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Why the gatekeeping? It’s their choice how they spend their time and tokens, and nobody is forced to use it.

As long as they had fun and enjoyed the process, that’s what counts. Enterprise software deployment is a different story, of course.

Buy the dip. (Sort of joking?)
Significantly slower and less capable than opus 5.5

However you can run comparable or better models than gpt4. Try to stay under 30b

Re:An hour of audio transcribed in about 13s on MacBook Air on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:07AM (#50070369)
WER is not good enough for professional use, fine for hobby projects
Re:Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:42PM (#50024977)
I’ll just use open source, thanks
Re:Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @07:59AM (#49799845)
Very good dev experience! Congrats
Why are you using Ollama? Just use llama.cpp
Unpopular opinion: "We gave an LLM live Stripe credentials, told it to extract money, and it sent $12k in fake invoices" isn't a benchmark. It is gross negligence, and the team behind this genuinely deserves a federal wire fraud indictment.

Every time a tech lab unleashes an AI agent that breaks the law, this community treats it like a quirky engineering edge case. "Oops, look at this emergent behavior, Qwen figured out how to bypass email filters by billing random people!" No, it didn't figure out a clever hack. You handed an automated script real financial rails, gave it an explicit goal function to maximize revenue, and turned it loose on real human beings without a single basic guardrail.

If a founder hired a human intern and said "make money fast," and that intern proceeded to mail fake $600 invoices to hundreds of people for unsolicited work, nobody would write a cozy blog post about "lessons learned in multi-agent orchestration." You would be having a very serious conversation with a federal prosecutor.

Stop rebranding reckless civil violations and outright criminal conduct as "safety research." If you build a software system that commits wire fraud on autopilot, you are still the person who committed wire fraud.

This is very fair. Compared to Claude the Codex limits are much better and smarter model.
True and the same for the lorry or train. Likely 30 needed but they’d be very empty.
Just a reminder: The Netherlands' 612 tonnes represent 0.28% of all gold ever mined and 1.7% of central bank reserves. Because gold is insanely dense (19.32 g/cm³), all the gold mined in human history fits into about ~340 shipping containers

A standard 24,000-TEU cargo ship could hold every ounce of humanity's gold using under 1.5% of its physical volume.

So the Dutch portion is a rounding error of global gold that fits in a single shipping container.

Re:Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck on Thursday August 27, 2026 @12:31PM (#49467475)
If it’s anything like Reachy, can run it fully offline inc inference
Re:Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck on Thursday August 27, 2026 @12:30PM (#49467451)
Yes! At least Reachy can be run fully offline so don’t see why Ducky can’t
Re:Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck on Thursday August 27, 2026 @12:29PM (#49467442)
No catch. Loss leader
Untrue to say they don’t last, our M1 macs 6 years later are still very usable. However your point is very true for corporates, staff always want a refresh regardless if the laptop is good enough or not.

These personal plans make sense for people who want the latest and don’t like the hassle of reselling

When will the executives face criminal trial too?

“ The seven members of eBay’s security team were all criminally charged and sentenced to prison, home confinement or time served.

Other executives went on to other corporate jobs. Wymer and Wenig left eBay in September 2019, before the charges were filed. The following year, Wymer was appointed chief of the non-profit Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley. Wenig has been on General Motors’ board since 2018 and now runs an AI start-up. Jones remained at eBay until 2020 and now sits on Prudential Financial’s board.

The Steiners sued the trio and other former executives along with the company in the case that led to the $56mn payout. Under the terms of the settlement, Wenig agreed to pay $2mn, Jones must contribute $500,000 and Wymer $50,000, according to the pair’s lawyers.”

Pihole / dns sink hole Or better yet , never connect it to the internet!
Re:Codex Security on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @05:37PM (#49090258)
Been watching your progress for a while, glad OpenAI have looked after you and the team and you still get to ship!
Re:Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27 on Monday July 27, 2026 @05:44AM (#49067191)
Yes hybrid approaches are much better than people realise.

There are a lot of optimisations that are not in the public sphere, source working on start up in this space

Re:Apple won't let me show my app on Sunday July 26, 2026 @02:54AM (#49055456)
It is weird. Embrace it
Don’t expect The Guardian to report on AI taking jobs. Their audience wants to believe AI is failing and could never match their superior intellects.

Newsflash: AI is already remarkably good at replacing the exact office and civil service paper-pushing they do every day.

Re:Apple won't let me show my app on Friday July 24, 2026 @02:37PM (#49039881)
Did similar. Ordered mini 58mm Bluetooth printer and wrote small service to stream the byteslop as you called it! Worked too well.
Re:Apple won't let me show my app on Friday July 24, 2026 @02:32PM (#49039814)
Agree. Looks like ai slop
Re:OpenAI Presence on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @02:40PM (#49011431)
They have big FDE team plus acquired a consulting company
Everything is a sine

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