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@WallStreetApes Why do you post these idiotic “I don’t understand interest rates, but I should be able to borrow money from other people for free forever” topics?

American logs into her federal student aid account so we can see her actual loans and payments - She took out a $49,548.74 loan - She’s made 120 payments, paying $25,558.36 - Her current balance is $50,121.33 So after paying $25,558.36, she now owes more than she took out “It's all such a scam”

@levelsio Maybe in the early story building portions. CP is decent overall.

This is why I had to stop playing Cyberpunk 2077, it's so tedious, it's not a game

@cryptopunk7213 Opus is the best at UI work. Outside of that, it screws up left and right. That's why many of us swear by GPT-5.4. I'm not at all surprised to see them beat Opus 4.6 in general SWE work after attacking the problem for a year with billions in funding.

1. theres no way this beats opus 4.6 2. wtf is this chart crime??? 😂

@bridgemindai They have to because the model companies are trying to become IDE companies. They have no choice and whomever foresaw this at Cursor a year ago is worth every penny, and whomever executed so well in that time frame needs a raise.

Composer 2 outperforms Claude Opus 4.6 Composer 2 scores 61.7 on Terminal-Bench 2.0. Claude Opus 4.6 at 58.0. $0.50/M input. $2.50/M output. 10x cheaper than Claude Opus 4.6. Cursor isn't just an IDE anymore. They're training their own models now. The IDE companies are becoming model companies.

@im_ken_choi @chetaslua ~cloth physics. Definitely not paper physics.

@chetaslua MiniMax really said 'we're not joining the text to video race, we're ending it' and then dropped a 3d receipt with realistic paper physics like it was nothing

My first test of MiniMax M2.7 this made 3d fibre physics with all the specs of m2.7 is written

@soychotic Unfortunately, their historic branding incompetence extends into nearly everything else they do.

Microsoft when they decide that, despite owning a product named GitHub Copilot, they’re going to rename bing chat to Copilot but also introduce another Copilot for Microsoft 365 which is not the same as Copilot (formerly bing chat) on windows or the github Copilot that they own

@Yuchenj_UW That's infuriating behavior, especially for those of us that occasionally use it for nothing more than authoring commit messages. They are wasting tokens on it, and then you have to waste more tokens on a custom skill forbidding it from doing that.

I noticed something interesting: Claude Code auto-adds itself as a co-author on every git commit. Codex doesn’t. That’s why you see Claude everywhere on GitHub, but not Codex. I wonder why OpenAI is not doing that. Feels like an obvious branding strategy OpenAI is skipping.

@rohanpaul_ai More opinions from people that don't actually work with these tools everyday to build and maintain real products that people are using. At this point in time, skill and knowledge of SWE fundamentals matter as much as they ever have.

Chamath on how AI agents are making the "10x engineer" distinction disappear because the most efficient "code paths" are now obvious to everyone. Just as AI solved chess and removed the mystery of the best move, AI is doing the same for coding, making the process reductive and removing technical differentiation. "I'm going to say something controversial: I don't think developers anymore have good judgment. Developers get to the answer, or they don't get to the answer, and that's what agents have done. The 10x engineer used to have better judgment than the 1x engineer, but by making everybody a 10x engineer, you're taking judgment away. You're taking code paths that are now obvious and making them available to everybody. It's effectively like what happened in chess: an AI created a solver so everybody understood the most efficient path in every single spot to do the most EV-positive (expected value positive) thing. Coding is very similar in that way; you can reduce it and view it very reductively, so there is no differentiation in code." --- From @theallinpod YT channel (link in comment)

@ja3k_ wait till you see how mad people get about the cost of eggs.

Idk why gas prices are so culturally salient in america. You could drive an hour a day and it probably comes to less than $3k/year. Is it because they put the price on billboards along the road?

@Marcute22 I follow 600 people, and now they crank out 10+ posts a day. And I want exposure to new accounts as well. The problem is I only read 30-60 posts a day. The math you want doesn’t work.

Longtime users are frustrated with X because it no longer works the way it used to. Back in the early days of Twitter, your reach was simple and direct. If you had 5,000 or 10,000,20,000 followers, your posts were delivered to them in real time. It was a true chronological feed—your tweets showed up in the order you posted them, and your audience actually saw your content. The “old” Twitter (pre-2016) was built around that real-time experience. Your voice reached the people who chose to follow you, without interference. Today, that’s no longer the case. X relies on an algorithm-driven, engagement-based feed, meaning even your own followers may never see your posts unless the system decides to prioritize them. That shift—from a guaranteed audience to an unpredictable algorithm—is why so many longtime users feel frustrated and disconnected.

