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Re:Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:13PM (#50347125)
> Intel, like Boeing cannot fail.

Failure here is getting restructured and people losing money in the stock market, which I guess is so detached from the actual companies and reality that it might as well be a polymarket bet (I mean overall stock market and not intel specifically).

claude read the comments section and summraize. be concise.
Re:Scattered thoughts on how doing math feels these days on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:30PM (#50297136)
Reading comments like this is so depressing because it was extremely obvious that better results were a matter of time/hardware. It evokes the seem feeling as that trump quote about "who knew healthcare could be so complicated".
We essentially need a human interface for llm-based projects

Some simple rules that would work better:

- Projects should have someone that understands the overall project at a systems level

- If you link to a github, or code project, it can't be ai-written, it has to be a clear README, maybe with some code examples. But, it can call the other project that has AI generated stuff.

Re:Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:25AM (#50231935)
> GPT OSS 120b

It's extremely frustrating that these fast models are very old at this point. Chat jimmy launched in february, and nothing has come of it, not even GA let alone improvements with intelligence.

AI is currently moving so fast, that might as well be a lifetime.

We get SOTA from anthropic/openai every few weeks on models that seem to focus on one useful thing (e.g. opus) and then 5 useless things like booking restuarants. We're ignoring really useful applications for some reason.

It took jev to shake things up. I remember seeing reactions that were basically "people want this? the big labs probably have some version of this lying around"... and it's like yea, maybe these labs need to fix their priorities a little bit.

Not even the singularity can fix php.

But all jokes aside, we're entering a new era where there's a paradox of pro-AI people going AI is really good, but not that good... when it kind of is that good.

We'll probably have ai monitors as a service, but the bulk of the safety should come from AI doing better job of reviewing tricky bugs since humans refuse to spend effort on writing more formal specifications.

something something boiling the frog
Re:Google's Rust Style Guide on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:52PM (#50188176)
Google has lost a lot of it's sheen for me. It's not really the 2010s anymore where their brand really used to mean something as a step above all the other tech companies.

Nowadays, I care about their recommendations as much as the ones from microsoft, or ibm.

Still big companies, lots of smart people, but nothing above norm.

Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:47PM (#50185674)
"skill check"

*rolls 3"

"Your IPO gets delayed another month"

Re:T3 Code now synced between GitHub and GitCafe on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:32PM (#50175352)
but... you... huh?

Then why are you bringing it up like it's something impressive???

Re:T3 Code now synced between GitHub and GitCafe on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:13PM (#50175238)
What does this even mean?

There are other git projects hosted on multiple platforms. Pretty sure linux kernel is hosted in more places than github, and kept in sync because it's based on git.

What research did you base this on?

Re:Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:07PM (#50171146)
so this is software now?

youtuber vibe codes a transpiler says they're not going to bother maintaining it - but big company like cloudflare takes it seriously enough to absorbe into their own official services.

What is happening?

What is even software dev anymore?

What didnt the labs or cloudflare do this themselves, I mean they did, but then if it's all vibe coded, why do they need someone else's vibe coded stuff?

How is any of this serious?

> I get assaulted all the time, by dog owners who unleash their dogs on me, in self defense.

???

Re:OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked on Saturday October 17, 2026 @02:35PM (#50133745)
Why are the comments pointing out there were warning signs early on being downvoted/flagged?

I looked at the linked comments, and they seem valid. I mean I dont want to go full tinfoil hat here, but what's the deal? Some people just really like opencode or something?

Re:DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @11:06AM (#50131780)
> It's not any more complicated than that.

It is more complicated than that when the valuations and business plans are contingent on those companies AI having complete dominance at every level.

If companies only use frontier models for occasional difficult tasks, not only does that affect volume, it basically elminates stickiness and incentivizes companies to instead of using their products continuosly, find ways to move from the expensive stuff to the cheaper stuff.

Re:Hello Toronto – Waymo Is En Route on Friday October 16, 2026 @11:09AM (#50119348)
Please, not this shit again.

Ford is already removing bike lanes.

Tax dollars to put in bike lanes, and then tax dollars to remove them.

Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @08:12AM (#50117421)
> Back of the fag pack,

napkins, and envelopes at least kind of make sense.

Who was ever writing on the back of cigarette packs?

I've spent years avoiding lisp, I am not about to break that streak now.

