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catigula··on The turbulent AI era is here
That's a pretty unhinged idea you've presented; feels completely autobiographical.
catigula··on The turbulent AI era is here
0% chance you're getting a plot of land and happily ever after in the world as described.
catigula··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
Working in the US is a privilege, not a right.
catigula··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
>AI will replace you ahahahahahaha!!!!! hahaahaha!

Seems like this policy is a long time coming? Why do we need workers?

catigula··on Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study
The funny thing is, I've read countless meta-analyses on various mainstream drugs, where total n=hundreds of thousands, and I still don't know if they work at all or not.
catigula··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
Except they've now ground your native industry under their boot and have total monopoly control because you've given up your critical infrastructure. You can no longer stop buying. That isn't an option.

This is geopolitics 101; your fantasy version is decades out of date.

catigula··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
The US had open markets and low tariffs for a long time; China's automotive tariffs were amongst the strongest in the entire world.
catigula··on Technology Is Over
"Technology" isn't just one thing.

It's simply been subsumed by a model of technology that actively hurts people, i.e. a16z type projects.

That's why we're sick of it. We know that it involves pain and extraction from us of our social circles, sanity, productivity, resources, etc.

Compare surveys on AI optimism (tech proxy) for countries where antisocial billionaires are black bagged and sent to an underground prison in Xinjiang and you'll understand where the tech optimism went.

catigula··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
Lol, no.

This is so stupid. China itself uses the "dominate and corral" model for their industries, and had severe tariffs to grow their various industrial bases, such as automotive.

catigula··on Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis
Which should tell you how useful these benchmarks are.
catigula··on Incident with Github.com
Enterprise software isn't about giving "breaks"; it's about does the product work for you or not.
catigula··on Incident with Github.com
FYI this is an argument to not use Github, not an argument to use it.
catigula··on Incident with Github.com
Okay, enoughs enough, time to migrate our org.
catigula··on The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Endurance Athletes
I'm super interested in what drug or gene therapy we don't know about is causing this.
catigula··on GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
Still not quite as good as gemini.
catigula··on Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview
Everybody is irritated about electron, but that's not at all the problem. It's possible to write performant and optimized react code. They simply don't. I find the chatgpt app on Windows to be extremely laggy.
catigula··on DeepSeek Harness
Why?
catigula··on Picking berries is my meditation
Sometimes when I push my finger on an old scar, it hurts. I don't expect it to get much better.
catigula··on The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses
The amount of nickel-and-diming and outright being screwed over at local businesses I've experienced in my lifetime vastly eclipses generous return policies and treatment by megacorporations.
catigula··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
>Test coverage too low? Auto generate tests on CI for every pull-requests!

Terrible use-case.

catigula··on GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
Github CI being down is catastrophically bad.
catigula··on U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal
The great reversal is happening. It was about time to quell the bubble-sayers.
catigula··on Why is Everyone in Tech so sad?
The idea that "knowledge work is mostly pointless" is absurd and only literally true specifically if AI can do it... which it seems to be able to.
catigula··on Taste Is All That's Left
Honestly, a lot of people are denying this, but the latest models ARE at the point where their systems design generally surpasses mine because they have a better grasp of how the domain of any problem is typically solved.
catigula··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
They literally told us it was about Israel. There's no mystery.
catigula··on Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
It took GPT-5.6-Sol Pro about an hour of work; don't thank me :P
catigula··on Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
I think the models are legitimately doing what they're good at; tireless search across an extremely large corpus of data. Humans aren't particularly good at this (in fact, they're absolutely terrible).

The fact that we remain competitive and superior in many aspects isn't because we can instantly sift through tons of data, it's because we learn and correlate and have superior heuristics.

In my own use, I find that AI is really good at finding bugs that are ultimately trivial but require searching through a convoluted series of inter-related files. This takes time for a human.

catigula··on Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
Good news; I'm gifting you with the fruits of AI, that has collated 200+ papers on the topic. I know, I know; this is generous.

https://github.com/catigula/recovery

catigula··on Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
Good news; I'm gifting you with the fruits of AI, that has collated 200+ papers on the topic. I know, I know; this is generous.

https://github.com/catigula/recovery

catigula··on Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
All of that stuff is the norm in the industry. There isn't anything remarkable about it.
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