internet to some extent.

But I am looking forward to trying it out. I find Gemini to be great as handling large-context tasks, and Google's inference costs seem to be among the cheapest.

New comment by briga in "Gemini 3"

briga — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:18:07 +0000

Maybe it has guard rails against such things? That would be my main guess on the Zizian one.

New comment by briga in "Firefox Forcing LLM Features"

briga — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:36:27 +0000

There's a checkbox on whether you want to use it or not in the settings page, does this not change these settings?

I don't feel opposed to them changing the browser in principle--certainly there have been many improvements to web browsers over the years. Is privacy the concern here?

New comment by briga in "Mind captioning: Evolving descriptive text of mental content of brain activity"

briga — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:39:56 +0000

Is this the future technology that anyone wants?

New comment by briga in "Argentina Could Be a Superpower"

briga — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:11:58 +0000

One thing I think this article overlooks is that Argentina was a superpower, at least before the Panama canal was built. Before that, pretty much all shipping between the Atlantic and the Pacific had to go south around Argentina and Chile. Buenos Aires was one of the best stops along that route, and so it became one of the richest places on earth. After the Panama canal was built most of this traffic dropped off, and so did Argentina's fortunes. It's just so far away from everywhere that it has never been as geographically significant since.

New comment by briga in "The LLM Lobotomy?"

briga — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 18:40:30 +0000

I have a theory: all these people reporting degrading model quality over time aren't actually seeing model quality deteriorate. What they are actually doing is discovering that these models aren't as powerful as they initially thought (ie. expanding their sample size for judging how good the model is). The probabilistic nature of LLM produces a lot of confused thinking about how good a model is, just because a model produces nine excellent responses doesn't mean the tenth response won't be garbage.

New comment by briga in "My AI-driven identity crisis"

briga — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 05:53:17 +0000

I've been reading a lot of (human-written) books lately, and one thing this has made abundantly clear to me is that AI writing just doesn't stack up. For one AI writing is often completely wrong about the details. But it also just tends to be bland and superficial. If you want a 5-minute summary of something, sure, it can do a passable job. But if I want something substantial and carefully thought out, I'll choose a book written by a human expert every time.

Maybe this will change at some point in the future, but for now there's no way I would substitute a well-written book on a subject for AI slop. These models are trained on human-written material anyway, why not just go straight to the source?

New comment by briga in "Canada approves national standard for age verification, estimation"

briga — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 22:33:04 +0000

And we also share an extremely long land border with the US, go figure

New comment by briga in "Canada approves national standard for age verification, estimation"

briga — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 19:32:27 +0000

I have never once received threats of fines or jail time for their speech, nor have any of the Canadians I know. Are you aware that freedom of opinion and expression is very clearly spelled out in the Canadian charter of rights?

New comment by briga in "Canada approves national standard for age verification, estimation"

briga — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 18:11:03 +0000

By that line of thinking, Canada is just one country you can choose to live in. Certainly people here have the choice to move to other countries that they think has more freedom. I have a hard time thinking of any other countries that entirely fit that criteria at the moment.

New comment by briga in "Canada approves national standard for age verification, estimation"

briga — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 17:53:33 +0000

You're posting that reply on a message board that, strictly speaking, does not have free speech. If I started flaming you my post would get removed pretty quickly. This forum is heavily moderated. Does that make it a better, or worse, place for discussion?

New comment by briga in "Canada approves national standard for age verification, estimation"

briga — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 17:34:42 +0000

Certainly we are not perfect, but I think overall Canada has done more for the world to uphold human rights and freedoms than otherwise. When the government does act against "individual freedom", it is usually for the good of larger society. For instance because of firearm restrictions Canadian citizens are (or used to be?) free from getting shot with firearms on the streets. Is it a perfectly free society? No, but for the most part people here have it pretty good. I'd wager most of the immigrants moving here are much more free than they were in their home countries

New comment by briga in "The Tech Job Meltdown"

briga — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 04:04:51 +0000

This is a nice "just so" explanation, but I don't think it is telling the full story, or even most of it. Sure tax policy probably has an impact, but so do interest rates, AI, tariffs, inflation, geopolitical turmoil, rampant speculation and hype cycles, etc. If this tax policy is so important why didn't it save the dot com crash from happening? Why are tech industries outside the US seeing similar hiring downturns? It's a boom and bust industry, we're in the bust, and it seems unlikely that one bad tax policy is the culprit.

New comment by briga in "ACE-Step: A step towards music generation foundation model"

briga — Wed, 07 May 2025 07:48:51 +0000

Interesting how there is no mention of how the training data for this was collected. This does sound quite a bit better than Meta's MusicGen, but then again that model was also trained on a small licensed dataset.

New comment by briga in "Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency"

briga — Mon, 05 May 2025 22:13:48 +0000

I'm starting to feel like LLMs need to be tuned for shorter responses. For every short sentence you give them they outputs paragraphs of text. Sometimes it's even good text, but not every input sentence needs a mini-essay in response.

Very cool project though. Maybe you can fine tune the prompt to change how chatty your AI is.

New comment by briga in "Show HN: Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro"

briga — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 21:41:04 +0000

In my experience, AI is quite good at picking up new tools and techniques. In the sense that the models only need to be provided some documentation for how the new tool or framework works to instantly start using that new framework

Gemini in particular is really good at this