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mumbisChungo··on The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear
Already has.
mumbisChungo··on California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down
go back to reddit ;_;
mumbisChungo··on Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API
One dev's salary to give a 10 person team unlimited approximately free agentic coding for the foreseeable future, plus privacy.
mumbisChungo··on Running local LLMs offline on a ten-hour flight
>Qwen 4.6 36B

Did the author mean Qwen3.6-27B? Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

mumbisChungo··on Data Center Is Getting a $77M Tax Break to Create One Job
A good faith dollar-focused rebuttal would probably involve one or both of directly addressing the claims of the cost-benefit analysis or discussion of costs to the tax base not considered in the C-B A.
mumbisChungo··on Everything we like is a psyop?
sitting in a local pub watching a musician I've never heard of play original music and absolutely loving it rn.
mumbisChungo··on The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
I think it's shortsighted to dismiss the utility of these technologies for learning. I find personally that putting the LLM into an argumentative state then having it challenge my assertions forces me to learn and develop my own thoughts and feelings more effectively than writing does these days, and I find that interrogating a model on a subject can teach me more about the subject per unit time than reading a textbook or research paper. Sometimes I'll even just have it read the raw text out loud- then interject and have a conversation about a specific thing that I don't have the domain knowledge to fully understand. Other times we'll end up off on a productive tangent.

Interactive learning and thinking is underrated, in part I think because of the cynical (and likely accurate) assumption about what the laziest among us will do with the tools, but projected onto everyone.

mumbisChungo··on Everything we like is a psyop?
this is why oldschool chat > social media

curating for trust and expertise and diversity of opinion

mumbisChungo··on Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons
Agreed, people should only enjoy the features of it that I enjoy the way I like to enjoy them. Enjoying it the wrong way is at best stupid, possibly even evil.
mumbisChungo··on Don't avoid workplace politics
TL;DR:

You might think the people doing politics are manipulative ladder climbers, but they're climbing the same ladders available to you, so you should be one too.

mumbisChungo··on Scientists uncover extreme life inside the Arctic ice
clear scoleciphobia if I've ever seen it
mumbisChungo··on A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code
I just find that I learn faster by interrogating (or being interrogated by) a lossy encyclopedia than I do by reading textbooks or stackoverflow.

I'm still the one doing the doing after the learning is complete.

mumbisChungo··on A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code
I don't think there's anything I could tell you about the companies I've built that would dissuade you from your perspective that everyone is as intellectually lazy as your projection suggests.
mumbisChungo··on A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code
>ones thinking power is diminished overtime by interacing with LLMs etc.

Sometimes I reflect on how much more efficiently I can learn (and thus create) new things because of these technologies, then get anxiety when I project that to everyone else being similarly more capable.

Then I read comments like this and remember that most people don't even want to try.

mumbisChungo··on Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs
Seems completely unenforceable.

My companies have posted an awful lot of job ads in earnest over the years that haven't found suitable candidates, despite an absolute barrage of slop resumes.

mumbisChungo··on Phone searches at the US border hit a record high
Yes, it was a sad moment, years ago now, the day I realized that I'd likely never travel to China. Sadder still to acknowledge I'd feel safer doing so than entering the modern US.
mumbisChungo··on Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy
After using steam for over 20 years I'd say I feel quite neutral about steam, but actively disdainful toward the alternatives.
mumbisChungo··on Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?
No matter how right the AI crowd is, elements of it are/will be a bubble.

No matter how right the bubble crowd is, the market becoming irrationally exuberant for a brief period of time does not invalidate the technology or the rapid change we'll see as a result of it.

mumbisChungo··on Hand-picked selection of articles on AI fundamentals/concepts
AI/ML dev is just boring old SWE but now you've got some new ingredients in the mix.
mumbisChungo··on Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update
And chess players stream as their primary income, because there's no money in Chess unless you're exactly the best player in the world (and even then the money is coming from sponsors/partners, not from chess itself).
mumbisChungo··on LLM Inevitabilism
Again, the more I know about it the more complex it seems to me, which is the opposite of what you're saying. So many ways to exert control over it between fine-tuning, RAG, and loop/graph based agentic flows.

I'm not convinced anyone is an expert on it yet relative to what AI dev baseline will be in a year or two.

mumbisChungo··on ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
My personal framing of "Agents" is that they're more like software robots than they are an atomic unit of technology. Composed of many individual breakthroughs, but ultimately a feat of design and engineering to make them useful for a particular task.
mumbisChungo··on LLM Inevitabilism
The more I learn about prompt engineering the more complex it seems to be, but perhaps I'm an idiot.
mumbisChungo··on Show HN: Learn LLMs LeetCode Style
One time my teacher used a computer to make a math test for me, but then told me I couldn't use my computer during the exam. I dropped out of school immediately.
mumbisChungo··on MoonPay executives may have sent $250k to Nigerian scammer
They were also directly responsible for the bored ape NFT pump and dump in 2021.
mumbisChungo··on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update
What makes firefox better than brave?
mumbisChungo··on Before Tragedy, Texas Repeatedly Rejected Pleas for Flood Alarm Funding
Even if it was a lie, I miss the version of America I grew up believing in.
mumbisChungo··on Bret Victor on why current trend of AIs is at odds with his work
Very much worth the watch if you haven't seen this one before.
mumbisChungo··on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
Change a few words and this describes every social platform including this one. Your comment is evidence, and so is this one.
mumbisChungo··on Local-first software (2019)
A good contract can help you to seek some restitution if wrongdoing is done and you become aware of it and you can prove it. It won't mechanically prevent the wrongdoing from happening.
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