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New comment by ragequittah in "GPT-5.5 – No ARC-AGI-3 scores"

ragequittah — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:33:13 +0000

I've been reading that we've hit a wall since chatgpt 3.5 [1]. Then 6 months later when the models are significantly better the goalposts are moved and we've hit the wall again. It's a very strange thing to watch so many people be so confidently incorrect so many times in a row. Not even saying you're wrong, just that historically this argument has been a losing bet.

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2023/04/26/openai-ce...

New comment by ragequittah in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

ragequittah — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:37:40 +0000

I always find this argument to ring hollow. Maybe it's because I've been through it with too many technologies already. Digital photography took out the art of film photography. CGI took out the wonder of practical effects. Digital art takes out the important brush strokes of someone actually painting. The real answer always is the mediums can coexist and each will be good for expression in their own way.

I'm not sure you immediately lose meaning if someone can make a highly personalized version of something easily. The % of completely meaningless video after YouTube and tiktok came about has skyrocketed. The amount of good stuff to watch has gone up as well though.

New comment by ragequittah in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

ragequittah — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:29:24 +0000

Can't the expression come from the person prompting the AI and sometimes taking hours inpainting or tweaking the prompt to try get the exact image / expression they had in their mind? A good use I've found is to be able to make scenes from a dream you had into an image. If that's not an expression of something then I'm not sure anything is.

New comment by ragequittah in "Bernie Sanders: "AI Is a Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear""

ragequittah — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:39:48 +0000

Apologies median wages was the wrong statistic to choose because the top x% rise has been astronomical. The productivity has gone up along with CEO wages. That money does get made even if the workers never see it. Or if they do see it they immediately give it back (and then some) when they pay their rent.

New comment by ragequittah in "Bernie Sanders: "AI Is a Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear""

ragequittah — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:45:22 +0000

The way this always works in a corporation is people's jobs will be just as hard or harder and they'll hire far less people. As always happens productivity per person will skyrocket and median wages will somehow be lower.

New comment by ragequittah in ""Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds"

ragequittah — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:39:50 +0000

Just a simple test for people who believe this:

Step 1) read the article

Step 2) have a frontier AI model summarize the article

Step 3) find any 'bullshit' that it comes up with

Step 4) do it 5 more times in a row because obviously the non-determinism will make it say something different each time and it should bs you at least once since it's simply a bs machine anyways

Step 5) report your findings

New comment by ragequittah in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

ragequittah — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:54:24 +0000

You're probably right [1]

[1]https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/anthropic-ai-copyright-sett...

New comment by ragequittah in "Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?"

ragequittah — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:01:51 +0000

"Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life.” — Stephen King, On Writing

You need to design the code in order to tell the LLM how to write it. The LLM can help with this but generally it's better to have a full plan in place to give it beforehand. I've said it before elsewhere but I think this argument will eventually be similar to the people arguing you don't truly know how to code unless you're using assembly language for everything. I mean sure assembly code is better / more efficient in every way but who has the time to bother in a post-compiler world?

New comment by ragequittah in "Web development is fun again"

ragequittah — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:56:12 +0000

Usually The thing you've learned after googling for half an hour is mostly that google isn't very useful for search anymore.

New comment by ragequittah in "Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?"

ragequittah — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:46:10 +0000

This to me seems like saying you can learn nothing from a book unless you yourself have written it. You can read the code the LLM writes the same as you can read the code your colleagues write. Moreover you have to pretty explicitly tell it what to write for it to be very useful. You're still designing what it's doing you just don't have to write every line.

New comment by ragequittah in "The suck is why we're here"

ragequittah — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 05:06:04 +0000

The times it's wrong has become vanishingly small. At least for the things I use it for (mostly technical). Chatgpt with extended thinking and feeding it the docs url or a pdf or 3 to start you'll very rarely get an error. Especially when compared to google / stack exchange.

New comment by ragequittah in "Web development is fun again"

ragequittah — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 04:53:49 +0000

I imagine this same argument happening when people stopped using machine code and assembly en masse and started using FORTRAN or COBOL. You don't really know what you're doing unless you're spending the effort I spent!

New comment by ragequittah in "The suck is why we're here"

ragequittah — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 04:36:38 +0000

Usually studying a test book is reconceptualizing it in whatever way fits the way you learn. For some people that's notes, for some it's flash cards, for some it's reading the textbook twice and they just get it.

To imagine LLMs have no use case here seems dishonest. If I don't understand a particularly hard part of the subject matter and the textbook doesn't expand on it enough you can tell the LLM to break it down further with sources. I know this works because I've been doing it with Google (slowly, very slowly) for decades. Now it's just way more convenient to get to the ideas you want to learn about and expand them as far as you want to go.

New comment by ragequittah in "Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”"

ragequittah — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:51:49 +0000

I think this might be a big part of the problem with the conversation about AI right now. The models have become so much better in the last ~6 months in my experience and lots of people wrote them off 1-2 years ago after they couldn't do x and 'we've hit a wall' was being thrown around everywhere.

New comment by ragequittah in "All Delisted Steam Games"

ragequittah — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:19:24 +0000

I just wonder why movies get away with licenses for both music and depicting cars etc. for eternity. Seems like they just added weird unnecessary rules for video games. I also imagine a situation where Stephen King has to renew with Plymouth every few years. Seems ridiculous for any other art form why is it so easily accepted for this one?

New comment by ragequittah in "Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis"

ragequittah — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 23:28:32 +0000

There is a small part of me that wonders if my $3000 computer is worth it when that could get me about 12 years of geforce now gaming with an updated graphic card and processor at all times. But I like to tinker so I'll probably end up spending $10k or more by the end of that 12 years instead.

New comment by ragequittah in "Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2512"

ragequittah — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 23:12:31 +0000

It's like not understanding why with so many books / movies / music albums people choose to read or watch or listen to specific older ones.

New comment by ragequittah in "Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month"

ragequittah — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:48:09 +0000

My experience with it is the code just wouldn't have existed in the first place otherwise. Nobody was going to pay thousands of dollars for it and it just needs to work and be accurate. It's not the backend code you give root access to on the company server, it's automating the boring aspects of the job with a basic frontend.

I've been able to save people money and time. If someone comes in later and has a more elegant solution for the same $60 effort I spent great! Otherwise I'll continue saving people money and time with my non-perfect code.

New comment by ragequittah in "TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models"

ragequittah — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:53:44 +0000

This is also the VR killer app.

New comment by ragequittah in "The Ultimate Windows Utility (2022)"

ragequittah — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:35:48 +0000

That's actually amazing. First I shudder to think of all the cruft in that install. Leftover registry settings from 2015 on. But second kudos for being able to do that. I've tried and failed about 5 times in my life at moving a windows install to another computer since Windows 95 days. I didn't think it was at all possible.