I’ve heard of vibe coding but in the context of being able to identify music that fits a “vibe”. What are you talking about?

This is when you give some LLM a prompt such as “write a game like Minecraft except cooler” and the system will output some code that might run and might vaguely resemble a block game.

So then you go back ask for more, it does something to the code potentially improving or breaking it, go back again ask for more, and repeat over and over. I’m being a little bit sarcastic because most serious developers look down on this, but really this is how a lot of coding is happening these days. There are tools to make this process somewhat usable and they are getting better every day.

Interesting. I can buy that idea, a model that’s designed to be general and answer all questions is going to have to make compromises in a lot of ways.

So it’s possible that model benchmarking needs to be revised in some way to give more useful analysis of its capabilities.

The industry is quickly moving towards using agents, MCP connections (sources of real-time data for the model to pull from, and apis that allow the model to perform tasks, like putting things on a calendar), and RAGs (augmentation with sources of truth, such as a 100 page pdf guide for example), and models that seem to be more aware that they can get data from other sources.

The future might become specialized models all the way down.

Just today I’m playing with “vibe coding” and using one agent as an orchestrator that assigns and monitors tasks to other agents. The result is still slightly bullshit code but it’s amusing to watch it work. Not sure yet if this is a strategy to spend all my money through API fees or will result in something useful 😂

You can do due diligence as a buyer forever but if the seller lies or doesn’t disclose… Problems like these happen. Lawsuits are potentially incoming to figure that one out.

It kind of looks like the new owners of VPN Secure got screwed - the last owner made all these costly lifetime deals and didn’t tell them. The obligation/liability to service those deals wasn’t transferred to the new owners.

Which means the old owner is probably the bad guy here and still owes these customers for their lifetime subscriptions.

Just curious if you’re a developer or using LLMs often.

I like Anthropic’s sonnet 3.7 model for agent and code related tasks more than the Open AI models at the moment.

Deepseek and LLama can be run offline, which is great for certain uses especially the aforementioned BS tasks that can perhaps burn through API tokens. Quality of output doesn’t match the top models but this is second to privacy for many.

Not sure where things are at with Dall-E 3 image generation but the last time I was looking it seemed like Stable Diffusion has gotten damn good and is extensible in ways that dall-e is not.

Voice recognition, and TTS output w/emotion OpenAI has the best I’ve ever heard.

Image recognition openAI might lead but the llama4 multimodal stuff is pretty awesome

Anyways I’m just some rando but my observation is that OpenAI better get on that IPO fast unless they have some magic in the pipeline because they are being attacked by competent solutions from every side in a niche that is showing diminshing promise to change everything the father we go.

A lot of their staff will be finished with needing to make any money ever again in their lives if they IPO.

But that will also throw OpenAI into the public sphere of needing to make money quarter after quarter forever, which inevitably leads to them sucking and no longer being innovative. Actually OpenAI is already teetering on this already as others are catching up. Sam and other top guys will leave because they hate people telling them what to do and don’t need it.

Facebook and Deepseek are literally giving it away for free now to kill the competition and in some areas other competitors are producing better products already.

It’s a weird space. I used to think we were on the verge of entering a whole new era of technology but now I think it’s going to be muted. Perhaps AI (as we know it now) eased some tasks and eliminated some BS stuff that used to waste our time, but we’ve not yet completely eliminated most professional jobs - if anything I think we just added more for them to learn and do to remain competitive.

Is it possible to use a voip based SMS for registration?

Those are a little easier to get anonymously then physical sim cards.

I think Google can never really hope to disrupt itself. The entire company is oriented towards selling those ads. So any other internal division that tries to eliminate the ads division is going to have a very uphill battle.

IMO the industry is ripening for disruption and someone will come along with a new idea for how to incentivize content generation and it will very likely continue to involve some heavy commercial marketing.

The state asserts its sovereignty and backs up the claim with the consensus of the people and a lot of guns.

A sovereign citizen makes the same claim but fails to convince or compel others to agree.

They very well might believe in some god-given authority but that’s not how any of this works.

But maybe an SC will uncover a deeply hidden loophole someday and win an argument. The law affords them the opportunity to try.

Don’t run down right after hopping out of the shower

This is the wild power of branding with good marketing. Gillette figured out how to hack an entire generation’s brain into believing they need to spend $40 bucks for a small pack of razor blades that will be dull within weeks.

Amazing. Let the sheep be sheep and keep your eyes open to more cases of this.

Stand your ground

This lawyer got so much free advertising out of this. He’s probably got clients booked out for years now.

So much this here in Bangkok as well, and in addition nobody has any clue which side to walk on.

You are constantly approaching head-on with a pedestrian who doesn’t know where to walk and weaving around wandering groups that wall 3-4 people wide.

Slashdot also let mods mark comments as funny, insightful, spam, etc.

As a reader you could sort by these and read it for the laughs or read it for the education. In hindsight that system was ahead of its time.

Why do you think slashdot didn’t become mainstream?

I was in San Francisco last week and got to take Waymo several times. Truly a surreal experience and if properly implemented seems like it’s very much our future.

Here’s another take. I think some people would never act cruel towards their equal yet they can easily act cruel if they believe another human to be someone less than their equal.

This is why during war times it is common to develop nasty names and personas of the individual enemies.

If Google randomly decides to terminate my account for some reason and won’t tell me why or allow me to reasonably appeal, I’m screwed.

GDrive, my YouTube, my play store purchases, my Gmail going back since forever, and even all these 3rd party sites where I used “login with Google” could be instantly toasted and irrecoverable.

I became aware that this is way way too much exposure to one company and every component is linked together so if, hypothetically, I left a comment on YouTube that triggered some angsty AI ban algorithm, which led to the whole account getting zapped, I would be one sad puppy.

Better to selfhost, encrypt all, and be in control of my own destiny.