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robotmaxtron··on The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era
imho the prompt is part of a "design", not a build artifact (unless your build system is weird).

a deterministic build system for prompts is a called a compiler.

robotmaxtron··on The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era
The agentic era definition of open source is garbage.

Software that is not open source, is proprietary software. Open weight models, are not open source. Binary blobs in a repo with an Apache license, is not open source.

Am I a retro-grouch? Probably. I guess it doesn't matter anymore what I think about it.

robotmaxtron··on Will tech giants ever let us opt out of AI search features?
no
robotmaxtron··on Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass
google used to be cool
robotmaxtron··on Stop Quoting Steve Ballmer
"Embrace, extend, extinguish". ya boi remembers exactly how Microsoft got their reputation.
robotmaxtron··on Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?
copyright is only as good as the enforcement. enforcement is exhausting and expensive.
robotmaxtron··on Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests
hey now, LinkedIn was terrible before Microsoft.
robotmaxtron··on Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE
No, it doesn't.
robotmaxtron··on Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE
I guess not
robotmaxtron··on Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE
if I can't reproduce the artifact, is it really open source?
robotmaxtron··on Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]
more folks should be skeptical
robotmaxtron··on Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE
I do not have high opinions of any ai model.
robotmaxtron··on Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE
the (dead) internet is full of opinions exactly like this
robotmaxtron··on Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE
"open source"

show me.

robotmaxtron··on Anthropic's Champion Kit for engineers pushing Claude Code at their company
the emperor's new clothes are so beautiful, can't you see?
robotmaxtron··on Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns
This show has really lost the plot.
robotmaxtron··on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
last time I was at a casino I checked to see what company built the machines, imagine my surprise that it was (by my observation) a single vendor.
robotmaxtron··on Open models by OpenAI
Correct. I agree with them, most of the open weight models are not open source.
robotmaxtron··on Ask HN: What's Your Car?
Software Engineer, daily driving a 1988 Volvo 760.
robotmaxtron··on The Underdog Coffee Bean That Java Snobs Hate Is Finally Getting Some Respect
No surprise some of the largest producers are trying to find ways to increase profits by blending beans that are cheaper and don't taste as good.

Support your local coffee roaster.

robotmaxtron··on Keepdisablingselinux.com
Yep, http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2017/01/13/selinux-mitigates-cont...
robotmaxtron··on Bad.solutions
Out of curiosity, what other domains would you have it round robin to?
robotmaxtron··on I broke Git :(
I do think that the correct instructions should be there, but it should also include how to fix it in the event that you didn't.