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New comment by drdrek in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

drdrek — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:48:01 +0000

This is the "Factors" Bonanza in finance all over again. You get a generally useful model, then you over-fit it to some criteria and announce advancement in the field, then it performs worse in real life. New infinite academic article glitch just dropped boys!

New comment by drdrek in "When the chain becomes the product: Seven years inside a token-funded venture"

drdrek — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:18:55 +0000

I love the ending footnote, its the perfect statement to prove his thesis. Just because you understand the problem does not mean you are immune to it. Just because you know smoking is bad for, and you understand the mechanisms of addition, does not mean you manage to quit smoking.

New comment by drdrek in "Some Words on WigglyPaint"

drdrek — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:43:42 +0000

There is a reason games and software have moved to the client server architecture even when it doesn't really makes sense. Its the only way to maintain copyright.

You can hate it, but for the creative types your options are: Assume it fails and no one knows about it / Assume it succeeds get stolen / build it on the server side

New comment by drdrek in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

drdrek — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:03:18 +0000

It's not just that it looks good, there is constant pressure from other Engineers that we should "Do it right" and "Plan for the future" even if the future is murky and every design choice we take for scalability is probably just constraints that will hinder us if the requirements change.

as a manager its constant fighting the pressure to build "Great software" that is way above what the company needs instead building working software that addresses customer needs in a timely manner.

My dude we are s startup with two servers and 20 customers, we do not need infinite scalability.

New comment by drdrek in "How will OpenAI compete?"

drdrek — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:19:23 +0000

Future historians:

In Jan 2027 AGI was achieved

In Feb 2027 it created a plan for its post singularity hypermind

In Mar 2027 Cobalt mines in Congo closed due to Tutsi rebel group M23 starting another ethnic cleansing

It is 2032 the AGI promises again the the hypermind will be ready next year if it can just secure the needed minerals, offering to broker peace in the middle east

It is 2035 and the AGI reduced its capabilities to be able to extend its runway as it is on the verge of bankruptcy

Its is 2036 VCs finally throwing the towel on AGI, talking about the return of Crypto

New comment by drdrek in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

drdrek — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:41:03 +0000

Effective Altruism is such a beautiful term for a pretentious Karen that needs to wrap their selfish actions with moral superiority.

It's that perfect blend of I'm doing what everyone else are doing, and I'm better than everyone else.

Chefs' Kiss

New comment by drdrek in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

drdrek — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:24:02 +0000

Can't wait for the "AI Is supercharging SAAS" article when the stocks go up, and another "SAAS IS DEAD" when they go down again

New comment by drdrek in "Astrological CPU Scheduler"

drdrek — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:12:48 +0000

Bravo

New comment by drdrek in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

drdrek — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:13:03 +0000

Hub / City Area,Total Tech Startups,Total Funding (2025 Est.),Total Residents (Metro),Startups per 1k Residents,Money per 1k Residents

San Francisco (Bay Area),"18,052",$122.0 Billion,7.7 Million,2.34,$15.84 Million

New York City,"15,000+",$45.0 Billion,19.5 Million,0.77,$2.31 Million

London,"8,900",$26.0 Billion,9.0 Million,0.99,$2.89 Million

Tel Aviv (Area),"2,996",$12.0 Billion,4.2 Million,0.71,$2.86 Million

Beijing,"2,350",$18.0 Billion,21.9 Million,0.11,$0.82 Million

Paris,"3,200",$10.0 Billion,13.1 Million,0.24,$0.76 Million

Bangalore,"3,500",$12.0 Billion,14.0 Million,0.25,$0.86 Million

New comment by drdrek in "The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns"

drdrek — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:14:01 +0000

The word cost is mentioned only twice in the entire article, lol

New comment by drdrek in "Google broke my heart"

drdrek — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:39:58 +0000

There was never a better business than the internet tollbooth google had. The crawlers and search basically costed nothing and made billions in advertisements. Everything else was a desperate effort to use the huge amounts of money the money printer was spewing fast enough, So they had a lot of "fat" to do things that did not directly relate to the business.

Now with Youtube and AI its going to be great businesses, but not 99% profitability great. Nothing is 99% profitability great like search used to be.

You will see Google stock go up and down in the short term, but the fate is already sealed. Sooner or later they will be welcomed to the club of Intel and IBM.

New comment by drdrek in "Alchemy"

drdrek — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:14:30 +0000

Its the first player past the goal post problem, the first alchemist will crash the gold market but he will be insanely rich. You can see this with advertisers, when a new approach is found they all rush to it. They know its going to kill it soon, but the first few will get that sweet sweet revenue before the public catches on.

AI art will poison the well, but someone will make the few bucks that can be extracted before it happens.

New comment by drdrek in "Things that aren't doing the thing"

drdrek — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 15:59:03 +0000

Wow this article is an amazing rorschach test! Each defensive comment here is a person defending what he thinks this article is personally attacking him on!

New comment by drdrek in "This World of Ours (2014) [pdf]"

drdrek — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:06:32 +0000

The point about the lay person not needing massive parallelism was very true, until it was not :D

New comment by drdrek in "This World of Ours (2014) [pdf]"

drdrek — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:04:40 +0000

Actually Gaza and the West Bank are handled by the "Shabak" agency which is the equivalent of the FBI while the "Mossad" agency is only for foreign operations and is equivalent to the CIA

And asking how did they miss something is like asking how come AWS has downtime. But I'm sure you could come to this conclusion on your own if you didn't really want the answer to be something else.

New comment by drdrek in "Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital"

drdrek — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:18:47 +0000

Never underestimate the ability of smart people to be overconfident in their understanding of the world, even in fields they know very little about. This is how you get a lot of very articulate nonsense, news papers are filled with this and so are many small blogs.

New comment by drdrek in "Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify"

drdrek — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 12:05:07 +0000

Every step to improve raw hosting as an alternative to full cloud offering is a blessing.

Cloud pricing no longer makes any sense.

New comment by drdrek in "Comprehension debt: A ticking time bomb of LLM-generated code"

drdrek — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:58:36 +0000

Somehow many very smart AI entrepreneurs do not understand the concept of limits to lossless data compression. If an idea cannot be reduced further without losing information, no amount of AI is going to be able to compress it.

This is why you see so many failed startup around slack/email/jira efficiency. Half the time you do not know if you missed critical information so you need to go to the source, negating gains you had with information that was successfully summarized.

New comment by drdrek in "I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse"

drdrek — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:36:37 +0000

I Love this!

New comment by drdrek in "Charting Form Ds to roughly see the state of venture capital “fund” raising"

drdrek — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:08:29 +0000

Good, many bad companies will release good developers to work on more productive things. It's healthy for everyone.