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syspec··on How far back in time can you understand English?
Did you mean it is easier for you to understand Spaniards speaking Spanish than Mexican speakers?
syspec··on The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler
Their main page says 3x fast than SWC
syspec··on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
Meanwhile, you can't even go on pornhub in certain states in the US, but yes let's let people go on X and engage in hate speech. In fact I'm sure bad actors will use that site FROM the us, to anonymize their hate speech from Russia/China
syspec··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
Does anyone know if this is in GA immediately or if it is in preview?

On our end, Gemini 3.0 Preview was very flakey (not model quality, but as in the API responses sometimes errored out), making it unreliable.

Does this mean that 3.0 is now GA at least?

syspec··on Claude Code is being dumbed down?
RooCode is a better version of ClaudeCode than ClaudeCode.

No affiliation, just a fan.

syspec··on Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear
I guess that's why it's called comedy.
syspec··on Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear
Still works, just Aussie
syspec··on FDA approves first eye drop for age-related vision loss
This looks awesome, but darn, the idea of having to take it everyday? I know some people would sign up for that, but I guess I'm not ready for that.
syspec··on Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)
I think this title is doing more harm than good.

Both are great languages

syspec··on Amazon cuts 16k jobs
I think its what was sent out
syspec··on [dead]
I think this is super cool, but the combative tone doesn't bode well for relying on it in case I find issues or want to submit a PR.
syspec··on Vitest Browser Mode Guide
Yes! Completely agree! So hard to debug. Nearly impossible to set breakpoints (they disappear in refresh).
syspec··on The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains
Sometimes the AI is all too good at writing tests.

I agree with the idea, I do it too, but you need to make sure the test don't just validate the incorrect behavior or that the code is not updated to pass the test in a way that actually "misses the point".

I've had this happen to me on one or two tests every time

syspec··on Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
Don't worry, the 99% reduction in battery materials is just a strategic pivot to an 'asset-light' approach. The 4680 supply chain isn't collapsing, it’s just being 'optimized' for a future where cars apparently don't need batteries—just FSD subscriptions and robotaxis that run on optimism.
syspec··on Vitest Browser Mode Guide
I used to do this with Karma test runner. The best part was how it didn't try to capture everything, so debugging with breakpoints was really easy.

I like Vitest browser mode, but it's a pain to just "detach" for a specific frame and run that test in isolation, with my actual breakpoints.

syspec··on ManusAI Joins Meta
> This announcement is more than just a headline—it's validation of our pioneering work with General AI Agents.

Anyone else thought this was satire when they read that as the second line in the announcement?

I literally laughed, then clicked the top left logo, to check out the homepage and see if this `ManuAI` was a real website.

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You would think that they would know better to at least edit that out.

It's not just ironic -- it's cosmically poetic.

syspec··on Graphite is joining Cursor
Prompt injection?
syspec··on JetBrains cancels Fleet
Alls they need to do is make extensions much much easier to build, especially extensions that render HTML.

That's vscode's moat.

Anytime the same extension exist in both vscode and jetbrains, the jetbrains version is clunky, crash, and unstable.

I keep Jetbrains open while using vscode, for its local history/git/etc features, but how long will that be enough to keep my subscription

syspec··on State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter
According to the report, 52% of all open-source AI is used for *roleplaying*. They attribute it to fewer content filters and higher creativity.

I'm pretty surprised by that, but I guess that also selects for people who would use openrouter

syspec··on Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding
There are actually a lot of those! One of the best things about using them is that you can swap models around at will.

I love to switch models and ask them what they thought of the previous models answer

syspec··on Claude Opus 4.5
Thank you Claude.
syspec··on New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS
Source: "trust me bro"
syspec··on New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS
You keep mentioning that in this thread, but a11y on a Mac is considered the gold standard.

Security on a Mac, the same (SIP, Keychain, Secure Enclave, great tools for fleet management)

What specifically is in violation of "#a11y or security evaluation frameworks"?

syspec··on Gemini 3
2.5 flash and 2.5 Pro were just sitting back and watching?

The problem with Google is that someone had to show them how to make a product out of the thing, which Open AI did.

Then Anthropic taught them to make a more specific product out of there models

In every aspect, they're just playing catch up, and playing me too.

Models are only part of the solution

syspec··on Gemini 3
I have "unlimited" access to both Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 4.5 Sonnet through work.

From my experience, both are capable and can solve nearly all the same complex programming requests, but time and time again Gemini spits out reams and reams of code so over engineered, that totally works, but I would never want to have to interact with.

When looking at the code, you can't tell why it looks "gross", but then you ask Claude to do the same task in the same repo (I use Cline, it's just a dropdown change) and the code also works, but there's a lot less of it and it has a more "elegant" feeling to it.

I know that isn't easy to capture in benchmarks, but I hope Gemini 3.0 has improved in this regard

syspec··on [dead]
Hmm... it basically says that real power in the US isn’t with the government anymore, but with giant tech companies and the rich weirdos behind them.

These rich weirdos run the show through apps, platforms, and algorithms that decide what people see, do, and believe.

It’s not that democracy broke, it just quietly got replaced by a system where the rules are written by whoever owns the server.

syspec··on I can build enterprise software but I can't charge for it
Me: I built this insane 3D multilingual AI avatar platform with real-time conversation, full enterprise stack, 47 languages, and Unreal Engine

You: Can bypass US Treasury sanctions and open a Stripe account

syspec··on Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020)
This post reads less like an engineering deep dive and more like a Xeon product brochure that wandered into a video game blog. They casually name-drop every Intel optimization short of tattooing "Hyperthreaded" on their foreheads.
syspec··on JetBrains × Zed: Open Interoperability for AI Coding Agents in Your IDE
I think one thing they need to focus on is making extensions easier to create.

I'm a big fan of Intelli-J, but VS Code is eating their lunch with AI agent plugins. I'm assuming it's because it's much easier to create them on that platform.

The same pluginm from the same team, on Intelli-J always works much slower, feels clunkier and is prone to crashing.

It's a shame

syspec··on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
> about US$2.5 billion on stock-based compensation, nearly double the amount from the first half of last year.

Wow! 2.5B in stock based compensation

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