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New comment by rootusrootus in "What happens to an economy when it's too hot to work?"

rootusrootus — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:19:51 +0000

Maybe it improves it? The truck has depreciated 7K since I bought it brand new, which works out to about 13% over 20 months. Most cars depreciate faster than that, so it seems having 0 tanks helps.

New comment by rootusrootus in "FDA OKs first new sunscreen ingredient in more than 25 years"

rootusrootus — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:07:22 +0000

But I no longer trust the FDA, sadly.

New comment by rootusrootus in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

rootusrootus — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:27:47 +0000

> American models are restricted from telling you inconvenient truths just as much, you just erroneously assume to know what those truths are in the first place.

“Trust me bro” is not a strong argument, it would be more convincing with examples.

New comment by rootusrootus in "Automating myself out of development"

rootusrootus — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:27:08 +0000

I use this strategy, too. I liken it to limiting the blast radius. If the LLM truly fouls things up it’s easier to pick up the pieces if you keep the scope limited.

New comment by rootusrootus in "What happens to an economy when it's too hot to work?"

rootusrootus — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:21:19 +0000

well shit, my F150 uses 0 tanks of gas, does that complicate things?

New comment by rootusrootus in "Tesla Full Self Driving uses bicycle lane in official Denmark approval video"

rootusrootus — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:06:28 +0000

That's wild. In Oregon you will get a ticket for driving in the bike lane at all, turn or not. The only exception are bike lanes that go straight and briefly share a turning lane, but those are clearly marked for that purpose.

Good reminder that you should always be aware of local traffic laws when you travel, most places in the US are similar but not identical.

New comment by rootusrootus in "Tesla Full Self Driving uses bicycle lane in official Denmark approval video"

rootusrootus — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:02:58 +0000

I agree it is intentional. They haven't updated autosteer, as far as I can tell, since the Model 3 was released. Certainly my 2023 (sold a couple weeks ago) was no better than my 2019 was, and notably worse than my Ford Lightning. Outside of FSD, most everyone else makes superior TACC & lane centering now.

New comment by rootusrootus in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

rootusrootus — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:42:47 +0000

> we will be literally inferior soon

This plague of misanthropic doom is itself pretty depressing. Why do so many people think LLMs are in any way on a path to compete with human brains? Why do you think so little of yourself? The brain is magnificent and complex in ways that we are unable to decipher anytime soon, and it does way more than an LLM. Way, way more.

New comment by rootusrootus in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

rootusrootus — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:39:36 +0000

Agreed. LLMs are really terrific at sounding like they know exactly what they are talking about. Fable is the best yet. Beautiful, thorough explanations with absolute certainty, which under even light scrutiny turn out to be mostly bullshit.

I still love the tool, but remain as convinced as ever that AGI does not lie at the end of this particular path.

New comment by rootusrootus in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

rootusrootus — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:35:14 +0000

Yes, it is another variation on the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect. I have a number of non-developers in my circle of friends who think Claude is about to put me out of work. They think it is just a great tool for them, not a replacement. Of course!

New comment by rootusrootus in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

rootusrootus — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:32:40 +0000

More specifically, it is coming for coders. If you make your living by banging out lines of code all day, then you may want to be looking at adjusting your career trajectory. But if that is your job, you are either very junior, or a bit foolish for getting into that situation.

New comment by rootusrootus in "All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)"

rootusrootus — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:22:03 +0000

Trains make me motion sick, and they don’t go into the wilderness. You live in a bubble.

New comment by rootusrootus in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

rootusrootus — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:04:26 +0000

They have to keep it up at least until the IPO dust settles.

New comment by rootusrootus in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

rootusrootus — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:43:12 +0000

Even loyal security would hardly be sufficient. If a million people have decided they want your head on a pike, even a billionaire cannot afford a big enough army. And what exactly is a billionaire in that world anyway?

New comment by rootusrootus in "All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)"

rootusrootus — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:28:35 +0000

> as soon as you finish paying it off, it's basically EOL

The average age of a car on the road in the US today is now more than 11 years. The average new car loan is just less than 6 years. Beyond that, it's all just a different set of trade-offs. Aside from living somewhere truly dense with fantastic public transit and only going places reachable by said transit, owning a car means less time spent on transportation, and infinitely more flexibility on where you go. Lots of people prefer the lifestyle. Even in Europe cars remain quite popular.

New comment by rootusrootus in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

rootusrootus — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:42:24 +0000

I figured, just wanted to verify, because while the former seems like the obvious answer, it could be argued with a straight face that Apple's strategy is in fact the latter. Or something like it.

New comment by rootusrootus in "Claude Fable 5"

rootusrootus — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:18:44 +0000

If you assume that LLMs are about to make software development a dead-end, then the best answer to keep a good income is to ride the wave. Do nothing and get left behind, embrace it and maybe you'll find a new niche.

New comment by rootusrootus in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

rootusrootus — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:36:30 +0000

Nope, just people who basically swivel chair information from one place to another. Useful in some way, should have been automated a long time ago, and yet persist.

But yes, middle management would qualify ;-). My manager seems spooked by LLMs. Loves to use them to write his emails, but seems to internalize that since they're doing his job for him at this point, his boss may figure it out.

New comment by rootusrootus in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

rootusrootus — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:07:50 +0000

Maybe AI will finally be the tool that allows us to get rid of some of the people we have who do nothing more than push paper around. Maybe. But somehow I doubt it, at least not in a typical big corporate environment. And I have zero concern about us letting actual software devs go. Things will have to change pretty dramatically before we get that far.

New comment by rootusrootus in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

rootusrootus — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:48:32 +0000

Former, you mean?