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New comment by pylua in "Our position on open-weights models"

pylua — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:46:12 +0000

True. It has been a race to the bottom for lowest cost as long as the quality meets the bare minimum. LLMs can go through and find all the nails sticking out pretty easily.

New comment by pylua in "Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account"

pylua — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:39:27 +0000

Yes, they scan your photos and text and look for reasons to report you to a government agency. They can completely misinterpret or fabricate what you have with no real controls other than good faith.

For somethings I think they are legally obligated to do this. It is creepy.

New comment by pylua in "Our position on open-weights models"

pylua — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:07:49 +0000

I have been, yes. For a field that has engineering in the name there sure has been a lot of critical mistakes.

You have to call a spade a spade — the profession accepts this sort of tradeoff in the name of speed and cost.

A well designed system would have never allowed those mistakes to occur. I feel like using an llm to catch these sorts of things is just because it wasn’t built right in the first place.

I think ai systems will be able to build systems of abstraction that are formally verified, and we won’t be needed(eventually).

Right now it’s being used as a bandaid.

New comment by pylua in "Our position on open-weights models"

pylua — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:31:11 +0000

The software industry should be ashamed by the number of exploits that ai can find in software. It’s really an embarrassment.

The software has to be built better.

New comment by pylua in "Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server"

pylua — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:01:27 +0000

Not always, it can be run at static code analysis or the container repository (not the prod one)?

New comment by pylua in "Our position on open-weights models"

pylua — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:53:19 +0000

At the end of the day it hurts U.S. consumers to not have Chinese cars mainstream in the market. We lose out on features and stagnate on innovation because we are not pushed to compete.

I can’t imagine this would be any different — banning open weight models would hurt us in the long run. The point is to beat the competition, not suppress it.

There should be no limits on open or custom models. Too often safety is a synonym for surveillance and control. It’s a natural consequence, intended or not.

I am curious… why can’t distillation be stopped?

As a side not Im not against protectionism, but it has to be across the board and the same in all industries with no excrptions. We’ve let all these industries die on the vine due to cheap cost in foreign countries. It could very well happen to ai.

New comment by pylua in "Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server"

pylua — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:52:47 +0000

This is the real answer to the op.

It’s incredible how overblown these sorts of things can become

New comment by pylua in "Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account"

pylua — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:16:02 +0000

Yes— they spy on every pic and text upload. They literally are big brother.

New comment by pylua in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

pylua — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:05:34 +0000

You mean mortars ?

New comment by pylua in "My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress"

pylua — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:07:51 +0000

Seems like the reshaping of an industry and is disconcerting for those of us who work in it.

New comment by pylua in "My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress"

pylua — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:52:39 +0000

Yeah, I agree. It will be like serverless but for code : codeless.

It’s a disconcerting future.

New comment by pylua in "My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress"

pylua — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:43:08 +0000

Does anyone know why we write code anymore? Why not pass through to an llm that generates the page on the fly (ssr)?

Is it cost ?

New comment by pylua in "Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower"

pylua — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:07:28 +0000

Just post to the database then asynch send to message queue. Messages should still be idempotent by the consumer but at least this follows rest and is transactional.

It’s simple and easy to follow. At scale use multi tenancy.

New comment by pylua in "One million passports leaked online"

pylua — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:35:12 +0000

Every time I send a work email I leak my pii. We should all use government issued uuids on linked in / facebook.

New comment by pylua in "Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few"

pylua — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:11:02 +0000

Yeah, I agree completely. This is very worrisome and is creating a multi class system.

New comment by pylua in "Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few"

pylua — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 01:57:26 +0000

Small business owner in the U.S. ?

New comment by pylua in "Feds deny Polestar authorization to sell cars in US from model year 2027"

pylua — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:18:26 +0000

Yeah, not many industries can compete but I don’t understand the fixation on only preserving auto.

New comment by pylua in "Feds deny Polestar authorization to sell cars in US from model year 2027"

pylua — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:35:11 +0000

I wonder why the U.S. is only interested in protecting its car industry and not others.

New comment by pylua in "Americans Have Grown Dramatically Anti-Data Center"

pylua — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:16:55 +0000

Yes. Don’t build the data center unless you can support that. What’s so strange about it?

New comment by pylua in "Americans Have Grown Dramatically Anti-Data Center"

pylua — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:53:01 +0000

Even for wind or solar ?