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New comment by byproxy in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

byproxy — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:48:23 +0000

> as long as humans keep producing new content and innovation

Well.. we won't have to as we'll have models to do it for us!

New comment by byproxy in "Willingness to look stupid"

byproxy — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:16:02 +0000

goddam, that's beautiful. thanks for sharing!

New comment by byproxy in "The modern formatting addiction in writing"

byproxy — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:58:48 +0000

This is unfortunate, because (and probably much to the article writer's chagrin), I am a fan of making use of the formatting tools available for a given platform. When convenient, I love using an em/en-dash. And, when I'm up for it, italicizing and bolding words to convey prosody. It just feels right.

Now, though, I may be dismissed as an LLM (probably as an older model that can't quite use them formatting tools effectively).

New comment by byproxy in "The modern formatting addiction in writing"

byproxy — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:54:51 +0000

Yea, probably. My "old-man" pet peeve is people using "lol"/"lmao"/etc. as punctuation lol.

New comment by byproxy in "this css proves me human"

byproxy — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:52:39 +0000

As this post has been (to my sensibilities) obviously composed by an LLM, I can tell you: this does not read "human."

New comment by byproxy in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

byproxy — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:59:49 +0000

What constitutes "this bullshit"?

New comment by byproxy in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

byproxy — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:38:07 +0000

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

New comment by byproxy in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

byproxy — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:15:15 +0000

From where did you hear this rumor?

New comment by byproxy in "Generative AI use and depressive symptoms among US adults"

byproxy — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:29:54 +0000

Yep, this, so far, proven the most promising use of LLMs, to me. I've read about people's Rube Goldberg machine-eqsue setups for getting agentic LLMs to work for them, but I find simply having a dialectic with an LLM to be more fruitful. Rubber-ducking with a duck that quacks back.

New comment by byproxy in "Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148"

byproxy — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:42:11 +0000

> but this still allows arbitrary markup to the page (even