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New comment by rester324 in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

rester324 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:46:16 +0000

You appear to have written a lot. Without understanding anything.

New comment by rester324 in "Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to fix water system"

rester324 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:01:08 +0000

"would put it to good use - including tackling the deterioration of water pipes"

There is your faith in action. Zero concrete promise, no accountability.

New comment by rester324 in "Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed"

rester324 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:28:26 +0000

You would be surprised to see how much the japanese IT industry is behind the times (a decade at least IMO). There is only a very limited startup culture here (both in size and talentpool and business ideas), there is no real risk taking venture capital market here (maybe Masayoshi Son is the exception here, but again he tends to invest in the US mostly) and most software companies use very very very outdated management practices. On top of that most software development had been/has been outsourced to India, Vietnam, China, etc, so management see no value in software talent... SW engineers' social recognition here are mostly on the level of accountants. Under such circumstances japan will never have a chance to contribute to AI meaningfully (other than niche academic research)

New comment by rester324 in "Instagram boss says 16 hours of daily use is 'problematic' not addiction"

rester324 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:46:39 +0000

IMO we are way past beyond the point where these definitions are necessary. The consensus is that social media sites are objectively mentally harmful

New comment by rester324 in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

rester324 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:17:01 +0000

I am curious. What do you want us to see in that github repo?

New comment by rester324 in "We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers"

rester324 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:56:19 +0000

You can implement this yourself, who is stopping you?

New comment by rester324 in "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"

rester324 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 05:47:47 +0000

So are you proud of yourself? Or why are you advertising your negligence?

New comment by rester324 in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

rester324 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:42:43 +0000

Or continue being an ass and kissing asses, and watch the workforce unionize and see how the people YOU disdain shows you who has the real power

New comment by rester324 in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

rester324 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:39:20 +0000

Thanks for sharing, I found the blogpost hypocritical even without knowing about this

New comment by rester324 in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

rester324 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 03:08:34 +0000

Buying a phone is a non-dispensable part of life today. There are some government services in many countries which are digital only (and phone only in particular), and restaurants, hotels, etc in the service industry which all require you having a phone, otherwise you can't use their services. And this trend is growing. So if you are the type who wants to live in a cave, or hang yourself on a tree rather than accepting that modern societies require a modern phone, thats's your choice. But others rather accept this. We are beyond the point where this trend can be reversed. On the other hand AI is not that integral part of people's lives yet, and it's better to protest now as long as it has an impact

New comment by rester324 in "A guide to local coding models"

rester324 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:57:20 +0000

Is this some kind of mental problem that you want to tell people what they do and how they spend their money? Pretty jerk attitude IMO

New comment by rester324 in "A guide to local coding models"

rester324 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:49:02 +0000

How do you know? Do you snoop on their work machines?

New comment by rester324 in "A guide to local coding models"

rester324 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:39:20 +0000

These are the comments of the people who will cry a f@cking river when all the f@cking bubbles burst. You really think that it's "$300 total to serve the same amount of tokens as a 5090 can produce in 1 year running constantly"??? Maybe you forgot to read the news how much fucking money these companies are burning and losing each year. So these kind of comments as "to run local models is not worth it EVER" make me chuckle. Thanks for that!

New comment by rester324 in "A guide to local coding models"

rester324 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:25:18 +0000

10% on top of what we have now and the same things that the local models can do of those times ahead of us?

New comment by rester324 in "AI agents are starting to eat SaaS"

rester324 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:29:46 +0000

> Agents don't leave

How wrong the author is about that! IMO As soon as the bubble bursts, which is already evident and imminent, these agents will raise their subscription fees to ridiculous amounts. And when that happens, entire organizations will abandon them and return to good ol' human engineering

New comment by rester324 in "OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI"

rester324 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:24:46 +0000

Thanks for the link. I see that you get credits and access to embargod releases. So I understand that's not financial stake, but seems enough of an incentive to say positive things about those services, doesn't it? Not that it matters to me, and I might be wrong, but to an outsider it might seem so

New comment by rester324 in "OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI"

rester324 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 04:57:12 +0000

My honest question, isn't simonw one of those people? It feels that way to me

New comment by rester324 in "Is it a bubble?"

rester324 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 02:16:08 +0000

I love to write code too. But what usually happens is that I go through running the gauntlet of proving how brilliant code I can write in a job interview, and then later conversely being paid for listening to really dumb conversations of our stakeholders and sitting in project planning, etc meetings just so that finally everybody can harass me to implement something that a million programmer implemented before me a million times, at which point the only metric that matters to either my fellow developers or my managers or the stakeholders is the speed of churning the code out, quality or design be damned. So for this reason in most cases in my work I use LLMs.

How any of that comes down to an investment portfolio manager as writing "world class code" by LLMs is a mistery to me.

New comment by rester324 in "Is it a bubble?"

rester324 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:25:43 +0000

Internetspeed is a 3 years old app. So what exactly are you talking about?

New comment by rester324 in "Transparent leadership beats servant leadership"

rester324 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 01:56:00 +0000

‘one trick pony’

Yeah, shallow dismissal of people's effort to try to make a change must be because they are a ‘one trick pony’. Is that all you brought to the conversation?