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New comment by dubcrab in "Art Doesn't Scale"

dubcrab — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:58:37 +0000

Spot on. Big difference between using AI as a tool to fix real problems - where it shines - and using it to clone art. Art needs a human with something to say, some lived experience to share. Maybe it'll get a real voice one day, who knows. But we aren't anywhere close.

New comment by dubcrab in "Self-hosting. Commercially available LLMs are increasingly hampered by cost"

dubcrab — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:42:49 +0000

I wish I could run models locally. I just don't have the hardware for it. So I rent access to one that still works well enough and hasn't annoyed me yet. But "yet" is doing a lot of work there. The article is right that the trend is worrying. You're at the mercy of someone else's cost cutting and someone else's political compass. I just can't afford to opt out right now. That's the part that stings the most.

New comment by dubcrab in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"

dubcrab — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:41:38 +0000

NotebookLM is genuinely useful for structured research workflows. My concern is not the name. It's whether the "notebook" metaphor survives the rebrand.