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Username… doesn’t check out? Unless there’s some double-agent fuckery going on here, I guess.

If you’re unpaid then why are you doing it?

I’m happy. AI is doing all the crappy drudge work, leaving me with all the fun parts of coming up with ideas and planning out their implementation. And I can ask it questions and make suggestions that turn out to be dumb without any fear it’ll think less of me. If they turn out to be sufficiently epically embarrassing I can literally wipe its memory of me having said that.

I think what they mean is that you leave the dongle plugged into the headphone cable, not that you leave the dongle plugged into the phone.

Ah yes, only approved subjects may have communities and be discussed on the Fediverse.

On the one hand that would be nice, but on the other hand it would result in basically no content on social media any more.

Actually, no, I’m on board with this.

Pretty extreme, but okay.

Will you be factoring in the lives that get saved by various AI-assisted medical and other technological advances that are in the pipe as well? Or are you only considering negatives?

I haven’t been keeping track in any formal sense, but it feels like it’s gradually getting a bit better here. There’s still a very strong anti-AI current running through most of the Threadiverse but I’ve been getting upvotes along with the downvotes and there are a few dedicated AI-related communities too. Maybe as the population grows it’s just naturally getting more diverse.

It’s not just “the government won’t let it go away.” Users won’t let it go away.

I find AI to be incredibly useful for running my coding agent, for example. I run it myself on a local machine. Every AI company on Earth could go bankrupt tomorrow and I’d keep on chugging away with it. Lots of other enthusiasts and smaller companies making use of it would do likewise.

And conversely, many people seem to have a “the moment someone says something nice about AI I dismiss them as either evil or an ignoramus” stance.

Sure, we could do that. But we’d need even more computer hardware that we don’t have, so it would be more expensive, and energy use would be less efficient so there’d be even more environmental impact. Just spread around to every house rather than in one centralized easily-protested spot.

Sam Altman was incredibly tone deaf and it was a stupid thing for him to say out loud when he said RAM was better off in data centers, but in some significant and important ways he was right. Computer equipment is much more efficiently utilized when it’s in a data center.

I say this as someone who’s super into running local models myself. I do it because I believe the autonomy and privacy are worth trading off the extra cost in hardware and electricity. If I just wanted to use AI to get something done and didn’t care about that I’d be paying for API access instead.

Depends on the framework you’re using. I’m using Qwen Code Companion (via a VS Code IDE plugin) and it’s got some kind of tiered system built into it for adding tool definitions to context, it’s got a standard built-in set that’s always mentioned but other stuff only gets added to the context under certain circumstances. I can’t recall all the details, I found out about it when I was chatting with Qwen Code to ask it why it hadn’t used a particular MCP I’d given it to solve a problem despite it seeming like a useful tool for the task and we got into a discussion about to configure it. As I recall it’s something along the lines of most tools only being present in context by default as little one-liner stubs and the agent has to tell the framework “that one looks like it might be useful for what I’m doing” for the full definition to get loaded.

Most of the time I’m working on small scripts and specialized applications these days, and codebase memory is overkill for those so I haven’t actually seen it in use much.

Then you’ve got an account.

We’ll see how much personal verification information Reddit ends up requiring on that email, I guess.

If the site literally refuses to send you data unless you’re logged in then it doesn’t matter what wrapper you’ve got around the empty shell.

You can lead a horse to water.

The point of Spez’s plan is to make it so you would need an account for that, though.

Reddit is still one of the biggest social media sites on the internet. News about it is important to a lot of people. You’re demanding that everyone else conform to your preferences.

It’s funny, way back in the mists of history Reddit’s original plan was very similar to the Fediverse’s. They opened the source for their servers and had plans for how it could interoperate with other independent “reddits”.

Somewhere in the NSA someone is going “damnit! They found that one too!?”

And now everything will go back to normal and people in China will stop using AI.

Right?