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Re:The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:56AM (#50324067)
Solid work, but it would be really cool if we can also test Pokemon motions and how the game responds in real-time. Is an agent able to think about reactions, directional movements and attack patterns of each Pokemon is where the real intelligence test lies.

Traditional languages may have their limitations, but [C++, Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript etc] can still do pretty well.

Welltower and Palantir are doing an amazing job! A comparison with NVIDIA in terms of market cap per employee isn't realistic here, but perks to them for the utility that each employee is bringing to the table.
Re:Docker Is Weird on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:12AM (#50210427)
I've been actively using Docker for most of my projects over the past few years and I sincerely thank you for brainstorming and getting it out in the market.

The sole idea of containerising an application, its utils and dependencies all into one container is a real big deal in early 2010s. The product has been so visionary that it has been re-pivoted as secure sandboxes which is most needed right now. Kudos!

Re:Demographic "Doomsday" Misses the Mark on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:51AM (#50166445)
This scares me to be honest. We have an exponentially decaying graph if we compare resources on y v/s consumption on x. I don't know what the next 50 years are going to bring considering the total resources to use on Earth are an "infinite constant".
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:32AM (#50166141)
> The major providers are unprofitable after you add in the training and research costs and other overheads.

This is correct for now, but I recently read that 90% of Anthropic's code is written by Claude Code itself. So, if an AI is using its previous version to train the next version, we're not far from the day where these models will take up the decision making process too. For eg: Decisions API by OpenAI or Jev is based exactly on this. What if a model like Jev sits behind Opus 5.5 and guides it to take the next step? Wooh.

Probabilistic predictions right now are at 99% for frontier models. They will never be 100%, but if humans rate themselves 99.9% in decision making, that benchmark can be broken.

Re:RepRapMicron on Sunday October 18, 2026 @01:25PM (#50143199)
I see a lot of micro-chip designs that are so cool, but they just exist as a design in some software on our computers. If this printer can allow cheap and sustainable printing of chip designs, then the hardware field could take a very interesting turn!
Re:Mistral Large 4 on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:10AM (#49991104)
Every few months, Mistral becomes active and drops a bombshell.
Re:Extra Big Ass Intelligence on Saturday October 03, 2026 @02:20AM (#49941793)
WHAT IS THIS
Re:Pi.dev: You Said No MCP on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @08:58AM (#49908286)
> That means tools should return structured data and tools should be discoverable by their documentation and description.

Treating MCP as a part of OpenAPI rather than a tool connector is a direction in which we're heading. It is important for the users to have the flexibility of deciding the model, work to be done and the tool call in one prompt. The framework sets up the configuration and gets the output.

Re:GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:59AM (#49906673)
The Sol series might be OpenAI's best release for everyday tasks. The model provides great all-round performance at a nominal cost.

I've been actively using it since the past couple of months and it has rarely disappointed me.

Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:44AM (#49906567)
Really good to see AI being integrated in the government. One of the places where it's needed the most since there are so many individual websites and navigating across them can be tough.
Re:Coding Is Not Solved on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:43AM (#49878797)
The author is right to categorise AI as a good programmer, but not a complete coder. We can all agree that programming has become really fast since the release of GPT-5 series and Opus models because they're pretty good. Not only this, they've also changed the pace expectations across teams where a feature that should ideally be delivered within weeks, should now take days.

All this doesn't change the fact that software engineers are going nowhere because nobody trusts AI. If a model can escape highly secured sandboxes, then we're definitely not running these agents overnight on our systems. I am sure the next-gen of models will focus more on security and the trust factor will start developing, but that's a long way down the road.

People trust people, not systems.

Re:DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) on Sunday September 27, 2026 @08:53AM (#49866256)
As models get better, safe-and-secure sandboxes/environments are going to be the way forward. With the recent rise in cases where models can somehow gain access to the internet and blast past the sandbox, it's very important to have all the resources contained within the sandbox with no access to the outside world.

DSec is a good step in this direction!

This statement should be restricted to answers for provocative questions. If an LLM is being asked a question that goes against the guidelines, then "As a Language Model..." is a valid starting point. Rest, obviously we're aware that a software doesn't have the judgement that a human has.

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I am unable to understand what happens if the watermarked output goes as input to another agent. Let's say we asked Claude a question and got a watermarked response. If we pick that response and append it to the question we're asking ChatGPT, then will it answer or refuse to do so?

