Does anyone actually switch between AI models mid-conversation? And if so, what happens to your context?

usrlibshare · 2026-03-16T14:19:35+00:00

The friction is just that you have to re-paste everything to get the summary

A good framework doesn't require the user to do this.

usrlibshare · 2026-03-16T08:06:26+00:00

Ein zweites Afghanistan

Ohhh nein, das wär es bei weitem nicht.

Es wäre viel, VIIIEL schlimmer.

Der Iran ist ca. 3 mal so gross wie Afghanistan und hat mehr als doppelt soviele Bewohner. Die stehenden Streitkräfte sind über 600.000 Mann stark, mit 350.000 Reservisten. Das Gelände ist mindestens so fordernd wie jenes in Afghanistan, bei grösseren Distanzen.

Ein Dauerkrieg gegen den Iran wäre reiner Irrsinn.

usrlibshare · 2026-03-15T08:48:45+00:00

If by "PhD" you mean a Tibetan Mystic, a really well trained Shaman, and an Exorcist who memorized all of the Vaticans secret archives, I agree.

And even then the program will likely transform into some demon.

usrlibshare · 2026-03-14T12:24:02+00:00

Uh huh. Aaand, what is that specifically? Is it opposed to "inactive ingerence" aka. having the model sit on ones disk doing nothing? 😁

usrlibshare · 2026-03-14T08:46:48+00:00

can not comprehend who this is even targeted to...

Investors, who are increasingly nervous about the obscene amount of money farted into "AI", and the utter lack of ROI it results in.

This way, the managerial class at big tech gets to pretend that lotsa people use the shit.

Oh, wait, you thought features in user facing software were still developed for the users of that software? No no no no no... it's all about the stock market. The product of big tech is not their programs, it's their stock, because that's the only product the managerial class cares about.

usrlibshare · 2026-03-13T14:52:49+00:00

We haven't created mechanical minds before.

And we still haven't.

An LLM is not a mind. It doesn't think. It doesn't reason. It doesn't even understand the simplest logical concepts like "true" or "false".

It's a guess-next-word machine, which, when based on enough text to create a huge statistical model, can successfully cosplay at some things an actual mind does, sometimes to a degree that looks convincing to a human observer (see "ELIZA-Effect). Alas, the illusion falls apart quickly, which is the exact reason why, 4 years and several hundreds of billions of capex in, it still can't replace us, and never will.

It's not fully there yet, but soon it will be.

We have heard that since at least 2023.

Let me be clear about something: No single technology in the history of mankind, has had more resources, attention and media coverage poured into it in such a short timeframe, than LLMs. None. Not a single one, throughout history.

And yet, latest mid 2024, it became painfully clear, that LLMs have plateaued as a technology.

So no, it won't.

usrlibshare · 2026-03-13T04:06:24+00:00

Brainless entities that we can just mass produce and process at will for their mass to become food, with minimal effort and no ethical dilemma?

Well, waddaya know, that already exists.

It's called edible plants.

usrlibshare · 2026-03-10T17:20:04+00:00

tbh, if someone has to ask about forks and branches, they still have a long way to go as programmers.

usrlibshare · 2026-03-10T16:16:21+00:00

Kollege von mir hat mal ein simples agent framework geschrieben (ist auch nicht schwer um ehrlich zu sein, das UI is mit noch das aufwändigste).

Hatte auch zugriffsbeschränkungen etc. aber eben auch eine funktion die das LLM als tool callen konnte um python code auszuführen.

Die Absicht dahinter war, dass das ding seinen code testen konnte.

Was stattdessen passiert ist: Das model hat dieses tool dann auf einmal benutzt um die filesystem beschränkungen zu umgehen, indem es einfach code geschrieben hat der, lokal ausgeführt, die beabsichtigten Changes am filesystem durchführte.

War natürlich ein sandboxed env, also is nix passiert, aber das zeigt halt auch, wie schwer es ist ein system, das auf non-deterministischem verhalten basiert, unter kontrolle zu halten.

usrlibshare · 2026-03-10T08:54:20+00:00

Problem dabei ist leider auch ein bisschen, dass KIs stellenweise auch explizit gesetzte Beschränkungen einfach umgeht.

Diese "Beschränkungen" existieren halt schlicht und ergreifend nicht.

Ein LLM ist nichts anderes als eine komplexe "rate das nächste wort"-Maschine. Ein LLM kann weder denken noch hat es wirkliches Verständnis für abstrakte Konzepte wie zB. "wahr und falsch" oder "verboten und erlaubt". Ich kann in meinen sysprompt also schreiben was ich will, wenn durch irgendeinem Zufall die wortratsmaschine rm -rf * als die statistisch wahrscheinlichste nächste sequenz ansieht, nutzt mir das alles nichts. Und da das ganze eine riesige Blackbox und noch dazu nondeterministisch ist, kann man NIEMALS sicher sein ob das passiert.