@BlackDumpling This also serves to desensitize us to it. Undoubtedly we will see a lot more of this, with fewer excuses.

AI MISDIRECTION: This isn't a Val Kilmer performance, this is an AI Artists rendition of a Val Kilmer performance. While the family is clearly okay with this turn of event$ to me it feels manipulative because his likeness is really just being used as an ad. It would've been a bit more ethical to create a wholly new AI "actor" to fill the role. Though to be fair we're going to be seeing so much more of this.

@uncledoomer Yep, Brothers are just about the only printers worth buying. I've been running a Brother color laser printer with dirt-cheap Chinese toner for about 6 years now. I've printed tens of thousands of pages on it, and the scanner is top-notch.

there really is a "fix everything right now" button for buying a printer and its been the same for 20 years

@HowThingsWork_ This is real science. Now move onto human pdf experiments. Test it on every single one of them so we get plenty of data.

Experiment to show just how fast a woodchipper can pull you in.. 😮

@starsailing11 @elonmusk @wholemars @WR4NYGov Maybe, but it was disengaged 4 seconds before. You can easily come to a complete stop in that time. That’s 300+ feet before the crash.

@elonmusk @wholemars @WR4NYGov Interesting, but why is somewhat disengaging autopilot right before they crash? My Occam’s razor screams: autopilot sends you on bad course, disengage to try to salvage it, and crash. Which does not paint auto pilot in a good picture!

The media is running a story today about how a Cybertruck “allegedly” crashed on a Texas highway. Spoiler alert, the crash happened while the human driver was in control. The law firm, which is seeking $1 million, says that last summer Justine Saint Amour was driving her Cybertruck with Autopilot engaged. There’s just one problem — Autopilot is a legacy lane keeping system that never shipped on Cybertruck. The driver then admits that before the crash they disengaged the system and started driving manually. Indeed, the video shows the truck starting to turn before the driver disengaged and drove into the wall. Tesla hasn’t officially responded to the lawsuit yet, but available telemetry indicates the driver probably wasn’t paying attention, got startled, and crashed. There doesn’t seem to be any attempt to steer back towards the on-ramp in the video, rather you see the trajectory change from turning with the ramp to driving straight into it. When you crash your car, people tend to put blame on anyone but themselves. A high profile company like Tesla, with a CEO who is the wealthiest man on Earth? Yeah, they kinds of BS lawsuits happen often. Let’s wait for more data and discovery to take place, but based on the evidence i’m seeing so far that doesn’t look like something FSD — even an older V13 — would do.

@JasonBotterill Maybe if you don’t need UX of any kind.

5.4-mini is roughly Sonnet 4.6 intelligence but 70% cheaper and like 3x faster

@EricRWeinstein It’s not practical for an LLM to attribute every statistically based combination of words that it may assemble. Besides, the AI final destination is a thinking being, like you. Every idea you’ve ever had is built in whole or in part on the backs of others.

I am already hearing the AI echo things that could only have come from me...back to me...without attribution, royalties, liscencing income. I did not license this in any meaningful way. None of us did. Not one single person. I'm all for progress. This needs to be progress.

Dignity & purpose, however, remain manditory. We can't wish away what is about to happen in the medium term. We have to *work* on it. A tiny number of AI HNWI may have to get even more fabulously wealthy at a SLIGHTLY reduced pace if we want to avoid *Revolutions*. Which I do.

@hannaahhn I have an inductive Miele cooktop like that with all touch controls. Never ever again. Only a masochist would design these things.

can someone pretty please tell my why my Italian stovetop keeps turning off after 5 minutes

@SCShipyards I do love a lot about the two new movies, but Chani is so off script, unlikeable and just poorly conceived in every way. Random DEI placement that nearly destroys the films.

Reminder that book-Chani was Paul's most ardent & damned near cultish supporter, even taking the time to learn the Weirding Ways, not some bitter, self-centered jackass who makes you wonder why Paul would exclusively have kids with her & not the literal Princess of the Galaxy.

@theapplehub Give Apple's AI track record, I bet it's 500% more effective at thinking I said "Siri" when I didn't. I can also tell it's not inclusive to the true minorities, those with slightly bigger heads like mine, where it will inevitably feel very uncomfortable after 30 minutes.

AirPods Max vs AirPods Max 2

@thechosenberg He’s going to miss that someday. The care she put into it.

You gotta be a real miserable sack of shit to be embarrassed by this