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New comment by troglodytetrain in "How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps"

troglodytetrain — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:06:52 +0000

So, at this point any company that doesn’t want ai agents navigating on their webpages have to kill the accessibility.

And they do and will. Blind users are a tiny tiny part of users. But hurting usability for the disabled is bad PR. So of course they do it “accidentally”.

New comment by troglodytetrain in "Protect your right to run local AI"

troglodytetrain — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:02:32 +0000

How can they expect to A. Get away with political fallout of making local llm use illegal? B. Somehow enforce this? C. Do this without killing all scientific research in the USA (local llm seems to have a broad definition and I don’t trust any politician to get even close to understanding what it is) —-> If they somehow do this, all it will do is guarantee China pulls very far ahead.

New comment by troglodytetrain in "The Fall and Rise of Screwworm"

troglodytetrain — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:59:36 +0000

Government solve problem. Problem gone. No more problem ever.

Problem come back? Because problem complex problem based on a large number of interdependent variables as is common is real life ecosystems? No way.

-Brought to you by grug gpt.

New comment by troglodytetrain in "60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it"

troglodytetrain — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:53:26 +0000

So, just be careful with this, it very likely is switching to other less capable model hence the cost reduction. So looks like Fable but isn’t. So you are doing extra work when you could just switch the model back to opus 4.8 instead.

New comment by troglodytetrain in "I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)"

troglodytetrain — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:49:18 +0000

So it is funny satire.

But my wife is finishing up her PHd and according to her: all students are using ai and pretending they are not because the PI and other older leadership treat any use of ChatGPT or similar as plagiarism and not allowed at any stage. Which I think is simply stupid.

I showed her how to use ChatGPT since Claude was blocking on all her request (biologist) and it has helped her massively improve the wording and structure of her paper as English is not a first language for her.

New comment by troglodytetrain in "Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries"

troglodytetrain — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:01:22 +0000

so just a quick counterpoint ---> I played around with qwen 2.5 4B recently locally. An older model and a tiny model.

Tested this model with optimized harness and it was good enough that it was able to complete (sometimes) a full job application flow for given json user data.

All that to say, I think that there is a strong possibility that we will even just with llm tech, develop it enough that local efficient models are entirely sufficient on their own to be able to drive basic robot 'harness'.

But we almost certainly will not be seeing that as the product from the corporations because they desperately want and need that data about you, for the same reason many tv (lcd/etc) companies make more money from 'ads' then from selling the tvs.

New comment by troglodytetrain in "Claude Sonnet 5"

troglodytetrain — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:22:23 +0000

yeah, my personal work experience has taught me that extra productivity is actual really just a problem for many companies. You do more work now I have to too. We don't have to work because we have special relationships with or as gatekeepers ensuring we receive regular income from government, other corps, etc.

Look at what happened to twitter. So many companies aren't 'productive', they are simply parked somewhere where they can charge a toll, and then they pretend legitimacy.

New comment by troglodytetrain in "Claude Sonnet 5"

troglodytetrain — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:18:54 +0000

So, maybe a dumb question, but do we have any real reason to believe that productivity at any level is actually associated with the actual underlying profit and earnings of any of the companies that are heavily 'knowledge work' focused, like big tech? Sure, for a factory, or a farm it makes sense.

But for tech I get the impression that valuation has been fundamentally unmoored from actual production for decades already. Its less about 'productivity' and more about vibes.

New comment by troglodytetrain in "Claude Sonnet 5"

troglodytetrain — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:08:56 +0000

Another great product from anthropic where I need to pay hundreds upon hundreds of dollars for the privilege of being the unpaid QA team for the multi trillion dollar corporation.

New comment by troglodytetrain in "VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO"

troglodytetrain — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:03:09 +0000

Sounds like something that could be pretty useful as a 'validation' subagent. Provide it the details/context related to a larger LLM's run or turn in a harness and have it act as a gatekeeper. At this size and speed it looks like it could be economical to have it run every turn or even every tool call and inform the main agent about the result and success/failure.

New comment by troglodytetrain in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

troglodytetrain — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:13:56 +0000

The current op manual for anthropic appears to be:

A. Do shady shit to try to hurt competitors/stop distillation/stop pro plan users using other coding harnesses/etc.

B. Any shady shit that gets viral enough gets a PR apology response and removed.

C. Add new shady shit. GoTo => A.

And I am incredulous as to how this opinion is not more widespread.

New comment by troglodytetrain in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

troglodytetrain — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:36:41 +0000

Well, that is one way to rationalize, as I guess there is an infinite number of ways to do so.

The point remains, only one singular choice guarantees your own safety. And another has a Chance of death. Take the stupid choice because you think everyone else is also stupid? Thats your choice.

New comment by troglodytetrain in "If you stop hiring juniors, your senior engineers own you"

troglodytetrain — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:28:58 +0000

Senior engineers have always owned the application (by knowledge not by law). And that has never been a problem. The real problem is, that without new Juniors there will never be new Seniors, and your company will collapse when your Seniors retire.

New comment by troglodytetrain in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

troglodytetrain — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:25:15 +0000

The problem isn't rephrased. Option Red = 0% chance of death, Option Blue = chance of death but maybe you can be the hero and save everyone.

So we all choose option Red and you, the hero, chose Blue. Congratulations, we will write some nice words on your tombstone.

New comment by troglodytetrain in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

troglodytetrain — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:00:57 +0000

Its an interesting psychological test. Because, no, I don't agree, red is the moral choice and also the most rational.

Those who think the population is too stupid to behave in regards to their own self preservation might choose blue in an attempt to 'save everyone' and kill themselves.

Only one singular choice has zero risk of death, and its red. Everyone chooses red and we all survive.

New comment by troglodytetrain in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

troglodytetrain — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:58:14 +0000

I think this hypothetical captures a sort of hero complex. You think everyone is too stupid to choose the right choice so you will save us all...

Except we all chose red because its the obvious choice and now you are dead.

New comment by troglodytetrain in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

troglodytetrain — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:54:32 +0000

Please explain. Red guarantees safety. Why wouldn't everyone pick red? The only option that leads to a statistical chance of death is blue?

New comment by troglodytetrain in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

troglodytetrain — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:53:10 +0000

I would describe it like this. We are all standing on the edge of a cliff. You can choose the 'Red' option. That option means you don't jump off the cliff. Or you can choose the 'Blue' option. You jump off the cliff. If 50% of individuals choose also the 'Blue' option then there will be a net to catch you so you don't all die.

So, now we agree? Red option it is every time.

New comment by troglodytetrain in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

troglodytetrain — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:44:36 +0000

If red pressers always survive then everyone should pick red. Its incredibly and obviously so and I'm concerned by the fact that so many commenters aren't aware of this.

New comment by troglodytetrain in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

troglodytetrain — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:43:08 +0000

Your entire logical chain, and your self importance, well, it explains why I'm always picking red. If you win and most pick blue, I'm safe, otherwise, I'm also safe.

You get to feel intellectually superior choosing the only option that can lead you to die. The simple answer is everyone should pick red.