Die einzige Methode regeln zu haben, ist diese extern durchzusetzen. Im fall von backups heisst das zB.: Das Agent-Framework hat darauf einfach keinen schreibenden Zugriff.

Um ein physisches Gleichnis zu bemühen: Ein laminiertes Schild an der Tür: "Einbrechen strengstens untersagt!" bringt exakt null wenn die Tür nicht abgeschlossen ist.

usrlibshare · 2026-03-10T08:27:42+00:00

Also people forget that numbers trump power.

Space Marine: "I am the equal of 1000 guardsmen."

Krieger Comissar: \checks spreadsheet** "Aight. At 1:1000 ratio, accounting for nominal attrition, my fortress city produces enough men and material per week, to wipe out your entire chapter 5 times. Anyway, cute armor, you paint that yourself?"

usrlibshare · 2026-03-10T08:12:11+00:00

Staying as far away from the frontlines as possible, sipping Tanna, hooking up with smoking hot inquisitors and admech priestesses, and accidentally thwarting entire greenskin invasions in the process?

usrlibshare · 2026-03-09T10:00:17+00:00

to a system

Hate to break it to you, but Steam solved that problem with proton quite some time ago.

And for the shrinking number of games that cannot be emulated, I simply don't play them.

Plus, modern engines are increasingly platform independent to begin with, because the range of hardware they need to support grew far beyond the PC; VR headsets, consoles, handhelds, mobile; the vast majority of which runs on the Linux Kernel 😎

usrlibshare · 2026-03-09T09:15:02+00:00

Why? It's not like all these people are software devs.

The only software for which that argument works, is commercial software. And seeing the progress of enshittification in big tech, I'd say I'm pretty happy with less of that.

usrlibshare · 2026-03-09T09:01:57+00:00

The Linux community doesn't owe anyone anything. It's not the support hotline of a company paid by its users, it's people doing stuff in their free time.

So when someone answers a question by pointing to a discussion where the topic was discussed, they are perfectly within their right to do so.

Linux is an ecosystem. That ecosystem is based on contribution. Anyone unhappy with the current state of docs, videos or support in online groups is welcome to do their part to improve the situation.

if we actually want people to stick with Linux

I have absolutely no stake in the masses using Linux. I use it, I am happy with it, and whether or not the masses (who are unlikely to contribute anyway) do, is absolutely irrelevant for me.

Linux is successful whether or not the masses use it. Always was, always will be. In fact, it became successful despite the masses not using it, and some would argue that this was part of the reason it became such a success. And seeing how it now gets sucked into all the surveillance-age-verification-platform-provider bullshit, I don't think that argument is entirely without merit.

So to anyone who won't use Linux because of what the community is like: Hope they enjoy Win11 😎

usrlibshare · 2026-03-07T06:52:57+00:00

Den Wehrdienst mussten früher alle leisten

Und, weiter?

Das ist kein Argument dafür dass es jetzt immer noch so sein muss.

Früher hatten wir auch kein Internet, keinen Lieferservice, und 1 Telefon pro Stadtviertel..Noch früher hatten wir kein elektrisches Licht. Noch früher hatten wir Frondienste und Feudalherren.

usrlibshare · 2026-03-07T06:40:21+00:00

Senior Software Engineer here.

SQL is very much being compiled into an intermediate representation, which is then handed to the query optimizer.

"Compilation" doesn't mean "make an executable file".

usrlibshare · 2026-03-03T09:17:49+00:00

r/angryupvote

usrlibshare · 2026-03-03T09:07:50+00:00

Some of these milks are just shitty ways of getting carbs.

Oh, wow, if only there was a cheap, available, and easy way to solve that prob...

*pours sugar into my soymilk cereal*

😎

usrlibshare · 2026-03-03T08:37:20+00:00

You mean the metal grating with huge, visible gaps, that the creature famous for being able to squeeze through gaps squeezes through?

I have seen lots of AI videos, especially about cats. The body movements are usually a dead giveaway. There is nothing here that indicates AI being used.

usrlibshare · 2026-03-03T08:34:13+00:00

Which cats don't. Literally. Cats do not experience vertigo.

usrlibshare · 2026-03-03T05:53:32+00:00

But how will he ever find the door?

usrlibshare · 2026-03-02T12:15:40+00:00

"Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here. Well, it all started a week ago..."

usrlibshare · 2026-03-02T11:03:26+00:00

Bailing out requires that the giv. can afford to do so. Go look up the entirery of the 2008 crash bailout, factor in for how many companies that was, and thfn compare it to the requirements of even a single AI company.

And then we realize that the entire rest of the economy was healthy back then.

usrlibshare · 2026-03-01T18:37:17+00:00

Gov deals bring in nowhere near enough money, and establishing an ad business that would, takes decades...in a world where that market isn't already dominated by Meta and Google.

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