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New comment by nozzlegear in "US jury says Apple owes record $5.7B in haptic technology patent case"

nozzlegear — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:23:34 +0000

Goomba fallacy, they're not the same people

New comment by nozzlegear in "What even is an OS now?"

nozzlegear — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:45:50 +0000

> The fear maybe a year ago was SaaSpocalypse. Why pay for Salesforce when I can vibe a CRM to my exact needs? Turns out to not be that easy.

In fact, it looks like the advent of AI has actually accelerated revenue growth for SaaS rather than killed it off. People simply aren't building these custom SaaS-killers as much as commenters on HN would have us believe.

Stripe Economics, The SaaSpocalypse was more like a RenaiSaaS: https://www.stripeeconomics.com/p/the-saaspocalypse-was-more...

New comment by nozzlegear in "Plan mode is dead"

nozzlegear — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:27:26 +0000

> Codex and Claude Code are the best harnesses out there by a long shot. They work out of the box, require no real config, and just do the thing.

Even if I agreed, that doesn't address my point: Claude Code might be the world's best harness right now, but that doesn't stop an Anthropic employee coming along tomorrow and taking a giant steamy dump on the thing you like most about it. You're using their workflow, not your own.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Plan mode is dead"

nozzlegear — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:04:25 +0000

Remember, Anthropic knows best for your workflow!

This is why open harnesses and open models will always be superior, it's only a matter of time until someone decides that something you use isn't worth maintaining anymore. The reply from the Anthropic employee up above doesn't give me much confidence that Claude users will be able to continue using plan mode forever.

New comment by nozzlegear in "The Post-AGI Era"

nozzlegear — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:30:41 +0000

Humans don't exist in a vacuum, they're going to be born, raised and educated by the global education system no matter what. It doesn't cost a business anything to hire a human who's already been educated. But even then, I'd still wager that it's easier, more efficient and cheaper to teach a group of humans than train an AI. We've seen how many millions of dollars it costs to train a single model, MiMo, and the Big AI companies won't even tell us how much cash they're shoveling into the furnace.

If the argument is that local AI can be quickly trained for cheap to do a single task or a small set of tasks, I'm much more sympathetic to that – but that's not AGI.

New comment by nozzlegear in "The Post-AGI Era"

nozzlegear — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:32:21 +0000

It is inordinately funny to me that the examples you listed all involve the computer as a medium – the kind of things a programmer would think is marvelous and proof of AGI, but falls squarely within the wheelhouse of computer whiz shit.

New comment by nozzlegear in "The Post-AGI Era"

nozzlegear — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:36:23 +0000

You can easily gather a group of humans and teach them all at once. Humans learn and generalize far more effectively than an AI, we have millions of years of evolution working in our favor here. Will AI match us at this one day? Maybe, but it's certainly not today.

New comment by nozzlegear in "The Post-AGI Era"

nozzlegear — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:28:34 +0000

> Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a hypothetical type of artificial intelligence that matches or surpasses human capabilities across virtually all cognitive tasks.

Programmers think that because a slick piece of software is really good at writing code, it must obviously be really good at everything else. Nothing is more complex than the big brain shit they've been doing their whole lives.

New comment by nozzlegear in "The Post-AGI Era"

nozzlegear — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:23:41 +0000

Anthropic's Gross Income

New comment by nozzlegear in "Yes, Claude can do nine loops"

nozzlegear — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:21:24 +0000

Honey, it's time for your daily Anthropic PR piece!

New comment by nozzlegear in "'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us"

nozzlegear — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:00:32 +0000

My wife does nature photography, and the social media groups she posts her photos in can be absolutely vicious about the methods and tools photographers use to edit/touch up their photos. Things that were once banal, like denoising or the clone tool, are now anathema to certain people after Adobe added AI enhancements to Photoshop and Lightroom. There are even little sub-groups of "vegan" photographers who post grainy, out-of-focus, deliberately bad photos with captions like "all natural photography, this is what nature looks like without AI!"

New comment by nozzlegear in "I'm Tired of Being on the Network"

nozzlegear — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:00:33 +0000

I live in a small farm town, about the furthest you could get from a gated community or access controlled apartment complex, and have never had a package stolen either.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

nozzlegear — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:34:33 +0000

For varying definitions of results.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

nozzlegear — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:44:03 +0000

> You can move mountains with Astra or Opus 5.5.

Mountains that were made out of molehills, an ever-growing heap of bullshit.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Apple iPhone 4 “Antennagate” Q&A (2010) [video]"

nozzlegear — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:27:17 +0000

I'm sure the pause is something he rehearsed at some point, but I've watched a few of his Q&As where he's done it. If I recall, he was even doing it in the 90s (the Q&A I'm thinking of is the one where he picks up a chair and pretends to use it as a shield). So while I'm sure it was something he originally rehearsed, it undoubtedly just became a habit of his over time.

Edit: what a weird thing to downvote lol

New comment by nozzlegear in "Enjoy Every Sandwich"

nozzlegear — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:01:31 +0000

> So many tasty things people miss out on due to peer pressure and being afraid to give "strange" food a try.

I agree with the sentiment, but there's probably also a cultural thing. I love root beer, for instance, but from what I understand, many (most?) Europeans who've tried it think it's disgusting and tastes like medicine.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]"

nozzlegear — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:51:48 +0000

That's true, but assumes that saving money is the only reason to go local (or that someone doesn't already have the hardware to do it – a Mac with 64gb can run most 27B models). By using a local LLM, you can guarantee that your data stays private; that your workflow always works for you and won't randomly change or stop working at the whims of an upstream provider; and that you can evolve your tools or swap in new models whenever you want, without some weird Effective Altruist culter in SF writing a dissertation on the model's supposed mood first.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Apple iPhone 4 “Antennagate” Q&A (2010) [video]"

nozzlegear — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:44:12 +0000

It's fascinating how Jobs isn't afraid to pause and wait while he thinks about his answer (07:00, 20:00). He doesn't have that habit most have of babbling to fill dead air. It makes him sound a lot more authentic/less rehearsed.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Enjoy Every Sandwich"

nozzlegear — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:59:38 +0000

I don't know, Sandwiches of History has some real stinkers every now and then, such as the Cheese and Banana Sandwich, the Clam and Cheese Sandwich, or the Peanut-Butter Sandwich.

Cheese and Banana Sandwich: https://youtu.be/uUzO19tgwZc

Clam and Cheese Sandwich: https://youtu.be/31bZ-ReB51U

Peanut-Butter Sandwich: https://youtu.be/1Bmw1JpNY90

New comment by nozzlegear in "Two-tier encryption in the UK"

nozzlegear — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:46:07 +0000

I think the person you're replying to was talking about the UK, not the US.