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I’ve been very pleased with DS 4.1 flash. Not so much the 4.0 models, but for coding (Rust) it’s been great so far (3 solid days of work).

I’ll give Mimo a try.

You're taking a small slice of left progressives and applying it to all democrats to try and push this "the left are all commies" narrative. ICE is running around like the gestapo in targeted blue cities, so of course it's an issue. If they were doing this in red cities (where the crime actually is), there'd be the same push back. It's obvious that republicans are intentionally trying to create issues and division using every tool at their disposal. There won't be enough leopards for all of these faces.

> Butt out of our political commentary.

Don't be ridiculous. I'd love it if I didn't have to care about US politics, except it has infected the rest of the world. Telling someone to butt out when your dear leader is invading other countries, intentionally influencing foreign elections (Vance stumping for the AfD), and claiming others are 51st states, etc. I also have friends and family in the US that only ever want to talk politics these days.

For the record, I think Biden deserves kudos for pursuing a far more progressive and labour oriented strategy than people expected. The Bernie Bro's soured on Democrats in the 2016 elections. I'm not sure they were a real problem in 2024.

> The "Bernie bro" to MAGA pipeline is very real, as was the "I wanna make sexist or racist jokes" to Alt-Right pipeline.

It would have been so easy for the Democrats to embrace economics and labour over culture war and scolding. To push for getting money out of politics (Citizen's United). They could have kept the Bernie crowd, Gen Z men, and maybe even Rogan (that guy went from left of centre to right of right so quick though... there's more to it for sure).

Losing in 2024 was insane though and it still feels like the Democrats might screw it up again. FFS people scolding South Park...

Multiplayer, demographic, community, and probably because it mainstreamed the genre. I'm pretty sure people, especially early teens, like to socialize on Minecraft with their friends. There is also the pseudo campaign of defeating the ender dragon. Minecraft is a juggernaut.

China's model for decades has been to do it cheaper and then do it better for cheaper. Just accepting this makes you an economic vassal state. We've seen this play out over decades now with other industries. I'm not blaming China for this approach, but if you want to stay relevant, then you need to compete.

You don't need to view China as some scary boogeyman who's going to use AI to attack you or w/e the current conspiracy is. They just need to continue peacefully outperforming while everyone else gets fat and lazy.

I think the route to profitability is super clear and simple. To be a reasonable alternative to Chinese and US models.

I think you're probably better off using the Chinese open models right now if you're concerned about vendor lock-in or capabilities disappearing because someone's economy seems a bit fragile atm. There's no guarantee China keeps releasing open weights though, so supporting a pragmatic alternative isn't a horrible idea.

Also, JD Vance and the AfD...

Also tons and tons of coal. Hopefully just a stopgap.

At least we've discovered that trying to get people to behave differently at scale without the presence of an *immediate* emergency is a failed endeavour... So maybe now we can stop that nonsense and focus all of our energy on technological solutions?

> The escalations continue in complexity and speed to the point that almost all humans are left in the point of "wtf is going on".

Humans are paper clips long before that.

If Trump tomorrow says communism is great, then every Fox news host, MAGA content creator, and MAGA bot would be extolling the virtues of communism. The republican house and senate would enable it, maybe with a small bribe here and there. There is no line. There is no integrity. It's just looting.

Everyone who started using claude clode when it came out in early 2025, knew it was coming (not quite yet). That felt more like reporting than prophesying.

I always figured that was part of the joke, because a writer came up with it, and a writer would know (I assume?).

It's not about the prompt, it's about the guardrails. Static types, compiled, massive test suite, etc. That what I mean by extreme level of test coverage like SQLite. You'd actually need to be an expert in C and SQLite and the SQLite test suite just to sneak a bug into it. Testing and other verifications are going to be an exciting area for the foreseeable future.

You can still write non-performant code even with tests, but you can also test performance!

Extremes on both sides. I'd wager were moving in Yegge's direction though, like it or not.

