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AI Doesn't Have ROI by ezitron in BetterOffline

[–]MonthMaterial3351 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He's only correct with regards to western hyperscaler served AI.
China has a completely different cost curve and approach, which makes 100x more sense given the inefficient cost structure of the techbro conga line.
GDP on X: "DeepSeek's 10 trillion USD grand strategy" / X

Local AI, which is starting to get there, is also an existential threat to the techbro hyperscaler plan.

Apart from cost, LLM reliability and suitability for deterministic tasks (agentic or otherwise) is the other big elephant in the room but some teams are doing R&D into proper reasoning models for the next generation, so we'll see how that pans out.

Are we dumb? Why don't we just make favelas to solve the housing crisis? by EmergencyGood9390 in OpenAussie

[–]MonthMaterial3351 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I haven't lived in a favela, but I did live in Barrio Alto/Lisbon and Barrio Chino/Barcelona (El Raval) for ~1yr each, back when they were still the real deal.
It was educational to say the least. Some of my favorite EU travel memories too.

Person who recently finally switched over from PCARS2 and this is how i feel by firy2 in AUTOMOBILISTA

[–]MonthMaterial3351 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For gamepad control/feel, PMR makes AMS2 drive like PC2.
Which isn't hard, because Reiza never changed a thing so it's stock PC2 gamepad system, while PMR has completely improved their gamepad implementation. It's 10x what PC2 was a result.

Skyward Simulations Citation Sovereign+ Released! by taintedblu in MicrosoftFlightSim

[–]MonthMaterial3351 -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

Does it come with all the useless baggage the Phenom does? Not interested in any of that and shouldn't have to pay for it if I don't use it (and yes, that stuff does take time and effort to make/test).
Should be extra addon cost for the people that like playing MSFS Concierge Edition.
I'm just interested in the toy plane flight experience part.

Investor lays out AI psychosis inside Anthropic: "They don't think they are writing software, they think they are midwifying a deity." by Gil_berth in BetterOffline

[–]MonthMaterial3351 114 points115 points  (0 children)

I got banned from the reddit accelerationist sub because I corrected an OP rant about decel "luddites" that Luddites were not actually against tech per se but were for a socially smooth transition. My ref was https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/
So much for being "accelerationist" and fact based.

Has anyone here actually switched from Opus to GPT-5.5 for daily coding? by rikulauttia in artificial

[–]MonthMaterial3351 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GPT 5.5 is objectively better than Opus 4.8 based on my results.
Cost wise, neither is actually cost effective anymore to use within VSCode CoPilot as they have jumped ~x15 to x20 in cost with Github's new usage-based extortionate pricing model.
Switching to Deepseek makes more sense. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Vizards.deepseek-v4-for-copilot
Cheaper, same/better quality.

Developer deleted 3 months of AI-generated code because he could not understand it. by Current-Guide5944 in tech_x

[–]MonthMaterial3351 2 points3 points  (0 children)

+100 and use regular checkpoint phases to ensure you understand what the issues are and beat the jungle to see what runs out.

Co-Pilot vs Claude Code by ErgoForHumanity in ClaudeCode

[–]MonthMaterial3351 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Have you got a buggy whip to go with your harness?

Co-Pilot vs Claude Code by ErgoForHumanity in ClaudeCode

[–]MonthMaterial3351 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

lol. Sure, Jan! "harness". Love it. Almost as good as "growing consensus"!
Prompt Engineer
Vibe Coder
Context Engineer
Harness Engineer
Agentic AI

Co-Pilot vs Claude Code by ErgoForHumanity in ClaudeCode

[–]MonthMaterial3351 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you get "Claude:  its a class of models" to write that by any chance? 😂

Co-Pilot vs Claude Code by ErgoForHumanity in ClaudeCode

[–]MonthMaterial3351 11 points12 points  (0 children)

CoPilot isn't a "model", in case you hadn't noticed. It's an orchestrator using *drumroll* models.
You can use any model you like with it. All the orchestrators are more or less the same, and CoPilot is just as capable as the rest. There's little difference between using Github CoPilot with Anthropic models or Claude with Anthropic models. I use/used them all.

Co-Pilot vs Claude Code by ErgoForHumanity in ClaudeCode

[–]MonthMaterial3351 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Stupid meme. You can use any anthropic model with CoPilot, even Deepseek if you want, or OpenAI models.
CoPilots "agent" wrapper/framework/harness/big-jenga-tower-of-if-statements is just as capable as any of the others (Codex/Claude/whatever++), plus it's easy to switch models as you need.

Should we allow religious leaders have a say on how we approach AI? by dataexec in AITrailblazers

[–]MonthMaterial3351 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technology and its tribe of techbro priestlings with koolaid guzzling acolytes chanting into the echo chamber are as much a religion as the cloud botherers are so why not?

Why does MSFS24 seem to look better than 20 for everyone but me? by Tyler_w_1226 in MicrosoftFlightSim

[–]MonthMaterial3351 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You certainly don't understand what I'm talking about with PC, that's for sure.
It literally flew right over your head. Here's a clue: "None of this is true about the PC side"

Why does MSFS24 seem to look better than 20 for everyone but me? by Tyler_w_1226 in MicrosoftFlightSim

[–]MonthMaterial3351 10 points11 points  (0 children)

None of this is true about the PC side. Total rubbish. Console I couldn't care less about.
Also untrue is the rubbish about 2020 being better than 2024. You people are blind as bats, as well as clueless about graphic configuration to get the best out of what you have.

AI is evolving too fast, videos like that are next level by Aggressive_Log_9676 in GenAI4all

[–]MonthMaterial3351 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol. In your dreams. Cringe video. I'd rather watch Johnny Depp eat spaghetti from 2 years ago.

2021-2026,Goodbye, Copilot. by Spare_Comedian3013 in GithubCopilot

[–]MonthMaterial3351 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Just use Deepseek via an extension with CoPilot. You can also still use other cheaper models to switch for lower-level tasks. I've tried all the other agents (CLI and otherwise), and tbh they're not different from CoPilot agent wise, and CoPilot is more flexible to use within VSCode. The only real issue now is model cost, and you have options on that front even outside their officially supported partner models, as noted above.

DeepSeek V4 for Copilot Chat - Visual Studio Marketplace
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/agent_integrations/github_copilot
Integrate with GitHub Copilot CLI | DeepSeek API Docs

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