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New comment by duendefm in "I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code"

duendefm — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:58:58 +0000

My point is, we have programming languages like C and C++, we have operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD, we have an empire of software and knowledge accumulated because of the intellectual battles fought by people before AI. With AI, we all are getting our coding easier (and are kind of being forced to), in a way that we will skip these kind of battles. That is, if we all use AI to make our job easier it will have some short term gain but we will end up as a whole ceasing to advance human knowledge with new stuff that has to come from real intellectual work. Like, I don't see people coming up with new outstanding technology if we all sucumb to be AI dependent.

New comment by duendefm in "I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code"

duendefm — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:29:37 +0000

Well despite my current anti AI sentiment, I have to admit that after reading the article, It was a good use of AI, done by someone with good technical skills. Still I have the feeling that this only works because of the vast accumulated knowledge pre-AI, and if everybody keeps going in this path, it will end up making everyone not advancing their knowledge at the pace they did before. I feel that this AI immersion is really about selling our soul to the devil for short term gains.

New comment by duendefm in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

duendefm — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:00:44 +0000

If this is something that will hurt Nvidia, I'm all for it

New comment by duendefm in "The Coming Loop"

duendefm — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:10:40 +0000

I honestly wonder if this kind of stuff really brings something to the table. Like I use opus for sometime and certainly I can put it to good use and optimize some parts of my day to day job (programmer). But it fails so hard in such simple tasks that it seems to me that putting it in loop can't just magically make everything better, unassisted. Does anyone actually uses agents and loops to create new software, new technology? Has anyone created with those systems, software they couldn't produce otherwise technologically wise? Or is it at best just an accelerator, cutting off on the building time?

New comment by duendefm in "Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects (2025)"

duendefm — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:08:41 +0000

No no, I didn't say that at all. I'm just saying that the studies are irrelevant since models got a boost in their competence. I'm not in a fight pro or against llm's, I know how they work and their limitations. But the complexity of the problems they solve increased since opus 4.5 . If you can't admit that, it's your problem.

Also, I'm not blaming users for their shortcomings. I'm just saying they are not perfect but you can get different outcomes according to how you use them.

New comment by duendefm in "Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects (2025)"

duendefm — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:48:47 +0000

AI is not perfect sure, one has to know how to use it. But this study is already flawed since models improved a lot since the beginning of 2026.

New comment by duendefm in "The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists"

duendefm — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:51:07 +0000

It's different this time. You can see that at the same time, they are finally, definitely solving hard mathematical problems. They passed the phase of just being like good search engines to being actual generators of new data from their generalizations. I can give you a simple example. Any code they generated before brought frustration and they would loop with feedback. Now they actually produce "human level" code.

New comment by duendefm in "The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists"

duendefm — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:44:06 +0000

Until some days / weeks ago, LLM's for coding was more hype than actually real code producing. That is gone now. They clearly leveled up, things will not be the same anymore. And of course this is not just for coding, this is just the beginning. A month ago it really seemed that the models were hitting a complexity wall and that the architecture would need to be improved. Not anymore.

New comment by duendefm in "Kernel: Introduce Multikernel Architecture Support"

duendefm — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:24:47 +0000

would this allow running both linux and bsd kernels?

New comment by duendefm in "Wikipedia has officially added “Gaza genocide” to its “List of Genocides” page"

duendefm — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:30:29 +0000

I was being ironic. Israel enemies just don't destroy it because they are unable to. Israel is forced to do what they are doing.

New comment by duendefm in "Wikipedia has officially added “Gaza genocide” to its “List of Genocides” page"

duendefm — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 01:32:31 +0000

United Nations agencies like UNRWA? As for the killing reports, it seems that Israel always kills civilians and particularly kids, they seem to like to spend their money in bombs directed at them because I never see reports of combatants being killed.

New comment by duendefm in "Oasis: A Universe in a Transformer"

duendefm — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 14:24:11 +0000

It's not a videogame, it's a fast minecraft screenshot simulator where the prompt between each frame is the state of the input and the previous frames, with something of a resemblance of coherence.