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New comment by phainopepla2 in "Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work"

phainopepla2 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:34:17 +0000

Unions typically fight pretty hard to keep their members from facing professional liability (see police unions), so your comment is a bit at odds with itself.

I'm fairly confident that a software engineer's union would not be lobbying to make it's members liable for things they did while legally performing their job duties at places like Meta or Google.

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models"

phainopepla2 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:18:31 +0000

> Claude code does some of this by handing off the "explore" agent work to haiku

This is no longer necessarily true. As of 2.1.198 [0] (released July 1st): "The built-in Explore agent now inherits the main session’s model (capped at opus) instead of running on haiku"

[0] https://code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog#2-1-198

New comment by phainopepla2 in "It's getting harder to focus every day"

phainopepla2 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:36:09 +0000

Pen and paper nearby might help.

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"

phainopepla2 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:57:48 +0000

Nope. I used to assist a photographer who did shoots for catalogs, and clips were used quite a bit. The same model has to wear dozens of pieces of clothing throughout the shoot, and not everything is going to fit their body well, but the clients obviously want everything to look well fitted.

New comment by phainopepla2 in "When A.I. is a member of the family"

phainopepla2 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:46:48 +0000

Respectfully, I am not. Communication is so broad as to be meaningless in this context. Can you have a community that communicates via smoke signals alone?

If people don't talk about one other then there is no community. It's a fundamental part of human culture, which has existed in every human society ever recorded, and almost certainly every human society every to exist.

New comment by phainopepla2 in "When A.I. is a member of the family"

phainopepla2 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:02:47 +0000

Gossip is a hugely important part of how a community constitutes itself. Without gossip, you don't even have a community. Of course, it can go in malicious and destructive directions as well

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Codex Micro"

phainopepla2 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:15:51 +0000

If that was the real purpose they would have priced it lower.

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

phainopepla2 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:03:36 +0000

That doesn't seem that weird to me. Good processes lead to good artifacts.

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Grok 4.5"

phainopepla2 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:53:32 +0000

Do you really believe that people keeping politics out of technical discussions is how we got here. I mean, do you actually believe that, or are you just using that rhetoric to bolster your argument?

Because from where I'm sitting, politics has entered almost every possible discussion since at least 2015, and it has not made things one whit better .

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

phainopepla2 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:57:52 +0000

Sometimes called the soft bigotry of low expectations

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament"

phainopepla2 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:46:43 +0000

What relationship does the death penalty and genocide have to democracy (or lack thereof)? That seems orthogonal to the definition.

New comment by phainopepla2 in ""Beyond the limit": Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky"

phainopepla2 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:25:20 +0000

I had the same experience visit Mojave National Preserve. It was very distracting while trying to stargaze. I had to stay up late to see the night sky I remember

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

phainopepla2 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:42:07 +0000

That's not true. Even the liberal interpretation of this recognizes that some people within the geographic boundary are not subject to the jurisdiction. Diplomats and invading armies, for example.

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

phainopepla2 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:33:43 +0000

Following the implications of this argument leads to some pretty hairy places. If a person is incapable of reasoning outside of their class/race/gender/etc position, then how is a fair law even possible? Or perhaps the argument implies that people like that constitutional scholar have reached a state of purely detached enlightenment, and thus are exempt from this logic?

New comment by phainopepla2 in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

phainopepla2 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:23:38 +0000

Having all the world's knowledge at our fingertips didn't seem to make us any smarter (quite the contrary, from where I'm sitting), so I'm skeptical that having private tutors at our disposal is going to. Perhaps for the ever-curious few, but for most people those "tutors" will probably just end up as another form of entertainment.

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Claude Sonnet 5"

phainopepla2 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:47:53 +0000

Looking at some of the agentic coding benchmarks on the system card[0], pages 117-118, it seems that running it at low outperforms Sonnet 4.6 at any level, and is a good deal cheaper as well. So on low it could be a good workhorse for an Opus-planned task.

[0] https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-system-card

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Nano Banana 2 Lite"

phainopepla2 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:05:00 +0000

I think their last sentence is a pretty clear indicator that they were not being serious.

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards"

phainopepla2 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:34:22 +0000

This doesn't seem like a dichotomy to me. Words can be a byproduct of thought and consciousness while also enabling new forms of consciousness and reasoning.

Clothing enables the human body to do things it couldn't before (staying warm, protecting the skin and feet, etc), but it also couldn't exist without the human body to create it.

New comment by phainopepla2 in "DeepSeek V4 Peak Valley Pricing Change"

phainopepla2 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:41:00 +0000

I got an email from them with this information approximately six hours ago.

There is also a banner about the price change on their API platform site, at least for me

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

phainopepla2 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:08:43 +0000

Are you only considering coding use cases?

Many enterprise use cases, such as simple data extraction, are well served by cheaper models.