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New comment by zwnow in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

zwnow — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:46:23 +0000

Then ban me u loser, as I wrote HN is full of pretentious bullshitters. But its good that u wanna ban authentic views. Way to go. If i feel like it I'll just create a new account:-)

New comment by zwnow in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

zwnow — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:53:07 +0000

Most code out there is a legacy security nightmare, surely its good to train on that.

New comment by zwnow in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

zwnow — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:13:31 +0000

Well from cars or CPUs its not expected for them to eventually reach AGI, they also don't eat a trillion dollar hole into us peasants pockets. Sure, improvements can be made. But on a fundamental level, agents/LLMs can not reason (even though they love to act like they can). They are parrots learning words, these parrots wont ever invent new words once the list of words is exhausted though.

New comment by zwnow in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

zwnow — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:58:17 +0000

Authentic people shouldn't be here? Interesting.

New comment by zwnow in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

zwnow — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:37:01 +0000

You are thankfully wrong. I watch lots of talks on the topic from actual experts. New models are just old models with more tooling. Training data is exhausted and its a real issue.

New comment by zwnow in "Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)"

zwnow — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:50:49 +0000

> The people who are in a position to influence the world are those who understand it

are those who can pay people who understand it*

New comment by zwnow in "A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time"

zwnow — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:48:51 +0000

> Well, at least people like me want this.

Yeah because dynamic digital price signs in shops based on what data vendors have about you and AI can extract from it are such fun! Total surveillance. More than what's already happening. Such fun!

New comment by zwnow in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

zwnow — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:44:12 +0000

I also love how AI enthusiasts just ignore the issue of exhausted training data... You cant just magically create more training data. Also synthetic training data reduces the quality of models.

New comment by zwnow in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

zwnow — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:40:53 +0000

I'd quickly trash your application if I see you just vibe coded some bullshit app. Developing is about working smart, and its not smart to ask AI to code stuff that already exists, its in fact wasteful.

New comment by zwnow in "The Post-American Internet"

zwnow — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:47:34 +0000

You are aware that these are individual cases right? How many crimes do Germans commit that aren't blown up in the media? Are you this retarded?

New comment by zwnow in "The Post-American Internet"

zwnow — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:49:43 +0000

If you really believe this you need help

New comment by zwnow in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

zwnow — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:31:09 +0000

> It's fine to want that but let's not pretend "rent should be illegal" is a serious or reasonable policy proposal.

So its fine for you that there are people owning 20+ properties speculating on profit for basic human needs? Its literally Nestlé "this is MY water" behavior.

New comment by zwnow in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

zwnow — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:44:17 +0000

> Landlord isn’t nearly as profitable as some people think.

I am aware of that, still doesnt stop people from speculation and therefor preventing others from buying.

New comment by zwnow in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

zwnow — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:40:19 +0000

> Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and all the power lies in subscription services?

Yes. Personal computing is dying if hardware vendors continue to cater to imaginary data centers for our imaginary AGI.

New comment by zwnow in "The Post-American Internet"

zwnow — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:43:10 +0000

My country (Germany) still consists out of 72.65% Germans (Wikipedia/Destatis Sept. 2025).

Every other ethnic doesn't surpass 4%.

Being an open and multicultural country kinda implies that other ethnics have a place here, and that's a good thing. Nationalism is the last thing my country needs.

New comment by zwnow in "The Post-American Internet"

zwnow — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:37:14 +0000

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New comment by zwnow in "enclose.horse"

zwnow — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:19:05 +0000

You can just test without submitting though?

New comment by zwnow in "The Post-American Internet"

zwnow — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 07:19:37 +0000

Cory's new book is also a pretty cool read, glad I found his work. Shows the enshittification processes big tech went through really well. Also touches on the post-american internet.

New comment by zwnow in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

zwnow — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:00:53 +0000

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New comment by zwnow in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

zwnow — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:29:23 +0000

It 100% was about optimization. Introducing new devices, with more capabilities (storage place recommendations for example), that weren't 10 years old and broke every 2 weeks is optimizing.