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Surely there is a point where algorithmic improvements will be more cost effective than buying more hardware.

Is it really AGI if it can’t come to my address and slap me with a trout? Clearly AI is all hype /s

I’m working on an OpenStreetMap-powered map generator in Godot, this would probably be quite easy to build.

I thought you were going to taste them for a second.

No, because they are anti-“corporate ethics”.

Presumably the plan is to deorbit all failing or obsolete systems. It’s phenomenally wasteful.

I’ve found the best workflow has been to ask Claude to profile everything and identify the problem spots, then I have to be the one to propose the correct architecture, then Claude implements it. If I let Claude run wild it will invent all kinds of weird, weird hacks that compound the complexity.

It’s just people trying to cope in the most human way possible: “I don’t like AI, therefore AI is stupid, therefore its proof must be uninteresting.”

Almost never do people judge situations entirely on merit.

The ironic thing is you could pass the IP over to a passionate indie dev and they’d be more likely to churn out “the greatest Halo game ever” than any AAA studio.

How long until we have a registry of all N64 titles and the progress to full decomp of the entire library?

With modern technology, we might be in the first era where direct democracy is truly viable. Frankly I think the people should have direct veto power on any legislation.

This article has some weird ideas that men should only hang “with the guys” and that women are social butterflies because they volunteer at their kids’ schools. This kind of blatant bias makes me skeptical about the entire premise of the article.

Tuning the model so far in the direction of being aggressively useful that it will quickly go off the rails in the name of helpfulness.

I swear I spend more time telling Claude not to do things than telling it what to do.

By transaction volume yes. Presumably it’s not all spending though, if you regularly win back some of that money. The same dollar is probably wagered multiple times before it is lost.

Wouldn’t any needles launched prograde be put into a higher stable (though obviously elliptical) orbit?

Indeed, they talk as skeptics but don’t offer a ton of evidence, other than a couple videos of demos. A live demo would be far more convincing.

> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence so see below for the receipts.

Yes, that’s the kind of attitude I want to see in these model releases

Advocating for demonetization of a service is not the same as trying to maximize personal profits. Maybe not everything in the world is about money.

Where nothing is retained at all, allegedly.

Yep. AI can probably make your marketing website or REST service on autopilot. Or even small minigame experiences. But go outside the bounds of median programming and AI becomes increasingly scatterbrained. It requires a lot of guidance to successfully build high performance, novel software. I still find it more productive though - I can work on three tasks simultaneously with AI, and only one if I’m manually working on a single algorithm. It’s very much like running a team of well-read junior developers.

The human brain operates at better levels of intelligence than the best LLMs, at 20 watts of power. We are a long way to that kind of efficiency, it will probably take both bespoke hardware and algorithmic improvements to catch up to nature.

The problem is not that the tech is bad, it’s that the industry is a cartel with no viable way to disrupt the established players.

On iOS’s preview browser, rotating the object causes the zoom to reset. Or maybe it’s scrolling on the page? Perhaps the preview overlay is resizing the windows slightly and that triggers a camera reset. It’s very cool but close to useless if I can’t control the camera.

Whether or not you iPhone is also doing that is irrelevant. Two surveillance pathways is still inherently worse than one.

Or even more simply, calculating the digits of pi is an infinite number of steps.

If you think any modern AI puts out stable, safe code, I have an AI-powered bridge to sell you.

It’s not insane because Valve is not the OS provider, and you can install as many “app stores” as you want. Even SteamOS doesn’t lock down the OS so Steam is the only way to install software.

Annoyances like requiring an account become a preference, because you have alternatives.

``` /* 2026-06-01 Dear diary, today I increased GLOBAL_WINDOW_PADDING from 8 to 16 because the user (who hurt my feelings with his crude language!) said that the app felt too crowded. */ const GLOBAL_WINDOW_PADDING = 8; ```

This drives me mad.

I have no doubt that in the future AI code will be superior to human code. But today is not that day, and these projects that have never yet had human eyes on them are mostly shoddy pieces of work.

The original ring?