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New comment by samusiam in "Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead"

samusiam — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:28:47 +0000

I'm still using Sync, going on three years since they banned third party apps, and third party apps are still the best way to experience the site.

New comment by samusiam in "OpenWarp"

samusiam — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:06:28 +0000

I don't see anything asking for a credit card.

New comment by samusiam in "Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary"

samusiam — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:59:49 +0000

In my experience this "gaming" behavior is easily caught by just asking another agent (could just be another session of Claude Code) to review the code changes.

New comment by samusiam in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

samusiam — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:41:29 +0000

For idle sessions I would MUCH rather pay the cost in tokens than reduced quality. Frankly, it's shocking to me that you would make that trade-off for users without their knowledge or consent.

New comment by samusiam in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

samusiam — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:51:43 +0000

That's true, but the "AI bubble bursts" scenario is usually tied to Western investors getting essentially margin-called. If that happens, the CCP won't suddenly stop their investment; Chinese models will most likely continue developing.

New comment by samusiam in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

samusiam — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:16:55 +0000

> I have no clue if this claim holds, but alas, just pretending they did not address the obvious criticism, while they did, is at the very least pretty lazy.

But they didn't address the criticism. "cutting ~75% of tokens while keeping full technical accuracy" is an empirical claim for which no evidence was provided.

New comment by samusiam in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

samusiam — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:04:09 +0000

> Aren't they currently propped up by investor money?

Are Chinese model shops propped up by investor money? Is Google?

Open weights models are only 6 months behind SOTA. If new model development suddenly stopped, and today's SOTA models suddenly disappeared, we would still have access to capable agents.

New comment by samusiam in "Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents"

samusiam — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:03:54 +0000

These OSS model makers need to stop benchmarking against old models. Showing how it performs against Opus 4.5, GLM-5 when we have Opus 4.6 and GLM-5.1 just tells me that it's not comparable to SOTA.

New comment by samusiam in "The revenge of the data scientist"

samusiam — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:48:01 +0000

I think there's a lot of methodological expertise that goes into collecting good eval data. For example, in many cases you need human labelers with the right expertise, well designed tasks, well defined constructs, and you need to hit interrater agreement targets and troubleshoot when you don't. Good label data is a prerequisite to the stuff that can probably be automated by the AI agent (improving the system to optimize a metric measured against ground truth labels). Data scientists and research scientists are more likely to have this skillset. And it takes time to pick up and learn the nuances.

New comment by samusiam in "Do your own writing"

samusiam — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:51:57 +0000

Well you're free to disagree but my experience has been counter to your position. I write both code and research / technical documentation. The quality of what the LLM produces is limited by the quality of ideas I give it initially (mind you, this is just a starting point), and the quality of my review of its output.

New comment by samusiam in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

samusiam — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:55:34 +0000

You're complaining about vibe coding while also complaining about how you "feel" about the code. Do you see the irony in that?

New comment by samusiam in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

samusiam — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:53:32 +0000

I haven't seen the scrolling glitch in months, where previously it was happening multiple times a day. Also haven't seen anyone complain about it in quite some time. Pretty sure they have resolved that.

New comment by samusiam in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

samusiam — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:34:10 +0000

I just checked competitors' codebases:

- Opencode (anomalyco/opencode) is about 670k LOC

- Codex (openai/codex) is about 720k LOC

- Gemini (google-gemini/gemini-cli) is about 570k LOC

Claude Code's 500k LOC doesn't seem out of the ordinary.

New comment by samusiam in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

samusiam — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:27:53 +0000

AI witch-hunters are even more annoying.

New comment by samusiam in "Do your own writing"

samusiam — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:42:56 +0000

> I think the only reason it’s seen as good anywhere is there are a lot of tasteless and talentless people who can pretend they created whatever was curled out. This goes for code as well.

This is an oversimplification.

If you have taste and talent, then the LLM output you get is going to reflect that.

So on the one hand, yes: tasteless and talentless people won't know good output from bad output. On the other hand, people with taste and talent can actually get good output.

New comment by samusiam in "Do your own writing"

samusiam — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:50:55 +0000

"by design, the recommendations will be average"

This couldn't be more wrong. The simplest refutation is just to point out that there are temperature and top-k settings, which by design, generate tokens (and by extension, ideas) that are less probable given the inputs.

New comment by samusiam in "ARC-AGI-3"

samusiam — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:12:14 +0000

"they don't output anything unless prompted"

Unprompted they're not unlike a human sleeping or in a coma. Those states don't preclude consciousness in other states.

New comment by samusiam in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

samusiam — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:02:25 +0000

Vegan for 15 years. I cook 95% of my own meals, including black bean burgers, tofu, etc... Sometimes I want something that tastes like meat and I reach for a Beyond or Impossible burger. I don't need it. But I can't recreate its texture and flavor profile on my own. It's not "better" than other things I can cook. It's just different.

New comment by samusiam in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

samusiam — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:03:02 +0000

I can recall reading human-authored text like this for more than a decade.

New comment by samusiam in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

samusiam — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:09:34 +0000

But literally any decent agent can recommend existing services and help you set them up. And even help you help them set the services up for you. I do this with Claude all the time.