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New comment by holoduke in "OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?"

holoduke — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:47:43 +0000

Not DeepSeek themselves, but their open models are run by third-party companies in a profitable way. The unsustainable interference theory has been debunked.

New comment by holoduke in "OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?"

holoduke — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:45:33 +0000

I don't get why people think Chinese models could bring openai and anthropic to their knees. There are zero signs of such a scenario. In fact the market is still growing at a gigantic pace. Quality of American models is still AAA. Chinese will have their place. But they are unmatched by their American rivals.

New comment by holoduke in "Serbia's Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement"

holoduke — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:42:02 +0000

The replacement party isn't any better though. It will not change anything in Serbia. Just like Hungary which might look like it's changed , but it's not. The political layer isn't remotely controlling those countries. Powerful institutions are. And they are not chosen.

New comment by holoduke in "Why I Am a Programmer"

holoduke — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:37:03 +0000

Jobs come and jobs go. Sure that engineering will become even bigger, but the job as a literal code types is becoming obsolete.

New comment by holoduke in "A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis"

holoduke — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:31:17 +0000

The only real usecase I can see for jev style like models are processing long lists of items. i.e server logs or financial transactions or sensor data in robotics.

New comment by holoduke in "We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970"

holoduke — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:55:45 +0000

A certain degree of socialism like for example in Sweden works out quite good or not?

New comment by holoduke in "It's still ok to enjoy programming"

holoduke — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:30:48 +0000

I think the fun part of stuff you could do is setting up dev environments that are augmented. Not only the code creation part. But also the reviewing, testing , quality benchmarking and more. Arranging this is not easy and definitely an engineering challenge.

New comment by holoduke in "LittleJS is 2D and 3D now"

holoduke — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:11:21 +0000

In the end you are moving a bunch of electrons. With or without AI. You are just annoyed by AI. But creativity has nothing to do with AI or no AI.

New comment by holoduke in "Gemini 4 Argon"

holoduke — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:48:23 +0000

They are all very slow at the moment. Some tasks are taking hours to even days. These are DevOps related tasks in which I create hundreds of servers in an agentic way. It works. But it's slow. That's still annoying.

New comment by holoduke in "Gemini 4 Argon"

holoduke — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:45:55 +0000

The dashes reveal AI generated text. For me a trigger to further ignore the text.

New comment by holoduke in "AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software"

holoduke — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:58:25 +0000

Creating code is free now. Maintaining it is not. At least not at this point. The amount of slop we need to maintain is becoming very big. There is no other way than to use ai to deal with this. But that creates even more slop. Hopefully slop will be dealt with at some point.

New comment by holoduke in "Artificial Insanity"

holoduke — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:52:58 +0000

LLMs are like a static snapshot of a brain. Inactive till you run one tick with it. I expect AI models becoming much more dynamic. The model needs to be live updating itself. Then it will become a living thing. But hardware wont allow for that yet. Maybe first small dynamic LLMs are possible.

New comment by holoduke in "Artificial Insanity"

holoduke — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:47:02 +0000

What is exactly "actual understanding" . If it tells 1+1 = 2 it can perfectly explain why the result is 2. Or do you mean the actual transformer work during the 1+1 question?

New comment by holoduke in "The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4"

holoduke — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:41:17 +0000

Oh of course thats certainly also gonna happen. But i believe there its still useful to have local dedicated AI with low latency. For example regulators that need constant adjustments. Also in cameras local AI could be extremely useful. Same for audio processing and other sensor processing. Cloud solutions wont work in those cases.

New comment by holoduke in "The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4"

holoduke — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:23:13 +0000

In 5 years from now every device. Even your oven or washing machine has somekind of local LLM running for sensor reading and smart decision models. I can already think of quite some useful use cases for those devices. So I do believe that AI becomes magnitudes bigger than today. It's a logical step in our digital journey.

New comment by holoduke in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

holoduke — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:48:52 +0000

That's only temporary till production meets demand again.

New comment by holoduke in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

holoduke — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:59:34 +0000

He doesn't ruin the cost of memory. Advances in memory size and speed are now in full speed mode. Expect drastic increase in the upcoming years. Big factories are in the making and planned. Gigalab in the US and many others in the east. Since 2010 we have computers with 16gb as being normal. Finally we are moving into a new era where the standard will be 64gb next year and 128 in 2028. Hopefully we reach 1tb in 2030.

New comment by holoduke in "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"

holoduke — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:13:36 +0000

Talk to the emulator community. Huge leaps being made there. Or binary decompiling topics. Huge leaps there. There is more than web applications

New comment by holoduke in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

holoduke — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:05:32 +0000

Ai is the ultimate form of art made by humans.

New comment by holoduke in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

holoduke — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:02:16 +0000

But why Hollywood?