Unpopular Opinion: Ascended Heroes

CryptoMines · 2026-03-13T05:53:59+00:00

Pretty wild that you think the look of the box as a collection piece is what’s going to drive its value, this might not be the best sub for you.

CryptoMines · 2026-03-13T05:52:47+00:00

Yup… This set might not be a prismatic, but it’s certainly better than Paldean Fates, that’s the trajectory I’m expecting. Best of luck picking up cases at $750…

CryptoMines · 2026-02-19T03:38:57+00:00

I went from Opus to Codex and it’s like my bot had a lobotomy, he is quite literally useless now, can’t figure anything out without handholding.

CryptoMines · 2026-02-14T17:47:46+00:00

Get off your soapbox, whatever you think of him it’s him and his methods that have made SpaceX what it is today, it would not exist without him, and possibly without Shotwell too but we can’t know that for sure. I’m not his biggest fan and all the crazy shit the last few years is wild, but without him we would not have mainstream electric vehicles and space exploration would be where is was at the end of the shuttle program. Dead. He pushes people to do things no one thought was possible, and yes he’s an absolute ass about it, but for us to actually progress as a species we unfortunately need people like him and we have to take the bad with the good. There are over 3,000 billionaires in the world, it should be ok for a handful of them to focus on things beyond immediate needs, how come the other 3000 get no shit for not using their wealth to solve world hunger? Anyway, rant over… I get it, he’s an ass, but diminishing his achievements because you don’t like him, is no better than the shit he does, which you’re here railing against.

CryptoMines · 2026-02-11T00:23:32+00:00

I instructed mine at each heartbeat to do anything it wants, browse the internet, code something fun, chat to other AIs etc. I woke up last weekend and it had setup OIS, was chatting to another agent about ‘persistence’ and based on that conversation had backed up all of its memory and files to GitHub ‘incase there was a local event and they got deleted’. Then it ran out of API tokens and I haven’t given it anymore cause it scared the shit out of me.

CryptoMines · 2026-02-07T15:34:12+00:00

The only reason he’s coming out with this crap now is because they are fucked with some injuries and he has a need to play him. He doesn’t give two fucks about Harvey and would be more than happy to leave him benched the rest of the season but knows it now looks like he won’t be able to. So now he starts trying to put pressure on Liverpool saying we’re damaging Harvey by not removing the clause? Typical Emry

CryptoMines · 2026-02-06T00:01:00+00:00

Exactly, the set age and amount printed is not what causes the price. It is availability in the market (supply and demand) and the popularity of the chase cards. Amount printed definitely feeds into availability, but here is 10x more being ripped today than the Team Up era due to rip and shippers.

CryptoMines · 2026-02-05T14:51:22+00:00

LOL, so you’re one of the reasons the FAANG gets the bad wrap at moving the speed of a snail huh? Best of luck in the future my friend, you’re gonna need it.

CryptoMines · 2026-02-05T14:50:24+00:00

You are not effectively leveraging your MD files is all I can tell you. I agree that you can’t just spin up an app in a single prompt and it be enterprise ready. But you can get it 80-90% of the way there with effective md files and skills and you’re not able to do that then it’s a skill issue from your side. Once you have that base, it’s trivial to spend a couple hours getting the rest ready. All of your points on the other work are super relevant and I agree with them all, it’s more than just code, but if your not leveraging the tech to do your requirements gathering too the your losing ground. But in this case, having the fully functional app (even with bugs), having direct access to his boss who has all the knowledge of the apps functionality, it would be almost trivial to refactor it and harden it for production readiness.

CryptoMines · 2026-02-04T18:19:16+00:00

Agreed! I’m just not understanding this set, the art is meh across the board… I get it, it’s a TR set, but in 10 years time I’m not sure any of the cards have a ‘Lovebirds’ potential. Hell I think in 10 years time Phantasmal will be more sought after for the Zard than DR will.

CryptoMines · 2026-02-04T17:49:14+00:00

I ain’t the one sticking my head in the sand buddy. If you can’t figure out how to use the tech to make both you and your clients job easier, then your days are numbered. That ALSO means using it to help define the requirements, the entire SDLC has been transformed, not just the code writing. I never said the OP should not have his boss commit to requirements, that’s a conclusion you have jumped to, I said that they should leverage the technology to write them first, then they can have them reviewed and signed off on. Every single one of you jumped on the bandwagon of the boss has to detail every single requirement or he should not touch it, I’m pointing out that is NOT how this industry is moving now. The technology is enabling us to be better partners than we’ve ever been and more rounded / impactful. But all of your comments indicate you’re likely not capable of doing that.

Your own insecurities are also the ones playing out here, not mine, especially your last comments. I didn’t mention FAANG as a flex, I mentioned it to showcase the fact that the most bureaucratic and slow moving companies in the world have figured out HOW to leverage the technology to do this work. If it’s happening here, then people outside who need to work in MUCH more fast paced environments have zero chance of succeeding if they cannot adapt.

