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The only option for a banned Switch Lite is installing a modchip (there are people who will do it for you for a fee, well worth it imo).
Citation is me and my own personal experiences with vibe coded software. If you have examples of stable, efficient, polished software created by AI, I'll gladly try them out.
Regardless, your comment is a perfect exhibit of the problem. You are seeing 100 AI generated PRs merged in a day and interpreting that as 100 improvements to the user experience, which probably sounds great when you tell it to your manager before asking for a promotion, but doesn't actually translate to reality and never has. Before AI, it was generally agreed upon that measuring quality of work by lines of code written, PRs merged, etc. made no sense, yet that wisdom seems to have been completely forgotten in favor of just watching the line go up.
How do you even know the improvements are "enormous" if you don't understand the code? Do you just occasionally glance at your terminal to see Claude going on about how it just found the smoking gun and made a critical fix to a load-bearing seam and go "whoa, that sounds important"? If those improvements and bug fixes really were so important, why were they not considered worth the effort to make before AI came along, or was your team simply incapable of making them before?
If you're the most senior developer working on the same codebase for 12 years, yet proudly state that an LLM understands it better than you do, I can't help but interpret that as an admission of incompetence, so letting AI do your work for you may really be an improvement, but it shouldn't be.
The specific functionality that was broken was the plugin that allows picking from a fixed list of servers instead of entering the address every time.
It is crumbling down as we speak. There's more software being pumped out than ever, but it's also buggier, more bloated, and just generally worse than ever.
A few days ago I had to revert to an older version of an open source project I use regularly, because the author turned full vibe coder and has pushed hundreds of AI generated commits in just a few weeks, at least one of which completely broke an important feature I relied on.
Whether or not you consider putting out software that technically meets the minimum requirements but is a buggy, broken mess to be a success depends entirely on your personal definition of success. Maybe you do, and you are entitled to your opinion. But once again I feel the need to remind people that we humans did not get where we are today by always doing the bare minimum. If everyone throughout history shared this mentality, we'd still be banging rocks in caves.
All this condescending drivel about how "anyone who still writes code by hand is a loser, but not me, I'm a prompt engineer because I'm smart and forward-thinking" is so painfully tone-deaf, as if this "prompt engineering" has any lasting value and isn't just a momentary stepping stone towards a techno-feudalist future where every tech company consists of a small group of very wealthy executives, typing what they want in plain words into a text box and having the AI do everything for them, with no need for anyone below them.
> Please write our prompts for us
Anthropic's big marketing push this year has been entirely focused on getting people to use Opus via a Claude Code subscription, to the point that Sonnet is almost viewed as the poor man's alternative, and from what I've seen, almost nobody uses it.
Actually, here's an interesting project for all the vibe coders looking for their next front page post: scrape a ton of commits from GitHub with Co-Authored-By: Claude and figure out what the percentage split between Opus/Fable/Sonnet is. I'm willing to bet it's less than 10% Sonnet.
Looks like the Chinese models are really making a dent. Having 3 different price categories with the "most affordable" one still costing more than GLM 5.2 never made sense.
I mean, an "interactive replay" of the incident, probably generated by the same product the stunt is trying to advertise? Seriously?
This statement (and the entire post) couldn't possibly be more two-faced.
Open-weights models by definition have "dangerous capabilities" (according to Anthropic's own definitions of "dangerous", not mine), you can't bake in guardrails that can't be finetuned out.
The whole point of using AI to write for you is that you don't care to or can't be bothered to do any significant work yourself. If you care enough to do the research required to ensure all of the AI's output is accurate, that's like 80% or more of the work done right there, so why avoid the remaining 20%?
Nobody talks about using AI to gain a 20% productivity boost. They brag about 100% or even 1000%, which only makes sense if you're not doing any of that time-consuming "verification" at all.
Please do explain how this event that makes their product look powerful and perfectly aligns with their openly stated long term goals of pushing for more AI regulation makes them look bad.
They are still openly lobbying for more AI regulation.
What genre, if you don't mind me asking?
There will inevitably be some people who dismiss the earth as round when you tell them it's flat. Don't let that stop you, though!
I think this has less to do with the quality of the text and more to do with whether people have standards or not.
For every person who reads a paragraph of AI text and is instantly disgusted, there are probably 10 or more people who will gladly read pages upon pages of the sloppiest slop imaginable copy-pasted straight from chatgpt.com without batting an eye. That's just how things are, most people have very low standards.
Getting any of the current codemaxxed models to output natural text without obvious AI-isms is not an easy feat, and I doubt this person you mentioned has somehow cracked the case.
As of a couple months ago, when using Claude to write adult content through the API, sometimes it will silently inject a system prompt giving the model a bunch of guidelines on exactly what kind of adult content it's allowed to write, steering it away from anything "questionable" ("Claude will not write etc etc").
Moonshot distilled Claude so hard recently, they actually ended up distilling this prompt injection, too. Using K3 to write adult content results in it randomly hallucinating the injected Claude prompt during thinking, and it will quote parts of that prompt, complete with the name "Claude".
Not that I think distillation is a bad thing, just thought this was funny.
"Normal" streamers are watched for a variety of reasons: maybe their personality is entertaining and charismatic, maybe they're really good at the game(s) they play (speedrunners in particular fall into this camp), and so on. There will always be viewers watching purely for parasocial reasons, but it's usually not the primary reason to watch them.
With vtubers, though, the parasocial element is essentially the full extent of the appeal. They're not very charismatic (vtuber humor is infamous for consisting mostly of loud childish noises and sex jokes), they're usually not very good at games and rarely dedicate themselves to one game or one genre. They are watched because the viewers are lonely and want to feel like they have a (girl)friend, that's about it.
And before you post the obvious response, no, if you're truly "100x faster", you're not reading or even thinking about anything the AI is outputting. The time math doesn't add up.
I don't think this is true, at least not right now, and in a way I'm actually thankful for it.
The frantic rush to chase the only potentially profitable use case for LLMs found so far (writing code) and the resulting focus on coding RLHF means models are actively becoming worse at sounding like humans.
This is my favorite example, and it's already relatively outdated: https://progress.openai.com/?prompt=10
The latest codemaxxed models all tend to write in very distinct, instantly recognizable ways unless carefully instructed otherwise (honestly a good thing if you want to avoid wasting time reading AI text). A great example is this submission that's currently #1 on the front page (which is also just a thinly veiled advertisement): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884853