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New comment by tmo9d in "Irrational Intelligence: Using the Most Expensive Model for Everything"

tmo9d — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:19:28 +0000

Alan Greenspan coined “irrational exuberance” to describe investors driving asset prices beyond what fundamentals justified. What’s happening with AI model selection needs its own term. Call it “irrational intelligence”: the persistent, unnecessary reach for the most powerful model available, conducted by people who don’t bear the cost, don’t see the environmental impact, and have no incentive to ask whether a cheaper model would work just as well.

Irrational Intelligence: Using the Most Expensive Model for Everything

tmo9d — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:19:28 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@tobrien/ai-capability-theater-why-everyones-driving-a-ferrari-0dcfb33fc7cd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48629750

Points: 2

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New comment by tmo9d in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

tmo9d — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:06:23 +0000

Claude Code is a lock-in play. Use Cursor or OpenCode.

Just Trust the Autopilot and AI Augmenting Air Traffic Control

tmo9d — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 04:03:06 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@tobrien/just-trust-the-autopilot-ab18307dfadf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45843459

Points: 1

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New comment by tmo9d in "Suggestion: Read the DeepSeek model license - note the Governing Jurisdiction"

tmo9d — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:18:53 +0000

Definitely not the only model doing this, but this one's a little more complicated. The GitHub repo for R1 just has an MIT license, and most people commenting on this across both tech and general news reports are missing this.

Everyone keeps on reporting that it's covered by the MIT license. I will acknowledge this model is more transparent and visible than proprietary alternatives, but the acceptable uses of the model it is derived from just make it unusable for many.

Even the technical people I'm talking to about this one keep on reporting that it is 100% open. None of these are.

New comment by tmo9d in "Suggestion: Read the DeepSeek model license - note the Governing Jurisdiction"

tmo9d — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:15:52 +0000

Done. Apologies, and thank you for leaving this reply.

New comment by tmo9d in "Suggestion: Read the DeepSeek model license - note the Governing Jurisdiction"

tmo9d — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 05:19:01 +0000

Look at the list of acceptable uses, and then look at the governing jurisdiction. Never have I seen so many people celebrate something as being "open source" without bothering to understand the implications of an agreement.

Suggestion: Read the DeepSeek model license - note the Governing Jurisdiction

tmo9d — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 05:19:00 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3/blob/main/LICENSE-MODEL

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42884909

Points: 6

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Tomitribe’s Recommended Cyber Monday Architecture

tmo9d — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:04:11 +0000

Article URL: http://www.tomitribe.com/blog/2013/12/tomitribes-recommended-cyber-monday-architecture/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6836138

Points: 1

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New comment by tmo9d in "What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day"

tmo9d — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 22:36:09 +0000

OMG who cares. I'm sorry, but this is just technology startup navel gazing nonsense.

New comment by tmo9d in "Tight investors force young entrepreneurs offshore"

tmo9d — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:32:02 +0000

If you are really good at what you do, and if you understand how real startups work, it becomes clear that location is the most irrelevant factor to success. I second Jason's views. If someone isn't going to work with you because you refuse to move to South End, Mountain View, or Brooklyn, then they can go fuck themselves. I travel to these places quite a bit though, and I love having a career that brings me to both coasts often.

The Midwest is the perfect place for a startup. Now that being said, Chicago has an entertaining startup scene. Entertaining in that I feel like they are trying too hard to be like San Franscisco.

New comment by tmo9d in "Akiban is Open Source"

tmo9d — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:30:21 +0000

Some background, this database stores data in a hierarchy data structure using a B+tree. I did some writing about this a while back, and talked to some of the developers. What's interesting about this database is that for specific use cases, it'll blow a plain old RDMBs out of the water in terms of performance because they've written a query optimizer and an execution engine that can take advantage of the proximity of related records.

New comment by tmo9d in "Rails Has Turned into Java"

tmo9d — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:57:42 +0000

Ah, watch out for JSF, it's a dangerous place. JPA on the other hand is surprisingly good these days try Spring 3 Oliver Gierke has done good things.

New comment by tmo9d in "Rails Has Turned into Java"

tmo9d — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:53:22 +0000

Spring 3 is excellent BTW. I originally started to blog about a Spring 3 application I wrote, but then it turned into this Rails rants.

And, I don't hate Rails at all. Really. I don't.

New comment by tmo9d in "Rails Has Turned into Java"

tmo9d — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:51:45 +0000

"An admirable direction and quite the opposite of Java." What are you talking, specifics please? Is Java a framework with features comparable to Rails?

Why is the laundry list of technologies absurd, these are the technologies that I run a business on. I think what's absurd is the level of reaction in your comment. Rails people now have this defensive reaction, and I've noticed it in person as well.

It reminds me of the reaction of Java zealots in 2007. It really does. "Oh, really, you couldn't be serious, I mean it's absurd to think that Ruby...." It wasn't absurd to challenge, and neither is this challenge.

New comment by tmo9d in "Rails Has Turned into Java"

tmo9d — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:00:26 +0000

You are joking right, "Try not to stuff your app with everything you can possibly think of." Like providing a admin interface on Refinery as well as authentication with Devise is "everything and the kitchen sink".

I think you may be trying to defend something.

New comment by tmo9d in "Rails Has Turned into Java"

tmo9d — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:19:39 +0000

Hey, don't forget Gradle - http://www.gradle.org - Gradle syntax for declaring dependencies is similar to Maven.

But there's a very close comparison between Bundler and managing dependencies with Maven or Gradle. And there's a huge difference. Maven Central has never been compromised because they have a secure method for deploying artifacts, RubyGems? You've had a fun month with RubyGems, right?

New comment by tmo9d in "Rails Has Turned into Java"

tmo9d — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:16:48 +0000

No Java is like a Lepton and Rails is like a Neutrino. Neither interact with the Strong force. Got it?

New comment by tmo9d in "Rails Has Turned into Java"

tmo9d — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:14:27 +0000

No, please don't let this article affect your experience with Rails. Rails is awesome. It is. It's a great framework to learn and the problems that the author of this piece was discussing are really just a critique of his own faults. He made some awful decisions about architecture and framework and now he's paying the price.

Ignore this idiot and continue on.

Also, I wrote the original piece.

New comment by tmo9d in "Rails Has Turned into Java"

tmo9d — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:12:56 +0000

I don't know. I'm running a business on a Rails site and it's sort of sucking right now in terms of what I can get done and how fast I can get it done. Why? Because learning rails isn't the easiest thing in the world any more especially when half of the application is custom work around to jury-rig different frameworks together.

One of the developers came to me just last week and showed me a POC in Java that was cleanly assembled, easy to understand, and lacked all the enterprisey stuff that scared me away from Java years ago. That's why I wrote the article.

I'm not burning the chapel to build a new one. I'm setting sail for the fatherland in search of Silk and Spices. (I didn't mean to make sense with that ending, but you read it, didn't you?)