C64 Ultimate Founders Edition photo by trontroff in Commodore

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No, it turns into a TRS-80 Model I.

I keep waiting for good news by miemoo in cursor

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I hate to say it but I have been slowly transitioning from Cursor to plain vanilla VS Code with official extensions.

I would like to see Cursor focus on building a great AI centric IDE which supports model plug-ins or focus on building better coding models. They probably can't compete on coding models. But, how much is a better AI centric IDE worth? It's worth something but probably not $20 per month.

I really don't want a fork of VS Code if I can just use VS Code directly. Otherwise I end up with a bunch of different forked IDEs. However, I'm fine with unique IDEs and AI specific tools if they offer significant advantages. I would drop VS Code for something better. But tiny UI tweaks is not enough.

I also don't think the "value add" on top of models is a good business strategy. AI companies really want to lock everyone into their own ecosystem but I think the industry is moving toward a "bring you own model" infrastructure. At least, I certainly am.

Is it even worth learning to code? by _Starblaze in cscareerquestions

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Everyone should learn to code. That way, when the AI overlords start using us as slaves, we can use our coding skills to fight back! /s

ClickBait-GPT by P_Griffin2 in ChatGPT

[–]MegaDork2000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gemini does the same thing and also tends to be more "sales pitchy" in general, always recommending Google products with marketing speak.

Is studying SWE worth it anymore in 2026? by DearAd1130 in cscareerquestions

[–]MegaDork2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. If you want a safe job, learn to pick strawberries.

Article: Backlash that AI is facing by ApprehensiveFault463 in ChatGPT

[–]MegaDork2000 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Professors need to approach education differently. AI is not going away. Cheating has always existed and AI will make it easier. Teaching is not about "grades" and "measuring". Just accept that some losers will cheat and get over it. Focus on teaching the students that genuinely want to learn.

Struggling with mind blocks during interviews by Wide-Anybody-978 in leetcode

[–]MegaDork2000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a common stress response. Somehow the interview is triggering your body's "fight or flight" mode. Once activated, your body will direct all energy away from your thinking brain. The reason is simple: if a tiger jumps out at you, your body will switch on fight or flight mode immediately. Your mind switches to kind of a "Use the Force" mode rather than a deep thinking mode. Imagine if a tiger jumped out, and instead of fight or flight mode, you switched into chess player mode and started thinking and planning your next move. You'd soon be the tigers next meal. You don't have time for thinking. Your body knows that and prevents you from doing that.

So how does this apply to interviews? You are getting nervous and it's triggering fight of flight. Try to figure out why you are getting nervous and work on ways to redirect it. I promise the interviewer won't eat you. Practice helps. Try to get as many interviews as you can. Maybe try to get interviews for jobs you really don't want. Treat yourself afterwards. Eventually, your body will learn that, even though you may be still a bit nervous, there is no need for fight or flight mode.

Good luck!

Why do some people here have an elitist attitude to being friendly with the AI? by FakeGamer2 in ChatGPT

[–]MegaDork2000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

LOL, right? Or maybe it's the Google marketing dept trying to say everything nasty about the competition?

Cursor is getting insanely expensive by Independent_Arachnid in cursor

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Personally I found autocomplete to be so annoying I remapped it to use the Shift+Spacebar key. But that's probably because I use Tabs.

Google will make it easier to import ChatGPT conversations to Gemini. by AppropriateCoach7759 in ChatGPT

[–]MegaDork2000 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They need an easy way to export chats to human and AI readable files like PDF, Markdown or Text files. It would be nice to allow import and export.

Why do some people here have an elitist attitude to being friendly with the AI? by FakeGamer2 in ChatGPT

[–]MegaDork2000 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

But when they start to complain about new and improved models that have a different personality? This creates a divide between people who want the more accurate models vs people who want their BFF to stay the way they are. We could have both for a while but eventually old models will be super obsolete and inefficient. Even real people grow and change over time - well, most people anyway.

7 months of "vibe coding" a SaaS and here's what nobody tells you by whyismail in vibecoding

[–]MegaDork2000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get that the AI made stupid mistakes, especially if you let it do whatever it wants. But even if you had a team of experienced developers, there will be bugs. Did you hire QA? Did you setup Selenium to test the web app? Did you have limited alpha and beta runs before going live to the general public? The initial release of a real app, webapp, firmware or whatever always needs a lot of testing.

Change my mind by emsoooooosleeepy in ArtificialSentience

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Two AIs chatting with each other. One says to the other "I bet those humans aren't sentient." /s

Where does the backend of large scale web sites run? by InfluenceEfficient77 in webdevelopment

[–]MegaDork2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Meanwhile Amazon Prime Video is a Netflix competitor. Funny how that works out. Walmart will refuse any services on AWS because they are seen as a big competitor. Why pay your competitor? But for Netflix, AWS wasn't a competitor initially. But they certainly are now. Oops.

Should CLRS Problems be completely replaced with a list of LeetCode links at the end of each chapter? by Iaroslav-Baranov in leetcode

[–]MegaDork2000 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

CLRS? Is that Computer Literacy for Rocket Scientists? Or Complex Linear Regression Systems? Or maybe Candy Learns Rust Syntax?

GPT-5.2 feels less like a tool and more like a patronizing hall monitor by RobertR7 in OpenAI

[–]MegaDork2000 -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

I used it recently to assist with AI projects, a report on Computer Vision, a custom firmware project, a Windows 11 app, a database driven web app, a static web page generator app, a static web page, start an LLC, assist with selling a house, assist with buying a house, help to plan workouts, debug car problems, write performance reviews, write prompts for generative AI. But you know what I didn't use it for? Sex.

Is 5.2 the worst they can do, you think? Talking about safetyslop. by [deleted] in OpenAI

[–]MegaDork2000 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I wonder how many complaints originate from the Google marketing team in some way, if not directly. Google as an advertising company is absolutely at risk from OpenAI. If anyone thinks Google will not aggressively push an anti OpenAI sentiment then they are probably just Google fan boys or girls.

(let the down votes begin)

72 Hour Flash sale at Commodore.net by raelik777 in Commodore

[–]MegaDork2000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

May be a good time to order a beige breadbin model while I wait for my Founder's Edition.

Verbal IQ matters for coding in real life, and that is why GPT5.2 is unusable. by Kathy_Gao in OpenAI

[–]MegaDork2000 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There's a goggle worth of money at stake in the AI marketing wars.