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polynomial··on AI is making junior devs useless
TBF those RSUs come in handy on cold winter nights when you need tinder.
polynomial··on AI is making junior devs useless
I've hired that guy and he was a ticket grinder, well-respected by the team.
polynomial··on AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder
Classic LLM construction.

5 sentence paragraph. First sentence is parataxis claim. Followed by 3 examples in sentence fragments, missing verbs, that familiar cadence. Then the final sentence, in this case also missing a verb.

Pure AI slop.

polynomial··on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
> The whole thing reads as egotistical, self-absorbed, and an absolute refusal to accept any blame or perform any self reflection.

So, modern subjectivity. Got it.

/s

polynomial··on Why OpenClaw's observability model can't keep pace with its own scope
A $200 Rabbit r1 running OpenClaw for 36 hours showed apps are "really just" just markdown files. But as the agent runtime grew the engine's 4 tool minimalism to multi-agent clusters, the map peeled away from the territory.

Floridi's conjecture explains why this was inevitable.

polynomial··on I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
That's the problem with sarcasm...
polynomial··on Claude Opus 4.6
You need to publish this tbh
polynomial··on Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out
Luckily we're having a record cold winter and your setup can double as a personal space heater.
polynomial··on Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out
Depending on what your usage requirements are, Mac Minis running UMA over RDMA is becoming a feasible option. At roughly 1/10 of the cost you're getting much much more than 1/10 the performance. (YMMV)

https://buildai.substack.com/i/181542049/the-mac-mini-moment

polynomial··on A real-world benchmark for AI code review
Call for pricing.
polynomial··on Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation
Right, not to "defend" the paper's claims, but it seems to be more like tuning how the leaky bucket leaks, using lossy compression to try to preserve some measure of coherency? Seems to turn on the fixed size summary.
polynomial··on A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
So, passwordless sudo, got it.
polynomial··on A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
I mean that's fine for people who can remember what they are holding, but not all of us can do that.
polynomial··on Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
1000x this. Hosts are a minority. The vast majority of guests not only don't host, they are not good at showing appreciation.

Low key this feels why so much of our social life gets productized/monetized.

polynomial··on Lessons from 14 years at Google
"data-driven agile"™
polynomial··on Go away Python
Isn't that what Project Corsa is supposed to solve?
polynomial··on ManusAI Joins Meta
Still getting paid either way.
polynomial··on Prepare for That Stupid World
Seems like a fairly straight forward UX fix on the engineering side: parse whether the user is searching for wife, or "wife"
polynomial··on 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5
BUILD AI has a post about this and in particular sharding k-v cache across GPUs, and how network is the new memory hierarchy:

https://buildai.substack.com/p/kv-cache-sharding-and-distrib...

polynomial··on Don't push AI down our throats
Zero attractor would likely be a safe bet.
polynomial··on Implications of AI to schools
Famously, a popular AI detector "determined" the Declaration of Independence was written by AI.

https://decrypt.co/286121/ai-detectors-fail-reliability-risk...

polynomial··on Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI
Onyx?

And no one bothered to say anything to them?

polynomial··on I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
It also glosses over or ignores the fact that Discord is low key crushing it, and is hardly a "capitalist hellscape"
polynomial··on Collaboration sucks
Related: https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/the-nightmare-of-par...
polynomial··on AI's Dial-Up Era
Great comment threads here, but the OP article leans too much on AI generated text that is heavy on empty synthetic rhetoric and generative AI clichés.
polynomial··on AI's Dial-Up Era
Exactly. You're absolutely right to focus on that.
polynomial··on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea
Securing the room's internal physical latch after the assassination was a nice touch.
polynomial··on Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
> Text messages being too long wasn't a real problem to begin with.

Except for that one friend. You know the one I mean.

polynomial··on Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
But why does the app stop working if telemetry can't be sent? Who engineered this?
polynomial··on iPad Pro with M5 chip
I literally use mine for the Books app and to play chess.
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