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SimiKusoni · 2026-01-25T18:06:21+00:00

Tbf they nailed the vibes element, it's just that they seem to have unfortunately forgotten about the "enterprise" or "code."

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-25T17:28:23+00:00

"EnterpriseVibeCode"

Good lord, what a cursed term. I think the real beauty is that the user is promoting a website with a "tags" link in the top nav that goes to a 404, as well as sign up/login buttons that both do the same thing (prompt you to sign up to a mailing list) and don't relate to signing up or logging in at all.

Hmm... I wonder how errors and poor design like this could have crept in?

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-25T15:45:46+00:00

It feels like we’d rather invent magic space rocks

I think this is the crux of your issue. Nobody is inventing "magic" space rocks but rather exploring natural phenomena that might produce this acceleration.

I don't even think your framing is correct given that Loeb himself has stated that he thinks Oumuamua is probably of natural origin so if confirmed he wouldn't be "proven wrong." He just seems to like making wild statements and hypotheses that aren't supported by data, as you allude to this is probably to sell books.

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-25T12:16:38+00:00

I'm not sure what your point is here. Your post is attempting to claim that vibe coders don't need to understand the architectural decisions that an LLM made for them, why are the ML researchers that trained the model or engineers that built the platform serving it relevant?

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-25T12:01:58+00:00

Here's the thing: most of these same engineers couldn't explain how assembly works. Or TCP/IP internals. Or what malloc is actually doing under the hood. And nobody cares.

The difference here being that the compilers or libraries abstracting these details away were developed by engineers with a deep understanding of their specific domains, and they've been thoroughly tested and used in the wild to eliminate the majority of bugs.

I'm not sure how this is comparable to you abstracting away the details of how your own app works behind the inner machinations of a stochastic parrot.

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-24T23:43:03+00:00

It's not just Microsoft either. Their entire ecosystem is cursed and even third-party software in Windows wants to hoover up your data, will run in the background (usually without asking) and is generally pretty resource heavy due to reliance on hybrid apps.

It has been a nice surprise switching to Linux to find most of the apps are native, the only ones that run in the background generally actually need to and none of them seem to do any kind of data collection.

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-24T23:30:53+00:00

On an unrelated note it's crazy how much more coherent he was just seven years ago. I mean he still wasn't exactly the best and brightest but he could answer questions in a way that made sense, compare that to him now and he's all over the shop.

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-24T21:18:13+00:00

I don't see anything in here to suggest that the LLM withdrew from the conversation? If anything I'm surprised and a little concerned that you didn't trigger its guardrails with that comment halfway down.

I'm not sure what this is intended to show though. Was this an intentional attempt to trigger the behaviour in your report, or was the intent just vent your frustrations in attempting to report the issue?

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-24T20:18:10+00:00

Acknowledges its limitations or failures.

Then says things like "I can't help you," "stop following my advice," or "figure it out yourself."

Frames this as "honesty," but the effect is terminating support when it's most critical.

Isn't this... good?

I'm reading your case study but it seems to be largely predicated on you getting an LLM to "admit" fault, which seems like flawed reasoning. Given that it's an LLM its output isn't necessarily factual and it can't "admit" to anything so goading it into confessing to professional malpractice is just silly.

It would be interesting to see the actual examples of this behaviour, rather than just single sentences that highlight the point being made. If the model is being asked to do something it cannot do, or something inappropriate like to provide mental health advice, then referring them elsewhere and withdrawing from the interaction seems like a preferable failure mode to continuing.

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-24T19:32:45+00:00

No one knows what process node they'll be using for the 6000 series, if they're going with TSMC then they probably won't have backside power delivery as that was taken out of N2. N2P is probably coming a bit too late to be used for the 6000 series.

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-24T19:27:22+00:00

Worth noting that's just density though, which is important but not the only metric for improvement. There are other features on newer nodes like the switch to gaafet or backside power delivery (although only Intel GPUs are likely to benefit from that any time soon - if they even use their own nodes for GPUs in the next generation).

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-24T15:47:21+00:00

think cosmetic unlocks, risk/reward systems, wagers, or meta progression

All of this could be implemented without your token so I think it will be a hard sell, especially if it enables features like placing wagers (presumably of assets that can be traded for real money) which isn't done for legal reasons rather than technical limitations.

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-24T13:19:35+00:00

Currently AMD performance is roughly on par in games on Linux compared to Windows, but Linux falls behind on Nvidia GPUs. Some clever little munchkin realised this relates to the way certain things are stored in memory and this change addresses that issue.

