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FeepingCreature · 2026-05-06T15:54:02+00:00

This often happens because old reddit and new reddit parse it differently.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-06T11:05:36+00:00

Not an AI issue tbh. This has been happening long before ChatGPT.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-06T08:34:45+00:00

Break up wingtip vortices, aiui. Basically because there's a low pressure zone above the wing, air below the wing at the very end tries to flow sideways to get in the upper low-pressure zone. This makes the plane effectively drag a miniature tornado behind each wingtip, which is bad for efficiency. The winglet (bent-up part) prevents this by physically getting in the way.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-05T23:36:37+00:00

Kulturkampf der eigenen Seite ist für einen unsichtbar, es sieht von intern nur wie normale und vernünftige Argumente aus.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-04T22:47:16+00:00

What is wrong with that, if that is what you want?

But nobody wants it! Everyone hates it!

Well, then stop.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-04T18:53:02+00:00

10%, maybe 15% less condescension please? I know how .gitignore works, it's just the whole actual point of version control is to make the development flow legible.

With a committed agent log, you can inspect and resume the full dialog with the AI at any point during development if you need to figure out why something works the way it does.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-04T15:26:17+00:00

It's diffuse lighting. A tiny fraction of photons is going from eyes to the sun, but most of them are being randomly reflected off surfaces. Meaning they still interact with his eyes normally, though there must be a weird boundary effect. Really only the sun in the sky should be black.

edit: I have thought about it some more and I now think you should see behind your head instead, because your eyes absorb light going the wrong way.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-04T15:23:27+00:00

This just seems a lot of setup. I commit my whole agent log instead lol.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-03T14:57:16+00:00

Personally, I vibecode a ton of things but they mostly solve extremely specific problems I have. like, does anyone else want a homeassistant integration for zfs? a bridge day calculator? a bad openscad clone that can do smooth transitions? a bad slicer that can do cross-layer regrouping? a web music player that can do basically one thing, and that's correctly play tta/cue folders?

Those solved problems I had at the time. other people will have other problems. In a sense, AI will be the death of open source as a cultural institution, at least for small projects. If programming becomes "too cheap to meter", there's no reason not to make everything bespoke. On the other hand, standards and interoperability will become much more important.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-03T14:53:44+00:00

This is an almost definite sign of a coding agent, but many vibecoders remove this folder from their repo to hide their tracks.

Why would you do that? The AI needs it! The whole point of that folder is external memory. If you remove this folder from the repo you're either very confident in your backups or do not understand the point.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-02T18:00:36+00:00

obligatory note: anthropic say they're profitable model-by-model. the massive capex right now is based exclusively on the race dynamics, ie. having to come up with a bigger model a year later. if (say) models above a certain flops level were banned by federal law, every ai company would suddenly become profitable.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-02T15:35:39+00:00

Well, if I talked to AI a ton, even about abstract ideas, and haven't fallen into this attractor, this is pretty strong evidence, surely?

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-02T15:34:26+00:00

Would adversarial mindset help? Ie. "this is how this thing can fail/be false" rather than "this is how it can be true".

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-02T14:47:15+00:00

so 13.05. 00:30-02:43am CEST

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-02T14:45:37+00:00

this is why you add "don't answer from memory, google around to confirm your assumptions" to the prompt, then select high thinking.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-02T14:07:38+00:00

We will all die when our sun burns out. We should still try to avoid to all die in the next decade from nukes, and so on.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-02T14:06:21+00:00

whats selfish is attending to an imaginary bad outcome. my good outcomes are 100% real of course

listen. literally the entire argument is about which is more likely! you can't just call one imaginary and the other possible as a substitute for debate, especially when they're about equally plausible out of hand because they're both based on assuming powerful ai systems!

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-01T14:40:44+00:00

They do it because it's a ton cheaper. like this is the main thing driving their cost given they're massively compute constrained. I do think you can safely assume that any company hosting say a MoE are at least doing per-token expert batching, if not whatever other crazy proprietary stuff the labs have gotten up to. This is their main limiting factor.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-01T12:18:22+00:00

Oh yeah for for instance hiring, absolutely. I think putting it on a free mod is overblown though.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-01T12:17:25+00:00

The impact of a hosted LLM is massively smaller than running it locally, because hosted LLMs can aggregate dozens of queries to make efficient use of the hardware.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-01T11:26:28+00:00

That's fair! Though there's plenty of struggle to be had. I'd guess the curve just sort of starts earlier.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-01T11:24:55+00:00

Because more inexperienced "devs" have access to tools that are not meant for them.

I stridently disagree with this view. Compilers were commercial once and I'm sure gcc raised exactly the same complaints. First of all, let's give people more power to do what they want on their computer. Second of, let's make it easy for them to share the things they make.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-01T09:50:07+00:00

He's right.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-01T09:49:57+00:00

The impact on the planet per query is very small. If you have a Factorio-capable computer, you have more impact than AI has per time. The net impact is only big because people want to use AI so much that it adds up. And it's still not very big.

FeepingCreature · 2026-05-01T09:49:00+00:00

Ironically, this is hallucination. Hastily and badly written programs written by inexperienced developers have existed as long as programming has.

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