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lomase

323 karma · joined July 21, 2023

A grumpy normal guy.

C# & JS for work.

C & Lua for fun.

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lomase··on 73% of AI startups are just prompt engineering
Imagine you are a top of the line engenier...

Engineering data flow... sure, we all like to use big words.

lomase··on Raycast for Windows
Why would you call it Raycast? Does cast rays in any way?
lomase··on AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
If I had something that could replace developers I will not sell it.

I will get all the goverment IT contracts and make billions in a few months.

Nobody does it because LLMS are a fucking scam, like crypto, and I am tired of pretending is not.

lomase··on AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
Can you show any product created by a those imaginary teams using LLMS?
lomase··on AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
Can you show something built with those tools.

The only reply I have got to this question was: it created a sap script.

lomase··on AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
I just started a project, they fired the previous team, I am possitive they used AI. The app is full of bugs and the client will never hire the old company again.

Whoever says is time to move to LLMS is clueless.

lomase··on AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
Lowballing contracts is nothing new. It has never ever worked out.

You can trow all AI you want, but at the end of the day you get what you pay for.

lomase··on AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
This was true since ChatGPT-1, and I mean the lies.
lomase··on AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
I am an old SWE and claude 4.5 has not changed a thing on how we work.

The teams that have embraced AI in their worlflow have not increased their output compared with they ones that don't use it.

lomase··on How I fell in love with Erlang
Back in the day videogames were wrote in assembly.

Why you expect weaker hardware to uses more libraries and programming larguages than today?

Makes no sense. On weaker hardware we had back in those days you had to work as close to the metal as possible.

lomase··on How I fell in love with Erlang
15 years ago the xbox 360 store was already full of games made in c#.

If 15 years ago you said games can't run on managed laguages you knew nothing about videogame development.

lomase··on How I fell in love with Erlang
It was not written in LISP, but a LISP dialect, called GOOL.

Wich means:

GAME ORIENTED OBJECT LANGUAJE....

The example you gave about how functional laguages can make comercial videogames... has objects at the core of its design.

lomase··on How I fell in love with Erlang
How many games in Erlang have been released?
lomase··on How I fell in love with Erlang
Unreal, Unity, Godot, Source, virtually every game engine is object oriented.
lomase··on How I fell in love with Erlang
Lets count the number of comercial sucesful released games that don't use mutability or object orientation....

I can't find any.

lomase··on Discrete Fourier Transform
I like this 3Blue1Brown video about what he calls the almost-fuerier transform:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY

lomase··on Scientists are discovering a powerful new way to prevent cancer
Scientific health has also been saying it for decades.
lomase··on Discrete Fourier Transform
After careful consideration I think the point of aeve890 is that the advertisment industry sucks big time.
lomase··on Discrete Fourier Transform
Feels like an article wrote from somebody who knows a lot about the FFT for people who already knows a lot about the FFT.
lomase··on Effective context engineering for AI agents
Imagine where we would be if academia or open source had this train of tougth.

No algorithms, no Linux, no open protocols, maybe not even internet.

lomase··on Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits
In 1998 to transfer a megabyte over telephone lines was expensive and 5 years later is was almost free.

I have not seen the prices of GPUs, CPU or RAM going down, on the contrary, each day it gets more expensive.

lomase··on Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits
Is AI at the same level of global instant comunication and gigabites of bandwidth?
lomase··on When private practices merge with hospital systems, costs go up
Nobody has ever said private is less wastefull than public?
lomase··on iPhone 17 chip becomes the fastest single-core CPU in the world on PassMark
Does Apple sell those?

No

lomase··on The Atlantic Quantum team is joining Google
AI has already had its time of overblown expectations and has cooled off to realistic expectations.

I am talking about the 70s.

lomase··on Cormac McCarthy's personal library
Just read it and you will find out. Is a really short book.
lomase··on Cormac McCarthy's personal library
The Road is one of the most powerful books I have ever read.

I could not stop reading it, but at the same time I hated how it made me feel. I stoped reading novels for years after finishing it.

lomase··on OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time series
They fixed it already.
lomase··on Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54%
Some months ago in Spain the price of solar energy became negative and minutes later there was a blackout.

Some people like gred say is because too much solar energy is a problem.

In my, uneducated, opinion it was a market failure.

lomase··on Jane Goodall has died
I will add it is one of the most watched shows on prime time.
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