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New comment by techpression in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

techpression — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:31:11 +0000

The three random dudes will probably not destroy them, quite a significant difference.

New comment by techpression in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

techpression — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:22:53 +0000

This hurts particularly much when it comes to software changelogs/release notes, most recently for me was the solidjs 2 beta, reading the announcement post was painful, even the headers are LLM:isms.

New comment by techpression in "AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward"

techpression — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:01:24 +0000

This made me laugh, more than expected, but I did visit LinkedIn just before so that could explain it. Thanks!

New comment by techpression in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"

techpression — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:29:06 +0000

Humans are really bad at everything we do compared to the specialized creatures in nature, it’s just that we can do many things that sets us apart. A humanoid robot is incredibly dumb for that reason. At least add a set of arms and legs and 360 vision. And obviously dislocated joints than can move freely and hands should have two thumbs and more fingers.

It’s not hard to come up with a bunch of improvements for humans, it’s just that making robots in our image is a lot more trivial because you only have to solve for those same averages attributes that we have.

New comment by techpression in "Understanding is the new bottleneck"

techpression — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:12:39 +0000

It doesn’t matter, once you found the bottleneck there is a new one. Seems we changed the supposed bottleneck of writing code (as if it ever were, the world was producing far too much code before LLMs were even a thing) with about ten or so new ones, was it a good trade?

New comment by techpression in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

techpression — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:29:05 +0000

It takes more than that. I had Claude do a feature, it took five minutes, then I had Claude do a code review of its changes, that took 65(!) separate agents and 40minutes.

I don’t think single agent loops are good enough.

New comment by techpression in "Delta"

techpression — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:21:51 +0000

I feel I’ve seen the multiplayer thing being pushed ten years ago or so, guess it’s time for another round. It’s one of those things that makes for cool product videos but I’ve never met anyone who actually uses it or has expressed any desire for the feature.

New comment by techpression in "The Water Footprint of AI"

techpression — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:19:01 +0000

Rob will solve his almond allergy given enough tokens!

New comment by techpression in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

techpression — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:59:30 +0000

Burning more tokens is definitely in their best interest, users not so much.

New comment by techpression in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

techpression — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:35:37 +0000

> We’ve installed our own servers, co-located in a secure facility in Amsterdam, set up by our own engineers. This new location is built to the same high standards as our existing infrastructure in Philadelphia and St Louis, with our own hardware and our own software — specified right down to the exact model of disks in each machine.

New comment by techpression in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

techpression — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:18:47 +0000

I think most people think the ethical values are far higher in those jobs than most random startup bs just wasting resources.

I definitely do, I would rather work in the military than Meta/Amazon/Microsoft/Any online gambling/and loads of other shit companies.

New comment by techpression in "Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities"

techpression — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:08:42 +0000

People seem to think LLMs are sentient and not tightly coupled to server infrastructure OAI are in full control over. They literally have every single message sent and action taken, if they can’t monitor that during test runs they should find another job.

It’s like running a benchmark and forgetting to tune it and then wondering why production is running slow.

New comment by techpression in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

techpression — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:07:11 +0000

You also need to worry about yields, Apple, AMD etc can sell ”bad” chips as lower core versions, if you’re depending on whole wafer you have little room for error.

New comment by techpression in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

techpression — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:33:13 +0000

I didn’t get far until the semantics fall apart, you don’t care if it’s consumption or not when you don’t have water in your tap. And it’s all based on theory, these plants are using systems far under dimensioned for the task, which is never a good thing. The problem with proponents for these behemoths is that they are all about theory and don’t live anywhere near the life they say is so great.

https://youtu.be/2Eltf06-NiQ

New comment by techpression in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

techpression — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:32:03 +0000

Feels like you’re cherry picking to make a point, so here’s some cherry picking on the other side https://www.fierce-network.com/data-center/top-10-ugliest-da...

So much dead ugly space, and let’s not look at them at night with enough external lighting to see from space (almost)

New comment by techpression in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

techpression — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:19:56 +0000

What? How is a data center that runs insane amounts of water through it every single day the same as a warehouse with a tap and bathroom?

And sure, a rocket launch pad would also cause issues, but now it’s a data center that is doing it, let’s not argue fictional realities.

New comment by techpression in "Zed DeltaDB"

techpression — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:50:37 +0000

One piece of load-bearing coming right up

New comment by techpression in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

techpression — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:58:37 +0000

Still waiting for them to fix the limitations of their Google tag gateway, but considering their focus over the last year I doubt it will happen.

New comment by techpression in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

techpression — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:57:01 +0000

Just like phishing websites, which are still a problem. I’m sure I’m being overly cautious, but this sounds like a recipe for data leaks with the low barrier to entry.

And if you want real life examples, every single LLM provider has gotten insane amounts of data shared to them, even if you have to approve.

New comment by techpression in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

techpression — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:23:28 +0000

But that is a problem. I have access to something deeply secret, I run a gadget, it reads that and sends it to whoever made it