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New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Claude Sonnet 5"

gdhkgdhkvff — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:43:00 +0000

I agree that the rapid improvement from like 2023-24 era is over (from a perspective of going from a 3/10 to a 7/10, you can’t then go to a 11/10). There was just so much more space to grow back then.

But isn’t Fable supposed to be another step change? I never used it, myself.

Tbh, at this point I think top tier models are smart “enough” (I’m sure this will look antiquated in a year), and the way to give me MORE noticeable improvement is to make them much faster rather than much smarter. Or even a way to automatically and accurately pick faster models when it makes sense. I know that IDE’s have Auto modes, but it’s not something that I trust right now to pick smart+fast instead of picking “maybe smart enough”+”cheaper for harness owner”

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Steam Machine launches today"

gdhkgdhkvff — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:26:25 +0000

So what you’re saying is we should see an increase in account hijacks and spamming account creation as scalpers now try to optimize for max s.

Show me the incentive structure and…

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

gdhkgdhkvff — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:59:38 +0000

Considering he named it “the Tim Ferris mafia” makes me think he’s fully aware of that.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

gdhkgdhkvff — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:27:19 +0000

I’m very on the pro-ai side (check my comment history for proof), but this “ai will give us more free time” logic is seeming more and more patronizing (to be clear, I understand that you are being sarcastic haha).

I was listening to a podcast a couple days ago and Brad Gerstner was on and mentioned that with how AI is boosting productivity that perhaps one member of a household would be able to start staying home from work if they wanted. I shut off the podcast after that (to be fair, the podcast just seemed to be one massive SpaceX IPO pump).

It’s just so divorced from reality and every new advancement is just making *higher expectations for doing more work*.

The unfortunate reality is: Companies that are selling ai will sell that ai will make life easier. Companies that are buying ai will demand more from employees using ai (why else would they buy it?).

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "KPMG's AI report turns into a demo of AI hallucinations"

gdhkgdhkvff — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:35:06 +0000

And every report about AI problems has this comment. Just one more failed use of AI and then AI will stop being useful and go away forever, bro.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200"

gdhkgdhkvff — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:27:36 +0000

Investors aren’t dumb. These numbers are being reported and the fact that the data centers are being rented out is publicly disclosed everywhere. Investors know full well that the revenue is from the data center rental. No (non-retail) investor is going to see the jump in revenue and think “I better buy up because grok must be kicking ass!”

And yes, if hetzner built a massive AI hyper scale datacenter and rented it out for billions, with the expectation that they would keep building more, they would also see massive PE ratios because it’s expected that their revenue would be going up.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

gdhkgdhkvff — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:43:11 +0000

You know what? I agree. I should have avoided falling into the same trap.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

gdhkgdhkvff — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:41:59 +0000

Gemini 3.0 wasn’t just a marginal improvement over 2.5.

And if you take that out: 1. All of those releases happened literally in the last 3-ish months. 2. They’re all intentionally marginal releases, hence the minor version bumps instead of major versions.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

gdhkgdhkvff — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:07:26 +0000

Great. You see a shape in graphs. And that shape tells you that _at some unknown point in the future_ progress will slow (but likely not stop).

Now back to the point, what reason do you have to believe progress will stop soon? If you have no reason, then it sounds like you agree with OP.

Which makes the patronizing sarcasm all that much more nauseating.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

gdhkgdhkvff — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:13:21 +0000

It’s wild to me that people in this comment section are suggesting that schools should improve their security by rolling their own platform, which is bound to be filled with security holes, instead of using a popular, maintained, open source option.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

gdhkgdhkvff — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:21:50 +0000

If rotten fruit was exceptionally valuable, then people would be paying exceptional amounts of money for it instead of wondering where they can get truckloads of it for free.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

gdhkgdhkvff — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:46:33 +0000

For perspective, 28 million gallons of water per day is roughly equivalent to what 93,000 households consume per day. There are ~130,000,000 households in the United States.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "For the first time in history, more Americans are moving to EU than vice versa"

gdhkgdhkvff — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:08:32 +0000

That’s quite a takeaway from an interaction with only 2 different people.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

gdhkgdhkvff — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:51:12 +0000

Why do you care about either of those questions?

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

gdhkgdhkvff — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:32:34 +0000

I’m curious if that 1 million DAU still holds as of today. I think it was reported last year some time aka before December when Claude code exploded. A quick google didn’t turn up any results that actually contained sources for the number.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

gdhkgdhkvff — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:51:06 +0000

If only there was some way where workers in this profession could form some type of JOIN(but like a vertical version?) between different sets of workers, even crossing company boundaries, so that workers could coordinate to ensure that everyone would be quitting at once, and therefore have any power at all to block anti-worker edicts.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

gdhkgdhkvff — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:00:23 +0000

This is a naive take on this. Do you think it stops with just metamates(lmao that’s what they call themselves) being surveilled? Nope. This is the exact type of thing that software IC’s should reject in solidarity. Being happy with BadCompanyX trampling employee expectations directly allows for GoodCompanyY to enact the same policies.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency"

gdhkgdhkvff — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:01:05 +0000

Why do any rules matter for government officials? Should we just make all laws not apply to them because of the pardon?

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

gdhkgdhkvff — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:57:05 +0000

But I compared it to sp500. Even QQQ only 6x’d in that timeframe.

Which bubble are you talking about? Even if you remove everything after January 1 2020, it’s still up 4x since nadella took over. And that follows a decade of stagnation under Balmer.

What numbers do you know of that show that Microsoft hasn’t been successful since nadella took charge?

Complain all you want about the products, but the stock under nadella has been a success.

New comment by gdhkgdhkvff in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

gdhkgdhkvff — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:16:44 +0000

Nadella took the reins in 2014 and the stock has 10x’d since then. In the same timeframe, the sp500 has 2.5x’d. Sounds pretty successful to me?