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techpression

593 karma · joined January 21, 2021

I do web with Elixir and Phoenix. Current project is https://couchling.tv which is a TV episode tracker with the singular focus of tracking your shows.
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techpression··on Ending my elixir exploratory writing
Second this, some of the worst UX I’ve seen in a long time and a classical example of why you shouldn’t fix what isn’t broken.
techpression··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Well your CEO went on X saying you will cure cancer, and since it's always a 6 month rolling window with him I can only assume humanity will be cancer free before next summer, amazing!
techpression··on What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s
You should publish, likely a Nobel price or Turing award waiting, and generational wealth at some tech giant.
techpression··on Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
The never ending creeping need for more power tends to have these results. EU will either collapse or become a mega state that will later collapse, the problem is mostly that people view things in terms of elections, but downfall happens during much longer periods of time.
techpression··on EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws
They should definitely use wind power, since you could use the fans to cool the computers at the same time!

I for one would love a nice HTTP status in the form of "due to the weather being nice and calm outside, AI services are down, go outside and enjoy the day"

techpression··on EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws
Fair enough, I don't know if it matters short term for massive buildouts, but I'm sure whatever comes out of this is not a benefit for anyone except the owners.
techpression··on EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws
Pretty insane, expect data center to be data center + coal power plant soon, why bother with generators or the pesky local grid.
techpression··on Pnpm 12.0
Hey Claude, write in the worst possible claudism way you possibly can, and make it sound like every other text on the internet that is published nowadays.

"This post covers what pnpm 12 adds that pnpm 11 never shipped."

techpression··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
Was looking for this comment, the tech world has gotten completely insane with ”valuations”. I would love to hear why it was 13 and not 5. It would still be completely insane at 5 billion, but someone though they should add another 8…
techpression··on Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
Imagine thinking parents stand a snowballs chance in hell fighting against products explicitly made to exploit their children from companies spending billions on it. It’s like 0.00001% of parents that has those skills, if that.
techpression··on Meta to Pay Up to $17.1B in Settlement over Social Media Addiction Claims
And big tech wins again. Stock prices are even up, it’s that good.
techpression··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
The entire purpose of EU is trade (trading nations don't go to war etc), trade is more or less defined by large corporations, it's through that lens every decision is made and measured.
techpression··on The Vibe Tax
This is my experience too, but even worse. Opus 5 finished the task, I then asked it to code review it, 61 agents later it came back with a bunch of errors that needed fixing. The first pass had tests, they passed, they were just wrong. I wish more people started reviewing their AI output, because I see a worrying trend of ”we have all these tests the agent wrote so it has to be good”, which is not surprising because understanding tests is not a trivial skill.
techpression··on New MCP Roadmap
Three years is nothing, what kind of work do you do where you need something released in the last three years?

And I’m not OP, but I would assume the senior developers made a distinction between try and use.

techpression··on Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones
The concept of agents is from the 1970’s, I love how some people think the idea is new. Sure, they didn’t have the LLM component, but the rest is the same.
techpression··on We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon
No, it's a design thing, it hurts A11Y especially.
techpression··on We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon
I think Encore is great and do really cool things, but this post is AI;DR from the first sentence.
techpression··on Router by Ramp
"Router itself stores model inputs, outputs, and metadata and uses this data to improve the service, but users may turn this off in settings."

Why is it that every AI-product think dark UX with default data harvesting of proprietary data is a great idea? I mean it's rhetorical, stealing for training is the norm, but it's still just as disappointing every time I see it.

techpression··on Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
We can? Last time I checked everyone and their mother is collecting all kinds of data for nefarious purposes. EU has a snowball's chance in hell keeping up, and when they eventually get around to issuing a fine it's so small and irrelevant compared to money made that it's business as usual.
techpression··on Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers
This is very important, filling racks with GPU's instead of CPU's is vastly more power hungry (and hence will generate a lot more heat). Vera Rubin is 1800-2300W, mind boggling, these data centers even have new power architectures coming.

And I know what people will say, Vera Rubin is vastly more efficient, but that only matters if you have saturated your needs, it's meaningless if you need that capacity, and I'm sure it will run pretty much at a 100% 24/7.

techpression··on We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
The three random dudes will probably not destroy them, quite a significant difference.
techpression··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
This hurts particularly much when it comes to software changelogs/release notes, most recently for me was the solidjs 2 beta, reading the announcement post was painful, even the headers are LLM:isms.
techpression··on AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward
This made me laugh, more than expected, but I did visit LinkedIn just before so that could explain it. Thanks!
techpression··on AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain
Humans are really bad at everything we do compared to the specialized creatures in nature, it’s just that we can do many things that sets us apart. A humanoid robot is incredibly dumb for that reason. At least add a set of arms and legs and 360 vision. And obviously dislocated joints than can move freely and hands should have two thumbs and more fingers.

It’s not hard to come up with a bunch of improvements for humans, it’s just that making robots in our image is a lot more trivial because you only have to solve for those same averages attributes that we have.

techpression··on Understanding is the new bottleneck
It doesn’t matter, once you found the bottleneck there is a new one. Seems we changed the supposed bottleneck of writing code (as if it ever were, the world was producing far too much code before LLMs were even a thing) with about ten or so new ones, was it a good trade?
techpression··on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
It takes more than that. I had Claude do a feature, it took five minutes, then I had Claude do a code review of its changes, that took 65(!) separate agents and 40minutes.

I don’t think single agent loops are good enough.

techpression··on Delta
I feel I’ve seen the multiplayer thing being pushed ten years ago or so, guess it’s time for another round. It’s one of those things that makes for cool product videos but I’ve never met anyone who actually uses it or has expressed any desire for the feature.
techpression··on The Water Footprint of AI
Rob will solve his almond allergy given enough tokens!
techpression··on Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
Burning more tokens is definitely in their best interest, users not so much.
techpression··on Fastmail offers EU data region
> We’ve installed our own servers, co-located in a secure facility in Amsterdam, set up by our own engineers. This new location is built to the same high standards as our existing infrastructure in Philadelphia and St Louis, with our own hardware and our own software — specified right down to the exact model of disks in each machine.
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