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impulser_··on Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]
Then don't say your not a "Cloud on top of a cloud" provider.

They even made fun of cloud providers being down when AWS was down.

impulser_··on Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]
They literally own their own data centers. That's whats surprising about this. They are lying to their customers when they say they operate their own data center because obviously they don't if everyone's apps are down with GCP blocking their account.
impulser_··on Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI
Not really. They have usable models, but it probably Anthropic, OpenAI, Google -> Chinese labs -> NVIDIA, AllenAI, Mistral.
impulser_··on Gemini Omni
I think the opposite. It allows more people to be creative. Similar to how the DAW allowed more people to become musicians. You can produce a hit song with just a laptop now.

Now you can have people producing videos without needing a crew of people.

impulser_··on OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days
I would bet money Anthropic and OpenAI are actually profitable on inference. The problem is they have to spend large sums of money to train models that are essentially worthless after a few months.
impulser_··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
I'm pretty sure he's talking about companies and people outsourcing their decision making and thinking to AI and not really about using AI itself.

I don't think using AI to write code is AI psychosis or bad at all, but if you just prompt the AI and believe what it tell you then you have AI psychosis. You see this a lot with financial people and VC on twitter. They literally post screenshots of ChatGPT as their thinking and reasoning about the topic instead of just doing a little bit of thinking themselves.

These things are dog shit when it comes to ideas, thinking, or providing advice because they are pattern matchers they are just going to give you the pattern they see. Most people see this if you just try to talk to it about an idea. They often just spit out the most generic dog shit.

This however it pretty useful for certain tasks were pattern matching is actually beneficial like writing code, but again you just can't let it do the thinking and decision making.

impulser_··on Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust"
What do you guys assume that a codebase from an unsafe language containing bindings to another unsafe language would appear perfectly implemented right away?
impulser_··on Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
Say what you want about OpenAI, but their software is actually pretty dam good especially compared to Anthropic and Google. Anthropic is just sloppy, and Google just doesn't live on this planet.

Both of the Codex apps are very good.

I tried this out and it works significantly better than Claude's remote control in fact the first few times I tried Claude's remote control it didn't even work and to this day is very buggy.

impulser_··on Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
"We haven’t committed to rewriting. There’s a very high chance all this code gets thrown out completely."
impulser_··on Googlebook
People need to understand Google. They have a long line of failures, because they are an innovative company. Their whole goal is to scale products to billions of users. So if they release a product, and they see no path to billions of users they cut it and move on.

This has always been the way Google has worked. This is why they are literally the most successful company in the history of the world.

impulser_··on If AI writes your code, why use Python?
People really need to stop assuming more training data the better. This is not how it works. LLM thrive off consistency.

Go for example has significantly less training data than Python, but LLMs are the best at it. Why? Go is often written the same. You go from project to project and the code looks all the same. There only a very few ways to write Go.

impulser_··on Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
https://x.ai/news/anthropic-compute-partnership

There is literally not enough compute dude. If we had infinite compute we would see everyone building Mythos size models.

"Right.. and computers were once the size of a large room vs now fit into a pocket."

Yeah because we offload much of the compute to off device. You think we would have these small computers in our pockets if the internet didn't exist?

impulser_··on Just Use Go
Have you tried purego?

You can just embed the C library into the binary of the Go app call it directly in Go. Most of the time I have found calling C from Go faster or on par with calling C from Python.

https://github.com/ebitengine/purego

impulser_··on Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
Local models are always going to be useless unless compute get significantly cheaper, and it's not. TSMC might literally run out of capacity to build any consumer compute product.

Once computer constraints ease up, you will see much larger models. The reason LLM seems to have stalled a bit is because there just not enough compute.

You have more people using AI which requires more compute, and you want to build larger models which requires more compute and you have limited compute. What do you do?

impulser_··on From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth
Majority of apps are B2C apps, they don't need any of this.

All you need is Apple and Google Oauth.

impulser_··on AI uses less water than the public thinks
Yeah, but data centers allow for jobs which gives people money to buy food.
impulser_··on Vercel’s pricing page
People should also look at Railway especially if majority of your users are in a single region because you will only really pay a price during active times and during times with low activity you will pay almost nothing.
impulser_··on Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results
Everyone thought Google Search would die from AI, but people are searching more than ever.
impulser_··on HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
I think it's they don't want to set a precedent on refunding for bugs because one bug could cost them millions.
impulser_··on Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI
I'm talking about lawful, like it written in the terms.
impulser_··on Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI
No it doesn't at all. Private corporations shouldn't be telling the government what it can and can't do. That's the job of the people. You want private corporation overriding your vote?
impulser_··on GPT-5.5
What is the reason behind OpenAI being able to release new models very fast?

Since Feb when we got Gemini 3.1, Opus 4.6, and GPT-5.3-Codex we have seen GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 but only Opus 4.7 and no new Gemini model.

Both of these are pretty decent improvements.

impulser_··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
They have Cursor CLI.

Cursor is essentially all the Claude Code products but without the horrible bugs of Claude Code products.

You can transfer from CLI to web and it actually works.

impulser_··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
Cursor is still the best coding environment and hardness. It's actually not really close. They are so good that they actually made Gemini usable.

The problem is they can't compete with Anthropic and OpenAI because they can't sell Opus and GPT at a discount to subscribers like OpenAI and Anthropic do with their subscriptions.

So they either need to build a competing model or slowly die.

impulser_··on Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware
Are you using Claude Code? If so you have to update to the latest version. The system prompt in the older version of Claude Code don't work for Opus 4.7 and causes a bug similar to the one you are describing.
impulser_··on OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports
They do what Facebook and Google did. Ads.
impulser_··on OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports
Yeah, this perfectly sums it up.

Especially the “If you want” at the end of every single reply.

impulser_··on OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports
The way it converses is the least human like out of all models. It communicates like its writing markdown documents instead of just conversing normally like every other model does. You ask a question and it spits out a design doc instead of just answering the question like a normal human would.
impulser_··on OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports
"You have ChatGPT, a 1 billion-user business growing 50-100% a year, what are you doing talking about enterprise and code?"

The ironic part about this is GPT models are by far the worst models to chat too.

I think I rather talk to a wall than GPT-5.4. It so unpleasant. I feel bad for anyone who only experience with AI is ChatGPT.

impulser_··on Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence
It's not even on par with Sonnet. It's on par with open source models and it not even open source and sit behind a private preview API.

Might as well not release anything.

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