QuadrupleA

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by QuadrupleA 5d ago
IE was such a scourge, a drain on humanity (at least the slice of humanity that made websites). One of Microsoft's great evils - they let the product stagnate for years once they had the market cornered. Windows has kinda become that n
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by QuadrupleA 15d ago
Love this quote, seems to apply to all software these days and maybe business generally: "They're trying to have a CEO press a button that makes a game, and then everyone else somehow buys it without a job."
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by QuadrupleA 1mo ago
Ted Chiang made a similar point in his article "ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web" a few years ago: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-...
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by QuadrupleA 3mo ago
Point not mentioned: it just doesn't work that well! It lies, it reverts to the mean on every topic, it wastes the reader's time. It's toxically positive, sycophantic. It's such a good mimic that it's insidiously ha
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by QuadrupleA 3mo ago
Always amazed how spoiled we are with modern hardware! The 8087 was $500 in today's dollars, and delivered around 50 kFLOPS of performance (0.00005 GFLOPS). A cheap mobile phone CPU+GPU costs the manufacturer maybe $20, and typically d
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by QuadrupleA 3mo ago
This hype cycle is unique in that the tech writes its own hype.
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by QuadrupleA 4mo ago
The effort required to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude more than to create it.
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by QuadrupleA 4mo ago
Because AI creates unmaintainable messes in any language, and ergonomic ones help humans clean up.
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by QuadrupleA 4mo ago
Not sure how excited I feel about visiting your website and having it auto-download a 8GB model with GPT-3.5 level hallucinations, and then probably crash because I only have 6GB of VRAM. My dad won't be able to use it, or anyone else
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by QuadrupleA 4mo ago
This is just emotional rhetoric. Pretty much any app in the last 20 years has depended on a server somewhere, or a cloud provider. Like an AI provider, they can go down, they can turn off if you don't pay your bill, etc. And local infe
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by QuadrupleA 5mo ago
Exactly double the cost of GPT 5.4 - $5 per MTok input, $0.50 cached, $30 output. All the AI players definitely seem to be trying to claw more money out of their users at the moment.
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by QuadrupleA 5mo ago
Definitely seems like AI money got tight the last month or two - that the free beer is running out and enshittification has begun.
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by QuadrupleA 5mo ago
One thing I don't see often mentioned - OpenAI API's auto token caching approach results in MASSIVE cost savings on agent stuff. Anthropic's deliberate caching is a pain in comparison. Wish they'd just keep the KV cache
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by QuadrupleA 6mo ago
Love SQLite and most of these features. On the STRICT mode, I've asked this elsewhere and never gotten an answer: does anyone have a loose-typing example application where SQLite's non-strict, different-type-allowed-for-each-row h
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by QuadrupleA 6mo ago
One thing I haven't seen mentioned much, in AI coding and other AI-assisted work, is the sheer needless verbosity of models, the walls of text they spew out for us to read through. This alone adds to the workload & fatigue. There&#
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As Platforms Decay, Let's Put Users First (2023)(eff.org)
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by QuadrupleA 6mo ago
Fun fact: Copilot gives you no way to ignore sensitive files with API keys, passwords, DB credentials, etc.: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/11254#discussi... So by default you send all this to
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by QuadrupleA 6mo ago
> everybody who is like me, fully onboarded into AI and agentic tools, seemingly has less and less time available because we fall into a trap where we’re immediately filling it with more things I do wonder if productivity with AI coding
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by QuadrupleA 6mo ago
As a 20+ year Windows user now happily running desktop Linux for about a year - too little, too late. This company has completely lost my trust over the past 5+ years, with all the ads, upsells, silent telemetry, bugs, background process me
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by QuadrupleA 6mo ago
Average dev might be more intelligent, but likely neither will produce something of UV's quality. Either AI coding claims are way overblown and OpenAI can't easily remake UV, or OpenAI is buying the ecosystem & mindshare rathe
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by QuadrupleA 6mo ago
Not sure I follow - is the car the coding agent, and the developer the driver? Agree with OP here, if AI coding tools are as intelligent and amazing as AI influencers and CEOs are saying, just prompt them to "Remake UV but faster &
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by QuadrupleA 6mo ago
Side note, everyone's talking about having AI agents "conform to the spec" these days. Am I in my own bubble, or - who the hell these days gets The Spec as a well-formed document? Let alone a good document, something that c
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by QuadrupleA 6mo ago
No slowdown that I've seen - my style of freelancing is pretty long-term though, clients I've known and worked with for many years.
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by QuadrupleA 6mo ago
As a veteran freelance developer - aside from some occasional big wins, I'd say it's been net neutral or even net negative to my productivity. When I review AI-generated code carefully (and if I'm delivering it to clients I f
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by QuadrupleA 7mo ago
Holy crap. What a dystopia. Guess some of this blood money went into free Llama models and the react.js ecosystem (dubious gift to the world). Is it possible to make money these days without being ethically bankrupt?
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by QuadrupleA 7mo ago
The amount of boilerplate people talk about seems like the fault of these big modern frameworks honestly. A good system design shouldn't HAVE so much boilerplate. Think people would be better off simplifying and eliminating it determin
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by QuadrupleA 7mo ago
Glib observation, but this sounds quite generic and AI-written.
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by QuadrupleA 7mo ago
Can we stop repeating this canard, over and over? Every "classic computing" language mentioned, and pretty much in history, is highly deterministic, and mind-bogglingly, huge-number-of-9s reliable (when was the last time your CPU
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by QuadrupleA 8mo ago
Fun :) but mobile text input was the main challenge.
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by QuadrupleA 8mo ago
Yeah - agreed, the initial latency is annoying too, even with thinking allegedly turned off. Feels like AI companies are stapling more and more weird routing, summarization, safety layers, etc. that degrade the overall feel of things.

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