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otabdeveloper4··on Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026
This but unironically.
otabdeveloper4··on Why the Bronze Age Collapsed
Pretty sure they actually have laws 'n shiet in China and North Korea.

Even (gasp!) Putler's Russia has laws and police, I've heard.

otabdeveloper4··on Why the Bronze Age Collapsed
Well, so was the USA. Seems like wealth inequality is not such a big deal in the grand scheme of things.
otabdeveloper4··on Claude Says
> ...a subject matter expert who uses their domain experience to word the prompt correctly, incorporate tacit knowledge and relevant sources, ask follow-up questions, and judge the LLM-generated responses for relevance and correctness

...doesn't need an LLM and would be better served by decent cross-indexed reference documents.

otabdeveloper4··on Gemini 4 Argon
Spoiler alert: the problem didn't actually get fixed despite the jaw on the floor.
otabdeveloper4··on Pi.dev: You Said No MCP
Yes, and also MCP does literally nothing to prevent these sorts of exploits.

Like I said, AI bros vibecoding slop because they literally have no clue what they're doing.

otabdeveloper4··on Pi.dev: You Said No MCP
You can give the LLM a bash without giving it the full /usr/bin.

That's been a trivially solved problem for decades.

otabdeveloper4··on You said no MCP
MCP is the NIH non-standard version of OpenAPI.
otabdeveloper4··on When did Google get so weird?
I don't think Google has been doing any PageRank for decades. It's probably why its search results are so shit.
otabdeveloper4··on A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]
The personal data fell off the back of a truck, man.
otabdeveloper4··on Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20%
LLMs generate text, and they do not use any system of logic or syllogisms to do so. It's a pretty cut-and-dry obvsious statement of fact, no need to muddy the conversation here.
otabdeveloper4··on Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20%
> could be able to also return how "right" that next token is

No. LLMs always output the next most statistically likely token. They don't reason. The so-called "hallucination" you see is just the most likely answer.

otabdeveloper4··on MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
MongoDB is the only open-source database that supports multi-master high-availability out of the box.
otabdeveloper4··on Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot
But have you heard the good news of our lord and saviour Claude Opus 5.5?

(Not the be confused with the Claude Opus 5. That's a different lord that didn't turn out to be a saviour.)

otabdeveloper4··on Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot
Don't worry about. Claude Code wrote 1 million lines of tests for this functionality, that's how you know your luddite eyes are lying to you.
otabdeveloper4··on How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
Just grade the process, not the result. It's literally that simple.

AI can talk the talk, but it can't walk the walk.

A simple "explain why this is the best solution" will make it shit the bed 10 out 10 times.

otabdeveloper4··on AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries 'most of the time'
Programming hasn't been solved by LLMs. AI chatbots give wrong answers to programming queries most of the time too.
otabdeveloper4··on MCP was always a bad idea?
> without first having to solve the problem of effectively sandboxing Bash

"Sandboxing bash" is a problem that has been solved a zillion years ago already. Take your pick of any of the dozens of battle-proven solutions.

otabdeveloper4··on C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour
> appeal to authority

Okay.

otabdeveloper4··on Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?
You're confusing the mechanical language of math with math itself.

The map is not the territory, etc. If math was just an elaborate linguistic Glass Bead Game then we wouldn't be funding it. The intuition is that the surface rules of math help uncover the underlying structure of reality.

otabdeveloper4··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Read what I said again. AI art falls into the uncanny valley range and solicits disgust, ire or suprise in most people.

Sometimes that's okay, but probably not in ad copy.

otabdeveloper4··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
AI irritates people. This is fine if you're making political cartoons or racist memes, but not so fine for ad copy.
otabdeveloper4··on C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour
> Since they are invisibly inserted

They're not, all destructors are explicit. Seems like a skill issue on your end.

otabdeveloper4··on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)
It's capital-G God. Also the question is circular because how you define what a "being" is is dependent on your concept of God.
otabdeveloper4··on Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter
AI slop isn't "new proofs of theorems", no more than Claude Code slop is "new software products".
otabdeveloper4··on Dario, Please
Because the UN, NATO, etc., are clearly not working now. They're not gonna be fixed to work as designed because that's quite impossible in today's world.
otabdeveloper4··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
> you're just not using the latest model, bro

Pro tip, ChatGPT is the normiest of all normie websites right now. You're not part of the cognoscenti just because you learned how to type prompts into one of the most popular websites in the world.

P.S. You're probably not using OpenAI models for complex or non-standard tasks. It shits the best just as often as Qwen when you need precision and detail in a non-obvious problem.

otabdeveloper4··on I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
> everything you believe is wrong, here's our god, you must follow and believe in him or you're going to hell

"Democracy" and "human rights" is basically that but on steroids. Surely you're not a cultural relativist that simply going to allow uncontacted people to be racist and misogynist willy-nilly?

otabdeveloper4··on After Math
That's assuming that "formal deterministic language" is equivalent to mathematical reality, or that it even reflects it correctly. It's the accepted view nowadays but akshually quite the hot take.
otabdeveloper4··on Dario, Please
There's a simple and very logical definition of what a "world war" is - it's when international law completely breaks down, and the only way to get back to a semblance of order in international relations is to have the victors of the ensuing shitstorm impose a new set of rules in some sort of grand finale pact.

1945 was clearly that. 1920 with the League of Nations attempted to be that, but failed.

Whatever happens after the current turbulence we can be sure that there won't be a UN and NATO and a World Bank at the end.

P.S. The first modern world war was the Thirty Year's War.

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