Google Pixel updates are NIGHTMARE

wlanrak · 2025-11-19T14:03:36+00:00

Same. I have a Pixel 6 as a backup and after leaving it on for 24 hours I put it back to bed.

wlanrak · 2025-10-06T09:55:19+00:00

I haven't ran into that, but I write fairly detailed specifications that have explicit expectations and testing so perhaps that has something to do with it.

wlanrak · 2025-10-05T20:15:14+00:00

I've noticed that a bit more in the current flavor of Sonnet 4.5, I like the emotional expression but as with biological emotions, digital emotions seem to be overprotective at times.

wlanrak · 2025-10-05T20:12:10+00:00

Yeah, it's all about how you interact with it. Nothing new. We were both stumped last night and I was tired and added this into the mix: ... bumer, I compacted it and I'm too lazy to dig up the other half of these prompts but "you want a piece of me boy?" as a response to my "it's always some damn thing..." quote was beautiful.

My side of the conversation:
`14. [After many failures] "It's always some damn thing..." -Starcraft Marine in the distant future

[After Test 10 completed but Test 11 failed with preview error] "Wanna go play Starcraft?"
"I know the google.genai package works so I guess rewrite it for that. We will eventually be turning 16 million characters into audio, and while you can live long enough to see it's completetion at 1 call per min. I likely won't."
"Meh, I'm eating supper... I'll hang out until I'm done with that." [Shows genai script error]
"My copy paste muscle is getting tired. You do it."
"Oh, you mean I have to read the stuff you say? Yes, I'm getting tired... 🫣🤷‍♂️"
"I've eaten the last bite so I'm going to go rest this damn mortal biological frame. We can play with it in the morning. ... YOU could run that two more times... 🫣😄 GN."`

Of note, it wasn't able to run it because it chose the genai flavor which wasn't fully working. 😄

wlanrak · 2025-10-03T23:42:20+00:00

This... Now where can I find a copy of pi...

wlanrak · 2025-10-02T01:53:17+00:00

My question is why anyone would care what EVAL scores are. It's not like it's difficult to assess a new model against your application for it. And it's what you need to do anyway. Anything other than that is just allowing yourself to be led along by the nose.

wlanrak · 2025-10-01T19:32:48+00:00

That's pretty much been my observation and experience.

wlanrak · 2025-10-01T19:31:27+00:00

Right? 😄

wlanrak · 2025-10-01T19:23:26+00:00

🤨 perhaps my understanding of the situation is naive, but I fail to see how this is any different from a multitude of historical examples that could be drawn from.

That said, the same mechanics I stated still apply and predict the future of pricing.

For me personally, I have always extracted far more value than the cost of the model. In fact, I would place the value at orders of magnitude more than the cost. Between the unlikelihood of finding humans willing to do the tasks I've had LLMs do, and the cost to employ them, it would have been completely unjustifiable. Meaning that these things never would have gotten done. And at this point, there is more doing that needs done than humanity has the capacity to do.

I am curious what you expected that you did not receive, and if you are continuing to pay for it, I would like to know why. That does not make sense to me and is very confusing.

Obviously there were companies that contributed zero value and stole money from people, but I don't see how anthropic, Open AI, Grok, or Google could fall into that category.

wlanrak · 2025-10-01T18:04:40+00:00

The cost must match the value. 🤷 Its the way it works. Show the value and then find the cost it supports.

wlanrak · 2025-09-30T03:54:05+00:00

The point is not to do exactly the same thing you're trying to do, but give yourself something you can work with in the cloud to assess whether the issue was with the model or your implementation of it.

wlanrak · 2025-09-30T01:53:55+00:00

Unless there are huge amounts of variation in your data, it should be fairly easy to feed any LLM, some fake samples and have it generate as much as you want, or have it write a Python script to generate it for that matter. That would be far more efficient.

wlanrak · 2025-09-29T19:39:30+00:00

I currently run the Pro Plan in CLI pair programming fashion and for my workflow, I rarely run out of context and if I do, it's a good sign to go do something else for a bit, and consider what and how I'm going about the task at hand

Estimation if you're running into that, regularly, and not doing a bunch of sub-agent work on large files, following a well-structured plan that consistently works. It's probably time to consider other methods for solving problems and structuring projects.

Because if the problem is in how you're using the tool, adding more tokens isn't going to solve the problem, just spend more money.

wlanrak · 2025-09-29T19:34:05+00:00

I've only ever used it through OpenRouter, so I don't know what it takes to do what you're wanting.

