yeah but any service that shittifies will get upstaged by services that don't (cough cough: Deepseek)

I need unskewed answers more than I need technical prowness, because technical expertise is going towards commodity availability. i like chat GPT but I'm gone the second they put ads into my development workflow. Bye!

The toxicity was the point?

That's a psychopathic take on the matter, I'm sorry.

Nothing or no one forced anyone to be harsh to other human beings. That was a deliberate choice by a bunch of sociopaths

one thing that grabbed me right away about chat gpt is how it understood my question. it wasn't obtuse, let alone intentionally so. it wasn't pedantic; it just helped. And without a side dish of attitude.

Well, I was a top 2%er, and answered more questions than I asked, with about 20k, and I made a point to be nice to newbies

being mean is a personal choice, not a requirement. being courteous and considerate and being experienced or knowledgeable can both co exist

Windows is not only getting shittified, it's rotting from within. I guess in the last decade, the managers have sacrificed production capacity for production. Getting those quarterly profits up while failing to maintain the machine behind it (the people, the code)

People are gonna be forced to leave it more and more unless they make a drastic turn about

there's a huge flaw in the logic here but I can't pinpoint it

we've never had machines that can reason. today, they reason badly. tomorrow, they'll reason better. not all ai research white papers will pan out, but some will. the ai research community is acutely aware of the limitations in reasoning; it's their whole mission right now. 100% chance someone will make progress. Analogous to the chip industry or self driving, in that regard

incremental improvements in reasoning will broaden the dead zone for human developers

what difference does it make if in 20 years NASA still needs a few human developers but the rest of us are unemployed? ai agents still can't get you to the moon with one shot coding session in 2045? who cares?

the "still can't" we really need to be worried about is "politicians still can't consider UBI"

maybe they'll ask cut off the free tiers in 2026 and the only thing left will be China and open router

i had to disable baby Ceph (Deepseek 3.1) from writing changes in Continue because he's like a toddler. But, he did confirm some solutions and wrote a routine and turn me on to some libraries, etc

so I see what you're saying. he comes up with the wrong answers a lot to a problem involving a group of classes in related files

however it's Continue, so it can read files in vs code which is really nice and that helps a lot with its comprehension so sometimes it does find the issue or at least the nature of the issue

I tend to give it bug n-1 to pre digest while I work on bug n

here's the issue

1. the home page should have a link to all docs

2. about page docs link should be a link to all docs, not a link to itself

as work / token (engine efficiency) increases, because agents are getting smarter, my agent (locomotive) count is increasing, because I find more uses for smarter agents, and my overall token use is increasing.

what's odd is we must take this back to literal coal in order to complete the analogy. tokens are ethereal; energy inputs are not.

cost / token is decreasing while model performance stays roughly the same or gradually improves. cost is a rough proxy for tons of coal consumed.

I think smarter models is what's driving greater coal use overall.