> Though it's being argued that you could still be responsible for it without looking at it?

If you have a much test coverage as SQLite, I'd be tempted to trust it, and I think that's where we are headed. Someone still needs to define these guardrails though, so IMO the developers job is just mutating into something else, but is still necessary. Long term, who knows.

> Not because they care about doing the right thing, but purely for self preservation reasons

Call me crazy, but this is something I want in a democracy. Less ideology and more pragmatism.

These open models serve as price / performance pressure. Not all tasks require frontier models and cheap open models can be quite good for in-app assistants, if you're building that sort of thing. We also aren't sure the subscriptions will continue to be sustainable. They're currently subsidized to the tune of 50-70x. As someone who is hitting limits weekly that would easily cost me over $10k month per sub.

> although I will say that the speed I'm able to get locally makes it more fun that any of the remote models.

This is becoming increasingly important to me. Super smart max reasoning frontier is fine if I leave it running overnight on some prepared set of clearly defined tasks, but when I want to work with the LLM, throughput really matters, and I'll go with a dumber model to get there.

At some point though, it's fast enough and any speed gains beyond that just makes me the bottleneck.

I also am seeing the smaller models gaining big strides lately, closing the gap on frontier models (still a decent sized gap though). I don't even run the small models like Qwen 3.8 27B locally. I just try them out in the cloud to see how they are progressing, and I'm definitely able to be productive.

It’s not at all hard to not “intentionally” build asshole software, but your definitely leaving money on the table.

The nit pick arguments are just a defence to avoid honesty and introspection IMO.

> I'm not sure that typing messages to a chat bot requires much catching up

Lol, yeah I'd wager AI tooling skills are less relevant than knowing your way around a shell. It doesn't help that all of the AI tooling has event more churn than js libraries and package management systems!

I think there's probably some value in understanding how LLMs work, but beyond that it's the same boring skills that matter the most... Critical thinking, design chops, attention to detail, perseverance, etc.

Wait, so you are saying that Farage did not receive an undisclosed £5 million personal gift from a cryptocurrency billionaire? Or he did, but any reporting on it is obviously the deep state ganging up on him?

> What happened to all the Internet energy, likes, shares, and blog and social media posts?

I suspect this is sarcasm? Farage did underperform and Binface did exceed expectations so... I'm not sure whether or not that's due to internet energy or not, but it certainly went well for Binface... and more importantly, increased attention on the crypto corruption.

Or Don Jr. as an advisor who was granted equity.

I used to hold this opinion but since changing to Rust on the server and Typescript on the client, I can confidently tell you agents are so much better at Rust, especially at producing idiomatic code, than they are at Gleam.

There are reasons to love Gleam and Lustre (I like Gleam a lot), but LLMs just aren't one of them. I made the switch to Rust around May this year. Also the community is super anti-AI, arguably with good reason (how it impacts open source), and I'd recommend keeping your AI code to yourself.

I suspect he wants the AR features (which require a camera).

The no camera HUD is exactly what I want, except I also want SSH (Mosh) and sending text to speech to it before I'd buy these.

> When an American company does anything? Doom. And. Gloom. The engineers? Taken to the slaughterhouse! America? Behind! The public? Bamboozeled!

I think I've always had a pretty healthy amount of cynicism towards China. In recent years my cynicism towards the US has increased significantly. I don't see all of my US peers with cynicism, but I think you're living in an age of grift, corporate capture, and unheard of corruption. I also think there's nuance to both. There are some US and Chinese companies and people that I do respect regardless of what's going on politically. (Meta / Zuck isn't one of them though...)

I live in the 51st state though, so maybe I'm just overreacting...

> Video games are now ruined for me. I don't think I will ever feel safe playing online again.

Agreed, also WordPress powers around 43% of all websites on the internet. https://patchstack.com/whitepaper/state-of-wordpress-securit...

WCGW?

Pretty sure this is a performance, but that was a nice touch wasn't it?

I wish. Look up "coal rolling".