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prash20026··on Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac
Isn't that what Google just released although it is mac only for the moment.

https://developers.google.com/edge/foresight

prash20026··on Don't be a meat proxy
> frequently contains all too plausible nonsense, and is increasingly jargon dense.

Does anyone know how to deal with the jargon part? It is getting hard to use claude and even worse when someone sends you the direct output from claude.

prash20026··on Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
Ask it to create a small sample to reproduce the issue in isolation. If it can't reproduce the performance changes then it drops it.

That might work better. I haven't tried it with SQL but it worked with a few complex UI issues I had. It identified the actual issue after a few false starts.

prash20026··on Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs
Apple might be a good counter example of what happens if you don't focus entirely on AI. Right now it seems to be doing ok.
prash20026··on AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
Supposedly 70% of software projects failed even before AI. So are AI projects better or worse than that?

Also like people have asked about the 70% failure rate, how do you define failure/success.

https://medium.com/@trienpont/why-do-over-70-of-software-pro...

prash20026··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
Hasn't OpenAI being doing it for a while too?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48465269

prash20026··on Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise
Just as a counter example, Midjourney is completely self funded and profitable. But they are images, LLMs might be more expensive to train but their inference is cheaper.

So the frontier model companies might have crazy valuations and they might never reach that. But that might not mean they are actually unprofitable.