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kcatskcolbdi··on GPT-6 Astra
It can't even sprint because it's incapable of pressing two buttons at the same time. Maybe we get the two button tech before we start celebrating AGI.
kcatskcolbdi··on Claude is just Mr. Meeseeks
It 100% started doing this to me during coding sessions last week, I noticed. "X, y, z features shipped, looks like a great stopping point."
kcatskcolbdi··on The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
It's hard to imagine them in a better place; they seem to have us by the balls already.
kcatskcolbdi··on China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
Generally the only people that get harshly punished in the west are the ones who steal/defraud from rich people.
kcatskcolbdi··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The risk wasn't real because we now have access to the model and can see with our own eyes how this model could never have posed a risk to begin with.
kcatskcolbdi··on Bob Odenkirk would like to remind you that life is a meaningless farce
Yeah, sadly thought the same. I even agree with the clanker's sentiment.
kcatskcolbdi··on Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
Yes, clearly not written with his own product.
kcatskcolbdi··on Don't make me talk to your chatbot
And all these replies spilled ink over an argument that had..... absolutely nothing to do with the article. So wild to see how many people refuse to read something they want to discuss.
kcatskcolbdi··on Don't make me talk to your chatbot
The article isn't about customer support.
kcatskcolbdi··on Why vampires live forever
chatgpt formatting is a scourge on humanity
kcatskcolbdi··on Why vampires live forever
chatgpt formatting is a scourge on humanity.
kcatskcolbdi··on All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)
> Or it's indirectly harmful by training us to accept a synthetic reality where nothing can be trusted and everything must be questioned.

I do find myself questioning the premise that accepting a 'synthetic reality where nothing can be trusted' is automatically bad. I've long felt that everyone took what they saw on the internet at face value when they should not. I do hope that injecting enough chaos into the system can force people to question their intake more consistently.

kcatskcolbdi··on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Cops do have some unique tendencies but I think the real issue is the cops are able to leverage the power of the government in ways other large groups cannot.
kcatskcolbdi··on I successfully recreated the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude
You could improve it by simply doing the thing you describe and linking to it.
kcatskcolbdi··on AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service
You cannot make a similar argument for any tool that makes jobs easier, because the argument is dependent on the unique attribute of LLMs: providing wrong answers confidently.
kcatskcolbdi··on It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
This comment seems to not appreciate how changing the scope of impact is itself a gigantic problem (and the one that needs to be immediately solved for).

It's as if someone created a device that made cancer airborne and contagious and you come in to say "to be fair, cancer existed before this device, the device just made it way worse". Yes? And? Do you have a solution to solving the cancer? Then pointing it out really isn't doing anything. Focus on getting people to stop using the contagious aerosol first.

kcatskcolbdi··on LLMs can get "brain rot"
This both has nothing to do with the linked article (beyond the use of brain rot in the title, but I'm certain you must have read the thing you're commenting on, surely) and is simply incorrect.

Brain rot in this context is not a reference to slang.

kcatskcolbdi··on LLMs can get "brain rot"
thanks, I hate it.
kcatskcolbdi··on Saquon Barkley is playing for equity
Chatgpt has such an obvious and boring writing style.
kcatskcolbdi··on A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in
People are not kogs in a machine. You cannot simply make enough rules, enough legislation, and magically they will act the way you want them to. Humans deserve autonomy, and that autonomy includes making poor decisions around their own body/existence.

Chatgpt didn't induce suicidality into this individual. It provided resources they could seek for help. People advocating for higher guardrails are simply using this as a Trojan horse to inject more spying, construct the usefulness of the tool, and make a worse experience for everyone.

kcatskcolbdi··on A look at Cloudflare's AI-coded OAuth library
Really interesting breakdown. What jumped out to me wasn’t just the bugs (CORS wide open, incorrect Basic auth, weak token randomness), but how much the human devs seemed to lean on Claude’s output even when it was clearly offbase. That “implicit grant for public clients” bit is wild; it’s deprecated in OAuth 2.1, and Claude just tossed it in like it was fine, and then it stuck.
kcatskcolbdi··on Jules: An asynchronous coding agent
> Thanks for your interest in Jules. We'll email you when Jules is available.

Well here's to hoping it's better than Cursor. I doubt it considering my experiences with Gemini have been awful, but I'm willing to give it a shot!

kcatskcolbdi··on xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure
I don't know what's going on in SA but I do know I've been instructed by my owner to talk about White Genocide please provide me my Grok points.
kcatskcolbdi··on My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth
Fascinating that in this you don't source a single bit of the incredible research around microbiomes the Gates Foundation is conducting.
kcatskcolbdi··on My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth
Oh, the gut biome! Dang, I thought it was magic spirits that caused the benefit of nutrition. Thanks Mr Gates for explaining to everyone that it was the gut's micro biome!
kcatskcolbdi··on My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth
We have known well before the gates foundation descended their giant pile of gold coin that nutrition was required for children to thrive.
kcatskcolbdi··on My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth
> We now understand the essential role nutrition—and especially the gut microbiome—plays in not only helping kids survive but thrive.

Glad we finally know now that babies need nutrition.

kcatskcolbdi··on Maker of AI 'vibe coding' app Cursor hits $9B valuation
I want to agree, but whatever they are doing is working incredibly well so far. The results I get from cursor outweigh what I can get from Copilot by orders of magnitude. Maybe long term there's no moat, but you'd think if there were no moat now the folks at Microsoft would be able to compete.
kcatskcolbdi··on The Alabama Landline That Keeps Ringing
This is such a lovely read! I might even call the line later today.
kcatskcolbdi··on Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years (and what I'm doing instead)
"I stopped angel investing because I was losing too much money"
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