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New comment by gloomyday in "GLM-5.3-Flash"

gloomyday — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:10:02 +0000

Less powerful models are already extremely capable, so going for the best model is just like buying the most expensive hammer in the shop instead of the functional and well-priced one. Your experience is not representative of their usefulness.

New comment by gloomyday in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

gloomyday — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:34:50 +0000

You may be going through the same crisis that chess masters went through decades ago. But chess didn't die because engines were better, in fact there has never been more people interested in chess as today. Cheaters are annoying though.

New comment by gloomyday in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

gloomyday — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:32:24 +0000

This feels like a new phase for open source. I think screening people to join development efforts will become the norm, at least for resource-constrained projects. Trust will have to be earned.

New comment by gloomyday in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

gloomyday — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:29:48 +0000

I once had a very weird experience on LSD (of course), in which I perceived my brain and thinking as a bunch of separate entities working in synchrony. Only two of them were capable of speech, and some were very simple and reactive. The "me" part was just them agreeing on stuff. I will never forget the experience.

New comment by gloomyday in "The Joy of Folding Bikes"

gloomyday — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:49:38 +0000

The battery concerns are just a ridiculous excuse. E-bikes are allowed in public transport.

New comment by gloomyday in "The Joy of Folding Bikes"

gloomyday — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:19:25 +0000

I really wanted an e-scooter to help my shorter routes here in Germany, but the legislation is quite unfriendly to it now. I need insurance and can't carry it in public transport. Maybe a folding bike would be great.

New comment by gloomyday in "I am building a cloud"

gloomyday — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:49:13 +0000

Marketing has such a gigantic influence in our field. It is absolutely insane. It feels unavoidable, since IT is (was?) constantly filled with new blood that picks up where people left off.

New comment by gloomyday in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"

gloomyday — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:11:02 +0000

In principle, they could make such responses part of their training data. I guess it is just easier to do it through prompting.

New comment by gloomyday in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

gloomyday — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:01:46 +0000

I think newer developers really need to learn that you can actually do production stuff using bare tools. It is not crazy, especially in the beginning, and it will save you a ton of money and time.

New comment by gloomyday in "Qwen3-Coder-Next"

gloomyday — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:55:22 +0000

Society is lacking people that stand up for something. My efforts to consume less is seen as being cheap by my family, which I find so sad. I much prefer donating my money than exchanging superfluous gifts on Christmas.

New comment by gloomyday in "Why software stocks are getting pummelled"

gloomyday — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:06:47 +0000

A quick way to make me not respect someone's economic opinion is to mention the "Efficient Market Hypothesis." This should be buried 7 palms underground.

New comment by gloomyday in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

gloomyday — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:06:36 +0000

Microsoft products are decreasing in quality at an astounding rate. You can clearly see that sales people took over the whole company.

New comment by gloomyday in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"

gloomyday — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:20:55 +0000

This is a fatalistic attitude, but I can totally get behind. It has become harder to associate my job with contributing with society.

New comment by gloomyday in "Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking"

gloomyday — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:00:42 +0000

I've heard once that Americans distrust their government and trust their corporations, while Europeans distrust their corporations and trust their government. I honestly think that governments already has a huge role in shaping people's understanding of the world, and that's GREAT on good democratic countries.

What I find really weird is that I am stopping believing in the whole idea of free press, considering how the mainstream media is being bought by oligarchs around the globe. I think this is a good example of the erosion of trust in institutions in general. This won't end well.

Your idea of letting it be run by a non-profit makes me believe that you also don't trust institutions anymore.

New comment by gloomyday in "Giving university exams in the age of chatbots"

gloomyday — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:12:03 +0000

I remember my first programming class, where the exam required students to solve problems in Pascal on paper. I see no problems in this approach.

I still think pen and paper is king among students.

New comment by gloomyday in "Giving university exams in the age of chatbots"

gloomyday — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:01:12 +0000

At the university, you are supposed to learn the foundational knowledge. If you let the LLM do the work, you are simply not learning. There are no shortcuts.

And learning how to use LLMs is pathetically easy. Really.

New comment by gloomyday in "Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is banned"

gloomyday — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:59:43 +0000

We have to train ourselves to not be pissed off at headlines. They are most of the time bait.

New comment by gloomyday in "ChatGPT Health"

gloomyday — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:29:30 +0000

That's a tip I recommend people to try when they are using LLMs to solve stuff. Instead of asking "how to..", ask "what alternatives are there to...". A top-k answer is way better, and you get to engage more with whatever you are trying to learn/solve.

New comment by gloomyday in "Claude Code On-the-Go"

gloomyday — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 04:56:25 +0000

That reminds me of my father calling the mobile phone and laptop issued to him as the "dunce kit", so he could work at home as well. He used to say that since the 90s, ahaha.

New comment by gloomyday in "Linux is good now"

gloomyday — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:48:11 +0000

Overall, I had a pretty bad experience with ALVR. I never managed to figure out the cause of stuttering on mine. I wished Meta would support Linux.