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quikoa··on I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
> (at the moment)

That's why. That future is uncertain. So why gamble your future on something that's popular at the moment for something that could change completely a year later?

quikoa··on Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
A language without a large stdlib pushes this that functionality into (transitive) dependencies. I hope more language will adopt batteries included approach.
quikoa··on Rethinking Database Programming
It'd definitely need a solid team behind this and not just Evan Czaplicki if I were to trust a database with my data.
quikoa··on On A.I. regulation and messaging
> something dangerous like AI model developement

It's very dangerous to Anthropic's bottomline!

quikoa··on The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here
Is it this one?

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20050184962A1/en

> [..] and a plurality of Sensors located in the capacity Surrounding the track ball for detecting pressure directions.

...

> Status Expired

quikoa··on DeepSeek API Pricing Update
The question is if they'll increase prices as well.
quikoa··on The Water Footprint of AI
This statistic doesn't show the disproportionate effect it may have on local communities close to these AI datacenters.
quikoa··on Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale
Well yes, first hit is free.
quikoa··on YouTube's AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt
Thanks! I know about it but really should be using it more.
quikoa··on Taste Is All That's Left
Given the title I thought this was just ridiculous:

> I do not care about your taste.

But taste is all that we have left.

And then this:

> If this posts has offended you, then it tells more about you than it does about me.

So the author can't take any criticism.

quikoa··on YouTube's AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt
A YouTube alternative without AI would be nice. It'd be difficult to launch and may require quite some investment before it starts paying off.

YouTube can very clearly mark AI channels without banning/demonetizing them. Unfortunately their automated systems are shit so that won't work well either.

quikoa··on LLMs reward expertise
Why not not show these kickass one-shots and prove how awesome AI can be?
quikoa··on Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
> This bizarre fixation that humans are decent at coding is a myth.

I wonder where the LLMs got their training data from.

quikoa··on Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books
Some people may continue using AI and publish books but the amount of AI slop would be dramatically lower without extrinsic motivations.
quikoa··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
What does your harness do to squeeze that value out of DS4 flash if you don't mind sharing? It'd interesting how it compares to other harnesses (even if it's a qualitative assessment instead of quantitative).
quikoa··on How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?
To me it just looks like a marketing stunt.
quikoa··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
How will Anthropic be able to rewrite that in Rust and use it for marketing?
quikoa··on EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track
> There is no way to stop these so just lets get going.

Except for the times they've tried before and public outrage stopped it. So this defeatist attitude works against us.

quikoa··on Claude Tag
How is CC a success when they still have to force subscribers to use it instead of it being a paid product?
quikoa··on Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs
Yea it's too bad these poor scrappy startups cannot afford engineers to build decent software.
quikoa··on There is minimal downside to switching to open models
> it's not an European company serving the LLM

That's a pretty big downside if data privacy and sharing is one of the main concerns.

quikoa··on Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog
These improvements are quite promising and I'm looking forward to giving that a spin once it is released.

Will the Windows side for 0.17.x get some compiler improvements as well or is this Linux only?

quikoa··on Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
Deepseek is much cheaper so that means you spend less on CCP than on Anthropic/OpenAI. Then there are third party providers as well.
quikoa··on Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust"
It is only allowed in unsafe blocks. As long as the unsafe blocks are few and well understood then Rust programmers can contain this to a small well defined portion of a program.
quikoa··on Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
I can't tell if this comment is sarcasm or not. If you let AI run commands you don't understand (especially in production) you may end up with some nasty surprises.
quikoa··on The bottleneck was never the code
Yes, if code is only a liability then just delete the code and poof liability is gone.
quikoa··on Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?
The ultimate piece is not revenue but profit. At some point these enormous investments will have to be earned back. Good luck with that when open weight models are also continuously improving, have cheap providers and for many are already very usable.
quikoa··on A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games
Yea I get that, I still wouldn't want to invest a serious amount of time on a product to build on such a platform. Best of luck though maybe it still works as a business.
quikoa··on A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games
Vendor lock-in with a monthly subscription where the price can change at any moment or the company may disappear along with your product. I wouldn't build my business on that.
quikoa··on Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
I can't even tell whether this comment is serious or not.
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