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by notatoad 5d ago
This seems like a useful write up of the concepts involved here, but I just hate reading Claude’s writing style so much. This is content marketing, at least give it a review pass before you hit publish… if your marketing is unpolished AI sl
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by notatoad 6d ago
I think the abstraction is only part of the problem. The other part is that all these companies offering ai products are deeply untrustworthy, and I don’t want to let them any further into my stack than I have to. Claude code and codex ar
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by notatoad 6d ago
a month of opencode go is cheaper than lunch, so trusting them with this but not your lunch seems reasonable.
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by notatoad 7d ago
I had the exact same experience. Charging an Apple Watch is a routine thing, charging a garmin is an infrequent annoyance. And like the other commenter says, I could just fix my habits. But no, that’s not how my brain works
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by notatoad 7d ago
Doing it live isn’t going to bring Steve back. He was a natural showman, the people doing it now aren’t. They’re engineers and executives. Putting them on a live stage is going to make it even tougher on them.
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by notatoad 7d ago
It’s been a while since I watched an Apple presentation, but I caught a bit of this one. And I spent the whole time trying to figure out who it was for - the presenters didn’t seem to express any genuine excitement about the products, and
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by notatoad 7d ago
Seems to be lots of people in here worried about “if i had”, and nobody who actually has done this. Anybody actually using deepseek in a production system affected by this want to share their experience?
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by notatoad 7d ago
this is what regulatory failure looks like. There's no downside for google to do this, because nobody is going to hold them accountable. Nobody is telling them they have to explain their actions, and it's easier for them not to
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by notatoad 8d ago
from the thread last week, it seems to be installed by default on every mac install, possibly not on windows installs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49528079
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by notatoad 8d ago
i think that's a perfectly coherent and reasonable way for both these apps to work. people don't want AI features leaking into their non-ai apps. I'm not an AI hater - I want my AI app to be able to read and write word docs,
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by notatoad 9d ago
does google actually use their own models in consumer products? i'm not an android user, but the weather widget in the google search results for my area always seems to be attributed to weather.com.
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by notatoad 9d ago
yes, it is. it's almost exactly the same thing. skills are just an agents.md broken up into chunks so you can manage and share them separately. unfortunately there's no real good workflow for managing or sharing them separately,
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by notatoad 11d ago
Equally trivial for Google to do the same thing. Is it trivial to do this in a way that exceeds googles own ability to detect flaws?
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by notatoad 13d ago
i was using antigravity pretty heavily for a while in the spring, it seemed to be a good value for my usage. then i got banned out of the blue for "suspected" ToS violations, with a notification that heavily hinted it was because
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by notatoad 13d ago
because "people will let our AI spend their money for them" is the workflow that makes their valuations reasonable.
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by notatoad 13d ago
no, it's not a conflict of interest to invest in multiple companies who compete with each other.
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by notatoad 13d ago
my greatest achievement is having a question on SO closed for being too narrowly focused and unlikely to be useful to anybody else, and then a multi year history of notifications about "you've earned a popular question badge"
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by notatoad 14d ago
when are we going to stop pretending these benchmarks have any meaning? anybody who's used these models knows that their real-world software engineering performance has no relation to the ranking on deepSWE.
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by notatoad 14d ago
it would be a bad take if the webui had 3.7 flash available in it today, and they just hadn't fully rolled out the latest model when they posted the launch announcement. but the webui is currently offering 3.6 flash. the previous mo
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by notatoad 14d ago
yeah in typical google fashion, the best way to use the gemini models is by avoiding google's actual products. i've got a vision project where gemini flash is the best option by a long shot, and i just use openrouter so i don&#x2
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by notatoad 14d ago
sonnet 5 is bad by almost any metric. anthropic really needs something to address the cheaper end of the market before they get left behind. Sonnet 5 sucks, and Haiku hasn't been updated in a year. meanwhile we've got gemini fla
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by notatoad 15d ago
Ed Zitrons wild claims might be for entertainment value, but Altman’s are for his own valuation. He’s bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars off those claims.
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by notatoad 15d ago
>How are they going to do if there's no public transportation available for their commute? is there any city anywhere that has implemented congestion pricing without having public transit available?
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by notatoad 15d ago
if i had a commercial app that i wanted to distribute off the play store, what are the options?
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by notatoad 16d ago
i think you overestimate the number of tech-savvy people who ever cared about cookies and ad tracking.
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by notatoad 16d ago
>Is Burning Man fun? I got the rather cynical impression that it's mostly very well off tech people and even better off finance/political people. not sure what answer you expect to get here, on the forum hosted by the most note
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by notatoad 18d ago
that seems like two separate problems. too many patches from unknown and untrusted contributors is a triage problem - telling a known and trusted contributor they can't use AI to help work on something just because other people are sen
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by notatoad 18d ago
The monopoly on the use of force has gotten kinda blurry as well these days. As long as people keep electing anti-government governments, the risk of technocracy is very real.
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by notatoad 20d ago
i can't remember where i read it, but a few days ago i saw they didn't expect a restock until next year
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by notatoad 23d ago
if you've got an enterprise contract, doesn't that include pricing? a temporary discount on the base API rate probably isn't super relevant to that.

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