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quikoa··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
Wouldn't it be trivial to detect benchmarking if the same requests are running on a fixed interval?
quikoa··on How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
> Yes, well, so can humans given the "right" circumstances, e.g. "enterprise" software

The difference is scale. Letting LLMs go out of hand is like the movie Fantasia. Sure people can make a mess on their own but with LLMs can do so much worse in such a short amount of time.

> Generative models are now doing the same to coders

Programming involves quite a bit more than just typing. However, typing the code does help with understanding. Once we stop understanding code because it's just generated AI slop good luck fixing the mess.

Now that even Anthropic and OpenAI called for slowing down. It's obvious that we're past peak hype and realization of the cost of LLMs will set in.

quikoa··on How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
LLMs can produce some incredible bloated and convoluted pieces of code if one isn't careful. Even to the point LLMs become useless. Blindly using these 'powertools' is a recipe for disaster.

We'll already see the hype to start cooling down. If you're okay with cleaning up messes you need not be so pessimistic.

quikoa··on Houthis used Claude Code to develop missile guidance software: Anthropic
"Others do it too" is not really a counterargument when Anthropic should've stopped this. They are yelling "AI is dangerous" the loudest so the least they can do is get their own monitoring in order.
quikoa··on David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models
Are you sure you don't mean revenue? Given the enormous investments profits seem very unlikely.
quikoa··on Houthis Used Claude Code to Develop Missile Guidance Software: Anthropic
> What is more difficult, building a military missile or the software that runs it?

"If software was easier compared to building the a missile then Anthropic is in the clear or something." Is that the line of reasoning to protect Anthropic from any wrongdoing?

quikoa··on Houthis used Claude Code to develop missile guidance software: Anthropic
Quite a bit harder or even impossible to prevent software being used illegally that runs on clients than server side services no?
quikoa··on An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
> easily outcompeting any company

If it were easy they'd be doing that instead.

quikoa··on An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
If Anthropic/OpenAI would've shown incredible results using these models then I'd be worried about this. Instead we get Codex and Claude Code, bloated and disappointing software. I'm sorry but "use them in-house, and eventually eat the whole economy." doesn't appear to be a real concern with these two companies.
quikoa··on I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
Yes and winning from Google in small claims court is definitely possible: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-i-sued-google-and-won_b_1...

Edit:

AI can be a great help here, ask it:

- How to prepare your case for your country.

- Where to file and how much it going to cost.

- Help you find weaknesses in your case and what you can do to fix those.

- Rewrite your text in proper legalese (I do recommend to prepare the your arguments yourself to avoid over generalization from an LLM).

Of course you need to verify because of hallucinations but showing up is half the battle here. Big (tech) corps + internal bureaucracy makes it quite expensive for fight these cases. Especially if there are many different countries.

quikoa··on OpenAI considers slowing advanced AI development, Sam Altman tells employees
There is no need for a copy. If another can do most of what OpenAI/Anthropic can do at a fraction of the cost (like the Chinese models) then the moat evaporates.
quikoa··on Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
There is also a predictable relation between the input and output of a compiler w.r.t. the semantics of a programming language. Natural languages are ambiguous leaving room for the implementation to diverge that may not be obvious at first glance.
quikoa··on Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
There could be a large overlap between OpenAI glazers and Star Citizen dreamers.
quikoa··on Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
Exactly, they scrape the internet without any regard for copyright and now someone is surprised it happens to them.

What's next, subscribers believe they are paying customers instead of sponsored data providers?

quikoa··on Programming is Art
So why doesn't Anthropic write a good Claude Code in Rust already? Why don't we get a Codex with the polish level of Sublime text editor?

These companies have many billion dollar investments and yet their main product is a bloated meh.

quikoa··on An Alien Mind
On the off chance that OpenAI executives are reading this. I'll totally believe AGI is here if they do this.
quikoa··on GPT-6 Astra
That won't even require an AGI.
quikoa··on I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
> (at the moment)

That's why. That future is uncertain. So why gamble your future on something that's popular at the moment for something that could change completely a year later?

quikoa··on Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
A language without a large stdlib pushes this that functionality into (transitive) dependencies. I hope more language will adopt batteries included approach.
quikoa··on Rethinking Database Programming
It'd definitely need a solid team behind this and not just Evan Czaplicki if I were to trust a database with my data.
quikoa··on On A.I. regulation and messaging
> something dangerous like AI model developement

It's very dangerous to Anthropic's bottomline!

quikoa··on The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here
Is it this one?

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20050184962A1/en

> [..] and a plurality of Sensors located in the capacity Surrounding the track ball for detecting pressure directions.

...

> Status Expired

quikoa··on DeepSeek API Pricing Update
The question is if they'll increase prices as well.
quikoa··on The Water Footprint of AI
This statistic doesn't show the disproportionate effect it may have on local communities close to these AI datacenters.
quikoa··on Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale
Well yes, first hit is free.
quikoa··on YouTube's AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt
Thanks! I know about it but really should be using it more.
quikoa··on Taste Is All That's Left
Given the title I thought this was just ridiculous:

> I do not care about your taste.

But taste is all that we have left.

And then this:

> If this posts has offended you, then it tells more about you than it does about me.

So the author can't take any criticism.

quikoa··on YouTube's AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt
A YouTube alternative without AI would be nice. It'd be difficult to launch and may require quite some investment before it starts paying off.

YouTube can very clearly mark AI channels without banning/demonetizing them. Unfortunately their automated systems are shit so that won't work well either.

quikoa··on LLMs reward expertise
Why not not show these kickass one-shots and prove how awesome AI can be?
quikoa··on Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
> This bizarre fixation that humans are decent at coding is a myth.

I wonder where the LLMs got their training data from.

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