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There is definitely a balance between utility and security/privacy gates. I think people are enjoying the freedom of YOLO for now until the consequences of gate-free agent use become too severe.

> And I also like pi, but it's probably one of the worst in terms of sandboxing as it's yolo by default.

Agreed, but the nice thing about pi is the plugin system and how configurable it is. I can easily hack on the pi harness, whereas a more opinionated one like opencode is more difficult

I think sandboxing could be solved if effort was put into it. Webassembly seems like a great way to enforce data and execution boundaries for an LLM, for example.

I think the problem is that LLM providers are dis-incentivized from pursuing it because their ethos is gobbling up any and all data they can get.

> Oops, we accidentally yoinked your personal documents, photos, and videos and they’re now swimming in our model’s data ocean! We’re sorrrry, oh well let’s move on.

It’s up to the users to use tools that enforce security/privacy. Open source harnesses like pi.dev seem like a good path forward to me

Yeah, I don't buy the premise that branchless code is intrinsically easier to understand. Maybe OP's point is that adding unnecessary branches makes code harder to read? But that's generally the case for any unnecessary code.

> I feel like a diagnosis in my 20's would've been useful. Now it's like I got me my coping strategies and they work pretty well. If I do or don't have ADHD doesn't really change anything.

This is what I told myself before I started taking medication around age 30. But ultimately my coping strategies felt flimsy, and I felt like my life could fall apart at any second.

Getting medicated and getting therapy has improved my life and evened out my emotional state an incredible amount. I still feel like me, just with a bit more stability and consistency.

I don’t think it’s ever too late to start medication. If you think there’s a benefit to it, it’s worth trying out.

The actual code output has improved a lot over the past year. I’ve found it matches existing patterns better, and the code is succinct so I can easily tweak it if I don’t like the way the agent wrote it.

The problem with comments is that LLMs tend to copy their verbose chat output format and insert session/prompt specific details. It makes me think that LLMs aren’t constrained in their comment output the same way they are with their code output

How do you stop LLMs from making comments? In my experience, LLMs treat requirements for code output as suggestions

Bookmarklets were definitely more powerful than I anticipated, but they’re tricky to version and upgrade. I’ve deployed a bookmarklet for non-technical users to some success, but I’d generally lean towards browser extensions for anything that needs to be maintained and distributed long-term.

Contrast with the Dolphin emulator release blogs. I swear I’ve spent more timing reading those releases than actually using the software

New games run really well on Linux. At this point, I don't even check. If it's an online competitive game, I can't play it. Otherwise, it almost certainly will work on Arch Linux

I may be out of pocket here, but I think the Hacker News crowd of tech bros who spy on people for a living have a biased opinion on whether spying on people is normal

I’ve made a point of not installing any AUR packages. It’s really tempting when there’s a package that’s not available via pacman, but at the end of the day I’d rather build from source myself or use a docker image.

Torment doomers claim that the commodification of humanity’s suffering will usher in a dark age, but quarterly earnings have never been higher. I trust that Death Star Inc has humanity’s best interests at heart.

It’s both “exactly what the EO says” and “I can’t remember what the EO said”. He’s blatantly lying

> In the future, maybe by Thursday, I can have agents do all of that and relax.

Wall-E seems like it’s getting closer to reality every day

Does your MBP have 32 GB of ram? I’m waiting on a local model that can run decently on 16 GB

> So their proposal is a superior primitive.

This lines up with my thinking. The proposal should give us a building block in the form of the primitive. I would expect the grandparent comment’s API to be provided in a library built on top of a language level primitive.

That's even more convincing. I wouldn't want to be in the RoboTaxi that's getting hit by a bus

It’s more that many adult citizens (and increasing every year) have grown up with the patriot act and liberties being stripped away in the name of security.

I talked with cousins about it 8 years ago and I got laughed at as a conspiracy nut for saying that our personal data will be used against us if we allow it. People either don’t understand or don’t care because they’ve grown comfortable with it.

I loved learning Computer Engineering in college because it de-mystified the black box that was the PC I used growing up. I learned how it worked holistically, from physics to logic gates to processing units to kernels/operating systems to networking/applications.

It's sad to think we may be going backwards and introducing more black boxes, our own apps.

No more updates in the middle of a multi-player game with friends. How will I ever live without Windows?

Reminds me of when I was younger and thought of companies like Google and Tesla as a force for good that will create and use technology to make people's lives better. Surely OpenAI and these LLM companies will change the world for the better, right? They wouldn't burn down our planet for short-term monetary gain, right?

I've learned over the years that I was naive and it's a coincidence if the tech giants make people's lives better. That's not their goal.

Maybe the AI hype is a misdirect so we will blame LLMs for future tech failures instead of the engineers who built up these services

I was able to hack together a toy game with godot-rust several years ago, and it had some rough edges but I was able to integrate Bevy’s ECS with godot’s editor and rendering. I’ve loosely followed its development since then, and the roughest parts seem to have been smoothed out. If it’s important to the dev, they can absolutely use rust

If Microsoft vibe codes a Linux distro and calls it Windows 360 Copilot, I’m on board with the conspiracy theory that the Hadron Collider broke reality

> Most people aren’t here for political topics.

Or rather, most people aren’t here to have their preconceived notions challenged by reality.

Politics is a nebulous term for topics that affect a large number of the population. Tech intersects with politics all the time and deserves good faith discussion.

Funny enough, this is the game compatibility that convinced me that Linux was worthwhile switching over to.

With Arch Linux + the nvidia-open package, the Linux desktop experience is miles better than when I last tried in 2017 with Ubuntu

I put up with so much Windows crap over the years, and Windows 11 was the final straw. It’s not even the gaming OS anymore as Linux feels snappier and more stable for running games.

If the tech industry leaders demonstrated any amount of responsibility, accountability, or care for the general well-being of people, then I think this would instead be an exciting time for tech innovation. The enthusiasm I felt decades ago is completely gone.

Depending on your hardware and gaming needs, the current state of Linux gaming may already be enough.

I run Arch with an Nvidia GPU (which historically had poor Linux support compared to AMD), and I’ve been able to play 100% of the games that I used to play on Windows with no noticeable performance decrease.

There is one significant issue with Dx12 on nvidia, but even that has been root caused and should be fixed next year.

If there wasn't global-scale theft of art and content or if LLMs could produce something better than an inferior facsimile, I bet there would be less backlash.

But instead we had a 'non-profit' called 'Open'AI that irresponsibly unleashed this technology on the world and lied about its capabilities with no care of how it would affect the average person.