bashtoni

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by bashtoni 13d ago
Are the Artificial Analysis benchmarks really worthwhile any more? They really don't seem to match my real-world experience, and based on the comments I see I don't think that match most other people's either. For example, Op
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Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich(vals.ai)
10 points by bashtoni 15d ago|0 comments
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by bashtoni 21d ago
Based on my observations, the most important characteristics of a CEO is to be over 6ft, and to walk about looking important. CEO jobs are safe until the humanoid robots have mastered this skill.
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by bashtoni 1mo ago
COO just resigned too. Coincidence? https://xcancel.com/bradlightcap/status/2087211567012032862
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Bugtraq is back(lists.securityfocus.com)
83 points by bashtoni 1mo ago|32 comments
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by bashtoni 1mo ago
The short version I give to non-technical people who ask me about whether "AI will replace coding" is this: it accelerates you. You can get much further much more quickly. If you don't know where you're going or how to g
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by bashtoni 2mo ago
I think the biggest issue here is that the judges clearly have no taste.
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by bashtoni 2mo ago
Yes, but Norway is a very rich country because of all the resources they can just extract from the ground. Australia.. wait, never mind.
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by bashtoni 2mo ago
Nearly 50% of vehicles sold in Australia in the last quarter were EVs or plug-in hybrids: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-02/electric-vehicle-ev-s...
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by bashtoni 2mo ago
"Load-bearing assumption" was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.
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by bashtoni 2mo ago
This is fascinating, whatever it is. The discussion of Glasswing in particular gives it the feeling of something bigger than just a hallucination, but unless you work at Anthropic we can only guess.
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by bashtoni 2mo ago
Yes, fascinating that this is apparently all the fault of Chinese companies, and not the American companies distributing and retailing these products.
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by bashtoni 2mo ago
I don't know where you get the idea this is a nation state attack. The devices are used to sell proxy services and scam advertisers. This doesn't even need particularly large organised crime. It would certainly be easier than larg
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by bashtoni 2mo ago
Nothing says land of the free like being told you're not allowed to buy good cars or good vacuums.
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by bashtoni 2mo ago
This could have been a decent article if it hadn't been run through the AI slop machine. If I wanted to read writing this bad I would have just asked ChstGPT myself. It's so hard to wade through run on sentences like "The kno
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by bashtoni 2mo ago
You've misunderstood completely. No-one expects compensation. In reality, if you had a high enough limit anyway (ie, you bought a big enough plan), a reset makes no difference to you, so what sort of "compensation" is it anyw
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by bashtoni 2mo ago
And unlike OpenAI, Anthropic don't seem to reset weekly usage quotas after an outage. Anthropic seem to be both letting their competitors outplay them and making unforced errors (like the anti Open Weights models stuff and the frequent
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by bashtoni 2mo ago
How do you explain this website containing all the stolen buttons then?
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by bashtoni 2mo ago
I don't know if the poster changed the filter after reading your comment, but the filter that is there now looks great to my eyes.
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by bashtoni 2mo ago
Seems like a great idea for an Immich plugin. I'm really not convinced I or anyone I know would _pay_ for AI to guess the date a photo was taken though.
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by bashtoni 2mo ago
I can't be the only one smiling at the mention of file_id.diz
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by bashtoni 2mo ago
But very expensive compared to Deepseek v4 Pro, which performs similarly. Grok is stuck in a difficult place - not the best model at anything, and not the cheapest either. It's hard to make a case for using it on any dimension, even be
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by bashtoni 2mo ago
Yep, I'm in full agreement. When extending functionality of some already existing code it also generally makes sense to write tests first. I think the value is much lower (maybe even negative) when you're still trying to work out
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by bashtoni 2mo ago
Sure. If his take was "100% unit test coverage is a waste of time" I think that's not unreasonable. You could make a case that the "you must write tests before you write code, every single time!" stuff is needlessly
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by bashtoni 2mo ago
I feel like listening to Theo about anything technical is like consulting a Labrador retriever for advice on quantum physics. Every time I've ever seen one of his videos it's pretty clear he has very little understanding of develo
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by bashtoni 3mo ago
Agreed. I often take a look at the skills and maybe take something from there to create a more minimal version that does just enough for my needs and nothing more. YAGNI is definitely the principle to be followed here. I'm sure all the
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by bashtoni 3mo ago
This argument doesn't stand up to much scrutiny. - The Polestar vehicles most recently banned are made in Charleston SC - Fossil fuel industries in the US receive huge subsidies - Non-Chinese brands (Hyundai/ Kia) produce models w
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by bashtoni 3mo ago
I don't see how you can make a case for a $700bn+ IPO when the government might not even let you sell your product. America is ceding the lead in the AI race. The winners here will be the Chinese AI companies. If the Chinese models rem
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by bashtoni 3mo ago
Are they going to be banning Volvo too given they have the same parent company? It'll be interesting to see how far this protectionism goes.
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by bashtoni 3mo ago
Practically, what this boils down to is having clear success criteria. The harness (Claude Codex, Codex, Pi etc) keeps throwing things into the context and executing tools (as directed by the model) until the success criteria is satisfied.

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