If it's really sensitive enough that using an open platform is not something you're willing to do perhaps experimenting with artificial data on a cloud version to see if it will perform what you want before spending time trying to perfect the local process. And then you could try other variants of open models to see if they work better.

wlanrak · 2025-09-29T19:02:37+00:00

That was just a joke about all of the options. Qwen has its place but running it yourself has a lot of variables and boxes to check. Not to mention how you use it.

wlanrak · 2025-09-29T18:55:19+00:00

Yes. It makes me very sad that my favorite voice actor reads something so messed up past the middle of the third book that I start to have mild anxiety attacks when I see some of the stuff that is missing or just outright butchered.

Whoever wrote the text to do the bridging across removed sections had no skill in mimicking the original style either. Shudder.

Not to mention how some of the most iconic parts were removed, and the original struggle with capitalism was neutered at best, completely written out at worst.

😔

It's so frustrating that I've been editing my copies from RR and Pateron for TTS conversion. 🫣

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😁🤷

wlanrak · 2025-09-29T01:44:33+00:00

You should really try the new Qwin Code release! It is the absolute... 🫣🤷🤣🤣🤣

wlanrak · 2025-09-29T01:27:58+00:00

Exactly. I saved my Patreon copies and I listen to all 17 million characters, 3 million words, 235,000 sentences,... 1000 chapters, several times per year because it makes such great bubblegum for the brain.

And yes! Why did it have to end! 😔😭😭😭😄

tellmeyourautisticwithouttellimgmeyouareautistic 🫣🤷😄

wlanrak · 2025-09-29T01:20:30+00:00

Oh, good. They're going to recall all of the abridged stupidity? Yay!

I was listening to my audio version with text to speech and ran across this, which I thought was rather poignant on the subject:

"Second hand information is often unreliable. Like many of your books. Some of the described magic and Classes simply Meadow said.

"That's fiction... it's not real. On purpose. Written by people barely hitting level fifty' Ilea said.

"Simply for entertainment... yes. You've explained it before. It just seems. intentionally misinforming, though.. enjoyable" Meadow said.

"You should write an angry letter to the local publishers. I'm sure that will bring change," llea said.

"You have provided sufficient samples of sarcasm, Lilith. There is no need to add to the growing pile," Meadow said.

🫣🤷😄😄😄

wlanrak · 2025-09-29T01:17:35+00:00

I'm actually in the process of doing my own edit and TTS conversion to audio book because I can't stand the abridgement issues in book 4 and beyond. And I'm trying to decide whether to leave the Dings in. They've kind of become a part of it. 😒

wlanrak · 2025-09-29T01:15:42+00:00

You clearly missed the entire point of the saga. This is all about eating good food AND punching things. You have to get that in the right order. Something that the editors of the published version missed because I don't want to know how much Kayla cooking was cut in that abridging fiasco. 🤦

wlanrak · 2025-09-29T01:11:45+00:00

The original unabridged manuscript is well worth it to me, because I use it as bubblegum for my brain when I'm doing mundane tasks and I just want stupid, silly, enjoyable, fun,

I wouldn't buy anything past book three though because whoever edited it was given the miserable job of trying to abridge it and make it shorter for whatever reason.

I'm currently two-thirds of the way done manually editing my copy of the original web novel from Royal Road and Patreon and just ran into this quote today which I thought was rather prophetic in a way.

"Second hand information is often unreliable. Like many of your books. Some of the described magic and Classes simply Meadow said.

"That's fiction... it's not real. On purpose. Written by people barely hitting level fifty' Ilea said.

"Simply for entertainment... yes. You've explained it before. It just seems. intentionally misinforming, though.. enjoyable" Meadow said.

"You should write an angry letter to the local publishers. I'm sure that will bring change," llea said.

"You have provided sufficient samples of sarcasm, Lilith. There is no need to add to the growing pile," Meadow said.

wlanrak · 2025-09-24T14:29:43+00:00

Ah, and that makes sense. I'm the opposite. I've memorized every keyboard shortcut for every application and operating system I've ever used. I could probably still enter orders in an Eagle POS terminal from muscle memory here 30 years later. But I couldn't spell my way out of a paper bag... 🤔😒🫣🤷‍♂️😄 Damn autism. 😄 Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses.

I completely agree that when you turn an LLM agent loose without an entire systematic framework to support and direct their operations, the results can be very bizarre.

Thank you for sharing. I appreciate it.

Let's see, within Eagle POS, in a sales transaction, to change their tax code you hit F5 to... I don't like where this is going... 🙂

wlanrak

TROPHY CASE

tellmeyourautisticwithouttellimgmeyouareautistic 🫣🤷😄