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Re:GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @04:17AM (#49342893)
Yes, programming language discussions can be vibes-based and therefore low value too, but sometimes the more concrete aspects of the languages at hand, e.g. language features and tradeoffs are discussed. That is something that I'm not seeing in equivalent AI discussions.. there is a lot of how a particular AI model "feels" to interact with.
Re:GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @03:31AM (#49342563)
These threads seem to have become exceedingly vibes-based. Yes, something may now be cheaper or more expensive or whatever, but there is no way to objectively measure quality (except for "trust me bro" benchmarks). So the discourse is people saying that for them, this or that model was better - which is a very low value data point.
Re:Steam Machine on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @12:17AM (#48640211)
Like what? Provide examples please.
Wow That Is Fantastic And I Am So Glad To Hear It, You Have Really Put In A Lot Of Effort!
Re:SpaceX Is Buying Cursor on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @09:07AM (#48554724)
Enterprise customers care about things like guardrails and data safety. xAI has always been anti guardrails, and who knows if you can trust them with your data.
Re:SpaceX Is Buying Cursor on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @08:55AM (#48554499)
No company that uses Cursor now is going to be ok with using xAI models.
Not a drop of blood to be seen anywhere!
It might be time to start interacting with agents using grug speak only
Re:Jira Is Turing-Complete on Monday May 25, 2026 @04:36AM (#48264700)
Well, you did say all. Is there a minimal set of exposed features that must be exposed for a workflow engine to be included?
Re:xAI joins SpaceX on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:09AM (#46867576)
Yes, because launching then immersed in something that will greatly increase the launch weight will help...
Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI on Friday December 26, 2025 @10:51AM (#46393227)
I'm hoping it's a human with a taste for satire
Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI on Friday December 26, 2025 @10:39AM (#46393126)
All hail your new overlords!
Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI on Friday December 26, 2025 @10:34AM (#46393074)
That's fine, you do you. Everyone gets to choose for themselves!
Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI on Friday December 26, 2025 @10:22AM (#46392936)
Go look it up, he doesn't
Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI on Friday December 26, 2025 @10:20AM (#46392915)
Who is "us"? You are not me.
Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI on Friday December 26, 2025 @10:05AM (#46392712)
It is nice to hear someone who is so influential just come out and say it. At my workplace, the expectation is that everyone will use AI in their daily software dev work. It's a difficult position for those of us who feel that using AI is immoral due to the large scale theft of the labor of many of our fellow developers, not to mention the many huge data centers being built and their need for electricity, pushing up prices for people who need to, ya know, heat their homes and eat
Re:All it takes is for one to work out on Saturday November 29, 2025 @09:04PM (#46092862)
At some point you don't need "the one that gives you joy". You need the one that pays the bills and feeds the family
Re:AI World Clocks on Friday November 14, 2025 @07:50PM (#45934028)
Is there a "draw a pelican riding a bicycle" version?
Re:AI World Clocks on Friday November 14, 2025 @07:45PM (#45933992)
I just realized I'm running late, it's almost -2!

More seriously, I'd love to see how the models perform the same task with a larger token allowance.

Don't know, probably? I'm a linear reader
No, we don't.
Re:ChatGPT Pro on Thursday December 05, 2024 @09:18PM (#42335502)
whoosh
Re:Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations on Friday October 18, 2024 @05:51AM (#41877792)
It is less safe for women than men unfortunately.
Re:Do Penguins Have Knees? (2019) on Monday July 29, 2024 @09:50PM (#41105417)
If a person doesn't exist, can they see penguins?
A war is usually something that has two sides fighting it.
Re:Why I'm Resigning from the Intercept on Thursday May 02, 2024 @03:56AM (#40233768)
They do, we call it 'the Internet'
It's amazing how many anecdotal folk remedies we're presented with on this forum, which I had assumed would have a more scientific bent.
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday March 28, 2024 @09:49PM (#39859711)
SBF also ate the omelette
Please elaborate?
Re:Cloudflare Thanksgiving 2023 Security Incident on Thursday February 01, 2024 @09:02PM (#39224038)
> They did this by using one access token and three service account credentials that had been taken, and that we failed to rotate, after the Okta compromise of October 2023

It's fair to "punch down" imo as that's how the credentials were originally compromised. I'd agree with you if CF were trying to minimize their own mistake but that doesn't seem to be what is happening here

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