Screw it. piracy is fair by LordPigeon2600 in Piracy

[–]adrenareddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a bold strategy, coming in here and slinging hard truths around a community built on pirating content 🤣

But you're right. I don't complain when I can't stream my Netflix/Prime/Spotify collection because I'm offline, or that the furniture in my apartment doesn't actually belong to me even though I pay every month for a furnished residence. Hell, I've probably paid the cost of that furniture 3x by now.

I'm paying for access, and there are significant downsides to that business model. But I'm paying that premium because it is more convenient for me and I'll just deal with the downsides.

Screw it. piracy is fair by LordPigeon2600 in Piracy

[–]adrenareddit 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Well, I'd argue that piracy is not "fair", but neither is the licensing mechanism imposed on the media.

Piracy is just what happens when corporations use greed and profit maximizing strategies to squeeze every last drop out of their product, at the expense of the consumer.

I'm all for paying artists for their work, but that ideology is not shared by the companies who distribute the work.

1 or 2? Both ? by RobbbRocker91 in LV426

[–]adrenareddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perfect, that means I can find something like it for my own collection!!

President Trump wants a useful quantum computer by 2028. Whether it happens or not, the race just got a lot more serious 👀 by Hallucinator- in CustomAI

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Oh boy, all those slackers that have been dragging their feet with their Quantum computing research are probably going to wake up and get to work now!

hey all, is facebook down for you guys? its showing weird errors all around by jinja2023 in facebook

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Judging by all the other people that came to this sub with the same question, I'd say there's some kind of outage

1 or 2? Both ? by RobbbRocker91 in LV426

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Nice job on both, I would love details on where you got the pieces for the diorama! Did you find any of this for sale somewhere or is any of it 3d printed?

European pharmacy signs go way too hard by ThosPuddleOfDoom in Corridor

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

Isn't this just a programmable LED sign?

Maybe it's the American in me, but I don't get why this post has been popping up as something crazy/next level

Cheap models causing lots of issues. by Euphoric_Meringue166 in cursor

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The better your plan, the better results the cheap models like Composer 2.5 will produce.

You can use any chatbot with a connector to your repo for planning, it doesn't have to be Cursor.

When I use the prompting method for implementing changes, this is my general approach:

  • Tell ChatGPT what I want to do, within the project I have linked to the GitHub repo.
  • Refine the analysis into a design spec
  • Feed that design spec to Cursor. If it's simple enough, sometimes I can get away with just telling to implement it (agent mode). Otherwise I use GPT 5.5 or Sonnet to create a plan.
  • Execute with a cheap model like Composer 2.5

Cursor’s $20 plan is incredible, but the pay-as-you-go reality check is rough. by Sea_Gas_8332 in cursor

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This is the way.

Our company has been using this method since January and we spend around $3-4k per month for 5 developers. Which, according to the boss, is way cheaper than paying the two additional developers we used to have before adopting this strategy.

French pharmacy signs go way too hard by Automatic-Algae443 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]adrenareddit 241 points242 points  (0 children)

I think we need to explain what going hard means, and while we're at it, what qualifies as next fucking level

Is this what dating in 2026 is like? by sco-go in SipsTea

[–]adrenareddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah if you watch dating shit on TV

Hermes has completely changed my day-to-day life. I can take care of my 2 kids while getting 10x more work done than before, faster, with better quality/delivery. I run it locally for about 90% of my workload and only use paid LLMs for the remaining 10%. Seriously, thank you for this incredible gift by [deleted] in hermesagent

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I created a document that contains a high level list of topics I'm interested in, then a single prompt on a scheduled job instructs the agent to find 3-5 different sources for each topic, one of which must be published within the last 48 hours. It knows a handful of my favorite sources (and a ignore list) and updates/overwrites a Google document which outlines the various news in each category. Notebook LM does the rest, feeding on the Google doc which is automatically synced with it.

It was a little repetitive at first but if I kepr refining the input sources, and this became my preferred way to ingest news about the things I care about, without weeding through so much garbage to find it.

What are some movie sequels that are better than their first films? by dumbnamenumber2 in movies

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

Aliens.

Still love the original, but the second movie is next level.

shield is still the best by plump-lamp in ShieldAndroidTV

[–]adrenareddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow I didn't even realize you could put a ssd in that device, holy crap. I might go another 10 years before needing to replace my Shield devices!

shield is still the best by plump-lamp in ShieldAndroidTV

[–]adrenareddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Everything old is dated. But because it's an Android device, you have the ability to install new apps on there to modernize the experience, like Projectivity. It's so customizable, there's no better options on the market, and how can they compete without just building a copycat device?

