robertclaus

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Comment · 9 days ago
Eh, the math implies <10% off their total bill. Unclear what LLM wrote this page up from their actual report, but it wasn't very good at math.
Comment · 12 days ago
The last time I saw a news article about this it was talking about how many Airbnb kitchens in SF had been wrecked by teams running field tests for robots doing dishes. Excited to hear about the damage actual plumbing jobs would cause.
Comment · 12 days ago
Reading up on some of these systems is wild. For example THAAD munitions are wildly expensive, but also a ballistic projectile that physically knocks hypersonic missiles out of the air in flight 200km away. Ultimately $13 million seems reasonable to save a few city blocks in a major city. It just doesn't make sense to use against small arms like disposable drones.
Comment · 13 days ago
I let them install the free ISP router a year back when they installed fiber in the neighborhood. I assumed I would swap it out the next day, but I haven't had any issues like back in the day. I love shopping for a nice router as much as the next tech nerd, but decent drop-in home networking seems to be pretty commodity now days.
Comment · 15 days ago
Isn't it weird for Tesla to start adding non-electric propulsion to their car?
Comment · 15 days ago
Or this is what they're calling the v2 to re-hype it again.
Comment · 15 days ago
We do a run of 250 similar badges for a non-tech convention every year. ~$10 per badge is about right all in. We've also done runs without ICs (just LEDs, a switch, and button cell battery) for about ~$4 some years.
Comment · 19 days ago
Agreed that's the best policy for the real contributors, but how do you fight back against the folks using your reviewer's good nature to test their coding agents?

Also, Linus is also comfortable closing 100 PRs as "this looks like garbage". Many communities are softer and try to be more helpful with new contributors.

Comment · 19 days ago
At Plotly we are dealing with similar issues. We're doing our best to keep up, but it's genuinely hard not to just cut our losses on passer-by community contributions. 3 page issue writeups nobody has proofread, nobody but a bot to follow up with when we try, huge volume of plausible but weak PRs eating up reviewer time. All while we have core work we really want to be focused on rather than merging another bug fix we don't expect anyone but this bot has really run into.
Comment · 21 days ago
I was ok with the AI writing until I got to the fact that they added Triggers in 2.0 and the article decided that was meh compared to optimizing workers for S3 file access on slow connections. Nope. I'll read the release notes myself.
Comment · 24 days ago
That's a big jump in the right direction for 6 months. It's certainly more on the level of the light models in terms of cost and performance, but the trajectory is awesome!
Comment · 28 days ago
This is how most services work...
Comment · 1 month ago
I like marx
Comment · 1 month ago
Hanlon's Razor given that these tools are almost certainly vibe coded at this point?
Comment · 1 month ago
These benchmark results keep getting more questionable without error bars.

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