nerdix

He has over 600 repositories. A few are forks but the majority appear to be TypeScript slop with less than 100 commits (with most of them being dependabot updates).

There needs to be public service announcements about responsible AI use. If we're going to boil the Earth and live in a world where a 64 GB DDR5 RAM kit that was $200 three years ago is now over $1000 then can we at least get the LLMs to generate code that's actually useful instead of circadian rhythm calculators.

Wouldn't be surprised if we lost free private repos because of the slopocalypse. Though most don't seem to be shy about sharing their slop with the world so I'm not sure if that will actually increase stability.

It was insane how much you could get done for a couple of dollars.

The good times never last.

I run Ghostty and Claude Code on a work macbook and I haven't seen this yet.

I actually used to have issues with run away memory leaks causing my computer to hang which often required a reboot to recover from. I haven't experienced that in a couple of weeks now. Too early to say just yet but I think its definitely possible that the rust port fixed a bunch of memory leaks that have tangibly improved the experience atleast for me.

If you drop a screenshot of a web page into something like Figma Make, you can get it to produce a strikingly close replica. I get that vibe from the screenshots. They are very similar but not exactly the same. That's probably also why a lot of the copy is the same.

Not getting your magic text generator to reword the copy for you is just sloppy.

Well, the hacker group claims to have access to the Github source code according to the linked article. And apparently, one lucky buyer with at least $50,000 can also have access.

I bought a Thinkpad P16s with 64 GB of LPDDR5x ram in October 2024 for just over $1100.

64 GB of LPDDR5x will add $849 to the price of a Framework 13 Pro. Thats insane. I would love a future Framework 16 Pro but that will probably run $3500 for the configuration that I would want if memory and storage prices don't come down.

No you can't do that on a kindle. They have a "send to kindle" feature that allows you to add non-Amazon purchased ebooks to your library. But that requires support from the backend (and an internet connection).

I'm assuming send to kindle will no longer be supported on these older devices.

For keyboards specifically, there are still community run group buys happening on the geekhack forum.

It's both a lot more interesting and a lot more risky than Massdrop used to be in the sense that there is lots of stuff that even the old Massdrop never would have offered but you're sending a random person on the internet money (sometimes hundreds of dollars) and hoping to receive a product many months later. They have added a "vendor trust" program in recent years to better help inform buyers but there is always risk.

I don't think there is any incentive to do so right now because the open models aren't as good. The vast majority of businesses are going to just pay the extra cost for access to a frontier model. The model is what gives them a competitive advantage, not the harness. The harness is a lot easier to replicate than Opus.

There are benefits too. Some developers might learn to use Claude Code outside of work with cheaper models and then advocate for using Claude Code at work (where their companies will just buy access from Anthropic, Bedrock, etc). Similar to how free ESXi licenses for personal use helped infrastructure folks gain skills with that product which created a healthy supply of labor and VMware evangelists that were eager to spread the gospel. Anthropic can't just give away access to Claude models because of cost so there is use in allowing alternative ways for developers to learn how to use Claude Code and develop a workflow with it.

I built a new desktop in 2023 and repurposed my old desktop for my daughter. The old desktop had a couple of smaller SSDs so I swapped them out for a 2TB Samsung SSD. Paid $99 on Amazon.

The exact same SSD is $479 on Amazon today. It's not a fancy super fast NVMe. It's a slow SATA drive. I have no idea why anyone would even consider building a PC with prices this inflated.

What gave you the impression that this was related to AI?

Was it the 100+ Agent Skills?

The Gemini CLI extension?

Or the bundled MCP server?