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ghost_pepper··on The state of open source AI
Virtually every article about AI these days is written by AI. It's obvious why, but boy is it nauseating to read
ghost_pepper··on AI changes the economics of software rewrites
That's the sign of a good product: when you have to lie that you don't use it.
ghost_pepper··on AI changes the economics of software rewrites
This website has four articles, once daily, three of which being AI crap and doomsaying (the fourth arguably too, it just doesn't say so), all with lines like:

> A fast car doesn't win races — a driver does

> the gap is not just speed - it's output quality

> A rewrite isn't just an opportunity to modernise your technology stack - it's an opportunity [...]

Garbage.

ghost_pepper··on DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
Anyone with experience know how DuckDuckGo compares to Kagi in terms of quality of search results?
ghost_pepper··on The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon and Cloudflare
I've been writing Rust backend services for years and the 5% has never mattered, I don't even bother checking if things advertise tokio support. Which ones in particular caused you trouble?
ghost_pepper··on Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
yes, they used pull_request_target for a benchmarking suite. github has a huge warning saying to never use pull_request_target to run user code, but this is just going to keep happening