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New comment by mountainriver in "Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'"

mountainriver — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:04:49 +0000

I’m buying, this is the greatest invention of all time and Anthropic has garnered a pretty solid lead right now.

New comment by mountainriver in "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"

mountainriver — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:12:15 +0000

YCombinator is not a social company. They actually do a ton to try to stop this stuff, it's just hard.

New comment by mountainriver in "Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI"

mountainriver — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:32:55 +0000

Depends on where you work... where I happen to work people sit in Jira meetings all day and in the time they talk about it my team implements it.

So yes "literally everyone has access to it" (what a revelation) but you still need to be smart in how you use it

New comment by mountainriver in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

mountainriver — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:42:46 +0000

That’s not what we are empirically seeing though. There is also no way of knowing that things can’t be progressing for the next 5 years. No foundational model company would be spending the amount they are on research if they thought it wasn’t going to pan out

New comment by mountainriver in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

mountainriver — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:22:59 +0000

What would possibly tell you that?

New comment by mountainriver in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

mountainriver — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:18:51 +0000

Off in the sense that he shouldn’t be running the company?

New comment by mountainriver in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

mountainriver — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:17:28 +0000

It was always benchmaxxed

New comment by mountainriver in "Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI"

mountainriver — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 01:37:17 +0000

It does because you can now just steamroll features out the door and make everyone look bad that’s sitting around in meetings all day

New comment by mountainriver in "Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours"

mountainriver — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:07:51 +0000

You do still need to know though, different prompts have different affects on them.

New comment by mountainriver in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

mountainriver — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:32:19 +0000

It’s basically because LLMs supersede all of these. The ability to reason, research, and write code applies to everything else and will speed up the innovation cycles there significantly.

Google is losing in the race that really matters

New comment by mountainriver in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

mountainriver — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:21:42 +0000

So crazy, at one point they had 3 different systems for interacting with Gemini, all with different auth.

For a company that prides themselves on the smartest engineers, they really struggle with the basics

New comment by mountainriver in "AI's top startups are barely publishing their research"

mountainriver — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:14:40 +0000

Oh that built on a bunch of ideas that weren’t far off. It was a great discovery but like many it’s standing in tall shoulders

New comment by mountainriver in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

mountainriver — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:21:47 +0000

Quantization also started picking up around then, as well as distillation into smaller models

New comment by mountainriver in "Bringing PyTorch Monarch to AMD GPUs"

mountainriver — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:57:56 +0000

Love monarch, amazing primitives and feels so much lighter than Ray.

Another awesome add on their part

New comment by mountainriver in "Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig"

mountainriver — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:38:29 +0000

did you look cool using it though?

New comment by mountainriver in "Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust"

mountainriver — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:37:15 +0000

Can't believe people actually still think this

New comment by mountainriver in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

mountainriver — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:33:01 +0000

I know that but they also said Cerebras

New comment by mountainriver in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

mountainriver — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:30:44 +0000

This is why you should always distill your models from a competitor.

Let them take on the liability

New comment by mountainriver in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

mountainriver — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:34:27 +0000

Sol is running on Cerebras right?

New comment by mountainriver in "Unified Memory, Explained: Why Mini PCs Can Run 70B Models a Big GPU Can't"

mountainriver — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:50:50 +0000

Yeah this is such a funny thing going around. Try to run or train a small/medium sized model on a MacBook. It doesn’t go very good compared to a dedicated gpu

This is likely the right path in the future but it isn’t there yet today