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bigbluedots

551 karma · joined December 22, 2017

I'm a software developer from Melbourne, Australia.
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bigbluedots··on GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
Yes, programming language discussions can be vibes-based and therefore low value too, but sometimes the more concrete aspects of the languages at hand, e.g. language features and tradeoffs are discussed. That is something that I'm not seeing in equivalent AI discussions.. there is a lot of how a particular AI model "feels" to interact with.
bigbluedots··on GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
These threads seem to have become exceedingly vibes-based. Yes, something may now be cheaper or more expensive or whatever, but there is no way to objectively measure quality (except for "trust me bro" benchmarks). So the discourse is people saying that for them, this or that model was better - which is a very low value data point.
bigbluedots··on Steam Machine launches today
Like what? Provide examples please.
bigbluedots··on I canceled my French tutor and built an LLM tool that does it better
Wow That Is Fantastic And I Am So Glad To Hear It, You Have Really Put In A Lot Of Effort!
bigbluedots··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
Enterprise customers care about things like guardrails and data safety. xAI has always been anti guardrails, and who knows if you can trust them with your data.
bigbluedots··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
No company that uses Cursor now is going to be ok with using xAI models.
bigbluedots··on Delacroix's Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople Restored
Not a drop of blood to be seen anywhere!
bigbluedots··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
It might be time to start interacting with agents using grug speak only
bigbluedots··on Jira Is Turing-Complete
Well, you did say all. Is there a minimal set of exposed features that must be exposed for a workflow engine to be included?
bigbluedots··on xAI joins SpaceX
Yes, because launching then immersed in something that will greatly increase the launch weight will help...
bigbluedots··on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
I'm hoping it's a human with a taste for satire
bigbluedots··on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
All hail your new overlords!
bigbluedots··on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
That's fine, you do you. Everyone gets to choose for themselves!
bigbluedots··on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
Go look it up, he doesn't
bigbluedots··on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
Who is "us"? You are not me.
bigbluedots··on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
It is nice to hear someone who is so influential just come out and say it. At my workplace, the expectation is that everyone will use AI in their daily software dev work. It's a difficult position for those of us who feel that using AI is immoral due to the large scale theft of the labor of many of our fellow developers, not to mention the many huge data centers being built and their need for electricity, pushing up prices for people who need to, ya know, heat their homes and eat
bigbluedots··on All it takes is for one to work out
At some point you don't need "the one that gives you joy". You need the one that pays the bills and feeds the family
bigbluedots··on AI World Clocks
Is there a "draw a pelican riding a bicycle" version?
bigbluedots··on AI World Clocks
I just realized I'm running late, it's almost -2!

More seriously, I'd love to see how the models perform the same task with a larger token allowance.

bigbluedots··on Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?
Don't know, probably? I'm a linear reader
bigbluedots··on First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV
No, we don't.
bigbluedots··on ChatGPT Pro
whoosh
bigbluedots··on Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations
It is less safe for women than men unfortunately.
bigbluedots··on Do Penguins Have Knees? (2019)
If a person doesn't exist, can they see penguins?
bigbluedots··on Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file NLRB complaint
A war is usually something that has two sides fighting it.
bigbluedots··on Why I'm Resigning from the Intercept
They do, we call it 'the Internet'
bigbluedots··on Sleep apnea: Mouthguards less invasive, just as effective as CPAP
It's amazing how many anecdotal folk remedies we're presented with on this forum, which I had assumed would have a more scientific bent.
bigbluedots··on Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
SBF also ate the omelette
bigbluedots··on An all-optical general-purpose CPU and optical computer architecture
Please elaborate?
bigbluedots··on Thanksgiving 2023 security incident
> They did this by using one access token and three service account credentials that had been taken, and that we failed to rotate, after the Okta compromise of October 2023

It's fair to "punch down" imo as that's how the credentials were originally compromised. I'd agree with you if CF were trying to minimize their own mistake but that doesn't seem to be what is happening here

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