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New comment by tedggh in "Midjourney Medical"

tedggh — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:56:49 +0000

This is an old April fool’s post guys, don’t waste time arguing about it

New comment by tedggh in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"

tedggh — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:29:15 +0000

Have you tried this?

"if you ever need a copy of your data, members can always request and download their content, including original files, through the Flickr Data section of your settings."

New comment by tedggh in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"

tedggh — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:24:11 +0000

This seems besides unethical also illegal. Never assume companies have good legal counsel, particularly in the LLMs era. There are consumer protection laws and in the US they are by state. Sometimes all it takes is completing a 5 min form in the state AG’s website. Sure, $5 is not a lot of money, but screw them.

New comment by tedggh in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

tedggh — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:45:04 +0000

Why should we assume AI can rapidly turn into super intelligence when physical and critical resources like energy and materials remain under human control?

New comment by tedggh in "Apple Foundation Models"

tedggh — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:06:10 +0000

I haven’t fact checked, but according to Evans big telecom builders didn’t make a lot of money after all the capacity investment. Some actually went bankrupt or got acquired as distressed assets. Big tech was very profitable monetizing that same infrastructure.

New comment by tedggh in "Apple Foundation Models"

tedggh — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:14:01 +0000

I have used Fable only once to do an in depth codebase review of a complex system. I asked it to flag deviations from a particular design and also compile a list of vulnerabilities. It took about 15-20 minutes. The result was very similar to Codex for the most critical findings, different suggestions on how to address them but it found exactly the same critical issues as Codex. This is still not a good test to evaluate Fable. But my feeling is that the latest models are all pretty good and now it comes down to your personal setup and workflow, that’s where you can get the productivity gains IMO. It’s like picking between MacOS or Windows as development environment. For some Windows sucks and for a some is the opposite, but both groups of people can be equally productive if they know their environments well and know how to go around their respective limitations.

New comment by tedggh in "Apple Foundation Models"

tedggh — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:07:58 +0000

Yes, and pricing is one of the features of a commodity, because users can jump back and forth between services, it becomes a pricing race to the bottom. Agree also that you don’t need the best model all the time. You could have the most powerful model draft the design, requirements, guidelines, policies or whatnot then get the lower tier models execute it. Then again you can have the most powerful model do the testing and review, and give back feedback, rinse and repeat. Just like in the real world you don’t need an entire staff of lead engineers.

New comment by tedggh in "Apple Foundation Models"

tedggh — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:16:07 +0000

I use both Claude and Codex and don’t see any meaningful difference between the two. My use case is modeling semi complex physical processes (energy and manufacturing) in code for simulations. I also have to do a good fair of automation via scripting in Python or PowerShell for manipulating data as well as legacy code analysis (C, Fortran, COBOL). Given I provide the models with the information and documentation they need, both perform very similarly. I recently did a full codebase review (for design patterns and vulnerabilities) and both Codex and Fable agreed 100% about the most critical findings. I do very little front end development, although some of my automation scripts have TUIs and again no problem with either Claude or Codex generating them for me. At this point I go with the less expensive, which seems to be Codex. With the $100 plan I rarely hit the limits. With Claude I max out my plan in about 4-6 hours of work.

New comment by tedggh in "Apple Foundation Models"

tedggh — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:46:35 +0000

Benedict Evans may be right after all; frontier models look more and more like telecom companies in the 90s. Billions and billions of investment in infrastructure while others further up the stack captured all the value.

New comment by tedggh in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

tedggh — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:09:11 +0000

With Anthropic history of using the news as their free marketing agency, I remain a bit skeptical. My guess is that something will be worked out in the next hours or days and Fable will be back.

New comment by tedggh in "Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time"

tedggh — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:48:41 +0000

A lot of comes from state initiatives too. Texas being conservative also happens to be very pro solar. I’m in the business and we have some great projects there. The US military is also pushing solar at their facilities. Then you have many private-state partnerships like tolls investing a lot in solar. The outlook in general is pretty positive in the US, a lot more than what people would think.

New comment by tedggh in "Lines of code got a better publicist"

tedggh — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:28:18 +0000

If your A+ senior developer spends 8 months working on a feature that ultimately doesn’t get shipped or a MVP that gets killed, then you wasted that A+ senior developer and their productivity was the same as the other two B+ engineers that also worked on the project. This is actually a very common issue and usually ignored when it comes to things like hiring or assigning resources to a project. AI won’t change that in a meaningful way, your team may just finish their tasks a lot faster but the bureaucratic layer above will likely remain the same, which will make any AI coding gains negligible. Companies would have to be rebuilt from the top down for AI and that’s very unlikely to happen.

New comment by tedggh in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

tedggh — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:57:54 +0000

I didn’t know how many keys I didn’t need until I switched to a 50% ortholinear, and I would dare to say even a 40% should be enough for most people.

New comment by tedggh in "Retro-Tech Parenting"

tedggh — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:46:38 +0000

My kids are still too young but I constantly worry about how the world will look like in 8-10 years. On a recent trip to Europe we had to rush inside a bar during a storm. The place was packed and the only table available was next to a large party of loud teenagers on some sort of celebration, maybe a birthday. We had no choice but to sit next to them. After a while, probably over an hour, my wife asks me if I have noticed the kids. Obviously I have. But she insisted, “do you see”?. I have no idea what she’s talking about. So I watch them interact for a bit and I get it. Not one single kid had a phone on them. They are all eating, drinking, talking and laughing like if it’s the 90s. That was pretty amazing to see and gave me lots of hope.

New comment by tedggh in "The desperation of NYTimes"

tedggh — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:24:52 +0000

I use virtual credit cards for all subscriptions. If they make unsubscribing difficult, I just kill the card. NYTimes is actually great value for the $4 I pay. I think they have the best photography and infographics of any news site.

New comment by tedggh in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

tedggh — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:27:45 +0000

You guys are being too case sensitive.

New comment by tedggh in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

tedggh — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:18:10 +0000

I don’t think BYD would be a hit in the US as they are in Europe. It’s an entirely different market. They may be relatively successful just not to the point of taking an important market share, they would probably be like Mazda. Many of the subsides for Chinese EV ended this year too, and they are now realizing price alone is not a differentiator. So even if BYD eventually makes it to the US, they will be priced close to other brands like KIA and Tesla, but without the advantage of the brand and strong local presence. So no, there’s no concerns with BYD and we may see them sooner than later in the US.

New comment by tedggh in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

tedggh — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:13:03 +0000

The $100/month is excellent value. I don’t understand how’s that not the default option for all professional developers. Unless people don’t produce any value writing code, like playing around and experimenting with vibe coding, I understand. But if software development is your actual income, and assuming you live in a wealthy country, $100/month is nothing for a tool like Codex.

New comment by tedggh in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

tedggh — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:46:25 +0000

At this point I think it’s more important to have a solid workflow and understanding of how [insert your favorite model here] works and its capabilities, than chasing the next shinny release jumping back and forth between companies. I just finished my first large project with Codex and it is hard for me to believe Claude can be much better. It may be a bit better or worse, but again, they are all so good now that the user is the one driving the difference.

New comment by tedggh in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

tedggh — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:34:56 +0000

My nephews came to the US in their early teens as non English speakers. They struggled in some of the courses but still got good grades reported to their parents. So, apparently some teachers will put them on a bus together with other minorities and take them on a day trip to the museum instead of math class, but they would still get graded. They retuned back to Spain and had a very difficult time graduating from high school because of math. So I’m not sure how well of a predictor high school is.