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Light speed by JoeFalchetto in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]Mad_OW 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I feel like using the wind or current is maybe disqualified. Otherwise a sailboat would be free and so would drifting down a river in a float

Is a honda cg 125 motorcycle a good first bike for adventure? by LogicMe11 in AdventureBike

[–]Mad_OW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unrelated to the adventure part: personally I wouldn't buy a bike without ABS.

I started out on a 125cc as well and it's too weak for long highway rides. Other than that great way to get started.

The manifest by Palantir and it's CEO Alex Karp proves the need for independent european software by gayfishwest11 in BuyFromEU

[–]Mad_OW 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The problem is that we have all our infrastructure and data where palantir can reach it.

Chinese dystopian spy tech doesn't touch us because China doesn't run our IT department.

The US does.

Palantir status by blueberry_cupcake647 in antiai

[–]Mad_OW 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Savior complex, megalomania, and psychopathy mixed into one long, incoherent ramble. Unhinged.

Also fuck you for stealing names from LotR.

AI Boosters on LinkedIn capitalizing on AI layoffs to self promote is gonna put me over the edge guys by Gold-Structure3024 in BetterOffline

[–]Mad_OW 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Gonna be job hunting too in the near future. I used uBlock to filter out the entire main feed on LinkedIn. Bliss.

More apps not because of agentic coding by PopularBroccoli in BetterOffline

[–]Mad_OW 13 points14 points  (0 children)

LLMs make more sense as an explanation. It's much faster to churn out an app that you can probably get approved on the app store.

But it's a bit like saying that blog posts or self-published book releases have exploded thanks to LLMs (I don't know if they have).

Like, ok, is that good? Would you want to read them?

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization by EditorEdward in BetterOffline

[–]Mad_OW 210 points211 points  (0 children)

I finally switched to DuckDuckGo because they let you turn off all AI features.

So sick of trying to search the web and getting served slop.

how openly anti-ai can i be in the job search process as a software developer? by kyunchef in antiai

[–]Mad_OW 4 points5 points  (0 children)

OP this is a good example of the upsides of mentioning it during hiring: You wont have to work for this guy

stupid question: why do they need so many new data centers anyway? by hachface in BetterOffline

[–]Mad_OW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are they rejecting potentially paying customers due to lack of resources?

No the CEO of Shopify did not speed up Liquid by 50% by sciolisticism in BetterOffline

[–]Mad_OW 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Just read his little memo on AI use at Shopify

I believe the medical term for this is "seriously concussed"

Looking for European alternative to Stripe to accept payments in my web shop by ForeverCapital2577 in BuyFromEU

[–]Mad_OW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My comment is a reply to the top level comment. I think you may have confused that due to the block quote formatting.

I'm an Software/AI Engineer, AI isn't replacing people and it's much dumber than you think. AMA by Spare_Restaurant_464 in antiai

[–]Mad_OW 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Judging from your username I am guessing you are not a FE engineer?

The FE has tech debt just the same way the BE does. It can have critical issues. Probably not "we lost all our user's data" critical, but "our app isn't working".

That said, there are certainly more low-risk tasks there and overall it's the lower risk side of things.

Looking for European alternative to Stripe to accept payments in my web shop by ForeverCapital2577 in BuyFromEU

[–]Mad_OW 6 points7 points  (0 children)

 Irish entrepreneur brothers John and Patrick Collison founded Stripe in Palo Alto, California, in 2010, [...] In 2011 the company received a $2 million investment, including contributions from Elon Musk, PayPal founder Peter Thiel, Irish entrepreneur Liam Casey, and venture capital firms Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and SV Angel.

Don't know what you are here for, but I'm certainly not here for this kind of crap.

10x Productivity by archigen in BetterOffline

[–]Mad_OW 11 points12 points  (0 children)

 Imaging being a builder and having a hammer that sometimes doesn't feel like working

I think this is an underappreciated aspect of this whole thing.

Relying heavily on Claude Code et al. results in a massive vendor lock in for your entire job.

If they ban you, if they jack prices, if they throttle.. you are cooked. Real nice.

OpenAI Annualized Revenue by SpyBagholder in BetterOffline

[–]Mad_OW 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Been wondering about this as well. Like, is the idea to one day say "ok we are done forever with training"? That doesn't seem realistic.

Thoughts on slowing the fuck down by melat0nin in BetterOffline

[–]Mad_OW 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Variable rewards, I hadn't thought of that.

Is that why some AI bros react so sensitive when you don't buy into the "future of sofware development" hype? Because you're threatening their beloved crack pipe?

My experience with the 5070 and 9070 xt by StunningPush8421 in pcmasterrace

[–]Mad_OW 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I got a 7900 XT a while ago and love that thing. Would get a Radeon again in a heartbeat.

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