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New comment by readthemanual in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

readthemanual — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:03:01 +0000

Oh, I'm definitely won't be poorer without one LLM. As a professional I probably will be richer, even. And with more certainty for the future for sure.

New comment by readthemanual in "Why are executives enamored with AI, but ICs aren't?"

readthemanual — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:48:59 +0000

I do think the difference is also dictated by how non-deterministic the job output of execs and ICs can be. For example, if exec will use slightly different words to communicate the thought, there won't be a critical error in understanding. While if IC will get the syntax wrong or deletes the wrong service accidentally, this service (or connected ones) might stop working entirely.

New comment by readthemanual in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"

readthemanual — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:36:14 +0000

Hi, sorry, what's a 'red pill'? Don't really keep up with the slang, sorry..

New comment by readthemanual in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

readthemanual — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:18:33 +0000

a) what happens if there is change that hasn't been encountered yet so it's not in .agentnotallowed? b) is there a guarantee that something described in these files won't be touched? I've seen examples when agents directly violate these rules, profusely apologising after they get caught on it.

New comment by readthemanual in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

readthemanual — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:56:38 +0000

I think the main issue I have with the article is that author whole argument is based on 'Qwen wouldn't run at a loss'. But why wouldn't it? Depsite it being a business, there might be a number of arguments why they decide to run without profit for now: from trying to expand the user base, to Chinese government sponsoring Chinese AI business.