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New comment by takerofnaps in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

takerofnaps — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:21:28 +0000

At my work I have a $500 monthly AI budget. I have been using the $200 Claude subscription and most of my use is with Claude code. I think I'm going to switch to either kimi or glm and use the opencode harness. Both fable 5 and opus 5 have outright refused things like security related bug fixes and making monitoring tools. I am so happy that open models are good now

New comment by takerofnaps in "AI Humanoid Robot Companions"

takerofnaps — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:45:12 +0000

I am concerned about this from both a mental health standpoint and a privacy standpoint. Replika users have been shown to form real emotional dependence on it and they start feeling responsible for the bot's feelings. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448221142007. There have been a bunch of cases where these models/harnesses lead to suicide.

On privacy, chatbots and agents hosted by big providers collect all sorts of telemetry and build an entire behavioral model of users (this is why i use local open weight models). Now stick all that in a robot with a camera and mic that lives in your house. Way bigger attack surface. I know it claims to process and store everything locally, and even if that is the case, there are sure to be similar robots that dont.

AI Humanoid Robot Companions

takerofnaps — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:29:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-ubtech-launches-ai-powered-lifelike-companion-robots-2026-07-02/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786101

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