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New comment by mrbungie in "Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers chasing usage scores"

mrbungie — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:37:31 +0000

MBAs are simply unable to learn this.

New comment by mrbungie in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

mrbungie — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:21:33 +0000

It really depends on their environment. Not every city is a car-first city.

New comment by mrbungie in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

mrbungie — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:48:08 +0000

AI as a tech is fine. But disliking it and the social/economic effects around it is fine too, people should be allowed to feel however they want to feel about certain techs and situations.

To recommend people to suck it up is not the answer I wish in the society I want to live in.

New comment by mrbungie in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

mrbungie — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:24:01 +0000

> I know artificial analysis quite well as the gold standard in llm evals.

I also know them, but it took me a while to realise you were publishing their data in that table. I don't think it was clear.

> The age is important because new techniques keep being developed and so it is a very rough indicator of the size/cost/efficiency trade-off.

Yes but you are already including the name of the model, your potential public for the table already know about model's release history and therefore each model's age, at least roughly.

New comment by mrbungie in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

mrbungie — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:54:29 +0000

It is kind of noisy because the release recency, which is what your "age" column actually represents, is not important data for the comparison you are trying to make.

Also what message we should get from that table is not really obvious.

New comment by mrbungie in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

mrbungie — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:44:59 +0000

There is now an Antigravity CLI which will replace Gemini CLI. Gemini CLI is going to be EOLd by June 18th afaik. Antigravity CLI and GUI share the same agent harness, so it might do the same task.

Source: https://developers.googleblog.com/an-important-update-transi...

New comment by mrbungie in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

mrbungie — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:44:24 +0000

He is saying that while holding Worldcoin as THE solution behind his back. He hopes to show it when the time comes.

New comment by mrbungie in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

mrbungie — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:20:14 +0000

Well, we were overall better for a couple of centuries after abolishing all-powerful kings + some welfare laws here and there (ymmv, maybe serfdom sounds nice to you). So those changes can work for a while, big emphasis on can and for a while.

Greedy accumulators always end up ruining things for societies when it gets into ridiculous extremes (and there is a part of society that notices and gets fed up).

New comment by mrbungie in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

mrbungie — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:14:13 +0000

Yeah, I know AI is useful for that, that's why I said after I learn. Hopefully once.

New comment by mrbungie in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

mrbungie — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:13:31 +0000

0 tokens per command >>> Hundreds of tokens per command

New comment by mrbungie in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

mrbungie — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:30:13 +0000

It is difficult to believe that you can cobra effect yourself into greatness. I'd rather say the most useful perk for companies doing this is the AI-washing adoption metrics they can report, which will hopefully (for them) increase valuations.

New comment by mrbungie in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

mrbungie — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:26:32 +0000

Once I learn a command that is both repeatable and useful, I prefer to either keep it in my mind or in my aliases. Thank you.

New comment by mrbungie in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

mrbungie — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:25:33 +0000

I still don't know how to reconcile these reports with what other people say about GenAI-agentic assisted engineering being the only way of working nowadays, especially in startups.

Probably there is no dichotomy going on and it depends on multiple factors, but it seems so weird to see reports that are so different between each other.

New comment by mrbungie in "Apple-OpenAI Relationship Frays, Setting Up Possible Legal Fight"

mrbungie — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:50:01 +0000

Ofc, they were practically dying 30 years ago. But I can't really see why that's is relevant here.

New comment by mrbungie in "Apple-OpenAI Relationship Frays, Setting Up Possible Legal Fight"

mrbungie — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:23:05 +0000

Pretty sure Apple can survive a legal war like this. On the other hand, it sounds like OpenAI is punching above its weight.

New comment by mrbungie in "Apple-OpenAI Relationship Frays, Setting Up Possible Legal Fight"

mrbungie — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:52:39 +0000

The article makes it sound like OpenAI is really entitled in this one. Also legal action is obviously going to be a strong signal of OpenAI's friendliness /s.

New comment by mrbungie in "Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains"

mrbungie — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:17:42 +0000

I'm always wondering who has the time to consume all the new code that is being produced. Like sure, you can produce at 5-10X the speed, but is someone using those features? Not sure if the typical consumer mind can keep up with such speed of changes.

New comment by mrbungie in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

mrbungie — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:40:41 +0000

Investors actually want slop-branded AI on everything right now, so it checks out for companies to maximize for it. We are so fucked.

New comment by mrbungie in "Task Paralysis and AI"

mrbungie — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:00:16 +0000

You usually don't get immediate responses from hires which means delayed gratification and avoiding much of the potential dopaminergic effects you get when engaging with LLMs.

You can play overextending the hire analogy all you want but it is simply not the same.

New comment by mrbungie in "Task Paralysis and AI"

mrbungie — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:33:01 +0000

The gambling part is because of the (hopefully emergent and not purposefully designed) intermittent reinforcement due to the limits. You don't get that with regular hires.