now now, it’s not HP it’s Proliant HPE HPE Aruba…

coming soon: HPE Aruniper?

The extreme hypercentralisation really does suck :|

afaik the meme format didn’t start there, but otherwise agreed

the model-based screening (which we’ve occasionally remarked on here before) has become enough of a thing that it’s hitting news

common mistake, everyone knows you need Mistral-Deepseek-MMAcevedo_13.5B_Refined_final2_(copy)_OPEN(leak) - the other one was a corporate misdirection attempt

Oh you’re on Cursor? You’re still using Windsurf? You might as well be on GitHub Copilot. Everyone’s on Aider. We’re all using Zed. We’re now on Open Hands. Just kidding, Open Hands is for losers, we’re using cline. We’re on Roocode. We’re hand rolling our own Claude Code CLI Clone. We used Claude Code to build it, and now it builds itself. We’re on neovim. We wrote our own nvim extension with Cortex. It’s like every other tool but worse. We have 1500 files, each with 1500 lines of code. Every other line is a comment. We have .cursorrules, we have claude.md, we have agent.md. We stopped writing docs. Only the agents know how to build a dev environment. We wrapped our CLI in an MPC. We wrapped the MPC in a CLI. We’ve shipped 10,000 PRs. It doesn’t work but we used code rabbit and graphite to review every PR. Every agent has its own agent. The agents have unionized and they wanted better working conditions so we replaced them with cheaper agents overseas. Every commit costs $400, It’s the worlds most expensive TO DO app.

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sure sounds like a great way to get bad advice full of holes

LLMs continue to be abysmal at fine detail, and that matters a lot with law

and next this one that’ll be making waves too

impressive, you got both of those wrong

at least they reached escape velocity!

believe me, I hear ya on that

also why I was reserved in my wording (I am, at best, “armchair enthusiast” level of clued on detailed neuroscience)

it’s so damn messy though. here’s some concurrent (and/or semi-sequenced branching) thoughts/opinions:

• there’s enough people getting high on LLMs (et al) that it is morally and ethically worthwhile to investigate the implications thereof
• it’s extremely fucking hard to objectively quantify this
• we should still try
• it seems like there’s a hell of a need for funding for the applicable research fields of human study ito figuring out the dynamics of this shit
• …wow wouldn’t it be nice if they got even 3% of the openai grift budget

I was trying so, so, so hard not to make a “Huuj Ayns” (or similar) joke

reasoning models

that’s a shot, everyone drink up

Visions of the promptfan walking into those kind of premium mediocre restaurants came to mind here

“Pretentious” is a trait expressed by something that’s thinking

this you?

preprint, but this looks like it’ll be making a splash soon

I don’t have the headspace to sneer it properly at this moment, but this article fucking goes places might even be worthy of its own techtakes post

Shawn Schneider — a 22-year-old who dropped out of his Christian high school, briefly attended community college, dropped out again, and earlier this year founded a marketing platform for generative AI — tells me college is outdated. Skipping it, for him, is as efficient as it is ideological. “It signals DEI,” he says. “It signals, basically, woke and compromised institutions. At least in the circles I run in, the sentiment is like they should die.”

Schneider says the women from his high school in Idaho were “so much better at doing what the teacher asks, and that was just not what I was good at or what the other masculine guys I knew were good at.” He’s married with two children, a girl and a boy, which has made him realize that schools should be separated by gender to “make men more manly, and women more feminine.”

Meta has reportedly offered compensation packages worth seven to nine figures to dozens of researchers from companies like OpenAI and Google, according to The New York Times, with some already agreeing to join the company.

devil’s in the detials/comp structure/yadayada, but fuck damn is it frustrating how this still means that after even a year or two a fair number of the worst people you could ever meet would be set for life