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Re:The last time my family was replaced by technology on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:04PM (#49913565)
Yes, because people are consumers, horses are not.

Jobs are a mean to make people consumers, not the only mean, but a significant one.

The ability to create more economic activity require both sides to catch up, so we will find a way to do so.

Re:Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @10:22AM (#49909427)
So that's why even Qwen-3.8-27B caught up with Opus4.6, it was nerfed to the ground.
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:28PM (#49804964)
It's not X, it's Y, not A, not B, not C, and he haven't even woken up yet! Here's the catch, the detail is in the devils and the twist is that it's designed!
Re:Grok 4.7 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @09:56AM (#49801380)
I agree with you in that there exist such a class of problems, but Occam's razor apply in far more circumstances than it does not. When confronted with novel information under pressure of quick decisions, you have to take the most likely correct path.
Re:Grok 4.7 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:46AM (#49797215)
Problems can be holistically complex but the building blocks of those problem usually aren't.

If the presenter can't divide a problem until it reaches a series of independently simple concepts, then there's usually something fishy going on.

Re:Grok 4.7 on Monday September 21, 2026 @12:54PM (#49789884)
The best ideas are usually the simplest to elaborate. If someone comes up with a convoluted scheme that are hard to understand or be adequately explained, it's usually fraud.

When claude speak in convoluted mess, they are often going off on tangents in real work that you asked it to do, too.

Re:Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:47AM (#49653668)
I'd say you only pay 10% of the cost when you finish/launch the re-written software. The other 90% of cost comes later in the format of operations, deprecation and migration, people both users and devs, community friction and learning cost.

And that 90% could be an underestimate here.

Re:OpenAI Agents API on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:30AM (#49653572)
I think in time people will realize harness is essentially a more complicated .vimrc or .zshrc;

And yes, you can install gigantic plugins in those places - e.g. Codex; but the point is everyone will have exactly what they have customized towards. The more atomic a building block is, the easier it can be adapted into any kind of configuration.

I think the pain of selling a harness is if your target market understand what a harness is, then they can build it to exactly how they'd like it without much effort. If they don't, then the harness wouldn't be very useful to them in the first place.

Re:Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills on Thursday September 10, 2026 @02:44AM (#49639371)
This looks like colloquial mandarin translated to english word for word.

This is almost exactly how mandarin is spoken in colloquial communication, context is almost always omitted if provided once, and grammar/tense is mostly non-existent either. Check out Singlish for something similar but understandable if you are not a mandarin speaker.

Re:Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills on Thursday September 10, 2026 @01:41AM (#49638865)
I'd much prefer this over agents that enthusiastically implements whatever they are asked to do and make up whatever information they think is missing.
Re:Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @10:03AM (#49610505)
Paper trades are more lenient afaik? You won't run into actual transaction problems particularly when market fluctuates by the milliseconds.
Is it luck or bold product and marketing decision?

Being first could be luck, or it can be foresight.

Re:Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @08:10AM (#49344526)
One of the biggest reason I migrated to Codex. I'd like to see each agentic CLI process as a simple building block, and having 100 claude session means I sometimes run out of memory (and I have 256GB of them). Codex never have this problem.

The communication is more direct too with GPT5.6 family of LLM. No more belt and suspenders.

Re:Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems on Sunday August 16, 2026 @02:13AM (#49317346)
It seems like they tried to remove guidance from multi-agent system. And I think it's going to fare as well as removal of guidance from single-agent interactions.

In my experience, no matter how many agent runs for a single goal, one of the pre-requisite is clear and concise communication so that LLM are left with as little freedom in the matter of arbitrary choices, or "taste". When they are given too much choices in this regard, the outcome almost invariably bad.

I think this has to do with LLM lacking in purpose - a dictionary and encyclopedia can have all the worlds knowledge but it is completely neutral. A reflection of your commands from an LLM is similar to a lookup process despite it can be made to "do things". This purpose is likely not something that can be given to the LLM in the current format.

Re:Asus Bike Booster on Sunday August 16, 2026 @01:56AM (#49317281)
It feels like a great product but targeted at a surprisingly transient customer base.

The cycling guys won't buy it, they want the watts from their legs.

The commuters will just get an ebike eventually.

The getting started crowd will eventually become one of these 2 or stop riding a bike altogether. Since I didn't see how much this cost, if it cost as much as a commuter bike, I really don't know who would buy something like this.

