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stoneforger··on We mourn our craft
Because then you won't be important, the model will be important. And then everyone will have to use their model, that's their dream. Why isn't that your nightmare too? Why will you be special if it can just code whatever it needs to code? Then anthropic can just employ all the programmers that will ever be needed, to just review new skills and modules of code. It was predicted early on there would be a need for about six big computers worldwide. Well now we'll just need six AI shepherds. And then literally everyone else will forget how anything works because it will be a solved problem. People already treat computers like magic, it will literally become a dark art. And I guess it's fine, what can we do, right? Go with the flow I guess. "If I don't , someone else will. Maybe I can be one of those six real people at Anthropic".
stoneforger··on We mourn our craft
It's a societal problem we are just seeing the effects in computing now. People have given up, everything is too much, the sociopaths won, they can do what they want with my body mind and soul. Give me convenience or give me death.
stoneforger··on We mourn our craft
It's been here since it's inception. The more the market grew and the more computing became widespread, the greater the number of ravenous sociopaths with other people's money got involved. This is just another version of Rome burning. This is the terminal acceleration phase. The lunatics are running everything to the ground and the few sane people left are labeled the same way they always had been. The useful idiots are just thinking they're so much smarter. Noone asked if it is wise or not, they are thinking they can outrun the treadmill. Just add water and LLM, it's so much fun for the whole family.
stoneforger··on We mourn our craft
Noone will clean it up, it's a societal problem. The koolaid is produce more, like we need another app for X . We are celebrating owning nothing, as a liberating act. People hate mental load yes, this is the perfect drug. You don't need to think or challenge anything. If the model says it's okay, it's okay. Local models will never be able to democratise this. People will do as they are told, and another generation of consumers will follow. The matrix won't be a prison, it will be a prompt from birth to death. And y'all clapping cause you can have X number of agents running around burning tokens like kids looking at the fire cracker on their hand about to blow up, giggling. The world was always mad, and this is proof it will always be mad while people are still around.
stoneforger··on Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?
M4 mini pro 24gb qwen3-8b-mlx and others. Speed is fine, problem is context window. In theory CoreML would be better from an efficiency perspective but I think it's non-trivial to run models with CoreML ( could be wrong )
stoneforger··on Wirth's Revenge
This is the state of the world, uncaring.
stoneforger··on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
It's because the purpose of engineering is to engineer a solution. Their purpose is to create profit, engineering gets in the way.
stoneforger··on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
Reason went out of fashion like 50 years ago, and it was never really in vogue.
stoneforger··on AI Was Supposed to "Revolutionize" Work. In Many Offices, It's Creating Chaos
More like once per quarter
stoneforger··on Is It Time for a Nordic Nuke?
The OG grift, FUD and extortion money. But call it a military industrial complex.. The Devil's Playground was an eye+opener
stoneforger··on OracleGPT: Thought Experiment on an AI Powered Executive
LLMs designing PID loops?
stoneforger··on Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
Many people have this potential but it doesn't necessarily materialize or evolves. That's fine, that's okay. We'll always have Paris. The trick is to be fulfilled, not renowned.
stoneforger··on The Adolescence of Technology
How will this pressure add up and bubble to the sociopaths which we collectively allow to control most of the world's resources? It would need for all these billions to collectively understand the problem and align towards a common goal. I don't think this was a design feature, but globalising the economy created hard dependencies and the internet global village created a common mind share. It's now harder than ever to effect a revolution because it needs to happen everywhere at the same time with billions of people.
stoneforger··on Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse
Why not both? It's not this industry, it's everything. Fuck Jack Welch, fuck the Chicago School.
stoneforger··on ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
If the agent would be able to update the model that would be educational for the model, noone else.
stoneforger··on Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday
Do not underestimate the importance of the distribution. Debian 13 is great, fedora too. Ubuntu snaps are a plague.
stoneforger··on Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain
There aren't any, everyone's out for themselves, further diluting any soft power the masses had. After like 99% of the population doesn't have a stock value associated, might as well join the Mobile Infantry at this point.
stoneforger··on Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections
Voting needs to be auditable and verifiable by the lowest common denominator, to the last voter. As such anything that involves anything more complicated than counting by hand is out.
stoneforger··on Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries
The deliberate push to alienate allies pushing them to the other pole (China), is setting up the stage for confrontation. It can then become self-evident China is out to eat the USs lunch so they need to be dealt with. And all the years of China this, China that, will become true and it will be much more palatable to go hot over China or anything else. China will become the new defacto evil empire and everyone in the US will nod in agreement and decide it's time to do something about it. It's gaslighting at a global scale and it's working fine. Probably something like 2027. I don't know if those Macron messages are real but in Europe we are cooked because it's okay to not want global domination, but it's bad when you're being manipulated and you don't even realize why.
stoneforger··on The longest Greek word
Almost got skewered by Lord Byron on that episode.
stoneforger··on The recurring dream of replacing developers
All this is driven by numbers. The bigger you are, the more money they give you to burn. No one is really working solving problems, it's 99% managing complexity driven by shifting goalposts. Noone wants to really build to solve a problem, it's a giant financial circle jerk, everybody wants to sell and rinse and repeat z line must go up. Noone says stop because at 400mph hitting the breaks will get you killed.
stoneforger··on SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others
Herbert's ConSentiency universe , the Calebans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipping_Star?wprov=sfla1
stoneforger··on Sergey Brin's Unretirement
Hustle culture sociopaths
stoneforger··on The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup
The captive audience is not you, it's people salivating at the train of thought where they can 100x productivity of whatever and push those features that will get paying customers so they can get bought from private equity and ride out on the sunset. This whole thing is existential dread on a global scale, driven by sociopaths and everyone is just unable to not bend over.
stoneforger··on Show HN: uvx ptn, scan a QR, get a terminal in your phone
Yes but that's boring. Look at this it has cool ASCII and a QR. At this point no typing, just vibe-voice ask to build the thing and fix the error. Then we can have some tea, earl grey, hot.
stoneforger··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Public opinion is dead, what matters is policy makers opinion on controlling financial interests in the West, and what the CCP politbureau thinks. One is a mongrel divisive semi-hereditary plutocracy, the other is a reimagined empire that clearly has a long game going. I don't think anyone cares for the public at large, at least to the extent the public doesn't get any wild ideas like having an opinion and expressing it with a pitchfork.
stoneforger··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
These are the bad non-democracies. There are good non-democracies too. Are you being critical of good non-democracies? Maybe you are living in a bad non-democracy and can't tell the difference, you might get invaded and enlightened any time soon.
stoneforger··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
You really believe this, right? That you can decide for someone else, specifically a whole nation, what their view is and what they want to do with their nation. That you are doing the world a favour. Guess it's worked in the past, a new sucker is born every minute.
stoneforger··on Tally – A tool to help agents classify your bank transactions
Because there was a benefit for some shareholder somewhere, maybe.
stoneforger··on Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation
Because the need is fulfilled adequately. They are not solving anything new or revolutionising anything old, these are dumb ideas for dumb people to throw money at hoping it sticks.
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