jki275

Nobody "made" me do anything.

Sure you do, I did.

True, not everyone has such a choice, but I volunteered for the organization I wanted to work for and then I volunteered for multiple deployments I didn't have to go on. Many of us have that choice and make that choice.

stop lying.

You are absolutely fucking full of shit.

I chose to "go into war zones" many times and none of it was to "enjoy killing people".

It's already being mixed, albeit not very competently.

I think some things telegraph competence and some the opposite -- and our experiences over the years tend to shape what we see that way.

C isn't the problem here. one might argue that the combination of micro python and C and the person writing it having no understanding of how either one works is the problem.

Also running python on a microcontroller to do cryptography is fucking insane.

I've used open code extensively -- it's not bad, but it's not anywhere near the level of the codex application.

I run local models on my M1 Max. there are a number of them that are quite useful.

Preach.

Golang is the best language there is for most workflows that aren't bare metal embedded or have real time requirements, and this is coming from a 20 year+ C++ dev.

The NSA doesn't do serious work?

Local models won't generally have as much context window, and the quantization process does make them "dumber" for lack of a better word.

If you try to get them to compose text, you'll end up seeing a lot less variety than you would with a chatgpt for instance. That said, ask them to analyze a csv file that you don't want to give to chatgpt, or ask them to write code and they're generally competent at it. the high end codex-gpt-5.2 type models are smarter, may find better solutions, may track down bugs more quickly -- but the local models are getting better all the time.

I have an M1 Max w/ 64gb that cost me much less than that -- you don't have to buy the latest model brand new.

I can definitely write code with a local model like Devstral small or a quantized granite, or a quantized deep-seek on an M1 Max w/ 64gb of ram.

64gb is fine.