You would expect someone following quant trading to have sensitivities to quantity, but alas.
> not available to 99.999999999999999999%

There are not enough human 25 years old in history for this many 9s. You had 21 nines, which would only make sense if there were 10 billion billion humans ever and that he is the only one. However, the current estimate is there were 107 billion humans ever alive in history, so your statement is impossible even if the estimate is off by 10000 fold.

Re:Ordinary Abundance on Thursday August 13, 2026 @01:56PM (#49289640)
This is so ironically on point.

I recall reading a shampoo bottle in the bathroom maybe 25 years ago because there was nothing else to read.

Meanwhile now you are correctly complaining about how weird the scrolling feels like.

You can only control the compute if it is not commoditized, which at the current moment, it is not, leading to industry players having 75-80% margins.

Someone will find a way to make cheaper compute, and since nothing fundamental changed there (LLM didn't change how silicon were made), that's bound to happen.

Re:Our position on open-weights models on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @09:09AM (#49083272)
www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/topics/open-weight/

Amazon is listed as signatory, I doubt microsoft just decided for them.

Re:I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @09:07AM (#49083243)
> If your worth is not determined by your productivity, then what remains of you underneath it all?

Worth and productivity are synonyms in direction, wouldn't a better phrase not track either? It's difficult to answer anything other than naught without some mental gymnastics because the words themselves are implicit.

How about happiness? That is one human quality that is not directly tied to any of worth, value or productivity.

Re:Our position on open-weights models on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @08:30AM (#49082828)
Amazon did sign it though...
Re:Our position on open-weights models on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @03:40AM (#49080625)
Keep seeing this trope again and again. By same logic are open source code "open source"? If we don't see the development environment attached to these projects, are they truly open source? Heck, why not include software philosophy and methodology and the Jira board including the book that inspired the architecture?

The argument is an endless slope and as such essentially pointless.

Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @06:44AM (#48990527)
The peak was in 2014, far before any coherent AI became a thing.

As someone with substantial "points" accumulated all a full decade ago, I can easily see why. If you only allow certain opinions and criteria for specific subjects, your user will eventually shrink to only the few that possessed them.

It's a Spartan death. Don't blame it on the Persians or Athens.

Re:Who's Afraid of Chinese Models? on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @01:34AM (#48988432)
> humanities, creativity, entertainment, or financial transparency

> monetizing these strengths

> real advantage over China is freedom

Please tell me if I'm unfairly paraphrasing but these seem to be your main argument and they seem to be oxymorons

Re:Who's Afraid of Chinese Models? on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @01:27AM (#48988367)
I use a mixture of claude code and codex and kiro as my swarm.

They communicate through my own harness, and it's working pretty well so far. claude code is being overtaken by codex however because I noticed lately the accuracy of the latter is the best.

As someone who is on the other side, the amount of familiar, LLM generated reports are overwhelming and usually falls under "not familiar with product design/security scope" category. But there are also really good ones - so I can't afford to not take actual look at each, but it gets tiring and we need a solution. Spamming the former category with LLM generated "rationale" isn't that solution (yes I can tell this article is mostly LLM generated).

Unfortunately, this looks like the former case. If the software can execute arbitrary code/binary, and you place a malicious binary, that's up to you to secure/sandbox the workspace, not the software. Unless cursor commit themselves to securing the user environment, which I don't think they are in the business of.

If you are generating a CVE report with LLM, please use LLM responsibly in helping you reproduce deterministically. Then please do the write up yourself, keep it as concise as possible and strip most adjectives in any LLM generated sections as they cannot help themselves to write without mostly useless exaggerations.

Re:How do you use Vim in the era of AI? on Friday July 10, 2026 @09:59AM (#48860048)
I am sort of a no UI (except browser) user for a very long time now, and vim is still incredibly useful.

Granted, the language servers are getting dusted, but it's much nicer to write goals in markdown in vim and send it to LLM in a self-written harness CLI; and even look at the results in the same way. All unix. LLM is just the latest toolbox addition.

You're describing the mac mini/studio with some facelift.
But why should apple invest in developing their own models? Why would it be correct?

Or phrase it in a very similar ask, why don't they invest in power plants? The model space is truly crowded, what do they gain or recover suppose they are SOTA? Across the Pacific they are pumping out free models that are only 6-12 months behind. What business sense does it make for Apple to develop their own models?

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