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New comment by exitb in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

exitb — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 11:56:56 +0000

The alternatives are not horrible, but look like I’m being lured to a Spring Fair by an alien. It makes no sense to associate with Japanese imagery or 90s computer graphics for an event that has nothing to with these topics. Design is a language and these speak gibberish.

New comment by exitb in "OpenJev"

exitb — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:49:52 +0000

You mostly go for „Bar” only after you already went „Foo”.

New comment by exitb in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

exitb — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:26:07 +0000

Intent and desire are separate concepts. For example an employee may act with intent, but no desire, as their goal is to acquire money to satisfy their real desires.

Have we ever seen an LLM with a hobby?

New comment by exitb in "The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart"

exitb — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:41:46 +0000

In some places it's shameful to show one's hair, or to eat while you walk in public. In some, people don't think about those things at all. In others, the ability to do those things can be an expression of personal freedom.

What you experience is a cultural difference.

New comment by exitb in "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?"

exitb — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:52:18 +0000

My own observations are that I used to target turn lengths of 10-15 minutes and these new models (since 5.6) extended that a bit to ~25 minutes, as they tend to do more tests and reviews. Targeting hours-long turns makes as much sense, as putting on cruise control and going to sleep.

New comment by exitb in "Amazon pilots ad services in ChatGPT"

exitb — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:05:42 +0000

Even if they’re on a path to make economy obsolete, they still need money right now to get there.

New comment by exitb in "Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished"

exitb — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:53:34 +0000

It would make sense to make it possible, but increasingly expensive to extend the copyright. It's fine for Disney to keep their successful creations, it just makes no sense to drag all other copyrighted works in existence along for the ride.

New comment by exitb in "Programming is Art"

exitb — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:37:36 +0000

There's a class of programming/configuration tasks where I specifically use AI because it makes less errors than I do.

New comment by exitb in "Fastpotify"

exitb — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:16:17 +0000

Uncanny valley. LLMs are great at producing text that reads almost right.

New comment by exitb in "Fastpotify"

exitb — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:56:01 +0000

It’s not specific to this program, but I lately get this feeling that distributing widely a piece of software that exists for 5 days and saw a dozen releases in that period is stretching the open source trust model.

New comment by exitb in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"

exitb — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:43:45 +0000

It’s not great, but I’m not sure this should be framed as Omarchy-specific, when it’s a very common setup to add regular user to the docker group.

New comment by exitb in "It's Not the End of Programming"

exitb — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:40:30 +0000

What value does the broccoli haired nephew provide in that scenario?

New comment by exitb in "Windows 95 released August 24, 1995"

exitb — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:44:21 +0000

> if you look at MacOS, it's just the Windows 95 interface

That may be true, but certainly not because macOS got inspired by Windows, rather because Windows 95 was inspired by NeXTStep.

New comment by exitb in "What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?"

exitb — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:17:08 +0000

I’m using ChatGPT and started to notice that lately it answers my prompts starting with „Yes” even if my question was open. As if the first token gets injected and the LLM is left to finish the response in a sensible way, often ending up with some form of „Yes, but not really”.

New comment by exitb in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

exitb — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:55:39 +0000

It makes no sense, but yes.

New comment by exitb in "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open"

exitb — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:00:23 +0000

What you’re missing is the status updates. Herdr applies pattern recognition to detect the status of an agent running inside, so you get updates on all your agent threads at a glance.

New comment by exitb in "Superlogical"

exitb — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:49:19 +0000

They hire for Go.

New comment by exitb in "Superlogical"

exitb — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:46:22 +0000

I imagine something more like herdr, but done at the terminal level, not inside. But that’s cmux…

New comment by exitb in "First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star"

exitb — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:56:57 +0000

> But even at 0.12c, we are looking at 400 years to get there. And we'd be zooming by at 12% the speed of light. If we want to slow down a bit that'd add hundreds of billions to the cost.

That’s the really hard part. If it’s almost science fiction to accelerate to 0.12c, it’s certainly much more difficult to slow down. At that speed we’d travel and pass this small system in mere minutes.

New comment by exitb in "I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64"

exitb — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:40:03 +0000

And in eastern Europe, due to economical reasons, its popularity extended well into the 90s. There's a whole group of people that grew up with the Commodore that are a decade younger than their western peers.