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New comment by thatmf in "Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions"

thatmf — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:41:13 +0000

Very cool but wow that just triggered motion sickness I didn't even know I had

New comment by thatmf in "Degraded performance for multiple models"

thatmf — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:21:57 +0000

Probably not surprising, but Opus 5 on my company's enterprise subscription seems to be working fine.

But on my personal (pro) subscription- "Claude is at capacity right now."

Hm.

New comment by thatmf in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

thatmf — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:03:47 +0000

I'm glad this is being talked about. I noticed it too. I find Opus 5 to be overly (and unhelpfully) critical, in a sort of well-actually way. It ignores nuance in my direction or prompts.

It is better at engineering tasks; I've seen an appreciable difference in its problem-solving abilities. But perhaps that same thing makes it kind of an annoying prick to work with on anything non-engineering, for which I stick to 4.8, where the prose is a little more florid rather than pugnacious.

New comment by thatmf in "Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results"

thatmf — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:49:58 +0000

I found it pretty interesting. To me, the GPT Sol and Luna ones are the nicest, which is not what I was expecting. Font choice goes a long way. The Opus ones are acceptable, but still disappointing. The rest are hideous.

New comment by thatmf in "The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert"

thatmf — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:22:22 +0000

> the person you're responding to has provided a valid counter example of what life can be like without such stress

Their counter example: "I am rich"

New comment by thatmf in "I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy"

thatmf — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:00:43 +0000

> The AI is no longer “other”

> My AI is a natural extension of me. It feels like a sixth sense and another limb. I wonder about a problem, feel as though I’m literally surfing the web, see glimpses of the websites, get flashes of intuition about the problem, and ultimately derive the answer.

We call this AI psychosis.

New comment by thatmf in "The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You"

thatmf — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:09:10 +0000

The two are not unrelated, and perhaps the inventiveness and energy of the latter could be applied to affecting the outcomes of the former.

New comment by thatmf in "The Sound of Inevitability"

thatmf — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:07:02 +0000

Derivatives trading is a net negative upon society and this florid prose is just one more ghastly effluvium from the sarcophagus

New comment by thatmf in "Big Food vs. the People"

thatmf — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:21:52 +0000

Fair point! Some of them are certainly more legible than others. I thought the vending machine one was brilliant. But for instance the one with the slices of pizza... does get a little lost in its own sauce, yes :P

I just rarely see someone commit to the bit so deeply, and I think that's fun.

New comment by thatmf in "Big Food vs. the People"

thatmf — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:09:17 +0000

Fantastic infographics!

New comment by thatmf in "All major LLMs are lib-left. Even Grok, half the time"

thatmf — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:15:35 +0000

"reality has a well-known liberal bias" -Stephen Colbert

New comment by thatmf in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

thatmf — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:51:46 +0000

I'm very curious as to what places of the world that would be.

New comment by thatmf in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

thatmf — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:46:03 +0000

For some reason when I opened this the sound of a helicopter hovering shook the walls.

> Come September, he will have to walk across town to school on his own.

*THE HORROR*

> But if he's going to be walking around out in the world without me, then a tracking tag won't cut it.

Uhhhhhhhhh. The way this is stated so plainly as if it were self-evident fact is telling. The author longs for the umbilical cord.

> but what if he gets lost?

What if he learns a life lesson, navigation and/or some form of self-reliance or independence?

I just... no wonder Kids Today are so cooked.

New comment by thatmf in "US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers"

thatmf — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:42:57 +0000

Another novel approach to saving money: stop fighting Israel's wars

New comment by thatmf in "Waymo reports teen riders for bad behavior and delivers them to the police"

thatmf — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:20:08 +0000

As Benn Jordan pointed out, imagine what a hacker group or ICE could do with this. Fun times!

New comment by thatmf in "Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402"

thatmf — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:37:39 +0000

All for this. Micropayments have been tried so many times before, but they all relied on user opt-in and never reached any sort of critical mass. Someone of Cloudflare's scale could actually pull it off.

New comment by thatmf in "The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections"

thatmf — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:30:30 +0000

I am very curious- what state?

New comment by thatmf in "The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections"

thatmf — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:14:13 +0000

Yeah, this is amazing and should be submitted here on its own if it hasn't already.

I just found that one of my reps got an absurd amount of money from some shadowy group called "Think Big". Which is in turn part of a larger org called "Leading the Future" [0], which is:

> A coordinated network of AI-industry super PACs working to head off stricter AI regulation, chiefly by pushing a single federal framework that would override stronger state-level rules on issues like consumer protection and liability. Leading the Future is the lead committee, channeling money to the Democratic-facing Think Big and the Republican-facing American Mission. All draw on the same core backers — chiefly Andreessen Horowitz, and OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife.

[0]: https://influence.citationneeded.news/2026/networks/leading-...

New comment by thatmf in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"

thatmf — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:01:28 +0000

That would be "wrongly"

New comment by thatmf in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"

thatmf — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:13:49 +0000

> No him/her.

Uh. What?