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Re:ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:30AM (#50323664)
Ah, so both Claude and Codex are going to have the same exact reduction for their two equivalent plans - 20x to 10x, at the same previous price - at the same time? I already knew about the ChatGPT announcement, but the claude one is completely new to me and completely unexpected. So much for competition...
Re:Code Is Clay Now on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:20AM (#50191853)
An expression that stuck with me from the Domain Driven Design book is "supple design". Achieving supple design (and thus supple code) is a goal, but it doesn't come for free - it requires a lot of work. I'm trying hard to get agents to create supple design - or at least not to make my own designs less supple - but it's not easy, because they have a tendency at overcomplicating and overengineering code.
Re:The Slow Formation of Durable Software on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:50AM (#50006502)
The trade-off between quality and speed of development has always been a tenet of software engineering. Agentic coding changes the equation a lot, but the equation is still there.
Re:The AI Race Just Got Awkward on Thursday October 08, 2026 @07:41AM (#50004643)
By that analogy, Anthropic is doing more like 0.000001% of the work of learning all we learned, and writing it down so that Anthropic at al can condense it into their models.
Re:What if AI worked at 1.000.000 tokens per seconds? on Saturday October 03, 2026 @02:17AM (#49941782)
Higher TPS by itself wouldn't remove the humans in the loop. Humans in the loop aren't there to make things faster, but to make them right - current LLMs can't do that on their own in most real world projects.

On the contrary, I would say that higher TPS would make humans in the loop much more productive, because the current long wait times mean that you lose focus and flow.

A US-led NATO may very well not survive two more years of Trump presidency.
T-bills are offering higher yields, that helps with demand.
Re:Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member' on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:17PM (#49744542)
This is pretty a common misconception. Schengen area only refers to the fact that there are no border checks between two countries which are in that area - it's just like an internal movement. This applies to anybody, so for example if a Canadian enters the Schengen area, they can move to any other country within that area without checks and without requiring an additional visa.

What you're thinking about is the "single market" - which, even if the name could deceive, also applies to people, including the right to go work anywhere within the single market for citizens of single market countries. Which is what many brits always hated, as they wanted single market for services and goods, but not for people.

Single market doesn't imply Schengen though - eg I as an EU citizen have the right to move to Ireland for work, but I still need to go through border checks as Ireland is outside of Schengen (because they have free movement with NI).

Re:Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member' on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:44AM (#49741578)
Schengen looks like a stretch, considering the geographic situation, but free movement is achievable, if both want it.
Re:Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member' on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:43AM (#49741548)
As someone who is very much in favor of this, let's remember that for now we're only at the announcements level. Any binding changes in the EU require a long process - if anything else, because there are 27 member states, each of which have veto power. But I'm hopeful that facts will follow these announcements.
Re:Mistral raises €3B on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @02:16AM (#49606155)
At this stage it's not about how much it's worth, but how much investment is required to reach their goals.
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Friday September 04, 2026 @07:55AM (#49563358)
Yes, that could be a way to achieve that. After all, even humans have short term and long term memory, and it looks like sleep is a very important "tick" to connect the two, so it's not all just continuous.

For sure, doing it for all users would be economically unfeasible. I wonder if the labs are experimenting with something similar, though.

Re:GPT-6 Astra on Friday September 04, 2026 @05:45AM (#49562446)
I have no idea about timelines, but the current LLM architecture has no mechanism which could emulate online learning in a way similar to how it happens in humans and other animals. As another commenter wrote, there is no neuroplasticity while these systems interact with their environment in normal usage; adding information/constraints to the context partially mitigates this, but it's a completely different mechanism.

The RL phase is the most similar mechanism I know of that comes to my mind, but I'm not sure it could be adapted to fill that gap.

My totally unsubstantiated theory is that this is the missing link towards what most humans would consider AGI. I don't see this as intractable, but it may require some substantial change in architecture.

Re:Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM) on Saturday August 29, 2026 @06:41AM (#49488736)
Given how important matrix multiplication with a huge number of fixed parameters is becoming, there is an enormous incentive to design much more efficient architectures where this very simple compute is colocated with memory. Inference cost would come down a lot.
Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:41AM (#49461253)
Yes, but that should be on a case by case basis. Blocking everybody is just an ideologically stupid choice, besides being inhumane.
Memory fabs take years to build, they cost a lot and there is no guarantee that the demand will stay as high years in the future. It's all very complex.
How long has this war been going on? A year is a totally realistic time frame if you evaluate his words.
30-40 per day means between 10,000 and 15,000 Palestinians killed per year. Just think about that number for a minute. I think that you're giving Ben Gvir way too much benefit of the doubt here.
And he is a minister in Israel's government, not some rando. Israeli governments and actions in the last many years are simply indefensible.
Re:ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux on Thursday August 13, 2026 @02:05PM (#49289778)
I've been using it to vibe code a personal application while I'm using a more "powerful" setup for my main agent assisted coding, and I have to say that it's been very good so far. I just wished that it was easier to hand off some tasks to codex web, like I tried to do today as I was starting a boat trip.
Re:The German Mittelstand on Monday August 10, 2026 @05:50AM (#49241546)
Come on, it's not just MBAs. I remember when patio11 (nothing against him personally, it's just the best example I can remember) became a star here on HN by saying that the solution to every problem as a consultant was to hike your rates. The idea of just asking as much money as you can get away with, which was seen as reprehensible by most of the population (my guesstimate, I don't have hard data) until more or less the eighties, Reagan and Thatcher era, has now permeated Western society at most levels, not just MBAs.

PS Chinese companies were (and probably still are, when they can) stealing IP, just like the USA did when it had more IP to steal from Europe than to protect from others. Western companies were very happy to let that happen when in exchange they could make more profits in the short term by using cheap Chinese labor and infrastructure.

> hope their bet on JPY vs EUR pays off in the long-term

Which bet?

The plug in "balcony panels" are usually limited to 800W here in Europe, so having them without a battery can make sense because you're probably going to use that power on the spot most of the time.
Russia has been doing the same for years - especially trying to destroy all electrical and heating infrastructure during Winter. Ukraine has the right to retaliate, now that they're able to.
Re:I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64 on Friday July 17, 2026 @06:56AM (#48945776)
For many of us, it was our first computer. It was very simple to understand at every level and very hackable. I was very young when I used it, but I learned so much about the internals of computers.
Re:Australia is offering free daytime electricity on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @02:29AM (#48902973)
You won't get 12% return if your panels generate electricity which is only paid between 18 and 19, because there is already overcapacity between 16:30 and 18.
I've read several comments in the last few months citing this kind of approach. What I'm trying to do is to make the implementation phase more reliable.

By the way, if you're not doing that yet, something that can really help when doing UI/UX work is to have the agent create some mockups, and then tests based on those - I'm using Cucumber with some extra sauce for this. It's a very nice way to guide the agent in a falsifiable way.

Wait until you hear about the giga-factories...

But seriously, if you care, this is just like using an existing library to do the lower level development work which I think is already pretty well done by the existing agents. It's not a design decision.

Interesting. From time to time I'm thinking about completely replacing the agent layer with my own, so that I would be able to enforce some rules at a lower level, but I'm wondering if it's worth it. What's been your experience with that?

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