A dark age will come. AI shredders destroy all the books then hallucinate what they once contained.

Once upon a time, Hansel and Gretel were walking through the woods when they met a Sleeping Beauty called Snow White. As they tried to wake Beauty, a naked Emperor walked in screaming "Off with his head" before a Big Bad Wolf started huffing and puffing.

I'm the opposite of an AI doomer but this is actually scary to me. Once knowledge is hollowed out like this how can we get it back?

We could go out in the world, have experiences, cogitate upon them, learn to write well, and then do so? It ain't easy, but that's the way it used to be done.

This is unironically part of their business plan: don't just regurgitate the world's information but also destroy all other sources of information.

Interesting chart, but how is consumption measured? Dollars or stuff? Everything costs way more in the US.

"International dollars" are calculated with a common basket of goods and service, collected by the World Bank.

I've worked with "engineers" that make one commit in 2 months and it's a spelling correction. I'm pretty sure that being 7 times faster than that is still quite slow compared to me :) I hear a lot of breathless enthusiasm, but this article is possibly the first time I'm seeing the question answered "If AI is so great, where are all the applications?"

>ollama to run qwen 3.8 27b

Installed this recently to try it out.

>pi.dev to write and implement openspec specifications, herdr to manage many pi instances

Thanks for mentioning the tools you're using successfully. It seems like most people using LLMs are keen to keep their cards close to their chest.

No problem. I think it's less of people withholding information to have an advantage, and more people still not having settled on a workflow they like. Herdr is the most recent addition in my workflow as of only a few days ago, but it directly solves problems I have been having (juggling tons of terminals, even with my tiling wm has been a little unwieldy). The rest I've pretty much settled into for a while now.

The other tool I wanted to throw out there is voxtype (plus wtype). I've been looking for a good, global, local dictation solution for wayland for a while now, and finally landed on this one. It's great for rambling details that pi+qwen can then convert into concrete openspec specifications.

>like a wasteful software program "polling" these data sources hoping that something really important will surface

This is me on eBay :)

You guys are saying this on a website which puts light grey text on light grey background.

My site shows black with yellow background and white text boxes. Highly visible. Maybe you're referring to dead comments? There are options to hide those.

I'm sorry, what is your username again? I can't read it, because it's tiny light grey text on a light grey background.

Controversy shouldn't give me cataracts either.

and tiny buttons

>This war started as a regime change operation in Iran

I believe this war started with a tomahawk missle murdering a school full of children and then the US denying involvement. I very clearly remember it. US attacks Iran unprovoked. First act, murder their children in school. If you wanted to solidify opposition to the US in Iran, I don't think they could have done a more effective job.

They haven't denied it yet, it's still under investigation. They may be able to workout they were the only country in this war with Tomahawks responsible for the triple-tap missile strike, after the mid terms. Or they may just move on from it and never talk about it again, like the Epstein files.

Techbros: It's fine to demand ID verification for everything, except voting, because that's racist.

But, it's nice that Anthropic is finally admitting claude is just a casino of code. Keep pulling that one armed bandit, maybe you'll get the right code next time.

We're all ants. You can't see the whole sky by design. That's the "guard rails" they talk about.

The non-technical marketing person can't use it because they don't understand programming tools. AI is by programmers for programmers. AI agents might make perfect sense to someone who understands a posix pipe. Marketers don't.

I couldn't finish reading the salespitch because it's ai slop. Which tells me the software side is probably just slop too.

Fair criticism on the writing. I used an LLM to help edit the post, and apparently didn’t remove enough of its fingerprints.

The software is a different matter. I’ve been working with PostgreSQL for 20+ years, and I’m happy to discuss or defend any of the technical decisions behind it here. Just ask!