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Woah thanks for sharing will have to check this out.

Gosh, this is all pretty nauseating.

We should be insulted by this tbh, I'm shifting some of my plans to open AI while this continues, it's just pretty absurd to be jerked around like this. Not to mention the "safeguards" :/. Thank goodness for competition.

Why are you insulting the people you're seemingly trying to convince of something? What's going on there? What are you doing here?

I didn't wish for anything, I stated my calculus, and I'm pretty comfortable with it.

Not sure what's unfair about my comment, let alone completely.

most people can't really get a worthwhile quality of life like that. maybe life is worthwhile to you walking around in an N95 respirator, but not to me, at least not... indefinitely. I'd rather be dead TBH. IMO it makes sense to wait to die to be dead. Why be dead while you're still technically alive? What are you trying to optimize for? Days you woke up?

And for transparency, I am triple vaccinated (maybe more, I lost count), have had 0 covid infections as far as I know, masked for a long time while it seemed to make sense.

It says, in the document:

> Exclusion Statement: Molecular orbital theory is recommended as a way to provide deeper insight into bonding. However, the AP Exam will neither explicitly assess molecular orbital diagrams, filling of molecular orbitals, nor the distinction between bonding, nonbonding, and antibonding orbitals.

Orbital theory is usually taught in organic chemistry and then inorganic for those who take that in college. AP chem targets "gen chem" which does not, as the above statement says, does not get into orbitals on that level at all. I'm familiar with gen chem as taught at least in 3 universities, none touched molecular orbitals.

If someone were to teach orbital theory in general chemistry, it would be a lot of hand waving and not much actual mathematics which was the point of the original comment. To cover molecular orbital theory is satisfactorily. You need to know quite a bit of the mathematics behind differential equations and statistical mechanics etc. AP chem isn't going to cover this. But maybe your 9th grade differential geometry class covered all this ;))

> andersmurphy and jwr have it exactly right about the REPL. Common Lisp and Smalltalk systems compile one function at a time, to native code, inside the running program, in milliseconds. Avi's headline brag, fixing a bug before the customer hangs up, was routine practice in Lisp shops in the 1980s. NASA once did it to a Lisp system running on a spacecraft a hundred million miles away: the Remote Agent on Deep Space 1 deadlocked in flight, and they diagnosed and fixed it through a REPL running on the spacecraft itself.

WOW.

Yes I was being hyperbolic.

> None of us are experts in Rust, and we're all solid at Python.

you don't need to be, you can learn Rust or whatever way-better-than Python language as you use it with an LLM! it's an amazing process.

Right, they run tests too. A compiler is like a quick test before tests. How are you going to cut out that check and let the LLM "write it faster" is beyond me. The compiler catches errors across codebases that today's LLM can't economically or reliably put into context to perform similar checks. They're totally different tools, today.

Also, you can just compile less frequently.

But hey, if LLMs are what drove this person from Haskell to Lisp then all the power to them!

They are not covered in AP chemistry this is just your typical "when I studied differential geometry in high school" HN comment

Pi and sigma bonds fall out of thinking of it from a physical/symmetrical/statistical perspective. There's not too much hand waving in the modeling of atomic and molecular orbitals.

I ran out of resets :( hehe I had 3 and used them all

Anyone know what the deal is with the resets?

The $20 GPT plan with GPT 5.5 lasted me, somehow, exactly one smallish fixup feature

Totally. My experience as well. After some time with codex you're like come on Claude can you just stfu! Haha. I now almost always instruct Claude with specific length requirements when I ask questions. Otherwise, it just blathers and blathers in the most annoying of ways. "Oppressive" is spot on in my opinion

If you can afford it and you have something to justify the expense, I would get both. they're interesting to run side by side, you can hand things off from one to the other. Pretty neat. Unfortunately now I just want to have both :(

Oh yes, their need to cover themselves is understandable for sure :)

Because if this person was paying enterprise for tokens, they:

1. wouldn't write stuff like "I've only spent a few hundred dollars using gpt-5.5/5.6 and codex"

2. wouldn't think tokens are cheap

It's not understandable IMO, bad guys will still have guns.

Because we pay retail consumer prices (subscriptions). Those same tokens cost many thousands on enterprise billing:/

Shallow dismissal

OP's post clearly described his thought process and experience. What are experience are you basing your assertions on?

Sorry this was a stupid joke

> He does sell supplements

Kind of says everything we need to know?

> Since people really snag on the money part

This is the whole part :) it's a good thing to snag on in my opinion

are you, by any chance, a bot?

when will it be available? do we know? I don't have X, not sure if the thread mentions it.

Why do you record AAC?

> Generally creating a lot of friction around contributing to a project defeats the whole purpose of open sourcing it.

Is this friction? I think it's quality standards, and a flow that's relevant to a time when code is more of a commodity than before.

And contributing code isn't all that's valuable in OSS. Bug/UX reports and feature ideas are really valuable, more valuable now than code IMO.

Even before LLMs, I was much more likely to report an issue to an project if it was open source and I could go look at the code and confirm what's happening. Reporting a bug w/o this feels like wasting my time. Without source visibility, I'm usually inclined to just stop using the software (e.g. Microsoft products, or even "freeware"). With code viz, I can confidently report a bug with some sense of what the fix might entail, how long it might take, what my expectations for a fix might be.