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New comment by coffeefirst in "CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled"

coffeefirst — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:10:06 +0000

There’s a good number of nuclear power plants and nuclear submarines in operation, so yes, that’s technically true.

New comment by coffeefirst in "How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs"

coffeefirst — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:29:08 +0000

Oh yeah. I discovered this back in February. Faster and cheaper is better, because faster means you can focus.

Frenetic multitasking is for suckers.

New comment by coffeefirst in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"

coffeefirst — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:25:17 +0000

Sounds like a culture problem. I’ve never had a team I lead not give a shit. Even if the project is dumb (some projects are dumb), there’s enough pride in competence and desire not to dump garbage on the people around you to ensure they at least want to try.

New comment by coffeefirst in "I'm Tired of the AI Tone"

coffeefirst — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:24:21 +0000

No.

New comment by coffeefirst in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

coffeefirst — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:07:21 +0000

Because it’s a bad faith argument that presupposes integrating someone else’s work into your algorithm is equivalent to me reading a book.

Your rule would be the right way to do all this. You could even have a mechanical royalty that applies by default where you can train on anything that hasn’t set rules and a preset rate.

New comment by coffeefirst in "I Don't Like LLMs"

coffeefirst — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:22:58 +0000

Yes. It’s called the ELIZA Effect. It’s fascinating, and arguably the most dangerous thing about these models given how many people it seems to affect.

New comment by coffeefirst in "Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing"

coffeefirst — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:01:32 +0000

I understand why they built this. They probably should and this is probably the right way to do it.

And also yes, I’ve tried Dia and OpenAI’s thing and I can’t for the life of me figure out what to do with the feature.

And then it dawns on me what I really want is a modernized bookmarks system…

New comment by coffeefirst in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"

coffeefirst — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:40:49 +0000

Uh huh.

It can’t be a coincidence that all the targets have been tech services that are likely to engage with them after the fact.

Had this gone after a bank or a government agency someone would be going to jail.

New comment by coffeefirst in "Altman tells staff OpenAI is open to slowing AI development"

coffeefirst — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:40:10 +0000

Yes. They will reach an agreement not to pursue RSI for “safety.” That RSI is utter nonsense in the first place will go unnoticed.

New comment by coffeefirst in "Doomscrolling ourselves to death"

coffeefirst — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 01:40:46 +0000

Yep. And the kicker is they are genuinely confused when all this lands badly.

New comment by coffeefirst in "Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death"

coffeefirst — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:30:09 +0000

Out of curiosity what book did you get burned on?

New comment by coffeefirst in "Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death"

coffeefirst — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:03:19 +0000

Wait, really?

As best I can tell, the problem is contained to kindle self publishing and the like, which were always unfiltered. And we buy plenty of new books.

New comment by coffeefirst in "Doomscrolling ourselves to death"

coffeefirst — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:41:57 +0000

I can tell, usually within a few minutes of meeting them, who’s really into social media.

There’s a little bit of frenetic emotional dysregulation, and then they say the weirdest stuff to me.

I don’t think you could have made a similar argument about heavy trash tv watchers. They may have had less to talk about, you may have found them less interesting, but it didn’t literally alter their personalities.

We have a big problem.

New comment by coffeefirst in "The moral panic over data centres is foolish"

coffeefirst — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:00:31 +0000

Sure. But what’s the technical way or meet that requirement? Is there a specific method or is it just that they can but they don’t care because there’s no law?

New comment by coffeefirst in "The moral panic over data centres is foolish"

coffeefirst — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:48:26 +0000

Interesting. What ways? Suppose I wanted to call the governor and say “I have an answer to how to regulate these that solves the noise problem” what would we be asking for?

New comment by coffeefirst in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

coffeefirst — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:01:26 +0000

They’re not. You would see this with earlier models where after running too long (too much context) they’d start to derail. In a chatbot you’d give up. But these loops just keep going. Given they’re now reading and writing from the same place this can corrupt the other programs’ context as well.

New comment by coffeefirst in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

coffeefirst — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:12:47 +0000

Not complicated, but many people have never learned how to do it or developed a system.

New comment by coffeefirst in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""

coffeefirst — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:34:17 +0000

Yep. This is my policy. Use whatever tools however they serve you, the standards do not change.

If someone makes a sloppy 100,000 line PR in a day the problem is not whether it was generated by Claude or frantically written using VIM and a mechanical keyboard.

New comment by coffeefirst in "I Dream of Quieter Computing"

coffeefirst — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:07:38 +0000

It already happened. For a lot of people, social media has been replaced entirely by group chat.

New comment by coffeefirst in "Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs"

coffeefirst — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:33:22 +0000

Or even 30 second ads that don’t look like shit.

The technology is interesting as an element within the wider process of special effects, animation, and video games. The idea that you’re actually making a movie with the current products—and I’m a former indie filmmaker, I’d have a blast with this if it were real—is a fantasy.