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New comment by thethimble in "Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude"

thethimble — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:27:38 +0000

Perhaps named closing tags like `` are a factor?

New comment by thethimble in "I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported"

thethimble — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:41:30 +0000

Or users will realize that a trashy ads experience is bad and switch to a service that isn't trashy.

I don't understand why there's so much fearmongering about ads when heavy competition + zero switching costs will effectively guarantee good UX.

New comment by thethimble in "Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model"

thethimble — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:12:40 +0000

I feel like this is a solvable problem. If you emit an errant word that should be replaced, why not correspondingly emit backspaces to just rewrite the word?

I feel like this is the best of both worlds.

Perhaps a little janky with backspaces, but still technically feasible.

New comment by thethimble in "Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model"

thethimble — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:41:27 +0000

Handy is great but I wish the STT was realtime instead of batch

New comment by thethimble in "The Waymo World Model"

thethimble — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:46:33 +0000

Why is this relevant at all?

Having humans in the loop at some level is necessary for handling rare edge cases safely.

New comment by thethimble in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

thethimble — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:24:38 +0000

If the world is built on AI infrastructure (models, compute, etc.) that is controlled by the CCP then the west has effectively lost.

This may lead to better life outcomes, but if the west doesn't control the whole stack then they have lost their sovereignty.

This is already playing out today as Europe is dependent on the US for critical tech infrastructure (cloud, mail, messaging, social media, AI, etc). There's no home grown European alternatives because Europe has failed to create an economic environment to assure its technical sovereignty.

New comment by thethimble in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

thethimble — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:17:56 +0000

The AI market is an infinite sum market.

Consider the fact that 7 year old TPUs are still sitting at near 100p utilization today.

New comment by thethimble in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

thethimble — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:16:17 +0000

Speak for yourself. I've been insanely productive with Codex 5.2.

With the right scaffolding these models are able to perform serious work at high quality levels.

New comment by thethimble in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

thethimble — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:14:30 +0000

The consumers are getting huge wins.

Model costs continue to collapse while capability improves.

Competition is fantastic.

New comment by thethimble in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

thethimble — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:13:18 +0000

As long as China continues to blitz forward, regulation is a direct path to losing.

New comment by thethimble in "Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware"

thethimble — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:23:26 +0000

This will absolutely help but to the extent that prompt injection remains an unsolved problem, an LLM can never conclusively determine whether a given skill is truly safe.

New comment by thethimble in "xAI joins SpaceX"

thethimble — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:32:31 +0000

> And not delivering products

2024 revenue of >$100b is quite impressive for not delivering any products

New comment by thethimble in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

thethimble — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:35:32 +0000

Perhaps there should be an EU committee to draft a mandate for a working group tasked with identifying the necessary stakeholders for a preliminary report on digital infrastructure.

New comment by thethimble in "OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again"

thethimble — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:15:58 +0000

To each their own!

The Discord/Slack frontend reduces friction significantly - particularly on mobile.

With proper sandboxing you get real benefits while limiting the blast radius significantly.

New comment by thethimble in "OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again"

thethimble — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:00:22 +0000

Clawdbot is one of those things that's really hard to get unless you have experienced it.

It's got four things that make it great:

1. Discord/Slack/WA/etc integration so those apps become your frontend

2. Filesystem for long term memory and state

3. Easy extensibility with skills

4. Cron for recurring jobs

Sure, many of these things exist in other systems but none in a cohesive package that makes it fun and easy.

New comment by thethimble in "Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal"

thethimble — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:53:09 +0000

Or even zellij > tmux

New comment by thethimble in "Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app"

thethimble — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:20:39 +0000

I wish one of these models was fine tuned for programming.

I want to be able to say things like "cd ~/projects" or "git push --force".

New comment by thethimble in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

thethimble — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:22:31 +0000

But this strategy is also eligible to you. Nothing is stopping you from turning your Roth IRA into a multi billion tax free gain.

New comment by thethimble in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

thethimble — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:19:35 +0000

Borrowing against illiquid assets should be considered a taxable event. Seems like this would entirely fix the loophole.

New comment by thethimble in "GitHub to Codeberg: my experience"

thethimble — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:25:00 +0000

> Running CI/CD pipelines can use significant amounts of energy. As much as it is tempting to have green checkmarks everywhere, running the jobs costs real money and has environmental costs.

> Unlike other giant platforms, we do not encourage you to write “heavy” pipelines and charge you for the cost later. We expect you to carefully consider the costs and benefits from your pipelines and reduce CI/CD usage to a minimum amount necessary to guarantee consistent quality for your projects.

So much pretentiousness