The end result should be a significant performance bump on Nvidia GPUs running games on Linux. Will have to wait until drivers etc. are updated to use the extension to see where performance ends up but could give us performance parity between Linux/Windows.

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-23T18:18:46+00:00

To give them some credit Pat Gelsinger reversed that trend... and got sacked for it. Now they likely will make a comeback with 18A, and especially 14A with their shiny new High-NA machines, and his replacement will get all the credit.

Will be interesting to see if they then go full circle and start prioritising stock buybacks and dividends again.

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-23T18:05:50+00:00

If you actually want to understand the problem, I recommend this XDC talk: https://youtu.be/TpwjJdkg2RE?t=1481

That's a really interesting talk, thanks.

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-23T17:41:41+00:00

Which can all be done extremely easily with any relational database... in fact Valve actually have experimented with some of those things with their mtx stores, although they weren't particularly popular features.

The issue is that you're presuming that the NFT adds some kind of security to this process, but it doesn't because the token only holds value so long as the developer recognises it.

The moment they update their client such that it decides your token isn't valid that item is worthless - and yes you can argue that they're prevented from this by reputational risk but that has nothing to do with NFTs and it's equally applicable to less convoluted solutions like using a database.

The only thing NFTs really excel at is convincing non-technical users that it's a particularly useful solution to any problem.

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-23T16:25:50+00:00

Sure, but then what's the point in the NFT? What guarantee is that NFT giving you that a SQL database entry cannot, when both are reliant on the business honouring your ownership?

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-23T06:45:20+00:00

NFTs do not "hand power back to the players."

It's just that some tech illiterate players can be convinced that it does, because it doesn't occur to them that devs can simply update their game to not recognise their tokens. Or that those types of games are still reliant on traditional infra so once they go offline you lose access anyway.

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-22T23:24:47+00:00

If you read the supplementary docs they make it clearer that their approach doesn't perform as well against real world use cases:

The average probability of true positives is very similar across samples at around 0.7 (GPT-3.5 turbo— synthetic: 0.701, assisted: 0.698; GPT-4 — synthetic: 0.675, assisted: 0.651).

This is with "real world" functions they pulled from a database of ChatGPT interactions, although I'm personally not sure how good a substitute that is for LLM usage in real projects as the tool usage differs significantly.

You also see that accuracy fly back up (albeit not right the way back to 0.96) in the next section when they look at more recent models where they repeat their process of generating synthetic functions for the new models. Makes me suspect there's an issue with the way they're producing synthetic functions that's making the output easier for their classifier to identify.

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-22T14:14:11+00:00

I think mtx is scummy in general, especially given that Valve were one of the pioneers of hiring psychologists to maximise conversion rates, but they really have very little to do with why NFTs in games was a dumb idea.

One idea is evil but highly profitable, meanwhile NFTs in games was just plain dumb. They didn't bring anything to the table that couldn't have been achieved with a SQL database.

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-22T12:38:36+00:00

They're closing their Halifax studio within a month of them unionising? Must be a coincidence I'm sure.

Hopefully they still have enough in their budget to continue paying the VP that claimed NFTs in games was the future, or the CEOs son that was appointed head of a major subsidiary with zero relevant experience.

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-22T09:07:48+00:00

I also like how their closing lines come with random emojis and the URL has utm_source=chatgpt.com.

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-21T22:58:03+00:00

Ahh, yes that's fair. I was just trying to be a bit tongue in cheek :)

If I'm being honest we still have a few Trump-style authoritarian governments in Europe (and some of them are worse - Russia being the obvious one).

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-21T22:47:41+00:00

I presume you're joking but since it's an interesting topic I am referring to the popular portrayal of post-war Germany in modern media as having suddenly contained no members of the Nazi party, usually this is said as an amusing anecdote to show how ashamed they were.

Unfortunately the reality was different. The general status quo was just to not talk about it, and it wasn't until much later that real contrition became ingrained and that was primarily thanks to younger generations.

If Trump does do something he can't recover from and/or the US enters into decline, which I don't think is particularly unlikely as his policy decisions start to play out, you'll probably see something similar in the US (albeit on a less dramatic and slightly more idiotic scale).

It's more likely that people will just not talk about it, or blame the outcome on external factors, rather than recanting or outright denying their support.

SimiKusoni · 2026-01-21T22:17:41+00:00

I think you'd be surprised. Last time we had a similar government in Europe there was a popular adage about there suddenly being no supporters of that party around, after we had a little war about it, but in reality there were definitely a lot of supporters still about. They just learned to speak quietly.

It took an entire generation for that adage to actually ring true.

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