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by jdgoesmarching 8d ago
I swear only Apple brings out comments where people will insinuate a whole nefarious conspiracy over phones being sold in different colors.
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by jdgoesmarching 15d ago
I didn’t even see the OP comment as a criticism of his analyses, just that he likes to do this rhetorical trick of dropping in numbers that are, at best, tangential to his point to prop up the argument’s credibility. Sometimes he does this
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by jdgoesmarching 15d ago
All the benchmarks in the world don’t matter if the subscription forces you into a walled garden of slopcoded apps. I’ll stick with Codex and, increasingly, open source SOTA models.
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by jdgoesmarching 27d ago
This is vibe psychology. I owe my entire career to a short attention span that drives me to constantly learn about new ideas, technologies, and hobbies.
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by jdgoesmarching 27d ago
I was being glib because “attention span” is a poorly defined concept that people are more interested in deriding than understanding, as you demonstrate with your comment that we don’t need science to know that it’s bad. I’m specifically cr
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by jdgoesmarching 27d ago
I’d posit that we just puritanically glorify anything perceived as difficult, regardless of the correlation with “intellect.” I’m fine not having the same attention span as people who had to less stuff to do hundreds of years ago.
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by jdgoesmarching 1mo ago
Marketing, like every other functional part of a business, requires technology and engineers. This has nothing to do with fear, you just don’t respect non-engineering work as critical to running a business.
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by jdgoesmarching 1mo ago
AWS Bedrock doesn’t even try to stay on top of new open source models or their API capabilities. We’ve also run into also kinds of frustrating issues rate limiting and slowness issues. GCP is probably the best alternative now that they have
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by jdgoesmarching 1mo ago
Lacking world knowledge is fine for me, I rarely want to rely on the model’s training anyway when there are plenty of great search options to integrate with.
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by jdgoesmarching 2mo ago
I thought the purpose of coding was to produce software, but apparently every action I take should be evaluated on how well it achieves arbitrary brain calisthenics.
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by jdgoesmarching 2mo ago
Yeah, my interest in giving money to this guy vanished after learning about this. It’s not like whipping up some eink dashboards is a huge imposition in the AI era for anyone nerdy enough to want this in the first place. Afaik there’s never
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by jdgoesmarching 3mo ago
“For the good of humanity we must protect what I’m working on at the expense of others because it’s super important.” As frustrating as the anti-AI crowd can be, I see why they end up that way when the valley is full of opinions like this.
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by jdgoesmarching 3mo ago
Elena is one of those people who was loudest about AI on other channels and now she writes this when, as you say, there’s a demand for articles like this. It’s marketers doing marketing all the way down.
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by jdgoesmarching 3mo ago
All the nitpicking in this thread is missing the forest for the trees. You know what’s really bad for decentralization? The rest of the world living on fully centralized apps mostly belonging to one of 3 billionaires with no public protocol
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by jdgoesmarching 3mo ago
The important part is Apple rebranding “OpenAI-compatible API” to “language model protocol” and I think we should all rally around this immediately before we’re cursed with that awful tongue twister.
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by jdgoesmarching 3mo ago
If it were lighter with a better FOV I’d buy it at the current price. Apple isn’t doing metaverse, they’re doing computer with a 3D monitor and I don’t think it’s a bad move to have the ecosystem in place as the tech improves and makes a ma
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by jdgoesmarching 4mo ago
This comment really drives home the effective propaganda of “publicly owned” as a term. Concentrated ownership of the wealthy is not synonymous with “the public.” You are very literally arguing for plutocracy over democracy.
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by jdgoesmarching 4mo ago
Every user of Headway is required to submit to this, regardless of medication status, or they lose access to the platform (and their therapist). HN has come a long way if we’re considering it a nothing burger that sending scans of your face
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by jdgoesmarching 4mo ago
Tech bros reinvent autocracy
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by jdgoesmarching 4mo ago
It’s a real phenomenon that gets lazily slapped onto anyone using AI poorly.
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by jdgoesmarching 4mo ago
I love Pi, but it’s pretty distasteful to write off ongoing debates in a separate field than your own (philosophy, particularly theory of mind) as “AI psychosis,” which ironically has its own experts working to understand it as dangerous ph
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by jdgoesmarching 4mo ago
Not in conversation, but if I were working in the auto industry and exclusively referred to cars this way it would sound extremely juvenile.
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by jdgoesmarching 4mo ago
The funny thing is that Atlassian themselves uses “custom fields” so it’s not even clear which are actually org-specific. The new JSM uses a lot of them, for example. It smells like things got so convoluted internally that even first party
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by jdgoesmarching 4mo ago
If you think heavily subsidizing AI models isn’t financially viable, I have some bad news for you about US AI companies. Deepseek has made some incredible advancements in model efficiency, and more importantly actually publishes those advan
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by jdgoesmarching 4mo ago
More likely? US tech leaders have been fully capitulating to the surveillance state for over a decade. Why do I care what China does with my data? I don’t live in China and never plan to. The tech bro threat model has always been pure jingo
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by jdgoesmarching 4mo ago
I know this is attached to a stupid bill, but I really like the general idea of special carve outs for open source projects.
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by jdgoesmarching 4mo ago
Virtue signaling apparently means making decisions based on the current reality instead of a future hypothetical.
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by jdgoesmarching 5mo ago
As an Army veteran, I try to be accountable for the role I played in an imperial occupying force and use that to inform my decisions in life. People have a hard time admitting they’ve done bad things that caused pain. I’ve done bad things a
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by jdgoesmarching 5mo ago
If your incentives and emerging behaviors land at an evil result, it is evil. I’d argue the problem is everyone who constantly generates these “well actually” reasons to excuse the consequences. Marx wrote about people being simultaneously
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by jdgoesmarching 5mo ago
It’s hard on AWS as well, but I agree. There’s just no incentive for the billing experience to be better.

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