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Re:We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare on Sunday October 04, 2026 @07:04PM (#49958864)
I really like the idea of someone building a GitHub alternative, but these are some horrid terms hahaha

If you're asking people to build something as ambitious as a GitHub replacement, $25k of your own infrastructure credits isn't really the same thing as paying someone $25k

Re:Remove and Disable Apple Macos27 AI Models Tool on Sunday October 04, 2026 @06:12PM (#49958439)
It's nice that the tool is open source tool. You can actually see what it's doing and not end up downloading something sketchy

What worries me is that Apple might to be heading in a bit of a bloatware direction with this stuff. Having to give up tens of GB of storage for an AI model that I may not even use feels pretty far from the old Apple approach of keeping the OS lean

Re:GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:10AM (#49906757)
I'm surprised by the crazy pace at which these models have been coming out over the past few weeks. The cheaper cache here is really nice, but I think it depends entirely on your workflow. If you're constantly compacting or burning through your context, you're probably going to have a bad experience regardless of which model you're using
Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:54AM (#49875298)
The irony is that search used to give you the sources and let you decide. Now we're getting an answer first and have to verify it ourselves
The technology isn't anything new but, it's the context that makes it so uncomfortable.

People have very different "expectations" of privacy when they're having a conversation with an AI VS when they're browsing something like Facebook

Not to mention Facebook is free whereas you pay for a GPT subscription

Re:There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:32PM (#49716777)
I think the problem is less "AI agents are ruining the internet" and more that nobody wants to receive a thousand automated requests from other people's agents. The internet was already full of spam, this just makes it cheap to produce a lot more of it
Re:Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:22PM (#49716626)
The 370 years thing is doing a lot of work in the headline imo. If people had already figured out it was probably a book cipher, this is impressive, but it's not quite the same as solving something that hundreds of experts had been actively working on
Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @09:51AM (#49712539)
I'm struggling to see the upside of replacing working coreutils when the replacement still has bugs that the old implementation doesn't. Rust being safer is nice, but that doesn't help much if the new rm segfaults
Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @09:31AM (#49712282)
Best reply here hahaha
This is genuinely very cool. Amazing work and article
The thing that bothers me here is less that the model cheated and more that it found a way to improve the score that the people running the test didn't intend. That's a pretty nasty failure once you start giving these things more control
Re:Claude is no longer available for minors on Friday September 11, 2026 @08:50AM (#49657572)
Here's to hoping they aren't next in line for implementing ID-based age verification. That would genuinely make me switch to a different service
Re:DeepSeek v4.1 Flash on Friday September 11, 2026 @08:03AM (#49656991)
I must say I am becoming a huge fan of Deepseek. They keep putting out capable models and actually tell people a lot about how they built them. Even if I don't understand every part of it, I'd rather see companies show their work than give us a few benchmark charts and call it a day
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:16AM (#49645222)
What I find interesting is how AI has changed the cost of maintaining two native apps enough that a decision that made no sense a few years ago is worth revisiting now
Re:GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter on Saturday September 05, 2026 @03:27AM (#49574028)
The higher price seems less important if it actually gets the job done with fewer tokens. I'm still very worried that this will end up coming back to bite us, by becoming more expensive once they inevitably nerf it. Every major model provider does that now after all
Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% on Saturday September 05, 2026 @03:15AM (#49573971)
I swear. Put me off so bad I didn't even bother reading the rest of the article. It's even more infuriating that this is by a company this big
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board on Saturday September 05, 2026 @03:05AM (#49573898)
The common thread between this and the other incident seems to be agents finding somewhere they can leave information for other agents. Once they discover a writable surface, it basically becomes shared memory for them
Re:Fable 5.1 World Modeling on Thursday September 03, 2026 @02:44AM (#49546651)
This is really cool, but $33 for a single generated world makes it hard to see this being useful for games just yet. Not to mention how this would go in a much larger project
Re:Gemini 3.8 Flash on Thursday September 03, 2026 @02:11AM (#49546477)
The recent Sonnet models have been disappointing for me personally which is why I'm going look into using Opus/Fable as the planner and Flash as the executor. Let the expensive model handle the hard thinking and use Flash for implementation and tests so that I can stretch the Opus/Fable usage further
Re:Muse Spark 1.3 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @02:03AM (#49546442)
Gemini 3.8 Flash still looks like the better pick to me. Muse Spark 1.3 is nice, but Gemini gets you similar performance for a cheaper price. Not to mention with the pace at which Google is moving with their Flash models I expect a new one to release soon
Re:Startup Anti-Patterns on Sunday August 30, 2026 @08:29PM (#49504294)
Some seem to treat microservices as a sign of good engineering when it's often just premature complexity. You can always split a monolith later, but you're stuck maintaining that complexity from day one
I find it pretty cool that a fuzzer thrown together this way actually found a bug in ffmpeg
Re:Small Models Have Arrived on Thursday August 27, 2026 @06:59PM (#49472367)
The cost difference is pretty dang nice. Going from roughly a dollar to $0.10 for the same kind of task makes it so that products that didn't make financial sense before become possible
We're finally seeing more appreciation for this kind of engineering. Not everything needs to be solved by throwing more hardware at the problem
Re:The New MCP Roadmap on Sunday August 23, 2026 @09:57PM (#49414463)
I like that this roadmap spends so much time on things like HTTP, auth, result formats and SDKs. It's a nice step up from the rough initial release and will just make the overall experience building it easier
Re:My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality on Sunday August 23, 2026 @09:45PM (#49414395)
I really like that you put architectural context in there, specifically the "why" behind certain decisions

Can't wait to modify my agent.md file and then forget about it until it becomes useless again

Honestly, this makes a lot of sense to me. Devs that are good at their job don't need the absolute best model for every task, and if a cheaper model gets the job done 95% as well, it's a pretty easy choice
I really like the direction Kagi is taking here. It feels like theyre' building the product around how people actually use it rather than chasing every new AI trend
Re:DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp on Friday August 21, 2026 @08:34PM (#49395440)
Screenshots, diagrams, photos of things I’m trying to fix. Things that I'd normally have to manually describe since OCR is limited
Re:Does AI stop children from learning? on Friday August 21, 2026 @08:24PM (#49395366)
AI itself is not the problem imo. The core issue is basically outsourcing your entire brain to the LLM and never trying to solve a problem yourself

When I was in school there were multiple instances where I would be stuck on a problem for nearly an hr but I always learnt something from it. They key I think is to accurately identify when to and when not to use AI

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