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Re:Isaac Asimov: The Last Question on Friday April 17, 2026 @04:02PM (#47809953)
In school, humans rarely answer with "I don't know" when faced by teachers.

LLMs are the same, to that regard, they answer to the best of their abilities.

It's ones individual job to inform and reason. The problem solving in school is about that. Lean into your formal education. It tells you learning gets harder and harder and it never stops.

This is a novel. It's not an absolute truth, it's anecdotal and basic, simplified to make a point majority will understand. It sounds like truth only if you never question written knowledge. You should. Asimov wrote that to the best of its abilities. He explored. He opened a conversation, he did not hand a verdict in.

Dark modes alone only reduce lightness, are not reducing brightness.

That's the distinction some are missing.

And the most important parts:

- no dark mode is actually needed, for me anyway, once I reduce brightness;

- I have serious retina artifacts issues after reading a dark mode web page like that one.

Boo hoo hoo! Farmer Partridge remembers when he was squized out of its home by overpaid actors.
Re:The Beginning of Scarcity in AI on Thursday April 16, 2026 @05:53PM (#47800000)
The current inference system is on a down slope.

It remains to be seen what new wave of AI system or systems will replace it, making the whole current architecture obsolete.

Meanwhile, they are milking it, in the name of scarcity.

Re:What Claude Opus 4.7 means for AI code review on Thursday April 16, 2026 @02:13PM (#47797327)
What a joke Opus 4.7 at max is.

I gave it an agentic software project to critically review.

It claimed gemini-3.1-pro-preview is wrong model name, the current is 2.5. I said it's a claim not verified.

It offered to create a memory. I said it should have a better procedure, to avoid poisoning the process with unverified claims, since memories will most likely be ignored by it.

It agreed. It said it doesn't have another procedure, and it then discovered three more poisonous items in the critical review.

I said that this is a fabrication defect, it should not have been in production at all as a model.

It agreed, it said it can help but I would need to verify its work. I said it's footing me with the bill and the audit.

We amicably parted ways.

I would have accepted a caveman-style vocabulary but not a lobotomized model.

I'm looking forward to LobotoClaw. Not really.

Re:Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @02:13PM (#47797316)
What a joke Opus 4.7 at max is.

I gave it an agentic software project to critically review.

It claimed gemini-3.1-pro-preview is wrong model name, the current is 2.5. I said it's a claim not verified.

It offered to create a memory. I said it should have a better procedure, to avoid poisoning the process with unverified claims, since memories will most likely be ignored by it.

It agreed. It said it doesn't have another procedure, and it then discovered three more poisonous items in the critical review.

I said that this is a fabrication defect, it should not have been in production at all as a model.

It agreed, it said it can help but I would need to verify its work. I said it's footing me with the bill and the audit.

We amicably parted ways.

I would have accepted a caveman-style vocabulary but not a lobotomized model.

I'm looking forward to LobotoClaw. Not really.

Re:Best practices for using Claude Opus 4.7 with Claude Code on Thursday April 16, 2026 @01:49PM (#47797004)
What a joke Opus 4.7 at max is.

I gave it an agentic software project to critically review.

It claimed gemini-3.1-pro-preview is wrong model name, the current is 2.5. I said it's a claim not verified.

It offered to create a memory. I said it should have a better procedure, to avoid poisoning the process with unverified claims, since memories will most likely be ignored by it.

It agreed. It said it doesn't have another procedure, and it then discovered three more poisonous items in the critical review.

I said that this is a fabrication defect, it should not have been in production at all as a model.

It agreed, it said it can help but I would need to verify its work. I said it's footing me with the bill and the audit.

We amicably parted ways.

I would have accepted a caveman-style vocabulary but not a lobotomized model.

I'm looking forward to LobotoClaw. Not really.

I am yet to give any LLM a prompt where I would get a practical and meaningful solution for a real problem, no thinking involved.

The actual thinking task is still very much mine.

LLM helps with solving the task faster, but here too, with lots of corrections and involving an extremely solid supervision process.

So, I kind of doubt the sincerity of your post. In fact, I doubt it very much.

Re:Technical debt is dead, the metaphor is broken on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @12:27PM (#47781413)
Hmmm.

My tomorrow understanding may be worst than that of today. Time passing is no guarantee for elevated intelligence.

Time to live for said solution is a practical factor that could and should settle the complexity issue of the solution, which may also turn into exploratory curiosity-enhanced over engineered solution.

