overgard

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by overgard 11d ago
In a way, I think they're doing us a favor with LLM slop: It's rare to have a signal that's 100% accurate at telling me it's safe to stop reading.
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by overgard 13d ago
I don't get these model providers forcing people to use their (bad) software. I just downgraded my anthropic account because I can't stand the bugfest that is Claude. I won't even touch google for AI. Doesn't matter if y
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by overgard 16d ago
Claude has been creeping me out a lot recently when it comes to overstepping. Yesterday, I asked it for recommendations for software to scroll a video file frame by frame (I was debugging an issue in a game that only happened on one frame).
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by overgard 17d ago
Oh god, this guy instantly lost credibility to me for mentioning Atlas Shrugged.
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by overgard 21d ago
The cloud stuff is definitely a much better economic value, but I would argue: 1. You learn a lot more running this stuff yourself (especially since you can poke at its internals if you're interested or watch the reasoning chain.) Just
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by overgard 21d ago
Curious, how are you running it and what quantization are you using? I've mostly been using MTPLX; 125B sort of looks like it'd be right at the limits of my 128GB MacBook once you factor in KV cache and context window.. wondering
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by overgard 21d ago
Yeah, I ran into an overthinking loop with it a couple days ago on a task that shouldn't have been that hard. (It's kind of interesting to watch the internal conversation happening with it). Overall I'm impressed with it, but
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by overgard 1mo ago
Or maybe these companies are just bullshitting. Also: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/30/google-kills-alphafold-so...
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by overgard 1mo ago
Not to mention, hasn't the pharmaceutical industry taught us that curing diseases is a bad capitalist strategy? After all, why cure something if you can simply treat it, expensively, indefinitely.
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by overgard 1mo ago
Totally agree, like: > I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over. Well, yeah Dario. You keep PUBLICLY TALKING about way
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by overgard 1mo ago
Some researchers have (informally) taken to calling certain forms of dementia "type-3 diabetes", so I think this sounds at least plausible. It's far from a foregone conclusion or anything, but there's at least some evide
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by overgard 1mo ago
I'm pretty skeptical you can call any claw-like thing secure unless you solve prompt injection.
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by overgard 1mo ago
Man, some own-goals on this website. I went to download it to try it out and they want me to fill out a registration form. Fuck off! Also, while trying to figure out the licensing restrictions on community edition: > Can I install and us
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by overgard 1mo ago
I kind of think the whole "Learn to Code" push of the 2010s was one of the worst things that happened to our industry. Call me a gatekeeper if you want but, we ended up with a lot of people that just can't do the job. The pro
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by overgard 1mo ago
Yeah, using the "industrial revolution" as a positive is a weird argument in general. Sure, the end result was, eventually, an improvement, but the process took decades and was horrible for most involved. If this "revolution&
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by overgard 1mo ago
Voting with your wallet doesn't work usually, because your wallet isn't big enough. Vote with your vote! Our system is dysfunctional in the united states, but if you look at the political unity behind something like blocking datac
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by overgard 1mo ago
macOS looks pretty awful on non-high DPI screens because of the way fonts are antialiased. (Actually, same with modern windows at this point)
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by overgard 1mo ago
I guess my impression using these tools daily is that it hasn't diminished the need for my own technical expertise. The conversations I have with it are highly highly technical, and to me the insights come from both sides, I see things
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by overgard 1mo ago
Thank you! HN doesn't usually do specialty/novelty accounts but I've very excited about this one.
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by overgard 1mo ago
So, I think this issue is a lot more obvious in image generation than it is in code or writing (but the implicit problem is the same). You can ask an image model to generate images in the style of an artist, that it's been trained on,
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by overgard 1mo ago
There isn't any "prepping for this outcome", unless you're thinking of a doomsday bunker in argentina. You can be neighbors with Peter Thiel! The way I see it, if programmers go the way of hatters it's not long for
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by overgard 1mo ago
My suspicion is that the people "ok" with this are mostly doing so because they want in on the ride. IE, they see $$$ and they think that they should align themselves to where the money is, especially by espousing their religious
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by overgard 1mo ago
I've never felt like it's a status profession (I don't think anybody has ever been impressed when I told them what my job was other than "oh sounds like it takes a lot of smarts") I do notice a lot of HN commenters
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by overgard 1mo ago
The impression I get is a lot of people are very upset. Most of the good programmers I know are just burnt out even talking about this, and are irritated with the people invading our profession pretending they know what they're doing w
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by overgard 1mo ago
I used to use dotPeek all the time back in like 2012. There are also things like Ghidra that the NSA made. I dunno, google them, there are a lot. I'm not saying LLMs aren't useful here, just that it's not a huge deal. Also, w
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by overgard 1mo ago
I'm sure it's useful for that, but we've had pretty good decompilers before AI.
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by overgard 1mo ago
Yeah, a lot of it isn't even really about people's choice though. Like, I have so many click-baity things in my YouTube feed even though I ignore almost all of it, because just one click and suddenly that's a thing it's
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by overgard 1mo ago
It's kind of bizarre in that it's not like this is an optimal interface, either. I mean, it's fine, but why not try something different? I also don't really get why TUI's have become such a big deal, other than mayb
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by overgard 1mo ago
It's not just other creatives that care, it's consumers. There's a lot of backlash on steam against games that contain AI content. Personally, while I think GenAI has a place, I think this backlash is good. People have gotten
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by overgard 1mo ago
"Trust" isn't just about "% of a chance I die". It's like "can this system actually function well in the environment I'm in". For instance, I live in the midwest. Our roads are AWFUL compared to

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