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New comment by raincole in "Programming Isn't Special"

raincole — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:55:28 +0000

> what it’s doing to our industry, but we are using it anyway

Other industries are using it too. It's quite delusional to assume that just because people hate something they won't use it.

New comment by raincole in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

raincole — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:36:49 +0000

> I actually have a fairly simple answer to that: if it doesn't come up in the list of LLMs that Cursor supports, it effectively doesn't exist.

You make Cursor sound like one thousand times more important than it is. It's a product in deep water.

New comment by raincole in "Anti-patterns in software blogging"

raincole — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:19:04 +0000

From documents, and source code. I find it quite crazy that you imply that Stackoverflow is the sole information source for the SOTA LLMs. As a matter of fact, Opus 5.5 and Sol 5.6 both write acceptable zig code now and there are only ~400 questions about zig on SO. SO is just that obsolete.

New comment by raincole in "Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees"

raincole — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:25:01 +0000

Why would they? The governments themselves want to censor. It'd be weird if they punish payment processors for doing the hard work for them.

New comment by raincole in "Anti-patterns in software blogging"

raincole — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:42:50 +0000

In 2021 maybe.

Today LLMs have completely replaced the original role of StackOverflow.

New comment by raincole in "AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares"

raincole — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:46:49 +0000

It takes less time for you to try to read about the question than to type this comment. I know the link doesn't contain visualization, but... come on.

New comment by raincole in "Why don't more developers “use the platform”?"

raincole — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 11:52:48 +0000

> full download

Like 50kb. Roughly the same size as Amazon website's icon sheet.

New comment by raincole in "Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art"

raincole — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 04:05:54 +0000

The crazy thing is there was a period between Newgrounds games and mobile games: Facebook games. It was so popular at that moment and so insignificant hindsight that we barely remember it.

New comment by raincole in "Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant"

raincole — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:50:14 +0000

> “In [Fiscal Year] 2025, out of the over 419 million travelers CBP processed at ports of entry, CBP only searched the electronic devices of 55,318 international travelers,” the agency wrote, or 0.0013%.

And...

> In Fiscal Year 2020, CBP processed more than 238 million travelers at U.S. ports of entry. During that same period of time, CBP conducted 32,038 border searches of electronic devices, representing less than .014 percent of arriving international travelers.[1]

In other words, now it's as likely[0] to get your phone searched as in 2020. It's interesting how the media shapes people's perspective, isn't it?

[0]: 0.001% less likely, so just marginal error.

[1]: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistic... not sure it reports 2020's data here though.

New comment by raincole in "Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant"

raincole — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:30:16 +0000

> The number of warrantless device searches at the border and the significant invasion of privacy they represent is only increasing. In Fiscal Year 2022, CBP conducted an all-time high of 45,499 device searches.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/federal-judge-makes-hi...

But sure it's the current administration what pushed this so far beyond. Beyond 40k phones into 50k phones!

New comment by raincole in "Gemini 4 Argon"

raincole — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 11:14:55 +0000

Subscription price and API price will converge.

New comment by raincole in "GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence"

raincole — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:51:04 +0000

I think everyone, I mean everyone, has noticed how different GPT-6 sol is from 5.6. Just not the direction OpenAI hoped for.

New comment by raincole in "You said no MCP"

raincole — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:47:38 +0000

I'm still confused about what this codemode is. Models have been trained to chain bash and other typical unix tools well. They're so good at that to an uncanny level. Why do we want to not utilize this ability? Is it just a permission management issue in case you don't want the model to use shell directly?

New comment by raincole in "Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?"

raincole — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:26:15 +0000

It's not a hot take at all. Every benchmark shows that.

New comment by raincole in "Sonnet 5.5"

raincole — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:47:44 +0000

Chinese models are not for a fraction of the price though. If you only have a budget of $20 a month, luna with chatgpt subscription actually gives you much more room than deepseek. The idea that Chinese models = cost efficiency is rather outdated.

New comment by raincole in "Sonnet 5.5"

raincole — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:13:53 +0000

If I follow the principle "every single line of AI-generated code has to be reviewed and understood by me," I can't even use up the $20 subscription.

New comment by raincole in "Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock"

raincole — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:49:06 +0000

For reasons, but the main one is that the author stated that they and their attorneys have seriously explored this case and reached this conclusion.

New comment by raincole in "We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians"

raincole — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 01:51:00 +0000

A program can only be as deterministic as the hardware it runs on. If you have a turing machine whose symbols on the tape just (truly) randomly change every step, then none of programs on this machine is "deterministic."

> meat-

There is no meat-based deterministic way to do anything yet yet. You're talking sci-fi.

New comment by raincole in "When did Google get so weird?"

raincole — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 01:33:10 +0000

It's just a typical case of XY problem[0].

X is search engine. Y is to get answers. (most) People want to get answers. If they can skip search engine part it'd be a net positive for them.

Ironically that programmers should be the ones who understand XY problem the most (after all the name is coined by a programmer to address it), not the "normies."

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem

New comment by raincole in "How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs"

raincole — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:14:40 +0000

> I constantly read these amazing stories of people vibe-coding some firmware/driver that just works, and honestly I’m starting to question whether I’m reading the posts of some promotional bot.

No one uses assistance in the IDE for project like these. They're all using Claude Code (or similar harnesses) and lots of sub-agents. People who haven't seriously tried out SOTA models + their proprietary harnesses just don't know what they're missing out.