All jokes aside, I genuinely think that non-algol syntax is a non-starter. We're too far along now, that it's easier for these features to come to java/rust/typescript/cpp than it is to switch completely to academic langs that have terrible tooling support.

I am very bullish on constraints based programming like this.

The main problem is code organization and syntax. Tacking stuff like this onto fuction declarations is too basic.

Ideally, I think we need better constructs, e.g. dettached constraints like to the function declaration. You can define constraints separately, in the same namespace or w/e, add notes, comments, etc. and the function declaration can be used with intellisense to jump to the constraint. You could even tag the defintions.

In modern AI-based workflows, the agent can pull up an explanation on the function, and point directly to the constraints, with strong confidence esp. if it's got explicit metadata.

I can just picture the dread of risking your entire life and the people are just discussing... dots, "yea, it's like bots, but with a d! Get it?"
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:42PM (#50075661)
> as of September, we merged over 30,000 per day.

There's going to be an ugly phase where everybody FOMOs into thinking they need to do the same, only to realize that they're not Anthropic/Google/etc.

It feels like I am one of the last people without WebGPU.

I am on linux/chrome and it still isn't enabled by default yet.

Re:Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:30PM (#49986794)
> The same applies to software: you'll describe a problem and a network of agents will write a solution faster than you can Google it, download it, install it, and start using it. It'll work with your accessibility requirements out of the box; it's UI will be in your language; the data will be stored where ever you like; and so on.

This exists now.

You can have gemini AI - the that's built into google search - just make little applets. I just made one for a color picker, and generating palettes, including one that applies aces tone mapping. It showed made little adjsutable sliders and everything.

For a while, chatgpt web didnt count against usage, and you could use sol, it was isnane, you could upload a screenshot and just ask it to build out a little editor with threejs, and whatever else.

There's grok bot, dots, and other 'bots' that are just doing independent actions in the background. That can do digital actions like organize your documents, send emails for rebates, etc.

If you accept the shame, you can literally have bite sized story telling that are like mini soap operas, completely cheesy, predictable plots but that are very good guilty pleasures.

Re:Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:20PM (#49986708)
Vibecoded photoshop will never work.

If you're a casual user, just use AI directly - upload image and tell model to remove background, or make it cinematic, etc.

If you're a professional, you'll want the best.

Google Cloud is also the scariest because of how much damage it can do and how bad their payment system can be.

I recently loaded up on prepaid api credits for gemini and it somehow triggered some billing shenanigans in my linked accounts where it said I had a negative balance (from the credits), and they were going to discontinue my services. I had to reset some settings to sort it out, mainly using their chat ai and mine (because theirs gave me right status info, but wrong conclusions).

It's pretty messy across like aistudio.google.com, and their typical console, and google workspace business account. I'd be so fucked if they froze my account, I'd rather just pay openrouter to access credits in the future.

Re:Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models on Saturday October 03, 2026 @06:52AM (#49943082)
> show costs are piling up for these AI companies

OpenAI cancelling the $200/20x and then introducing the $500/25x was basically the canary in the coal mine.

I am looking forward to the 2026 numbers from Anthropic in preperation for their IPO, because that's where the really big numbers are going to be.

Re:An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why on Saturday October 03, 2026 @06:48AM (#49943057)
Hasn't stuff like this happened multiple times already?

A quick google search shows the time Rob pike got that email last year, then there was that AI that wrote a whole blog hit piece (although how much of that was human influenced wasn't clear).

AI sending an email doesn't seem that novel in late 2026.

Re:Zig v0.17.0 on Friday October 02, 2026 @06:28PM (#49939401)
yes.

A simple, "this entity is a sponsor, and therefore there is a conflict of interest and we will not comment on recent controversy" is enough.

If it's big enough, refuse to take further contributions.

I know it's not entertaining, but that's why we have video games.

Re:How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @07:27PM (#49902258)
> just replace the glass panels and tabs with something that actually fits the rest of the aesthetic.

Where is this glass?

Is it the lighter green cards on the home page? That's not really glass, that's just a different a lighter color scheme. The tabs also look fine.

Re:How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @07:18PM (#49902169)
like what?

The website is simple enough that any design decicion could just as well ahve been done by a real human.

The em-dashes, and the gradients were always egregious because they're strong opinionated decisions. This is just a straighforward, clean, tasteful website (really what most sites should aim for).

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