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New comment by repeekad in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

repeekad — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:19:01 +0000

Optimistic writes are cool and all, but I'd trade 150ms for search as you type any day.

New comment by repeekad in "Expanding Project Glasswing"

repeekad — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:37:53 +0000

> Everyone already hates that Google can arbitrarily ban people

Yet they’re still the predominate search engine, sadly the concerns of the few don’t interest monopolistic profit seekers without forced regulations, think how airlines are legally required to give refunds for delayed flights, there’s a reason it required legislation

New comment by repeekad in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

repeekad — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:09:44 +0000

> clearly useful for people who took the time to understand it

people -> programmers, I haven’t met a non-developer who reports getting more time out of current AI platforms than they put in. If anything I’ve anecdotally heard the opposite, introducing AI at work creates so much slop (output) it takes more time to process it all without a tangible bump in overall productivity

New comment by repeekad in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

repeekad — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:04:53 +0000

I think the article is right about outsourcing but not from cheap offshored contractors, good experts will become more independent and be more enabled to support more clients with AI, meaning small and medium businesses won’t need internal as many engineers, finance, marketing, etc

New comment by repeekad in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

repeekad — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:58:51 +0000

Yes, but unlike the dot com bubble we’ll be left with half finished (or not even started) abandoned data center projects, instead of reasonably reusable fiber and ISP infra

New comment by repeekad in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

repeekad — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:57:17 +0000

Those reasonably efficient models assume you use a harness that supports them well, the one size fits all harness of Claude desktop or codex does not support what you want well, and that’s intentional. It’s contradictory that these AI companies will continue to brrrr to the moon and return on AI spend requires discipline…

New comment by repeekad in "GitHub Actions down again today"

repeekad — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:54:10 +0000

It’s well integrated into massively underpriced agentic coding (and noncoding) workflows, I doubt there’s much more reason than that. The hip thing to do now is hold all your docs in github instead of notion so your agent can traverse them locally

New comment by repeekad in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

repeekad — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:29:37 +0000

Every c suite in the country is panicking about being left behind, from their perspective it’s either token max or fade into obscurity, or at least that’s what they were sold

New comment by repeekad in "Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees"

repeekad — Sat, 23 May 2026 04:51:38 +0000

But aren’t the revenue numbers that have investors foaming at the teeth based on that “tokens as a metric” world? It can’t be both an explosive growth business and also only ROI with more disciplined spend.

New comment by repeekad in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

repeekad — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:49:04 +0000

Apple may be behind, and even getting sued for false advertising around AI features, but at least they haven’t spent hundreds of billions of dollars with no indication of how they’ll make their money back.

New comment by repeekad in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

repeekad — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:19:08 +0000

They are often in other countries, and there are much worse crimes to focus attention on with a limited budget. This does happen and should more often, but it’s far from a full solution.

New comment by repeekad in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

repeekad — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:17:24 +0000

How do you ban psyops? Require every user register with a gov ID so there’s someone to go after? What’s a psyop vs a grassroots contrarian movement like LGBT used to be?

Anonymity online seems the ultimate double edge sword. I prefer privacy over government prescribed safety.

New comment by repeekad in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

repeekad — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:59:11 +0000

Surely part of the value is the talent, the rest comes from removing a tool like this from the open market? I wonder how much of each went into the final valuation.

New comment by repeekad in "Ti-84 Evo"

repeekad — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:34:21 +0000

This new one has python, imagine

New comment by repeekad in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

repeekad — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:13:26 +0000

This is not what’s anti consumer, technical specifications can be confusing, it’s cable companies selling at Best Buy “gold plated” “HD ready” “braided fiber” “other bs” that is anti consumer. If you’re thinking about usb versions, you’re far from the normal consumer

New comment by repeekad in "The RAM shortage could last years"

repeekad — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:33:07 +0000

Analyst says it would require a new $35/month subscription for every iPhone user, or a new $180/month for every Netflix subscriber.

Claude Max subscriptions have gone up, but do you think every Netflix user will pay for one?..

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

New comment by repeekad in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

repeekad — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:11:20 +0000

A perfect example of why a product like Medplum exists, as opposed to completely reinventing the wheel from scratch

New comment by repeekad in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

repeekad — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:03:25 +0000

Very simply, if you provide a service for money you have a duty to ensure that service is safe. There’s a reason you have to sign a waiver when you jump on a trampoline, but companies are so rich the court cases have become parking tickets..

New comment by repeekad in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

repeekad — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:01:44 +0000

If airplanes used this logic, likely at least hundreds more would have died over the last decades. Accident rates are even going up, because of logic like yours. Yeah planes are fine most of the time, when the long tail involves safety concerns (that wouldn’t have otherwise happened) making money on people using your product becomes unethical without mutually agreed upon safety regulation, ideally motivated by voters instead of special interest groups

New comment by repeekad in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

repeekad — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:54:35 +0000

Because if you didn’t already know that, like an immature deprived and desperate kid, being able to easily find out is really really bad..

Plenty of lazy AI apps just throw messages into history despite the known risks of context rot and lack of compaction for long chat threads. Should a company not be held liable when something goes wrong due to lazy engineering around known concerns?