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Re:The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:17PM (#47007951)
it turns out that all those jokes about EU regulating the curvature of the cucumber were on to something
Re:The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:15PM (#47007929)
another cookie warning disaster incoming

hopefully AI will wake them up and save us from all this nonsense

Re:GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:31PM (#47007443)
now you are debating exactly how GPT should be credited. idk, I'm sure the field will make up some guidance

for this particular paper it seems the humans were stuck, and only AI thinking unblocked them

Re:GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:26PM (#47007395)
after those 30 min you can manually ask it again to continue working on the problem
Re:GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:24PM (#47007376)
it's called ethics and research integrity. not crediting GPT would be a form of misrepresentation
Re:GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:20PM (#47007316)
hey, GPT, solve this tough conjecture I've read about on Quanta. make no mistakes
Re:Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu on Friday February 13, 2026 @12:44PM (#47005431)
what is the business case for a text editor in a code writing agent world?

maybe they could pivot into the luxury boutique hand-crafted artisanal code market

what if I prompt it with a task that takes one year to implement? Will it then have agency for a whole year?
from the creator of openclaw - a lot of websites block/rate-limit non-residential IPs

driving a browser in the cloud is also a bit of work

but you could put a proxy on your residential machine

Re:Monosketch on Friday February 13, 2026 @12:27PM (#47005259)
more tokens, less reliable, dont work in all CLI agent harnesses
Re:Monosketch on Friday February 13, 2026 @12:26PM (#47005245)
agents can understand them. and you can view them in the terminal
seems like it requires an API key to your proprietary Ensue memory system
Re:The Markets of Old London (2024) on Monday February 09, 2026 @06:05PM (#46952838)
Most likely a Nick Land ref:

> This is because what appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources.

> My concerns about obsolescence have shifted toward curiosity about what remains to be built. The accidental complexity of coding is plummeting, but the essential complexity remains. The abstraction is rising again, to tame problems we haven't yet named.

what if AI is better at tackling essential complexity too?

Re:LLMs as the new high level language on Sunday February 08, 2026 @03:27AM (#46932447)
you can invent a new language, ask LLM to translate existing code bases into it, then train on that

Just like AlphaZero ditched human Go matches and trained on synthetic ones, and got better this way

Re:Start all of your commands with a comma on Sunday February 08, 2026 @03:21AM (#46932416)
I know another version, where 27 was a joke about the guards and then they come and beat him
> including email addresses, phone numbers, and other unspecified “internal metadata.”

> Substack specified that more sensitive data, such as credit card numbers, passwords, and other financial information, was unaffected.

I hate it when companies do this.

passwords and credit card numbers are easily changed.

names, emails and phone numbers are not.

Re:Slack CLI for Agents (OSS) on Friday February 06, 2026 @05:41PM (#46919145)
how about support for "auth import-token" so you dont need to keep SLACK_TOKEN in env
Re:LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers on Friday February 06, 2026 @11:24AM (#46914842)
two engineers implementing the same task are not-deterministic

yet nobody complained about this

in fact engineers appreciate that, "we are not replaceable code monkeys cogs in the machine as management would like"

Re:The rise of one-pizza engineering teams on Friday February 06, 2026 @11:08AM (#46914581)
even this is an intermediary stage

as elon musk said, the next phase is 100% AI run companies, any sort of a human in a loop, even if in a minimal role, will collapse the productivity

Re:Wall Street just lost $285B because of 13 Markdown files on Friday February 06, 2026 @10:59AM (#46914443)
elon musk saud that the next wave is agents (optimus human in a box) clicking around the old SaaS apps, not agents writing new apps to replace them

microsoft ceo said the same thing - agents will be using windows/office and be the bigger buyers of licenses

replacing SaaS software at this scale is hard, nobody will risk it, at least near term

Re:Things Unix can do atomically (2010) on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:24AM (#46910402)
what would be more massive would be phones not booting up because of a botched update. this way you can just switch back to the old partition
Re:GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:23AM (#46910399)
all the sides in that conflict are ok with killing civilians
Re:Things Unix can do atomically (2010) on Friday February 06, 2026 @02:17AM (#46910031)
that's how some phone OSes update the system (by having 2 read only fs)

that's how Chrome updates itself, but without the symlink part

Re:Claude Opus 4.6 on Thursday February 05, 2026 @05:46PM (#46906506)
on prem economics dont work because you can't batch requests. unless you are able to run 100 agents at the same time all the time
Re:Claude Opus 4.6 on Thursday February 05, 2026 @05:44PM (#46906473)
most of those subscriptions go unused. I barely use 10% of mine

so my unused tokens compensate for the few heavy users

Re:Claude Opus 4.6 on Thursday February 05, 2026 @05:35PM (#46906385)
why do you care about uncommitted virtual memory? that's practically infinite
Re:Claude Opus 4.6 on Thursday February 05, 2026 @05:33PM (#46906358)
after the models get good enough to replace coders they will be able to start increasing the subscriptions back up

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