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New comment by throwaway63467 in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

throwaway63467 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:25:12 +0000

For most consumers AI will be a net negative. Already I can tell more and more companies use it in their call centers and support workflows, often just to stonewall customers: they reply very politely and with great attention to detail but will not solve your issue as they don’t have any decision power.

I really don’t look forward to this new world, AI is a powerful and useful too for creators but it will and already is used for all the wrong reasons, apparently even to pick which targets to destroy in war, essentially making life or death decisions in some areas with little to no oversight. And then people here think that any kind of regulation around this tech is useless and unwarranted…

Don’t get me wrong I use AI all the time but I fear it will be the most disruptive technological development in both positive and negative ways that we have ever dealt with.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them"

throwaway63467 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:57:20 +0000

Interesting, always found it would be cool to have this stuff integrated e.g. into server hardware for specialized AI services

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them"

throwaway63467 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:07:50 +0000

Which chips are these? It seems the main challenge is data bus speed and memory capacity now and it seems no one can really compete with NVIDIA now? And i doubt NVIDIA is still optimizing for anything expect LLMs/AI, their last keynote had less than two minutes of gaming related content and they even canceled their new generation of gaming cards for now.

And it seems all of these advanced chips rely on the most advanced lithography which is tightly guarded and supply locked by a few companies.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

throwaway63467 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:53:29 +0000

You assume there are enough of these jobs to go around and that you can just show up and do some extremely intricate work. Repairing historic doors and more elaborate woodworking isn’t easy to learn as the knowledge mostly doesn’t exist online anywhere, I also own a historic house and often ask the top tier LLMs for details e.g. about my staircase, they always give wrong answers as this knowledge is simply too exotic and not in their training set. And no one online talks about these things, 99 % of woodworking videos on YouTube are focus on beginners, you can’t replace a professional education watching videos and reading books. That will protect woodworkers with these skills of course but it’s wrong to assume you can just break into this market and be successful, most devs with woodworking hobbies are really shit at their craft and struggle to create even a regular elaborate cabinet, no way they will be able to compete with good craftsmen for these few lucrative projects.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

throwaway63467 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:05:49 +0000

I think so too I’m just worried about how unequally these gains will be distributed, for myself I am quite pessimistic thinking that all these gains will not benefit my life, if at all it will move the needle more towards making my expertise and skills easily replaceable by switching human capital for agentic capital. So yeah really happy for Musk to finally make his one millionth million dollars but personally I’m middle aged and still struggling financially wondering if I can ever live comfortably or retire.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Human brains are misaligned, hallucinative, stochastic parrots"

throwaway63467 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:35:17 +0000

I don’t say AI is sentient but what do you expect out brain to do in the end, it’s likely just some matrix operations and integration and other stuff arranged in a very intricate way.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Human brains are misaligned, hallucinative, stochastic parrots"

throwaway63467 — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:52:36 +0000

Why would you doubt that you’re sentient? Your world model includes yourself and you can reason about yourself as part of the world so why should the ability of an AI model being able to also do that change your opinion on that? Don’t get why you think what consciousness is, I guess you look at something beyond the definition and whether there’s something special on the meta level but I don’t get how you could doubt that you’re conscious, it’s a straightforward property as far as I understand, it’s just nothing special.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Claude Opus 4.8"

throwaway63467 — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:10:07 +0000

I think they overtrained on scientific papers or such as it would spout really sophisticated sounding nonsense with a ton of complicated verbs and adjectives. 4.6 was definitely better in that regard. The more I use these tools the more I think they’re not actually that revolutionary. I mean it’s still amazing what they can do but they have very clear limitations it seems.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Can we have the day off?"

throwaway63467 — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:47:19 +0000

Well congrats man you might belong to the 1 % then

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Can we have the day off?"

throwaway63467 — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:19:54 +0000