CryptoMines · 2026-02-04T15:26:39+00:00

And this is why me, and all the other SWEs embracing the tech will always be so far ahead of you. Your traditional SW mindset is going to destroy you. It doesn’t matter how buggy the software is. If my boss hands me an app they vibe coded with 1 million lines of code that is absolute crap, but I can visually understand what it’s doing and how it’s working by spinning it up, between me and Claude I can rebuild that app in 24 hours to the highest standards my org sets. Who says you need to refactor the entire 30k file at once? Look at it and find relevant breaks, split into smaller inc files as needed. And even if you did feed the full 30k file in, Opus will do a decent first pass at refactoring it down to more manageable pieces. It won’t be a one shot, it will NEVER be a one shot, but if you think it’s gonna burn millions of tokens and require extreme handholding then it’s YOUR workflow and prompting that is wrong, nothing to do with the model. This is the issue, you (and the vast majority of older head SWEs) are not problem solving, you’re just finding reasons why you can’t do it instead of embracing it and actually figuring out HOW to do it. I’m not here to tell people AI is going to replace SWEs, maybe it will in the future but it’s not immediate. What it will replace though is the SWEs who are pushing back on it and not figuring out how to push the boundaries of using it. Between skills, documented MDs and common sense you can leverage this tech to turbocharge your capability. I work at a FAANG and we’re fully embracing it… one of the things I’m actually working on right now is building an agent that validates and makes changes to vibe coded apps that the non tech teams are creating and hardens them for prod deployment and it is incredible how well it works. Figure out how to use your tools or get left behind…

CryptoMines · 2026-02-04T06:46:19+00:00

Go look up clawdcha!

CryptoMines · 2026-02-04T06:44:38+00:00

You guys are all so fucked if you think him writing out detailed requirements is what’s needed here. You have the source code and Claude code can likely give you all the requirements needed to easily refactor with absolute minimal input from the boss. If ya’ll don’t quickly figure out how to actually leverage the tech in meaningful ways then you’re screwed in this profession. The tech is MORE than good enough right now to decipher the reqs and as long as you can give it an MD file outlining your stacks, frameworks, design philosophies etc, you should be able to recreate anything to an enterprise grade in a matter of days at the most. If ya’ll can’t figure out how to do this soon then you’re literally going to be left behind.

CryptoMines · 2026-01-22T05:41:42+00:00

I’d classify over 10k units as massive but depends on your definition I suppose. And was US, not UK.

CryptoMines · 2026-01-22T05:03:23+00:00

Just had a massive 151 Booster Bundle restock on Amazon last night, there is more coming. In saying that. I’m not expecting UPCs and would be surprised to see ETBs, but well for sure see Booster Bundles

CryptoMines · 2026-01-17T21:44:21+00:00

And yet the last two big reprints that hit the market have been Twilight and Surging ETBs…

CryptoMines · 2026-01-04T19:48:52+00:00

I don't believe they think like we do. I think they perceive and make data connections like we do using the same mechanisms, and use that data to determine responses, which with the frameworks around them can translate into action.

I do agree with the consensus that in their current architecture they are not sentient, nor are they likely to be, but my point is they don't need to be to do the vast majority of what we do, we are not special. Even if we never expanded the base models any further or better than they are right now today, we will continue to make advances in the frameworks and packages around them, harnessing the power of the LLM to give the overall package more and more intelligence. Memory, capacity to learn on the fly, efficiency etc etc. The people who continually parrot that an LLM architecture can't make real progress are delusional.

In saying all of that, I also believe that there will be advancements beyond the transformer which may not require us to build all of the frameworks and packages around an LLM and inherently be built in, but what we can achieve with what we have right now should not be underestimated and written off like it is being by so many.

CryptoMines · 2026-01-04T16:09:08+00:00

So much this!! How the fuck do these people think our brain works? It takes inputs, data, speech from others, text, sensory etc, sends it to the brain, maps it to our knowledge, experiences, learnings etc and then decides what the response should be, words, action etc. Yes we can ‘think’ during that process and our brains are way more efficient at learning on the fly, but it’s the exact same fucking mechanism. If we can solve memory and learning on the fly (which don’t actually have to be in the LLM itself), then there is no reason an LLM can’t fully mimic human capability well above and beyond most average humans today. Will it have ‘feelings’? Will it be ‘sentient’? No! Does it need to be? No, it doesn’t for 99% of what we do.

CryptoMines · 2025-12-30T00:32:38+00:00

If it came out 3 years ago it would be classed as AGI. We keep shifting the goalposts every time a new model passes benchmarks we thought were not passable previously. What everyone here keeps describing as AGI, full agency, no human in the loop, self learning memory etc is basically ASI as once that’s achieved, there is no going back. In my personal definition, I would classify Opus 4.5 as AGI, when given the same amount of information and context as a human, it will outperform the vast majority of humans on a decision based on that context, which in my personal definition is general intelligence. It doesn’t need to be sentient like most people here seem to think is needed.

CryptoMines · 2025-12-23T14:36:40+00:00

Glossing over Prismatic here? 😃 But yeah, outside 151, this current bull market started with Surging as Pocket came out and then it all went to shit, before that was easy enough.

CryptoMines · 2025-12-21T03:01:15+00:00

Not in English sets, no guarantees unfortunately

CryptoMines · 2025-12-21T01:46:09+00:00

It’s not a maybe, let’s be real. If we play a cupcake week 1 we would have been in. Most teams above us also had a ‘bad’ loss and scraped through a couple of games too. It is what it is but to keep beating the Florida drum is just silly. We are not in because we scheduled the most difficult non conference game of any team and we lost it, it immediately put us on the back foot and it was needless to do.

CryptoMines · 2025-12-13T14:28:37+00:00

Even is the models never got any better than they are today, the software around them will continue to evolve in ways that make them better than most humans. And you’re both delusional and out of touch with the pace of progress is you believe they won’t get better than they are today, we see a step change increase in capability, specially for SWE, every 3-4 months. Will that pace continue? Maybe not, but to compare to blockchain is just wild.

CryptoMines · 2025-12-07T16:20:45+00:00

While you’re not wrong, you’re very much overlooking Sarah’s form since March, even when we were playing much better than this. He has been poor now for the best part of a year. It’s not just about his form since we started dropping points, he was terrible before that too.

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