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@TheMG3D you can say this about any tech: "There is no good reason why this should be able to exist at all".

It doesn’t matter how “real” it looks it will always be AI slop. There is no good reason why this should be able to exist at all, it will be only be used to spread misinformation or scam people.

@TheMG3D jealous about a guy getting millions of views for doing basic shit recorded on a smartphone. or maybe just too autistic to get the comedic part.

Why do people hate this guy so much?

@TheMG3D to be fair even this kind of trash can advantageously be used by professionals like here: youtube.com/watch?v=KtsRlR…

Here is the ai video I called trash Judge for yourself 😂

@TheMG3D 0:46 "winning is my only trick" what were you expecting in the following "eat my ****"?

I read much more tech books and official docs since the AI boom. I also recently bought one year udemy subscription in advance - first time since I started buying courses there 7-8 years ago. I also bought threejs-journey course for 99$ August last year - the most expensive tutorial so far in my dev carreer (not counting conferences). I think it's just coincidence because right when chatgpt 4 dropped I also had some significant shift in my private life. But AI definitely helped me to understand better what I read. Instead of waiting hours or days on responses on stackoverflow or reading retarded reddit comments I can just ask an LLM and get reasonable clarifications on most of the tech topics.

Does anyone still buy courses anymore? 🤔 I don't want to completely abandon the educational aspect of my business, but video courses seem horribly obsolete now that everyone is shifting to agentic coding. Right now, my thinking is abandon the video format and instead create a human-curated repository of code, projects and custom instructions that turns the terminal into your own personal WebGPU tutor. I know that's basically what Claude skills are, but it would need to be LLM-agnostic. I also think there are ways to make it more guided/interactive rather than a giant dump of information.

gemini pro chats started hitting usage limits within unreasonably short usage (10-20 messages within a few hours) recently... upgrade option starts at 280€/month 😳

You have to understand that almost no ai ceo has a technical background. Sam Altman for example was pushed to the top of silicon valley not because he is dope at making profitable businesses or his tech expertise but because he can lie with a straight face - which is the most important feature you need to have in a VC world. So while i dont know much about this guy. Generally his kind of guys just lie and push their fraudulent agendas, not what is objectively best or true

Wow, I totally disagree with this statement. At the current state, AI actually amplifies the developer to developer difference. If you were a 10x developer, you had good ideas + architectural clarity, this is a brutal advantage when using AI. Steering is a fundamental part of today's AI development.

Where are all the crypto scammers at all of a sudden? Probably busy riding and pushing the vibe coding wave.

@MiPnamic actually, nice hack.

@foolstechdev I had to use curl for downloading it 😂

I'm trying to export all my conversations from ChatGPT (they sent me a link for that), and the download (more than 1.5/1.8Gb) keeps failing. Amazing service, for real.

how many did ship something meaningful that works?

@jshchnz how many did ship something meaningful that works?

At the Agents Anonymous SF meetup last night we did another 🙋 AI usage survey, here are the est. numbers: Usage stats: - 90% Claude Code - 60% Codex - 30% Cursor - 20% OpenCode - 10% Conductor - 10% Own agent/Pi 80% have prompted a coding agent from mobile 50% have not handwritten a single line of code this year 99% think they're more productive now vs. pre agentic coding agents Parallel agent usage: - 90% 3+ - 70% 4+ - 50% 5+ - 5% 10 Also want to give a ginormous thank you to our incredible speaker lineup: - @jonas_nelle & @alexirobbins from @cursor_ai - @southpolesteve from @Cloudflare - @LewisJEllis from @ycombinator - @aidandcunniffe from Git AI - 🦞 @steipete from @openclaw Hope to see you all at the next one! 🫡

@itsme_urstruly way too much trust in these champagne bottles.

Ballet needs to be in the Olympics. I’m serious. That was athletic as hell.

@TheAnkurTyagi he certainly did not read any programming book, looking at the book shelf behind him

1. Tell everyone fundamentals don't matter 2. Sell a vibe code tool that delete prod data 3. mislead newbies so they won’t learn That’s exactly what I’d do/say if I were the CEO of a vibe coding startup. Sell the shortcut and charge to fix prod. It’s a great business model.

@truthache68 I'm vegan and use Postgres btw

Larry Ellison basically just said it out loud. ‘Your private data? Yeah, that's the secret sauce for AI... and lucky us, we've got the biggest pantry full of it. What did you think the clouds were made of? Clouds aren't vapor. They're our emails, transactions, medical history, and every swallowed enterprise DB over the last 50 years. Oracle isn't building AI. They're building the panopticon 2.0 and then making AI the prison guard. “Don’t worry—it’s for progress.”

first of all i lost any respect for him after seeing how disrespectful he is talking about some european fighter because he wasn't doing exactly as he wanted him to do (despite him not being professional actor / stuntman). secondly most if not all of his stunts or done on daily basis by parkour kids across the world for decades.

Bruce Lee was like water... But Jackie was the son of the wind 🥵🔥

Even the latest llms fail at finding creative solutions to basic problems. If no one talked on the internet or in books about the solution you are looking for - llms will spit out the most dumb shit. And what's even worse: not only can't they come up with a solution they also waste your time with trash suggestions. I recently had to translate a site from English to Russian and German with a lot of idioms and casual phrases - Gemini Pro had dumbest translation suggestions. On the other hand the llms seem to be doing quite a good job for semantic search.

A C compiler is one of the most over-represented “serious projects” in software engineering. Students, hobbyists, researchers. Thousands have written and published one. Is the model solving problem or statistically reconstructing patterns from a saturated training distribution?

@andrewpprice @ludoviciochem @PJaccetturo I think in the hands of an expert AI can be a useful tool. But the example above is just pure trash.

I think about this all the time. Control will obviously create a better result, but the costs and timelines are so asymmetrical it might not matter. This took 2 days and maybe $100 in compute to produce. The Hollywood pipeline would be 2 years + $5M. At that cost, indie film makers could publish a new series to Youtube every week, testing and exploring niche story ideas. Will audiences care that it's not perfect? Maybe. But podcasts replaced late night TV despite worse production too. Audiences might overlook perfection if the stories are nicher to their interests. Hollywood might not die, but there would be far fewer productions due to the increased competition and risk of no return on investment.

The problem with these "RIP Hollywood" formula is that they come from people who never worked for Hollywood productions. @PJaccetturo, it doesn't look photoreal. A lot of shots need work. Can you provide masks for DI ? Can you refine fx/animation ? Provide 32b EXR for review ?

@downer_blake @TheGracia_here It's not a dick size contest

@downer_blake @TheGracia_here everyone makes mistakes. even the most skilled programmers once in a while

My reaction when someone says ‘Rust is better than C’ without mentioning tradeoffs.