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by smoe 14d ago
I think there are already laws in a lot of places requiring food images whether photographs, illustrations, AI generated images, etc. not to materially mislead consumers about what they’re buying. So people using AI for this might soon run
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by smoe 19d ago
I don't care if a project uses AI or not, but I absolutely do care that they are firmly gatekept in alignment with their vision and team dynamics. Then I can choose projects whose gatekeeping policies I agree with. There is never not a
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by smoe 19d ago
From long ago memory: in Python 2, 1 / 2 did integer division. You had to do something like 1 / 2.0 if you wanted floating point division.
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by smoe 24d ago
I think they didn't even bother making a separate post about their backpedaling, they just slapped some disclaimers onto the existing page: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15036540-use-the-clau... Upd
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by smoe 28d ago
I think it’s more branding than moat. Free advertising if every vibe coded repo on GitHub has a CLAUDE.md at the root. And its probably also to make people think there’s something special about Claude.
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by smoe 28d ago
His twitter has a daily production video log showing the process. Mesmerizing. https://x.com/coca1127 And some longer form videos on YouTube as well like this one "Making PS2" https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by smoe 1mo ago
I don't think the problem is that people don't believe AI can be beneficial. The problem is the perception that AI will affect people's lives more negatively than positively, while a few get even more obscenely rich and power
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by smoe 1mo ago
To me, it feels closer to dealing with a personal outsourcing agency than working with internal coworkers, because the agents have zero skin in the game. It's great. You can get a lot of stuff done in parallel. But it's much more
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by smoe 1mo ago
Something I've noticed quite a bit on the paid plans as well is that it starts its answers with "I mostly agree..." or " almost correct...," then goes through the list of points I made without actually disagreein
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by smoe 1mo ago
What has worked reasonably well for me so far is not trying to stop it from writing its inane walls of text in the first place. Let it vomit it all out, then have a /tldr with instructions to make the last answer concise and intelligib
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by smoe 1mo ago
This is the email I received yesterday. I think them downsizing the free tier is perfectly fine. Giving two weeks’ notice before terminating instances is not. But since this is Oracle, I always assumed they’d do something villainy someday
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by smoe 2mo ago
I would say by default, the AI aesthetic is the opposite of utilitarian. It adds so much unnecessary bits and bobs everywhere, random things that look reasonable at first glance but often are nonsensical noise. The visual equivalent of the
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by smoe 2mo ago
Inevitably, yes, that is one of the ways. Albeit not a very useful one. Keep in mind that the definition of news I’m using is specifically “reporting on recent events,” not all forms of journalism or ways in which information is shared. It’
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by smoe 2mo ago
I wonder, do those people you talk about also happen to avoid the other forms of journalism, such as investigative reporting, analysis, essays, documentaries, books, and long-form features in general? Those are the things among many others
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by smoe 2mo ago
15 years after making the decision, while working for a major news outlet, to no longer read “the news,” I can pretty confidently say: if something is important enough for you to know, it will reach you eventually anyway. Consuming news has
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by smoe 2mo ago
Over the last couple months, I’ve gotten the impression that OAI does indeed have the better infra setup and team, not just more capacity. I don’t think Codex’s 99.98% uptime vs Claude Code’s 99.44%, is just due to OAI having more hardware
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by smoe 2mo ago
Not OP, but I got downgraded almost every time I had Fable implement something with security implications. Codex reviews it and identifies potential security issues, but Fable refuses to address them and downgrades instead.
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by smoe 2mo ago
Gossip Goblin, I think, is a great example of what artists with actual working experience can do with AI. That said, for my taste, his works, while visually beautiful and interesting, feel a bit collage-y and lacking in emotion. The over th
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by smoe 2mo ago
Interestingly, I enjoyed early GenAI videos much more. All those bizarre, fever dream like experiences from the lack of consistency between frames, where things would morph or pop in and out of existence. They had a certain flair and someth
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by smoe 2mo ago
The only difference I can see is that the controls for local/remote, branch, and worktrees disappear, and instead it shows office suite plugins. I would presume it affects the system prompt in the background? Very confusing. But I do f
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by smoe 2mo ago
> That's assuming their flagship product remains relevant in an AI-powered world. The big advantage Google has, in my opinion, is Android. I think there is a decent chance that people stop downloading the ChatGPT, Claude, etc. apps
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by smoe 2mo ago
Not just harnesses, you can even use the subscription in CI/CD. That, plus the fact that web chat does not count toward the same limits, is why I think the Codex personal plan is easily 10x the value of Claude Code. https:/&#x2
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by smoe 3mo ago
For work, I mostly use Codex and some Claude. For personal use, I’ve started using Chinese models directly through their respective providers, mostly for automation tasks and experiments so far, either via the API directly or through the Pi
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by smoe 3mo ago
> "The code wasn't written by me. It was written by Claude/Chatgpt" That seems like a good way to justify your own job away.
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by smoe 3mo ago
I would say prompt engineering, in the sense of people claiming you need to include in every prompt magic incantations like "You are a senior engineer from a superintelligent alien species" and "take a deep breath and make no
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by smoe 3mo ago
"I think we're going to start to see the title 'software engineer' go away. And I think it's just going to be maybe builder, maybe product manager, maybe we'll keep the title as a vestigial thing." — Boris
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by smoe 3mo ago
> I'd love to see either Anthropic or OpenAI really step up their infrastructure game. It's worth noting that OpenAI's official uptime numbers are significantly better than Anthropic's: 99.9x% for API/Codex, vers
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by smoe 3mo ago
I find it fascinating that every time this kind of discussion comes up, people talk about night and day experiences between Claude and Codex, in both directions. I’m really wondering what people are doing to get such different outcomes. I’m
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by smoe 3mo ago
I reckon right now the Enterprise concern is more FOMO around the AI wave and how to retrain or replace up to hundreds of thousands of employees. I don't think cost is the main concern right now. But if AI doesn't lead quickly to
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by smoe 3mo ago
In this case, handling all the edge cases and variants, and testing a codemod, would have taken significantly more of my time, which costs quite a bit more than the LLM. Obviously, a deterministic tool is preferable in general, but it is no

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