If that's the case, then it's a brilliant strategy by the labs to cut down cross-AI usage and just stick to one model. But I'm pretty sure this won't be the case.

Re:Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos on Friday September 25, 2026 @12:21PM (#49846604)
Pretty good for startups who are about to launch their product. Pitch decks and websites are a great way to showcase your work, but a visual feel is always better than bland content.

Instead of paying designers and editors the big bucks, enterprises can use such models to be self-reliant.

Re:Special Projects (2016) on Friday September 25, 2026 @06:44AM (#49842682)
The secret to success for OpenAI, Anthropic and labs is the vision that they saw 10 years back and kept working on it. We're in awe of how models like GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 are performing today, but it's important to understand that they've been working on this before we knew about AI.

The next big thing is Robots and some stealth company building today is going to be a trillion-dollar giant in few years time.

Re:GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @06:32AM (#49813991)
To me it's super interesting that OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna & Anthropic released Opus 5.5 within hours of each other.

These models are significantly cutting down the token costs by almost 40-50% as compared to their predecessors. This is exactly what people need - cutting edge intelligence at half the cost.

Qwen and Alibaba are the biggest competitor for basically every model out there. They're beating the benchmarks like top-frontier models, focused on open-source and much cheaper than the competitors.

Excited to see what the future holds for them!

Re:Laya the open source version of Jev on Saturday September 19, 2026 @12:24PM (#49767838)
Great work by the author. Both Laya and Jev showcase how a different class of models can be efficient on tasks that don't require a 'generated output artifact'. I believe the same is true for VLMs where you're not always generating an image, but rather trying to understand more about the input image.

Token consumptions are flying through the roof and optimisation is the way forward.

Re:Science Is Open Software on Friday September 18, 2026 @11:51PM (#49763148)
Nice read. I believe that traditional software is a great way to showcase the proofs when it comes to physics and mathematics. You can easily code up a theorem in a language of your choice and justify that 'Okay, the output matches the expected value'.

I am particularly fascinated by labs like DeepMind [https://deepmind.google/science/]. The recent advances in their frontier models that are able to predict diseases before they're diagnosed is incredible. This is what AI should be built for and actually do!

Re:Replacing Pull Requests with Delta on Friday September 18, 2026 @07:17AM (#49752717)
Looks interesting for a small team that's working on a single project. I am curious to understand how this would work out for a large org that has multiple projects under the belt.

PRs may look old fashioned, but they're a very clear way of tracking an issue that may need multiple reviews. With Delta, things can get confusing after more than two reviews + RBAC is another challenge if the agent has similar context for every category.

Thanks for pointing this out. I used PHP for one of my professional projects and never came through this - maybe because the library was not a part of our codebase.

This article will be very useful for people who might shift back to older PHP versions for compatibility and face it.

Absolutely love it and the details speak loads about the hard work that you've put in. I love the part where we can actually get up and experience the complete airplane -- felt like I was actually in a flight from Boston to Seattle!

I don't know if Google Maps/Earth expose the layout via external APIs, but if you could find a way to get the outer world to match the real view - that makes it 100/100.

Great way of detecting AI slop.

Claude is pretty good at adding focused changes and if a fix is already present, then it correctly points it out rather than adding unnecessary refactors.

Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @06:13AM (#49724300)
Amazing work by the team! Looks like they've traded accuracy for speed and this is most likely going to be the case with the next class of models.

This is a valid tradeoff for one-off responses but if we're dealing with a distributed system (eg: Kafka), then only the high-confidence responses (>0.8) should move forward as input to the next service. If a low confidence output is propagated, then it can break the entire chain.

Re:How much of F-Droid is LLM generated? on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @08:18AM (#49711420)
Every codebase that is being actively worked on (closed/open source) will contain code that's AI generated. With the rising abilities of agents, expectations are sky rocketing in terms of productivity.

If you're as productive as an engineer in 2016, you're not at the level that's expected. A 7 day workflow back then should take you maybe a day or less to work on today.

Re:A Beginning for Mathematics on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @06:22AM (#49710249)
> AI does not care if you are anti-AI.

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Re:Distributed Systems Classics on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @06:10AM (#49710172)
> Satoshi Nakamoto. 2008. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.

The greatest anonymous dude alive.

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