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fraywing
·hace 3 días·discuss
I like this and felt like some of it was much more fluid; but was I alone in feeling like the interjected "uh-huh" or "yeah?" moments felt a little jarring?

Almost felt a bit *uncanny valley* for what "natural" conversation is supposed to be like. If the "uh huh" isn't timed correctly, it'll feel like a zoom call with lag.
fraywing
·hace 13 días·discuss
Brute forcing positive outcomes by spending more tokens until a happy path manifests does not solve the underlying comprehension (and liability) problem.

I fear a world where critical software is stood up with increasingly non-human governed abstraction because it [seems like it] works.

Software engineers as the review terminal in a conveyor of business-led code mass production... coming to a company near you?
fraywing
·hace 16 días·discuss
It feels like the gap is closing from an intelligence perspective. Or at least doing some kind of log flattening.

Been playing with GLM 5.2 in different contexts. It's less good if you don't max out thinking, but as xhigh it's been able to solve most problems I was throwing at Opus in the about the same amount of time (via OpenRouter).

Wild time to be alive.
fraywing
·hace 17 días·discuss
wondering how accurate the extrapolated distances are? Like the Rhino and the tree -- I wonder if the approximation could be useful in something like forensics from a security video?
fraywing
·hace 17 días·discuss
GLM-5.2 has been impressive.

Having my engineers swap over to it from Claude has garnered very little complaint. The lack of multi-modality is a limitation, but using minimax m3 for that isn't super inconvenient.
fraywing
·hace 18 días·discuss
I'm absolutely astounded that we even have an open weights model that can do 40% of what is shown in here.

I remember making games ten years ago, and it was such a tedious and painful process. This is effectively lightning in a bottle even at a fraction of it's capability.

The next 12 months will be wild (assuming we don't have Chinese models banned by then in the US).
fraywing
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Music and streaming is severely under attack from an effort/commercial viability perspective given tools like Suno[1]

Not exactly saying this is the reason for their sell, but I'd imagine a lot of professional musicians are feeling the desire to exit the industry.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2026/05/02/nx-s1-5804489/music-listeners...
fraywing
·hace 2 meses·discuss
So is this basically a task-specific MoA transformer arch with a DNN that helps make routing decisions? Trying to understand this.
fraywing
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Can we please get a break?

Praying to the security gods.

It seems like we've have non-stop supply chain attacks for months now?
fraywing
·hace 3 meses·discuss
If DoD systems are running on OpenAI infrastructure, you can't just pause them for 6 months during an acquisition. This gets far more complex than just "liquidation of assets".
fraywing
·hace 3 meses·discuss
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fraywing
·hace 3 meses·discuss
What happens if OpenAI collapses at this point? Is it just too big to fail given defense contracts and Microsoft?

The Sora sunsetting marked a big shift towards enterprise focus and meeting Anthropic on the enterprise battlefield, but almost all engineers I work with or know are using Claude at this point exclusively.

Anyone seeing differently?
fraywing
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Gave you a star as well. Love the idea and the demo/configurator is very slick.

Looked at the "how it works" -- is there a way to manually specify leaf element sizing? Thinking about dynamically sized elements that don't have markup-level specified sizes yet via bounding boxes.
fraywing
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Very cool, thanks for sharing!

What's the threshold function? Do you have graduating `No --> Partially --> Mostly --> Open`?

Also what's the update cadence?
fraywing
·hace 3 meses·discuss
How do you think the vibe-coding layman audience is using OpenClaw?
fraywing
·hace 3 meses·discuss
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fraywing
·hace 3 meses·discuss
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fraywing
·hace 3 meses·discuss
I'm observing that there is some kind of status quo bias nearly uniformly being surfaced by the programming community right now.

I myself have feelings like this, as a software engineer by trade.

"We will forever be useful!" As a sounding cry against radical transformation. I hope that's the case, but some of these pieces just seem like copium.
fraywing
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Incredible uptick in supply chain attacks over the last few weeks.

I feel like npm specifically needs to up their game on SA of malicious code embedded in public projects.
fraywing
·hace 3 meses·discuss
>Letting an LLM write for you is like paying somebody to work out for you.

It's worse than this. If someone is working out for you, they still own the outcome of that effort (their physique).

With an LLM people _act_ like the outcome is their own production. The thinking, reasoning, structural capability, modeling, and presentation can all just as easily be framed _as your creation_.

That's why I think we're seeing an inverse relationship between ideation output and coherence (and perhaps unoriginality) and a decline in creative thinking and creativity[0]

[0] https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/