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Re:Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:21AM (#50339146)
Lots of owners feed fully aware "live" prey. Many snakes will refuse prey that doesn't move.
Re:LLM Voice on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:16PM (#50293534)
They're still heavily RL'd on response formatting/clarity, and against common LLM-isms. Long form prose quality is expensive to RL so I expect this to languish for a while until other low hanging fruit has been picked.
Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:57AM (#50291126)
If there were economies of scale that enabled it to be more broadly available, and that was competitive in terms of utility gain per dollar invested, why not. IMO the government should be utility maximizing for its citizens, whatever that looks like.
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:28PM (#50279513)
This likely isn't AA putting its finger on the scale for specific interests, rather in the case of Muse/Astra, it's to avoid looking really bad because it scores things way out of wack with people's anecdotal vibes on model capabilities. It is possible that labs are getting preliminary AA results back and raising concerns about scoring that then get folded into updated benchmarks, but I strongly doubt it's nefarious.
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:23PM (#50279424)
Likely they did a distillation run on a later checkpoint of a large internal teacher model, probably with some tuning of the distillation process based on early public results with Argon. RL is the expensive/time consuming step, they should be able to distill down from a checkpoint with the stamp of approval pretty quickly.
Even a decade ago marketing/growth was the massive lion's share. IMO just building something has been near meaningless since at least post-Ruby on Rails. The app stores have been inundated since the late 2010s.
Re:No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector on Saturday October 24, 2026 @05:40PM (#50225642)
The distinction is adjusted vs non-adjusted basis. Serving inference is profitable, but serving inference for the last released model doesn't cover the cost of the model in training.

Dario explained it very clearly in an older interview. If every model is bigger and more expensive to train, each model can individually be profitable, while the company as a whole still shows a loss at any given point in time. This is why he likes the idea of regulation so much, it'll let them take a breather and recoup.

Re:No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner on Friday October 23, 2026 @04:55PM (#50215194)
Prepare for the longest game of hide and go seek in recorded history.
Anthropic cooked with Opus 4.5 and 5.5. Their other iterations have usually been nicer to interact with than GPT and more "autonomous", while being dumber.
Re:Does Ruby on Rails still make sense? on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:27AM (#50180593)
Agents are already better at writing strongly typed languages than Ruby, and don't care about the small ergonomic affordances that rails provided. Even if you think the Rails bloat and Ruby nicheness/slowness is worth it today (hard disagree), think forward a year when agents are significantly stronger than they are today and consider how that decision will hold up.
Re:Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains on Sunday October 18, 2026 @02:51PM (#50144088)
IMO Cloudflare is the closest thing to a "good guy" these days. Very customer friendly, affordable and generally fairly ethical (if you pass over the part where they share data with the NSA).
Re:Websites are closing their doors to AI agents on Sunday October 18, 2026 @11:45AM (#50142076)
It's insane to me that people don't see that agents are going to be how you interact with your computer going forward, almost exclusively. The people who make things hard for agents are going to get eviscerated by the people who don't just make it easy for agents to do things, but market primarily to agents rather than humans.
Instagram is trash. Stop wasting your time.
As a Krea2 local model enjoyer, your challenge is that on the $20 GPT plan you get a fairly good amount of Codex use and image gen. If I used Krea, it would be because I fine tuned/built a workflow on top of it to do something GPT image couldn't/wouldn't do. Maybe there's a market for the cheapest "good enough" bulk image gen model (spam? idk what the applications would be), but personally I'd say you should focus on workflow add-ons/one click fine tuning/etc that design companies can use to create assets with their custom "look" since the GPT-Image look will become blase from overuse.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:08PM (#50075112)
The delta isn't really slower, we're just unlocking capability bundles in batches. The capabilities bundles you care about might have mostly been unlocked already, and just need refinement, which is coming slower than the initial capabilities came, but don't discount the breadth of advances being made across all possible tasks.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:02PM (#50074998)
Beyond SVG, these things have been RL'd on 3d reconstruction (which carries over), and I expect given the public reaction to recent frontier advancements in 3d capabilities that this will get allocated a larger share of the post training budget in the future.
Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:05AM (#50071056)
Counterpoint, lots of people learn to navigate the areas where they spend their time by following GPS directions repeatedly, and can drive regular routes without them (though they're still useful for routing around unknown traffic issues).
Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:58AM (#50070969)
The ironic thing is the head chefs of restaurants do almost no cooking. They order around the sous chef, who orders around the kitchen staff, while being focused on the big picture.
Re:QGIS bans AI assisted contributions on Monday October 12, 2026 @07:38AM (#50054892)
First, just check out the comments on any "I'm tired of reading slop" submission to refute your first point, the circle jerk is real.

Second, while I sympathize with not wanting to be inundated with low effort PRs, putting a ban on AI assisted contributions in response is myopic virtue signalling.

Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:17AM (#50020896)
I don't choose TS/JS for new projects anymore unless they're browser based. If you need to be in JS land for whatever reason, deploy with Node but do local package management/testing with Bun, because it's way faster for those and you can migrate off without too much pain if it ever becomes problematic.
Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:15AM (#50020869)
D1 is a very different product. D1 is designed to be tenant sharded for any real workloads.

If they bought Neon that'd be a coup.

Re:Rust Port of TypeScript (Tsc) on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:15AM (#50004894)
It got a video before it hit HN
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @09:33PM (#50000987)
That benchmark agrees with my point, GPT-4o scored an 80% on it. Even if you could construct a much harder legal bench that could resolve smarter models, the bottleneck is getting the absolute top legal experts in the world to give feedback, so progress would be slow compared to stuff like math and coding where you can programmatically generate scenarios and validate/score performance.

These models are spikey as hell, they can gain incredible capabilities but that doesn't make them godlike minds, it's more like a scaled up version of rain man.

Re:Google Playground on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:56AM (#49994625)
It's hard to say for sure, I think we can at least confidently assert that games are going to be more challenging than other forms of creative expression like Books, Music, Art, etc because people's tolerance for derivative games is lower than their tolerance for derivative movies/music.
Re:PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:24AM (#49994130)
AAA game studios are dying, consoles are dying, the bear is sick and vulnerable.
Re:PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:22AM (#49994106)
Take a look at what's happening with CDs/DVDs. People are sick of not owning their software, and they want a secondary market.
Re:PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:19AM (#49994059)
Agents' ability to disassemble and reverse engineer is amazing, the scary thing to think about is what does it mean to sell software in a world where the only moat is brand/marketing?
Re:Google Playground on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:15AM (#49993992)
You misunderstand me, AI solves the "making" part, but not the "fun" part, which is 100% you.
Re:Google Playground on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:50AM (#49993669)
I don't think AI will ever really solve "making a fun game" because:

1. Games are highly complex systems, so for example adding a fun mechanic from one game to another game can actually make that game less fun, and AI has no way to know, you just have to playtest it.

2. Games are evergreen (people still play and love the original Zelda/Mario/Tetris) and social (you want to share your love of game XYZ with others), so there's literally no reason for anyone to play a purely derivative game, when you can just play the original.

Eventually AI will be able to make perfect assets and all the other stuff AROUND making a fun game, but the game design will always be a human thing. At best, AI will come up with a bunch of game design experiments that a human will need to playtest and provide feedback on.

Re:What Is Codemode on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @09:24AM (#49992490)
In terms of token and attention efficiency, lisp's syntax is actually not quite optimal. Ironically, something like xml where you can munge the delimiters together with the tag as a single token for common cases (e.g. '<tr>' and '</tr>' vs '(' 'xyz' ')') is better.

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