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New comment by gymbeaux in "Gloomberb"

gymbeaux — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:51:08 +0000

When I see new software now, my first thought is an LLM wrote it and it makes me not want to use it. I also assume there are bugs and it’s not particularly feature-rich.

New comment by gymbeaux in "Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week"

gymbeaux — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:46:36 +0000

I look at all the “role model” esque people in my life - they’ve all been fired from a job at least once. There are also plenty of people I know who I wouldn’t consider role model esque who are simply lousy employees (and probably get fired many more times than the “role model” types). I say role model types simply to mean “people who you would be surprised to learn were fired from their job”.

New comment by gymbeaux in "Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week"

gymbeaux — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:43:25 +0000

Stigma meaning others judging you for being fired. High level “no one” wants to hire someone who was fired from their last job. I’m just saying in my experience everyone gets fired sooner or later, regardless of their abilities, job performance, social skills, et. Al.

New comment by gymbeaux in "Nvidia is pulling Wall Street into the AI buildout"

gymbeaux — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:08:57 +0000

LLMs are incredibly inefficient and can never be “100% accurate” so we have effectively seen what they can and can’t do already. If LLMs haven’t taken your job by now, they aren’t taking your job.

New comment by gymbeaux in "Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week"

gymbeaux — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:07:24 +0000

Everyone who could be considered a role model in my life has been “laid off” (fired) at least once. These are successful people. They’re all millionaires (not just the retired ones). We need to get over the fear and stigma of getting fired. It means nothing except your boss didn’t like you.

New comment by gymbeaux in "Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week"

gymbeaux — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:04:58 +0000

But what if all your coworkers are doing it, so by taking the time to understand and review LLM output you’re painting a target on your back? Anyway I’m not getting burned- the company is.

New comment by gymbeaux in "Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future"

gymbeaux — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:04:37 +0000

This made me think of how we have to manually block certain devices (usually smart TVs) so they don’t “phone home” and show us ads and so forth. I see your switch being banned as a sort of mixed blessing. It’s liberating in a way. I wonder if there’s some way to use a proxy to self host the software patches. We had something similar on the PS3 homebrew scene.

New comment by gymbeaux in "2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026"

gymbeaux — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:41:44 +0000

I often use LLMs to build locally running web apps and console apps that I otherwise never would have built, because the value-add wouldn’t be worth, say, 40 hours of my free time.

New comment by gymbeaux in "The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it"

gymbeaux — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:56:33 +0000

I just sold an RTX 3090 (released in 2020) for $1000. It should have been more like $200. I don’t see a point in running local LLMs with it but plenty of other people disagree, or want to “play around”. It’s so old that I can’t imagine a scenario where I’d be glad to have it- even if local LLMs ultimately catch up to the cloud frontier models (Opus, et al.). In a world where I can run Claude Opus 4.8 on an RTX 3090 at reasonable speeds, Anthropic doesn’t need even 1/20th the GPUs it has and it will dump them on the secondary market.

New comment by gymbeaux in "The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it"

gymbeaux — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:08:55 +0000

I would imagine Anthropic et al. are largely leasing land/buildings, so as the other commenter said… must be the server racks that are acting as collateral (if anything). Generally enterprise hardware depreciates very harshly. I’m used to paying $10 for Intel Xeons that once retailed for over $5,000. I expect to pick up some NVIDIA Blackwell 6000s for $100 each someday.

New comment by gymbeaux in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

gymbeaux — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:28:44 +0000

He was an established prodigy before he needed in-home nursing care. I suspect he’d have been taken care of regardless of access to socialized healthcare.

New comment by gymbeaux in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

gymbeaux — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:26:37 +0000

You’re assuming supply and demand is logical or efficient but like the stock market it’s often irrational and driven by some C Suite who doesn’t know what he’s doing. FAANG blew billions over hiring software engineers in 2021-2022 and often paid engineers to do effectively nothing for months or years. Despite their very high salaries, these individuals contributed nothing to society in exchange.

