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I wonder when people will finally feel comfortable not putting vibe coding in scare quotes. Maybe when it accounts for 50% of all new software, instead of only 10%.

Try using a model from a year ago.

I know it's old hat now, because it happened over a week ago, but it's amusing that Millennium Problems are now just benchmarks we use for discussing models.

They could just actually believe what they're saying. People are known to sometimes actually believe things.

Thesis, antithesis, synthesis?

I don't really care, personally. What I care about is that something now exists which didn't exist before. A Ouija board would be equally as good.

AI is becoming a more and more powerful lever that lets you move greater loads per application; it is in a real sense giving you more leverage. But the lever is difficult to use effectively, and the methods for using the level change every week or so.

Don't you remember how awful they were at using versions? When o1 and 4o were both products available at the same time, or how they skipped from o1 to o3?

Try using astra as an orchestrator for deepseek 4.1 flash, it seems to work out quite well.

Text is in a sense way harder to do than images because of radical nonlocality. A word at the start of one paragraph can directly influence the meaning of a word five paragraphs away. Whereas images typically represent the real world, or at least a spatial domain, which gives you a lot of structure 'for free'. If you are drawing a human, you can make a reasonable guess where their hands go in relation to their face. If someone hands you the first half of an essay, finishing it is not trivial.

It would be nice if I could live my life without concern for producing capitalist exchange value. However, I live under the regime of capital and need to pay rent. So my goal is to pay rent with the least amount of suffering on my part.

More compute is coming online at all times.

Perhaps raw statistics, or estimates based on measuring traces in wastewater. I know that in the U.S. during covid they traced some new viral strains using that method.

I think the play now is to just try out whatever the best new model is every time you see a headline that fundamentally reorganizes your conception of what's possible.

If the post drops long before the IPO, it's vain boosterism. If it's near the IPO, it's fattening the pig. If it's after the IPO, it's pumping the stock price.