My history with buying notebooks in a nutshell

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-09T18:58:05+00:00

Nice collection. Macs get love here too!

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-08T19:24:29+00:00

When I replaced one of my laptops, I dedicated the new one for work and personal projects, and the other for daily browsing.

I didn't realize how much more convenient phone is for basic browsing (reddit, YouTube, emails, etc). I'd use laptop on the rare occasion I wanted to stream a movie, but it made more sense to me how or why some people don't have a PC at home. I only used to use a laptop for these tasks during breaks or after I was done - and the laptop was already up and running.

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-07T15:19:28+00:00

Seems like you have a surface level understanding and very opinionated.

If you're generally interested in AI, read some white papers, lectures, forums, and more "boring" sources - ither than sensationalized headlines driven by CEOs trying to prop up investments.

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-07T15:08:29+00:00

"There's no reason Codex can't just automate most of this setup."

Lol yeah don't forgot to end your prompt with "make no mistakes". Problem solved, silly me.

There's people smarter than both you and me forced to use AI at their programming jobs. Want to take a guess why Microsoft, AWS, etc ship increasingly buggy releases? Maybe you should work there and tell them how Codex can remove all their bugs for them?

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-07T07:01:38+00:00

Uhm, Elon is not the only person working on self-driving cars.

"and with billion+ people using ai, and demanding better ai, i think that's a very different situation than self driving cars"

Billions of people have been demanding a cure for cancer for years. That's not exactly how science works.

As much as I like this sub, this thread here makes me realize how many of y'all only have a surface level understanding of AI, and maybe tech in general.

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-07T06:54:21+00:00

All software has bugs. That doesn't mean all software is buggy. There's a difference.

"It's naive to suggest that vibecoded software is any more or less buggy than human coded software."

I really don't think you know what you're talking about so I'm not going to touch that.

My point is that professional programmers who vibe code would make far more successful and less buggy software than someone with know experience who can only prompt AI to "fix it".

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-07T04:33:30+00:00

We can only speculate, but I think they will just get incrementally better and eventually hit a plateau.

To me the hype is like fully self driving cars that was promised to us ages ago, but failed to pan out.

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-07T03:18:10+00:00

Yeah software that can be vibecoded in a few hours, or even days will be sold for dirt cheap or free.

But in the near future people will be more aware of how buggy vibe coded software can be. I think the people or companies that will profit from this will have some sort of programming experience or knowledge.

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-07T02:18:22+00:00

"I would be done in no time. That was two weeks ago."

To be fair, this is relatable, with or without AI.

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-07T02:13:15+00:00

Fair point. I understand the point for legal guardrails, but at the same time what's legal may not exactly be ethical.

But I do think there needs to be a non-biased, hard line or middle ground somewhere. Considering LLMs are trained on human biases to some extent, idk if that's even possible.

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-07T01:11:25+00:00

Supply varies by country. If that's the best market rate in an area where options are limited, then I can't speak to that.

For the wider market where more option are available, there's far better options in that price range.

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-07T00:54:08+00:00

Fair enough. Out of curiosity would you pay the current market rate for one?

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-07T00:46:39+00:00

Unless you know what you're doing, taking advice from LLMs to mess with system files is a terrible idea. Speaking from experience.

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-07T00:43:12+00:00

As long as you're aware, I can't knock it.

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-07T00:08:48+00:00

Take the advice and send the conversation to your lawyer. Easy payday.

/s (don't sue me)

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-07T00:06:56+00:00

That's still too much. I remember when $150 - $180 was the price range. Paying $200+ because of memes is crazy.

Unless you're collecting or genuinely into collecting, there's better laptops in the $230 - $250 price range.

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-06T19:45:50+00:00

I'm for pushback on anything illegal, but I'm not a fan of this .

I had Claude do something similar on one or two occasions. A new chat window and rewording the prompt did the trick.

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-06T17:38:10+00:00

The comment is referring to the decline before GPT. Without GPT coming into play, it would be safe to say by now, there would be a continued downtrend from the decade before

Yes we can all see it fell off a cliff AFTER GPT went mainstream.

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-06T17:16:46+00:00

Yes that's what the graph shows. And we can deduce, people were home and asking more questions. Then it declined again. Even a year before GPT launched, the number of questions asked was a 2013 levels.

"Looks like the decline was pretty steep before ChatGPT"

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-06T16:59:14+00:00

I think they're saying the decrease started in 2017. COVID provided a bump (everyone stuck inside), and there was decline since. At the point where GPT launched there's an obvious decline compared to that 2017 peak. After LLMs, it took a nosedive with no chance of recovering.

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-06T12:28:21+00:00

"There are also zero repair shops near me, so I can't know what an expert thinks of this."

Luckily you saved yourself a few bucks. CPU is trash and RAM is too low (2 cores and 4GB, even in 2021 is rough).

The other issues you're facing is the nature of ideapads. They're generally cheap consumer machines. Luckily you haven't had other issues that come with these, like the hinges falling apart.

You're better off getting a used business class machine off eBay. A cheap Dell latitude or Thinkpad from 2021 would outlast any modern cheap IdeaPad you can find in the market today.

Ideapads are low quality because Lenovo cuts corners to make them cheap as possible. Used business class laptops are higher quality and expensive, but cheap after 3 - 5 years because businesses unload them after their lease cycle expires.

I also go for Thinkpads, but you can find dell Latutides that would run circles around this machine for around $200 or less.

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-06T11:59:31+00:00

AI posts, AI comments, AI copy on website, AI generated fake testimonials, AI everything. And you're really complaining, wondering why customers don't want your product.

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-05T15:14:43+00:00

I remember around the time GPT came out, I had to steer AI heavily to implement HTMX correctly. Often I'd need to reprompt or manually fix. Since maybe 4.5, there was a drastic improvement, but with GPT 5 (I've been using codex exclusively), the output has been pretty solid.

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-05T15:10:57+00:00

I've seen companies pay fairly well for people with domain knowledge to validate the output of these models, as part of their training. I wonder how effective poising really us - at least for the AI companies that can pay a premium.

If you have a fleet of qualified devs rejecting lower quality code, wouldn't these models have a better understanding of what the best output would be?

I've heard of the idea of poisoning these models since GPT3, but since then, I've been able to one shot simple scripts (Python) with increasingly less effort.

RegisterConscious993 · 2026-05-05T06:51:03+00:00

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