It’s been like that for a while, economic gains went to a small fraction of people, before software developers were among those that were on the winning side, now they’re on the losing side. Think about how much the US economy is growing right now and who really profits from that growth. My guess is that 90 % of the growth goes to 10 % of people, with AI maybe 99 % might go to the 1 %. Or who do you think will gain from the tokenization of development? You’re just supposed to be more productive and the gains the company achieves will just go to the owners as they are in a great position right now and developers are scared shitless to get fired, so no one is increasing salaries or time off, instead most companies hang the threat of layoffs over people’s head to keep them in line. And the funny thing is we developers did this to ourselves, by doing free open source work for the greater good, which now feeds AI models that are replacing many of us. But I guess most people didn’t care as they made good money while it lasted.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Working on Products People Hate"

throwaway63467 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:53:46 +0000

Most software is just there to get the job done. I’m building compliance tools that most users would very much like to never use as they’re just adding overheard over what they consider real work. You can still strive to make the software in a way that makes the unpleasant task of having to use it as painless as possible.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

throwaway63467 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:06:35 +0000

The “requests” package gets downloaded one billion times every month, should that be a multi billion dollar VC company as well? It’s a package manager and other neat tooling, it’s great but it’s hardly the essence of what makes Python awesome, it’s one of the many things that makes this ecosystem flourish. If OpenAI would enshittify it people would just fork or move on, that’s all I’m saying, it’s not in any way a single point of failure for the Python ecosystem.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

throwaway63467 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:29:54 +0000

It’s a small tool shop building a tiny part of the Python ecosystem, let’s not overstate their importance. They burned through their VC money and needed an exit and CLI tool chains are hyped now for LLMs, but this mostly sounds like an acquihire to me. Dev tools are among the hardest things to monetize with very few real winners, so good for them to get a good exit.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Scaling long-running autonomous coding"

throwaway63467 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:52:21 +0000

I‘m running opus 4.5 which is arguably their best model and while it’s really good for a lot of work it always introduces subtle errors or inconsistencies when left unsupervised as prompts are never good enough to remove all ambiguity for complex asks, so I can’t imagine what it will do to a code base when left alone with it for days or weeks.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

throwaway63467 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 01:37:14 +0000

Is there much you can do with it? Does it still work as before, does it still have a GUI? Sounds really cool.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'"

throwaway63467 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:31:25 +0000

I mean I used Copilot / JetBrains etc. to work on my code base but for large scale changes it did so much damage that it took me days to fix it and actually slowed me down. These systems are just like juniors in their capabilities, actually worse because junior developers are still people and able to think and interact with you coherently over days or weeks or months, these models aren’t even at that level I think.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "WHY2025: How to become your own ISP [video]"

throwaway63467 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 08:40:24 +0000

It’s even less usually, they reimburse you if they have a surplus, I think I pad around 1.500 € normally.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why"

throwaway63467 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:54:56 +0000

That’s basically the plot of Stardew Valley. Programmers yearn for the fields.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Framework Laptop 12 review"

throwaway63467 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 08:10:25 +0000

I guess. MBP is in the same ball park, it uses around 5-8 W when idle with the screen on, it’s just that the 16’’ model has a 100 Wh battery so naturally it lasts longer. On Windows the Lenovo apparently lasts as long as a MacBook but I use it on Linux where power management isn’t as well optimized, it idles at around 9 W.

I don’t get these comments in general, sure the MacBook is much better, and I use one as well. I still prefer native Linux on my machine sometimes and the Aura is probably the best Linux laptop I ever owned.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Framework Laptop 12 review"

throwaway63467 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 08:07:27 +0000

I have the MBP M4 Max with 48 GB and 2 TB drive, which is around 5.500 € here. That’s what I compare it to, it has around 40.000 points on Geekbench, the X9 around 20.000 and it was around 2.000 €. Not sure how the other M4 compare. And sure the MBP or the Air is of course the better machine if you want to run MacOS, for a Linux laptop the Aura is the best option now though.