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This AI investment boom has always been about obsession with the exponential growth of the future, trying to get ahead of it. So absolutely they were getting as much as they could possibly have in preparation for a future where they can't get any more. They didn't wanna give up any of that ground.

Of course they were. They bought up literally as much as they could manage, because anything they didn't would be bought up by someone else. It's literally a use it or lose it market right now. This is not a problem. Just stockpile it.

The problem with decentralized redundancy is that it requires separate update schedules and process controls. This directly conflicts with the desire for convenience in rolling out new updates and code changes, etc. so the single point of failure tends to be deploying new code to everywhere at once.

Absolutely.

It's the type called "!", or the return value of diverging control flow, such as infinite loops, returns or function calls that panic or abort. It's an uninhabited type, meaning no values of it can actually exist, and that any code that would encounter such a value is unreachable.

Same thought. If you can't even write your README without AI, what does that say about the code?

The borrow checker is an example of a certain kind of reasoning that Rust benefits from. There's a reason a Lisp can be inspected and rewritten as the process runs, and it's the same thing that makes Rust difficult to rewrite in the same way. Not sure the exact term for it, but it's very easy to have profound nonlocal effects, for example with TAIT (type alias impl trait).

I dislike Microsoft as much as the next guy, but many businesses impacted by these outages are completely innocent and don't deserve these consequences.

Relatively rare autism variant

Oh, I wasn't saying AI made the quality bad! I was just saying the title inspires some confidence that AI could bring into question. ("Modders" are typically quite dedicated and passionate, so if it were a fully organic effort, you'd know it'd be good!) Of course, you can always just audit the code yourself to establish whatever you might need, I never meant to imply otherwise! I just think it's better to know about the use of AI when it happens.

But Michael Jackson - California got us this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp4_7T9J6Fg

> The project is quite transparent about it, saying it was "proudly vibecoded".

Oh, I didn't spot that in the submission, is it behind links? I read a few paragraphs of the description and left because it didn't seem organic. My bad.

> whenever I stumble upon documentation of these projects being spread over forums and vintage 2010 era gaming portal websites I'm glad that we have AI now.

I love AI! The submission title just gave me hopes and the non-organic feel was a bit of a bummer. But nothing against the project itself.

I have the neurodivergence or mental illness that makes me overexplain everything :D

(Technically not "makes", but I always feel like it's better for both sides to understand each other more completely in order to have a more fruitful debate)

To be honest, you make a good point. The problem is generally that AI erases many of the tells of a quality work, because even bad works tend to carry the exact same level of language. When I see that the entire description was AI-generated, I wonder how many of these points were actually inspected by a real person or just hallucinated by the model. Surely there is some quality to it, but I feel like I would need more qualifiers than "finished" to know if it's worth trying, you know?

It's not exactly analogous to a hammer, even though I agree that it is a tool. If a carpenter got the framing all wrong, the hammer wouldn't fix it. If a prompter got the instructions all wrong, or didn't supervise enough, or didn't verify enough, the AI still makes something that appears to pass initial muster.

Finished by AI

I said nothing about Elon specifically.

Literally things like stocks and real estate and cryptocurrency. Imagine Realpage or Bending Spoons.

A fun example of this is Apple, who used to build three dies for each M-series generation (base, Pro, Max) but now build just two (base, Pro/Max). You'd think one of the most bespoke companies on the planet would not be moving to fewer dies unless there were very compelling reasons to do so.

Sometimes people order more lower-tier chips than there are defects, and then you get fully flawless silicon with some disablement.

iPhone's satellite connection isn't certified for anything either. It's a best-effort backup. This would be no different.

(All Apple has is the license for the radio bands they use to communicate with the satellites.)

Tailscale has a higher quality application, codebase and backbone, and also more generous free-plan limits.

Nobody said "everyone" meant everyone ever. In all statements like that, there is an implied "everyone with feelings on Tesla"

Not just internet providers; nearly every corporation that exists or has ever existed. The rug pull is a well documented and practiced business strategy, and also the more fundamental driver behind things like enshittification and many of the other corporate-treatment crises we have been facing.

> services are making it easy for AI agents to access directly without an app.

This is what we all want, this is what kicked off the open web back when the internet first started. This is what made everybody excited for user agents. Now we have user agents once more and we are getting excited about the new agentic web, but temper your expectations. This time, rent-seeking corporations are in it from the start, see the exact same promises that excited you about the open web, and plan to take full advantage right away. This is why everyone is trying to sell their own agent instead of giving access to your own.

This reminds me of some fucking bullshit about how browsers silently store canvas pixel data as premultiplied and try to transparently convert everything you put in and everything you take out, but silently corrupt color values in the process.

https://github.com/nagadomi/nunif/issues/32#issuecomment-153...

> I made this mostly because I wanted something to signal to me that the CPU is running wild.

I use RunCat for this! Or I guess "RunCat Classic" since they have some new version I haven't bothered to check out.

Doesn't that still require Persona face verification? They won't need a name to find you then.

Well, they clearly already made the mistake once of investing in a particular provider (and then needing to apply for refund), so why not go to openrouter where your credit balance can be taken to whatever provider you want at any time? That's future-proofing, not indecision.

These days you're suspicious whenever you're not rocking the usual spyware and telemetry. Especially if there's any chance that any of the software you're running is possible to modify (even if it hasn't been).

Love to see the deconstructive approach here, where LLMs only come into play when you're stumped and then only on that specific part. It's a good approach, it lets you get more practice instead of it all coming to a stop.