New comment by gymbeaux in "I'd not buy a LG monitor"

gymbeaux — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:08:50 +0000

Oh wow. Are they just repackaging official Windows patches or are they patching vulnerabilities themselves?

New comment by gymbeaux in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

gymbeaux — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:47:31 +0000

Yes, I’ve found my coworkers won’t admit they had AI write their code in any sort of group setting yet they’ve all admitted it in private. The implication seems to be if AI is writing your code you’re lazy/incompetent/bad/not working anywhere near 40 hours/week. I for one would hate for our bosses to figure out we do probably ~16 hours of actual work per week. But we all “get our stuff done” (thanks to AI).

New comment by gymbeaux in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

gymbeaux — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:41:23 +0000

The quality of the output is so variable. It depends on the model, “effort level”, prompting, probably even the programming language/app functionality, and libraries involved. For example, I find LLMs are best at making simple web apps. These web apps, while simple, would still take a senior engineer perhaps a week or two to create, but LLMs can spit them out inside of an hour. Conversely, LLMs struggle with things like Docker or local model stuff. Parallelization of code is a mixed bag. In these areas I think it often would have been faster for me to write the thing by hand.

New comment by gymbeaux in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

gymbeaux — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:37:27 +0000

I didn’t start using Claude Code until late 2025. Prior to that I would use ChatGPT to give me snippets of code but I was still doing most of the actual code writing. Coworkers told me in late 2025 about how they hadn’t written a line of code in “months” and just use Claude Code/agentic “whatever” so I tried out Claude Code and was pleasantly surprised. It is passable to have entire apps written by LLMs (I’ve made several that I otherwise never would have had the time to create by hand), but I wouldn’t say maintainable or easily extendable. It’s hard to be specific, but there’s something about LLM code that doesn’t look “natural”, and I’m not talking about the excessive use of comments in code. The code itself is unnatural. Functional, but unnatural. I wouldn’t want to suddenly lose LLMs and have to read through and understand and continue enhancing a codebase created by an LLM.

New comment by gymbeaux in "SpaceX sheds $400B in market value as debut rally hits reverse"

gymbeaux — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:45:03 +0000

It’s easier to open an app on my phone, and I believe wholeheartedly that Robinhood works hard to make their UI/UX as “fun” (dopamine-releasing) as possible. One area where Robinhood would be easier than any web app is biometric authentication. Not even having to sign in to the app makes it that much faster and easier to get a dopamine hit from placing a trade.

Robinhood makes their app fun to use with things like swiping up to place the trade, sometimes they put confetti on the screen… it really has quite a lot in common with an actual phone game like Monopoly Go or Candy Crush.

New comment by gymbeaux in "Steam Machine launches today"

gymbeaux — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:46:51 +0000

Both are console-sized x86 based computers that can run Windows or Linux. Both even lack a 3.5mm headphone jack (maybe that’s too old for a 2026 computer though). Both have a low TDP that means they will never compete with a traditional gaming computer.

I’m not sure what Proton has to do with anything.

New comment by gymbeaux in "SpaceX sheds $400B in market value as debut rally hits reverse"

gymbeaux — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:41:36 +0000

If you have an options strategy that works 99% of the time, then you’re a millionaire, and if you’re a millionaire I have to ask what you’re doing here replying to people about options trading.

New comment by gymbeaux in "SpaceX sheds $400B in market value as debut rally hits reverse"

gymbeaux — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:39:20 +0000

I mean unfortunately, as with the rest of the constitution, it’s up to the courts (ultimately the Supreme Court) to interpret, and the majority will never condone revolution, no matter how corrupt or ineffective the government becomes.

I think not many people realize that if the American Revolution was unsuccessful, the founding fathers would have been hanged for treason. It’s nice to have that given to us as a “right”, but with no means to enforce that right it may as well not exist at all. As time goes on I become more and more convinced that the founding fathers were exactly like Elon Musk- greedy, selfish, and out to brainwash the populace into doing their bidding. Many were wealthy slave owners, after all.