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New comment by pishpash in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

pishpash — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:47:40 +0000

Define safety oriented.

New comment by pishpash in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

pishpash — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:01:10 +0000

No. What isn't spent now is future spending. You are still getting less.

New comment by pishpash in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

pishpash — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:48:55 +0000

Just like search itself, caching does wonders. What do 90% of the people ask anyway but mundane, totally predictable questions?

New comment by pishpash in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

pishpash — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:06:59 +0000

Gemini (at least public free version) hallucinates way too much. If it's like that, it can go very badly for Apple.

New comment by pishpash in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

pishpash — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:53:49 +0000

So they successfully blackmailed you.

New comment by pishpash in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

pishpash — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:47:46 +0000

By that account an open source project never dies because the code is there for anyone to improve upon. Why does anyone care if one particular repo realization of some useful idea or its maintainers are around or not?

It's quite some value judgment and worldview to divide open source into autistic maintainers who do even if no one uses and asshole users who do not and cannot do.

New comment by pishpash in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

pishpash — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:36:42 +0000

Or they are to blame because fixing 1000 CVE's doesn't magically absolve one of responsibility for regression bugs, even if one "accepts" them as a psychological salve.

New comment by pishpash in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

pishpash — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:31:28 +0000

It depends on the circumstances. Maintainers can do whatever they want, theoretically. Practically, there is implicit community involvement, otherwise a project dies as people abandon it. Right now it isn't even acknowledged what is happening.

New comment by pishpash in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

pishpash — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:31:45 +0000

Autonomous agents are different. Claude should fork the repo because it is a new maintainer trying to take over a project. Doesn't matter if the OG maintainer is under illusions.

New comment by pishpash in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

pishpash — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:23:59 +0000

Or they are to blame because they misplaced responsibility in a tool's universality to not introduce regressions, even complex and non-obvious ones.

New comment by pishpash in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

pishpash — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:06:22 +0000

If the maintainer used any other tool which is suspected to cause a number of recent problems, it'd be discussed. The tone is a problem but the reaction is equally problematic. It isn't even clear the maintainer hasn't been silently changed if agents are used, depending on the extent. That itself is worthy of discussion, and "maintainer decision" is not the right call in that situation. One comment basically insinuates that with instructions for AI, though it was written as a trollish joke.

New comment by pishpash in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

pishpash — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:54:40 +0000

Exactly this. The most salient comment basically said that AI use has increased the cadence of commits beyond reliable testing capacity for what was a stable product in equilibrium. It isn't an issue specific complaint so it wouldn't make sense to only flag one specific issue. In fact you'd fall behind trying to chase the AI moving head. This has everything to do with AI, and isn't a normal issue reporting situation. The other camp seems highly defensive, which reeks of indefensibility.

New comment by pishpash in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

pishpash — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:34:36 +0000

Did crypto workload ever take over an entire data center?

New comment by pishpash in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

pishpash — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:20:01 +0000

It's mobile devices not having user-facing files as first-class citizens. The mobile era started just as Dropbox started to solve a computer era problem. Bad timing.

New comment by pishpash in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

pishpash — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:16:49 +0000

Different I/O, power and cooling requirements for majority GPU workloads?

New comment by pishpash in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

pishpash — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:54:43 +0000

Is particle physics digestible even if it is explainable? Some things are not simple, cannot be not abstract, and will not be understood by most, or all, people.

New comment by pishpash in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

pishpash — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:51:47 +0000

That assumes everyone will do so. Some people won't, and it's not clear you need a large number of such, a priesthood if you like, to survive as a species without AI.

New comment by pishpash in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

pishpash — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:49:43 +0000

People still do grow their own food for self sufficiency. I am sure there will be luddites who live in self-sufficient communes like the Amish.

New comment by pishpash in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

pishpash — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:07:36 +0000

That's not close to "everything ... any consumer might need". It's a list of useless things, other than 5TB of storage. Granted, cloud storage typically sells for more than this, so they are offering Gemini for something like -$15/mo.

New comment by pishpash in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

pishpash — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:01:25 +0000

You assume there will be no takers to replace Gmail, whereas there probably will be hundreds waiting to do it.