Denzel

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by Denzel 4d ago
I don’t understand your point. > We managed to swing a couple of the county commissioners who were in favor of it before and were not in favor of it after hearing about the constitutional issues as well as the cyber security issues that
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by Denzel 16d ago
The actual quote and topic is far different than you’ve portrayed it. Here’s the actual quote: “ yet the company says that it expects to make $11.6 billion in 2025 and *$100 billion by 2029*, a statement so egregious that I am surprised it&
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by Denzel 1mo ago
You’re missing the bigger picture concepts of value exchange vs. value extraction and how those magnify power differentials in groups. > I feel no more entitled to exclusive use or credit for my ideas as used by AI Do you feel you have t
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by Denzel 2mo ago
> keeping track of time and tasks Amazing how many software engineers don't do this and continue to fool themselves into thinking they're faster with AI. If only more people would track and reflect on their time use.
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by Denzel 2mo ago
Writing out my nod of appreciation to counterbalance some of the negativity. I do enjoy the effort and thought you into this essay. I didn’t read the whole thing, just a few sections from the beginning, and I think you do a great job explai
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by Denzel 3mo ago
About half of US households don’t have any retirement at all. Making their point that “shareholders” are a distinct class separate from the whole of the population.
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by Denzel 3mo ago
Yes, DeepSeek is open-weight, but these third-party providers offering similar prices are subsidized with VC money as well. And you can find a range of prices for deepseek-v4-flash going up to and over $1/Mtok. Even that $1/Mtok p
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by Denzel 3mo ago
Aren’t DeepSeek models deliberately priced lower than the cost to deliver? They’re subsidized which means the true cost is more than $0.2/Mtok.
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by Denzel 4mo ago
Unless your insider is the CFO, I wouldn’t trust these sources to have the access, knowledge, or insight to determine whether they’re running inference at a profit. Simple test: can they get their hands on a data center contracts and financ
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by Denzel 5mo ago
I say the following not to brag but to offer up some more perspective for you: you’re comp is in the lower-mid range of the market. Comp was there for remote, startup eng positions back in 2017. As you move up in comp, the market actually g
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by Denzel 5mo ago
None of these projects sound like weeks worth of scope w/o AI.
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by Denzel 6mo ago
Thanks for point-by-point. Your first two quotes are about targeting in the Iraq War; specifically how the breakdown in careful analysis, precipitated by the new systems, led to the exact mis-targeting they were trying to solve. That’s what
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by Denzel 6mo ago
Friend, TFA commonly refers to the effing article that’s posted for discussion. EDIT: The irony that GP then goes on the quote TFA and not NYT.
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by Denzel 6mo ago
You’re acting like the U.S. government is a monolithic good faith actor right now. The current administration’s behavior is qualitatively different than past administrations. Do you also believe this administration will ever officially conf
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by Denzel 6mo ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/politics/iran-school-m... > An ongoing [United States] military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk miss
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by Denzel 6mo ago
So I read the entire TFA, where do you see “quotes [from] those in the know who believe this should have been eliminated as a target”? I saw no such quotes about the school in TFA. Maybe I missed it. > there was precisely one mis-strike
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by Denzel 6mo ago
How much did this cost? Has there ever been an engineering focus on performance for liquid? It’s certainly cool, but the optimizations are so basic that I’d expect a performance engineer to find these within a day or two with some flame gra
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by Denzel 7mo ago
Mind linking the project so we can see the PR’s?
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by Denzel 7mo ago
Apologies, I may have misinterpreted the passage below from your repo: > This crate was developed with the assistance of Claude Opus 4.5 initially to answer the shower thought "would the Braille Unicode trick work to visually simula
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by Denzel 7mo ago
First, very cool! Thank you for sharing some actual projects with the prompts logged. I think you and I have different definitions of “one-shotting”. If the model has to be steered, I don’t consider that a one-shot. And you clearly “broke”
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by Denzel 7mo ago
Weird, I broke Opus 4.5 pretty easily by giving some code, a build system, and integration tests that demonstrate the bug. CC confidently iterated until it discovered the issue. CC confidently communicated exactly what the bug was, a detail
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by Denzel 8mo ago
Good points - admittedly, I didn’t put enough effort into building connections through different pipelines back when I was contracting. Upwork and a few personal connections were my sole sources. It just felt really difficult to do both the
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by Denzel 8mo ago
Are you a one-person shop? How do you find clients?
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by Denzel 8mo ago
Very interesting, thanks for sharing! Looks like you have considerable experience with vibe coding to be able to produce that in 2 hours.
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by Denzel 8mo ago
I’m well aware of what Google does and their AI strategy ;)
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by Denzel 8mo ago
Would you mind sharing the repo?
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by Denzel 8mo ago
Cool, that potential 5x cost improvement just got delivered this year. A company can continue running the previous generation until EOL, or take a hit by writing off the residual value - either way they’ll have a mixed cost model that puts
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by Denzel 8mo ago
> It's that we're paying more for objectively worse service than we had a decade ago. > I'm not asking for magic, I'm asking where went the reliability we already had, at the prices we're already paying. My go
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by Denzel 8mo ago
Great response, we’re like 98% aligned at a high-level. :) These next few years will be interesting.
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by Denzel 8mo ago
Uhm, you actually just proved their point if you run the numbers. For simplicity’s sake we’ll assume DeepSeek 671B on 2 RTX 5090 running at 2 kW full utilization. In 3 years you’ve paid $30k total: $20k for system + $10k in electric @ $0.20

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