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kopirgan··on Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes
Long long back, when I was a kid even ball pens were banned because they screwed up handwriting. Just the same things in different ways.
kopirgan··on I don't want my search engine to think for me
How did you know?!
kopirgan··on I Don't Want My Search Engine to Think for Me
I hate those AI summaries. Because I dont necessarily agree with suitability and credibility ranks assigned by AI to make those summaries. As author says, there are so many nuances and I usually scan the results page and click that appears more credible first. Not what appears first. I also know which site fills copy with verbiage and which ones give more useful advise - such as in health matters.

Great points..

kopirgan··on OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS
That is without going into fact that many already use AI to type out and write stuff. I have a customer in Far East that routinely uses it even for simple emails, he is not so familiar with English.
kopirgan··on OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS
A very interesting comment.

Curious to understand how AI will continue to grow if this is the trend. Assuming most valuable data is behind such firewalls. And whatever is public has been harvested, trained on top of whatever has been acquired illegally (this is a grey area).

Will it become a closed ecosystem without outside input?!

kopirgan··on OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS
Having worked with lots of companies, I can say that trust is there. But true test is competitors of Amazon. Does Walmart use them? Ebay? Although not in exact same business.
kopirgan··on Chuwi Minibook X
Absolutely. Any 2-3 gen old ThinkPad or Elitebook will outlast this and perform lot better.

I bought a tablet from this brand few years back. Screen edges were non responsive to touch within months.

kopirgan··on Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion
Not me but my customers so that affects me as well. Mainly Oracle
kopirgan··on Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion
If not for the fact that some commercial software addons work only in Excel I'll be using only Libreoffice for everything. In fact that's the only major thing that's stopping me from totally abandoning Windows for Linux as well.

I'm guessing that's the situation for several others though there could be other use cases that's Excel only.

Instead of pressing Microsoft, it would probably make sense to force such vendors (SAP, Oracle etc) to release their office add-ons for Libre office.

That'll kill two very profitable birds with one stone.

kopirgan··on Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion
Isn't that itself challenge-able?
kopirgan··on Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products
This could be class action worthy..
kopirgan··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Incredible increase over Nvidia! Need to read more.. Thanks!
kopirgan··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Went to that URL asked one question - "how is this different from other AI" and it took 598/6144 tokens, not sure what that means.
kopirgan··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Depreciation starts on day 1 and most likely they IMHO dont have 5 years. They dodged the deepseek bullet but who knows what is out there that will make all of this investment essentially worthless?
kopirgan··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
If inference costs drop 90% or whatever, that would be a massive write-off of hardware even before they gave any returns for it?! Given Chinese and others are snapping at the heels and would also benefit from such reduction in cost.
kopirgan··on The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
This has become like opec's best years. Only there's no cartel at least not openly.

But there's another key bottleneck. Even with all the money in the world, getting those machines that etch the RAM could be a multi year ration shop queue. And they're not making those companies every day!

kopirgan··on The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
Very well written sub.

Any prediction on when it'll end? Can Chinese companies scale up to scare the big 3 into increasing capacity or lose price control?

kopirgan··on I’ve joined Anthropic
Guess these prodigys have brains that are cross functional. Like Magnus Carlsen predicting premier league.
kopirgan··on I’ve joined Anthropic
Guess his boyish looks and his videos educating outsiders and students about AI contributed..

Elon makes it so easy to hate him as much as to admire. No comparison.

kopirgan··on DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
On which tier?
kopirgan··on The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)
Very good article. I am not referring to the RSS part.

Interesting thing is, much of what AI is now regurgitating is human output, accumulated over the years. Model training dataset. Stuff like Reddit posts, even posts here?

If, say, AI output becomes THE 99% over the next few years, we will enter the era of incestuous inbreeding within AI -when it simply regurgitates its own output.

Wonder what will be the result at that point!

kopirgan··on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
So you can send a remittance for $1m but not order fries. It believes that health is wealth.
kopirgan··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
This is good news. I use a Motorola device and feel it was the best (or at least the least troublesome) among the PRC based brands. Clean UI that's near pure Android..

If they can offer it as choice then hopefully banking apps etc wont get knocked off. And we can have best of both.

kopirgan··on The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers
Any comments on how the copyright issues are handled in corporate settings? I mean both in terms of staying clear of lawsuit+ ensuring what we produce remains safe from copying
kopirgan··on The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers
Wow it mentions practically every flavour of the month technology that was supposed to make it drag and drop to make useful programs

I recall Power builder in particular it was the rage.

kopirgan··on We Will Not Be Divided
We will not be divided! United in obeying only orders from woke governments, be it on gender ideology, "misinformation", "fact checking" or takedowns, cancellations, blackouts and bans.
kopirgan··on Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go
Thanks!
kopirgan··on Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go
Can someone please explain what's the connection between this and LSP? For example in Helix can one use this instead of various language servers?
kopirgan··on How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
What do you use?!
kopirgan··on Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
How is this approach better than letting claude or some AI catch memory bugs better than humans in the c++ code itself?

Given it's not launched and it's donor driven, I guess conserving developer time is a key priority? Dual track sucks lots of time?

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