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New comment by impulser_ in "Berthd"

impulser_ — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:56:39 +0000

Agents running in a remote vm.

New comment by impulser_ in "Berthd"

impulser_ — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:39:37 +0000

The more time goes on the more I think there is basically no moat in AI products because everyone is literally building the same shit. There is zero creativity in AI product right now. Yeah they might be different designs, but they are all the same exact product under the skin.

Cursor, Devin, Factory, Amp Code, Codex, Claude Codex, Antigravity, Conductor, OpenCode, T3 Code, Orca, Emdash, and hundreds of more of the same exact shit.

Yeah they might market it same fancy revolutionary technology like Orbs, but it not it just an agent harness local or remote. You can do orbs literally with Claude Code with a single prompt it not special.

We have AI that lets you build things freely and yet here we are all building the same exact thing.

This is just coding harness. The personal assistant space is the exact same.

New comment by impulser_ in "America.gov"

impulser_ — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:42:12 +0000

Why not they both already provide their models for free...

New comment by impulser_ in "America.gov"

impulser_ — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:00:13 +0000

I believe it's a mix of Gemini and Grok. They are probably providing the compute for free.

New comment by impulser_ in "OpenAI: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscription"

impulser_ — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:09:39 +0000

It's very obvious that they need compute for whatever they are announcing tomorrow and that thing will most likely have free usage. So they are cutting usage on the biggest users of compute to allow them to be able to serve whatever they are announcing tomorrow to the masses.

The thing is probably a Muse, and Grok Bot competitor.

New comment by impulser_ in "Leaked Gemini 4 Pro numbers"

impulser_ — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:50:40 +0000

It doesn't matter if the leaks come from Google themselves until you use a Gemini model you don't know how good it is. I mean Flash 3.8 is second on DeepSWE and there isn't a single person picking that model over Sol and Astra or Opus and Fable.

New comment by impulser_ in "DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)"

impulser_ — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:35:07 +0000

Yeah, but that brings up another problem that China doesn't have. Their federal government is always on the same page. The US federal government changes every two years and it doesn't seem like one side is going to be allowing building of AI data centers anymore and in fact might just ban AI in general.

New comment by impulser_ in "DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)"

impulser_ — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:30:35 +0000

Short term they might have less compute, but long term they will most definitely have more compute. They don't have to worry about energy, they don't have to worry about people blocking them building data centers the only thing stopping them is there no Chinese manufacturer that can produce a chip as good as Nvidia but I would bet that solved in a year or so.

New comment by impulser_ in "Meta VR Glasses"

impulser_ — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:51:33 +0000

I think you're underestimating Facebook if you think they don't know your address.

New comment by impulser_ in "Meta VR Glasses"

impulser_ — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:46:14 +0000

What does your state ID have that Facebook can't already get?

New comment by impulser_ in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

impulser_ — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:26:30 +0000

As they should because things like this get people thinking even if it something small. Once you get people thinking about things you tend to get solutions.

New comment by impulser_ in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

impulser_ — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:40:02 +0000

It was 9.4B to be exact and it was over the course of two days lol. It was between two projects so 99% of them were cached reads.

The GPT was about 1B on two projects on 300$ worth of plans all on Astra and I capped out on usage.

Anthropic caching must be better because the cache rates are better on Claude models.

New comment by impulser_ in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

impulser_ — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:07:10 +0000

Usage is actually Claude now because of Opus 5.5 since it a better model that Astra. I maxed out my 200$ Claude plan with 10b token on Opus 5 and 5.5 is cheaper. I maxed out two Codex accounts with like not even 5b tokens.

New comment by impulser_ in "Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard"

impulser_ — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:13:21 +0000

Well maybe they should because companies that do cool shit tend to attract people wanting to do cool shit and those are the people you want to be working at your company.

Unless you want your company to become Google which use to do cool shit but now they dont and now they don't have a single person at the company that can build cool shit so they just release a bunch of lame shit.

New comment by impulser_ in "Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard"

impulser_ — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:05:31 +0000

Why the fuck would you or I care about that?

Anthropic and OpenAI literally stole from every human in history and youre out here complaining that the Chinese are distilling models and releasing them to the public?

Why do you care?

New comment by impulser_ in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

impulser_ — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:49:57 +0000

LLM don't need to be trained in a library to use it well. It's just Rust which they know well.

New comment by impulser_ in "Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard"

impulser_ — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:45:29 +0000

This isn't about liking open source. This is about the labs just being cool and doing cool shit instead of the opposite which is Anthropic where all they talking about is killing everyone and taking everyone's job.

New comment by impulser_ in "Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard"

impulser_ — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:22:21 +0000

The Chinese labs are just making fun of the US labs at this point.

Where is the cool shit from the US labs?

New comment by impulser_ in "Homebrew 7.0.0"

impulser_ — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:25:13 +0000

Yeah, the combination with mise is what make this great.

New comment by impulser_ in "Homebrew 7.0.0"

impulser_ — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:58:57 +0000

You can use mise for install homebrew items btw so if you get a new computer you just drop the config.toml inside the mise and install.

This is all you have to add to the config file:

[bootstrap.packages]

"brew:git" = "latest"

"brew-cask:ghostty" = "latest"