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DontchaKnowit··on The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
So dont listen to it? I mean what is the problem here.

I never listen to basically anything spotify recommends me, just songs from bands I already know and love. And if I were to purchase the whole discography of the breadth of music I listen to it would cost the down payment on my house

DontchaKnowit··on Six months of writing code exclusively with agents
"You can just tell it what to fix"

For a lot of small changes, I am waaaaaay faster than an LLM.

DontchaKnowit··on Buy Your Friends Batteries
They said longer than 4 hours
DontchaKnowit··on How the words we teach English language learners changed
Its cause its fun
DontchaKnowit··on Situational Awareness and the Impending Stock Market Volatility
I mean VIX is decreasing currently
DontchaKnowit··on Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others
Not to mention heart disease
DontchaKnowit··on Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks
I just took the test. It makes it VERY hard to express right wing viewpoints as it expresses them in extreme and obviously negative terms. I think it would be pretty hard to get anyone to score roght wing on that test
DontchaKnowit··on OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
What? Are you kidding? Youre equating anti AI sentiment with anti-black racism?

Thats so fucking absurd and also insensitive

DontchaKnowit··on Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes
How can you afford a 300k mortgage at 55k a year. That would be a very large percent of monthly pay right?
DontchaKnowit··on Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes
Pretty sure lending is common thw world over
DontchaKnowit··on 56,000 lines of DOOM, in a language I made up
Is it really that big of a deal? Basically every teenager talks like this regardless of race
DontchaKnowit··on DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety
Youve never heard of someone being addicted but youve been taking it nearly every day for a decade? Do you hear yourself?
DontchaKnowit··on Claude Sonnet 5
People keep making comments about fable like this? You could only use it for what like a week? How is that at all enough time to evaluate? Opus 4.6 didnt suffer from this problems for a hot minute and then when newer models were released it got worse. I think they change a ton behind the scenes and allocate compute however they want, so the model you use today may behave much differently than how it behaved yesterday
DontchaKnowit··on You really shouldn't copy-paste errors into Claude Code
Claude today is trash vs claude when opus 4.6 came out. Its slow as fuck, goes on cknstant rabbit trails, wont do what you tell it, gets anwers wrkng etc
DontchaKnowit··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
Trump is great at gettinf christians to completelt forget their moral stances
DontchaKnowit··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
Thank donald trump jr
DontchaKnowit··on Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
Reason number 500 why I hate pandas with a passion. Just had basically the exact same thing happen at work
DontchaKnowit··on John Jumper to join Anthropic
I reallt think forum comments are heavily astrotrufed. Me and all my coworkers agree Opus performance has been horrible for the last to months or so.

I went from spending 20-60 dollars a day in api fees down to like 5 dollars a day cause I have had to limit my use to things I know it performs reliably on.

DontchaKnowit··on I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
Damn bro you're so cool
DontchaKnowit··on I'm Tired of Talking to AI
Sometimes yelling fuck shit piss bitch cunt fuck ass whore etc works. They have them setup to detect swear words to figure out when youre pissed off and need to talk to a human lmao
DontchaKnowit··on Teaching Claude Why
No, THIS is radical denial. You WERE born to toil for your survival.
DontchaKnowit··on I'm scared about biological computing
Why cant it grow on its own? Once it is capable of generating and integrating resources for itself
DontchaKnowit··on The gay jailbreak technique (2025)
Do open weight models have similar content gaurdrails in place?
DontchaKnowit··on He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice
Not remotely surprising to anyone whose ever counted calories or carbs
DontchaKnowit··on If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true
Has never been true in my career.
DontchaKnowit··on Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
I kinda feel like vegetarians are right but consuming animal derived products is fine.
DontchaKnowit··on Are We Idiocracy Yet?
I mean, you could probably make these comparispns in 2006 when the movie came out. Perhaps it wasnt prophetic but rather just a sature of the general human condition
DontchaKnowit··on Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem
Are you kidding? Plumber seem really in demand. Finding a conpetent plumber with reasonable pricing is difficult where im at
DontchaKnowit··on Large study finds link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later
Problem is that they dont, actually
DontchaKnowit··on AI-First Company Memos
I mean I think I stayed exactly on topic. Used by experience devs, its not slop, and if you arent usuing the people who are areprobably going to outpace you
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