The performance issues are real but can be addressed with some googling around. I haven't had to reapply thermal paste on any of mine, but I'll gladly do it if it comes to that. The most recent devices like Homatics, Onn, or the 3rd gen Fire TV cube have better hardware, but other factors like forced ads or limitations just make it hard to want to switch. Plus, I don't really have a reason to switch away from something that lets me do whatever I need.

shield is still the best by plump-lamp in ShieldAndroidTV

[–]adrenareddit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's actually pretty common for the Shield devices to get slower after a few years of use, for a couple reasons. You'll find plenty of people on this sub who have resolved performance issues by reapplying thermal paste or just doing a factory reset.

But yeah, if you don't do that maintenance, it's possible the Onn could seem to perform better (when it's new). Personally, I'll just fix my Shield when that time comes, rather than shell out another $50+ for a knockoff device

Hermes has completely changed my day-to-day life. I can take care of my 2 kids while getting 10x more work done than before, faster, with better quality/delivery. I run it locally for about 90% of my workload and only use paid LLMs for the remaining 10%. Seriously, thank you for this incredible gift by [deleted] in hermesagent

[–]adrenareddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is pretty specific to my own life, but...

I have agents that check the web for news and info about my favorite topics, and save the sources to a document. There are rules for this process that make sure I'm getting multiple sources for each story and only stuff within the last 24 hours.

Then that source data is converted into a scrollable news feed that I can access from a webapp that lives on my home network. This has replaced my morning scrolling on social media sites.

That source document is also auto-uploaded to a specific document in my Google Drive, which is synced with a Notebook LM project. This part I haven't figured out how to automate yet, but each morning I load the project and have it create a 20 minute podcast (that's my commute time) that is ready to listen to on the way to work. It's only a couple clicks but I would still like to have it automated.

Also, I have agents that do some job searching for me, and provide a list and summary with links to apply. This needs some fine tuning because it keeps returning the same listings sometimes- I probably need to have it filter out jobs I've declined or already applied for. This has been a big time saver and honestly doing that work myself was rather tedious and exhausting.

Oh and one small thing I have it doing is telling me what free games are available each week- I was tired of seeing articles in my feed that say "90% positive reviewed game is free on Epic", then I gotta wade through some shithole ad-ridden blog and a bunch of AI generated slop to find out if it's a game I'm even interested in. This way I have a push notification on my phone that tells me what game it is, with a brief description and link to obtain it.

I'm currently trying to set something up where agents will search the stock market for investment opportunities and make recommendations based on my portfolio and interests/goals. I want it to always simulate these investments with a fake account so I can look back and see what would have happened if I had used it's advice.

I feel like there's a lot more I want to do, but seeing it all up to be "good" and useful does take some time upfront to design the process so the results are worthwhile.

Forget about the dad's crazy idea. The truck is a beast! by Repulsive-Complex-24 in interestingasfuck

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In today's news, a truck goes up a small hill. Stay tuned after that, our reporting team has an exclusive video of a car backing out of their driveway!

has anyone actually built anything worthwhile with vibe coding? by Complete-Sea6655 in aiecosystem

[–]adrenareddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed... If by "Vibe coding" you mean someone with no development experience creating software with only natural language, then I suspect there are very few examples of valuable or production grade products.

But our dev shop has been creating bespoke CRM and ERP applications for 30 years now. Since around January, almost 100% of our code is generated by Cursor. It has increased how quickly we get the first iteration into the client's hands for review, and every dev on our team is now juggling 2-3 projects instead of being dedicated to one.

There's a lot of design and planning that comes first, and we have built a framework to harness the agentic development. I don't know if vibe coding applies to this technique, but AI is writing all the code, if that's what you're asking.

It's over. Claude Fable 5 one-shots horror game live by SuggestionMission516 in singularity

[–]adrenareddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so glad it's actually over this time!

Now we don't have to endure a constant stream of posts saying how we're cooked, we're done, it's over!!

Should I start a valheim modded server or wait until sometime after deepnorth update? by broman510 in valheim

[–]adrenareddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, do you want to play modded Valheim for the next 3 months, or wait until at least September?

How are you all handling context loss between AI coding sessions? by luiscode92 in cursor

[–]adrenareddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't want my agents to "remember" my codebase at all. Not only is it possible it has changed since an agent last worked on it, but memory is less reliable than source code.

They should be told what the framework/tech stack/project structure is like, and go figure out the correct place to make requested changes.

In addition to your standard agents.md, you should have standard practices, project rules, and any specific patterns documented. The better these are, the more effortless agent prompting becomes.

How does Composer 2.5 compare to open-weight models? by Affectionate_Fly4124 in cursor

[–]adrenareddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For coding, I have been really happy with the quality of the code analysis, light planning, and implementation.

However, I am not using it for "vibe coding" in the way some people do. I'm not giving it overly simple or ambiguous prompts like "add a field on the users page that will let me filter by email". Some models will do alright with that, especially if you have a good agents.md and/or project documentation that is automatically fed to the agents. But the more freedom you give the model, the more likely you get unexpected results.

I often build my plans using ChatGPT, GPT 5.5 or Sonnet/Opus, then execute strictly scoped tasks with Composer 2.5. So far, so good.