itemize123's comments

On: Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions

[itemize123]

if it helps - i strongly agree with you

On: Jira Is Turing-Complete

[itemize123]

it's actually easy to be turing complete. it's a feat for a system to be non-turing complete and be "complex".

On: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

[itemize123]

does your pricing take account of cached vs uncached token?

On: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

[itemize123]

they are doing it through state investment vehicles - so it's in the same way US companies can (but won't)

On: Appearing productive in the workplace

[itemize123]

is it a net-win for the company? Are the AI-TOD any good?

[futureproofd → itemize123]

Sometimes, yes. Other times, no. It depends who's leveraging the technology to write these things. Though even in the positive outcome cases, the volume alone is suffocating. My brain doesn't have time to commit all of it.

On: Appearing productive in the workplace

[itemize123]

what would you say the disconnect was? Was it a simple case of that your teams' not comfortable with merging AI code?

[oblio → itemize123]

Or maybe the AI tools don't do what the advertising says they do.

[emoII → itemize123]

Well if knowing what to build is still the moat, then at least someone knowing that that was _actually_ built is still super important, no?

On: Appearing productive in the workplace

[itemize123]

nothing foolish about trying even if he too thinks it's inevitable. it's foolish however to think that there won't be nuances of such a future (and somehow no one can influence the nuances).

On: Appearing productive in the workplace

[itemize123]

yup - security reviews.

On: DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier

[itemize123]

run it hosted on another provider - it's less censored there

On: DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier

[itemize123]

actually distillation is without weights - you basically just need a black box teacher model.