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New comment by karahime in "No LLM Code in Dependencies"

karahime — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:29:26 +0000

You're being sarcastic, but I do enjoy it. I just took a Waymo recently and it was thrilling, it felt great to feel the wind and the sun, listen to music, and get where I was going without having to drive there. I still like driving, obviously, but being able to decide one or the other is wonderful.

New comment by karahime in "Weird Al Yankovic Pulled Out of AI Ad Deal: 'I Can't Be the Poster Boy for AI'"

karahime — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:04:52 +0000

This has always been just a meme. Plenty of the people I know who know the most about tech are also very excited about it. Person B in this example is often miserable for a lot of other reasons that have nothing to do with tech, doesn't understand tech as deeply as the meme suggests, and pattern matches cynicism into everything.

New comment by karahime in "Companies Are Throttling Employees' AI Use Because It's Too Expensive"

karahime — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:29:47 +0000

This is an ongoing misunderstanding of the recent moves here. Willingness or unwillingness to spend on frontier models isn't derivable from whether cost caps exist. Comparing it to cloud spend, most companies have cap regimes to ensure that employees aren't spinning up the largest instances for every job and leaving them open, but that doesn't mean those instances are too expensive for what they do or that companies are rejecting them. Rather, it's an indicator of ecosystem integration and a common step in corporate policy structure around spend. The actual content of article talking about tier guidance and spending dashboards supports this reading more than the one implied by the headline, I believe.

New comment by karahime in "Bring back crappy forums"

karahime — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:28:56 +0000

This probably isn't totally untrue, but, for example, 4chan is sorted by recency and has a lot of the same problems as other large sites online, which to me says that it can't just be complex recommendation systems driving problems.

New comment by karahime in "Japan has 41% of the 100-year companies – secrets of 1,447-year survival"

karahime — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:36:24 +0000

It should not be underrated how much of this is intentional policy environment shaping by the Bank of Japan and the Japanese government, rather than some inherently wiser management philosophy.

New comment by karahime in "Because It Speaks in Words"

karahime — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:10:34 +0000

Doesn't really match my experience.

New comment by karahime in "Fable 5 will default to Opus 4.8 for coding tasks"

karahime — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:08:20 +0000

I agree that it shouldn't be outright illegal, but I will definitely be making the personal choice not to engage with model providers which do this. There's no amount of impressive results that could make me want to secretly pay more for less.

New comment by karahime in "Poisoning Well"

karahime — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 23:15:21 +0000

Personally, I would not want to be on the side of people openly saying that they are poisoning the well.

New comment by karahime in "Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors"

karahime — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 22:55:34 +0000

It's in the megathread linked in this comment, but I want to specifically point to https://open-slum.org/ which is basically a status page for different sites dedicated to this purpose, and which I've found helpful.

New comment by karahime in "Games: No sex, please. we're credit card companies"

karahime — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:42:30 +0000

My best guess on this is that it's as simple as 1) most people are not Apple users (harder to reach critical mass online), 2) and most Apple users are aware of other ways to access things if that's what they want, while the ones who don't want that buy Apple in part because of the more walled garden aspects. This is purely speculative though, so it would be interesting to see surveys or other perspectives.

New comment by karahime in "Beyond Meat fights for survival"

karahime — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 06:28:37 +0000

Having lived in both the US and Europe, I have to imagine at least some of that comes down to cost. In Europe, the plant based alternatives (at least where I lived) were actually cheaper, and meaningfully so.