Finally, all solutions have technical debts. Unavoidably sublime. We just choose to look the other way in most cases.

Talking about choice. The article is presented in non-avoidable dark mode. Enough already! Say it with me: dark mode does not directly reduces the brightness, which should be your main concern, it only masks the brightness, which is BAD!
Re:Spaces: A CLI Built for Humans and Agents on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @07:18AM (#47777550)
Am I being dense? Is this a tease? Where is the actual product link?
A greed.
Re:Your File System Is Already A Graph Database on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @08:49AM (#47689484)
I can see over engineering when I look at one. And premature optimization.

Anyway, why care how the data is stored? You need a catalog. You need an index. You need automation. Helps keeping order and helps with inevitable changes and flips and pivots and whims and trends and moods and backups and restoration and snapshots and history and versioning and moon travels and collaboration and compatibility and long summer evening walks and portability.

Re:The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @08:42AM (#47689390)
I love how the commentator thinks a developer makes decisions based on commit messages.

Random, subjective, or written in a state of mental exhaustion commit messages.

I also love the switcheroo the author made: git not logs. But hey :)

Calligraphy did not get stolen from individuals and put into typewriters, it got replaced by letters with a purpose. Did that make us more alike? No, it got us more connected. Is connectivity making us more alike? If it does, is it a bad thing? Then science is a bad byproduct of this connectivity. Or any rules: driving rules, laws, airports, hotels. What is this bullshit, targeting AI for a natural human convergence instinct? I suspect riding the anti-AI wagon is profitable and draws likes and follows but narrowing vision is not the way.
Re:The Last Quiet Thing on Monday April 06, 2026 @04:00PM (#47666177)
People really are stupid these days...
Re:The Last Quiet Thing on Monday April 06, 2026 @03:54PM (#47666097)
Whoa there buddies! Some people need to learn how to take a joke!
Re:The Last Quiet Thing on Monday April 06, 2026 @01:43PM (#47664282)
Just a humorous jab :)
Re:The Last Quiet Thing on Monday April 06, 2026 @01:35PM (#47664159)
Ha. Ha. Ha. He expects to still find a battery fit for the Casio watch 7 years from now! Good luck with that buddy!
I noticed a regression in review quality. You can try and break the task all you want, when it's crunch time, it takes a file from Gemini's book and silently quits trying and gets all sycophantic.
Re:People Are Not Friction on Sunday April 05, 2026 @02:32PM (#47652435)
Except corporations, big businesses, government have already decided subpar is more than good enough long time ago.

Stop trying to make it like creating good quality true product and research matters anymore.

Fast food, fast software, short TikTok or YouTube, bad product make for repeat costumer successful business strategy. Too good is either too expensive, too bothersome or not good for business.

You are shrinking the larger picture to fit a narrow narative.

You never heard of newspaper reporters? TV shows producers? Writers? These are the actively generating ones. You will also have consumers. Not looking to generate but looking to... consume.

The same with AI. AI is just an evolution of production and consumption. Not all use AI to create. Most use AI to consume what others created: models, harnesses, knowledge.

My experience is AI helping me unload things I am not built for. It allows me to be creative with less drag. Not everyone aims to be useless human automaton or useless human thesaurus. It allows me to exercise my intelligence freely.
Contrarian just for the sake of it. Get on board or stay behind. Whatever good or bad AI brings to the table, it's here to stay. The cat's out of the bag. Might as well enjoy it. Evolution will not stay on your whimsical made-up reality. It will run you over.
It’s an interesting claim, and the reported benchmark gains are large, but it is still an April 1, 2026 arXiv preprint, so I’d treat it as promising rather than settled.
Re:Why the heck are we still using Markdown? on Saturday April 04, 2026 @06:21AM (#47637734)
Why aren't you quietly stop using Markdown?
Re:Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor on Saturday April 04, 2026 @06:17AM (#47637712)
Is he blaming displays for his lack of concentration discipline?
False is an allegation you failed to prove. You are the laziest here.
In other, older, news, some years ago, cognitive surrender leads Google search users abandon logical thinking, research found.

In other, moderate older news, cognitive surrender leads TV users abandon logical thinking, research finds.

In other, even older news, cognitive surrender leads newspaper readers abandon logical thinking, research found.

Shall I go on with how cognitive surrender leading to abandon logical thinking spreads out in history, AI being nothing special in this regard?

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