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brianpeiris

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  • The social media ban sceptic: are we getting it wrong on kids, tech and mental health?

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  • I think we have to do both. Bans/restrictions to prevent immediate harms (or at least attempt to), and regulation to prevent future harms.

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    Zig language's policy on AI

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  • I kinda agree with this, except the machine learning field should bear some responsibility for begetting LLMs. In particular, they got very used to the idea of scraping the internet for huge amounts of data needed for all types of models, and paid less and less attention to how much energy their training and inference was costing versus the value the models were providing. The seeds of the problems with LLMs existed before they landed on the scene.

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    Zig language's policy on AI

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  • In case you didn't hear, Bun was acquired by Anthropic.

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    Zig language's policy on AI

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  • If the Zig community carves out a territory of principled engineering like this, I may adopt it as my primary language and make a career out of it. Finally an island of sanity in a sea of slop.

  • South Korea unveils $880bn chip and AI investment plan

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  • Oof, they're going to be in a whole lot of pain after the burst. Hopefully they can reverse course mid-way.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    "After the AI Hype – What’s Real, and What’s Next" - Richard Campbell - NDC Conference Keynote 2026

  • Bernie Sanders Introduces Legislation to Create $7 Trillion AI Sovereign Wealth Fund

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  • Bernie has good intentions, but he was AI-pilled by Geoffrey Hinton, who ironically also has good intentions. However, they are both out of touch with reality.

  • Opensource AI Must Win

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  • I'm confident enough about this that I've registered a prediction on Long Bets.

    "No LLM-based AI will surpass 70% on the ARC-AGI-3 leaderboard, with a cost of $1000 or less, before June 2028." - https://longbets.org/973/

    I'm curious if you'd really disagree with the premise, and would you (or anyone here on Lemmy) be willing to put money down to challenge the bet? (Long Bets always donates any winnings to a registered non-profit of the winner's choice, though it's a $200 minimum).

    Are you saying that LLMs can currently reason? How do you explain their low score on ARC-AGI-3? Do you think Transformer LLM architectures will be capable of reasoning within the next two years without some new breakthrough? What mechanism in the architecture allows them to reason?

  • Opensource AI Must Win

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  • Companies are only shooting themselves in the foot in the long term if they stop hiring junior engineers, and most of that work is not being replaced, it's being shifted to the senior engineers who now have to babysit AIs that can't actually do the job for any extended period of time. If you're accepting AI code into a codebase without thorough review, then you're also shooting yourself in the foot in the long term, because even the senior engineers won't know the codebase after a while. If you're doing thorough reviews in order to catch the AI bugs, well then you're probably better off coding it yourself correctly in the first place, unless you've already allowed your skills to atrophy.

    Do you really think AIs are reasoning when you ask them to troubleshoot technical issues? You may be lucky if the issue is already in their training data, but anything even slightly novel, and the AI is just going to bullshit an answer, and I guess you're going to follow it blindly, since you don't know enough to come up with an answer yourself.

    Besides all that, how is open source AI going to stop junior developers from losing their jobs?

  • Opensource AI Must Win

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  • The word "intelligence" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. LLMs lack any mechanism for true logical reasoning, and they always will by nature. This is why they fail at simple questions like "the car wash test". It's also why agents are expensive; They just flail around in token hungry "reasoning loops" until they happen to come across a correct solution. And it's why Claude Opus 4.8 (High) only scores 1.5% on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark at a cost of $10,000.

    This kind of panic is just part of the hype. Wake me up when real intelligence arrives.

  • Lini Wants to Be the Portable Workstation Developers Actually Carry

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  • I don't understand this form factor. It's too small for any serious work, both in terms of screen size and typing, and it's too big to fit in your pocket. So you might as well carry a small laptop around, since it would actually be usable. Feels like a novelty that is just meant to satisfy a cyberpunk aesthetic, if you've got the money to burn on something that you'll probably only use a few times, or occasionally at best.

  • Wow, you guys are fast at guessing episodes. What about this one?

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  • Season 4 Episode 23 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Witness

    Alternate holographic recreation of Voyager where the crew is evil. The episode opens with a scene on the "warship Voyager", an alternate Voyager with a brutal, sadistic crew.

  • The future of AI in Ubuntu [Except it's Blockchains instead of AI]

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  • Oh, my apologies for posting this on a public forum. This trick was not meant for you.

  • The future of AI in Ubuntu [Except it's Blockchains instead of AI]

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  • The Luddites didn’t hate machines. They were gifted artisans resisting a capitalist takeover of the production process that would irreparably harm their communities, weaken their collective bargaining power, and reduce skilled workers to replaceable drones as mechanized as the machines themselves. Their struggle has been tragically warped into a caricature when it is more relevant than ever.

    https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2021/06/the-luddites-were-right

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Except it's Blockchains instead of AI

    The future of AI in Ubuntu

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Ladies and gentleman, we have reached peak Agentic AI Coding - Goblin instructions in OpenAI's Codex system prompt

  • I keep tripping over “true, false, true”

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  • IntelliJ doesn't help when you're doing a code review, or just reading through hundreds of lines of code, I don't want to move my mouse or cursor over every line to see the parameter names.

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  • Yeah, it's wild they do actually have large "photophores" at the ends of their arms. More info here:

    https://www.livescience.com/animals/squids/elusive-octopus-squid-with-worlds-largest-biological-lights-attacks-camera-in-striking-new-video

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taningia_danae

    Taningia danae, the Dana octopus squid, is a species of squid in the family Octopoteuthidae, the octopus squids. It is one of the largest known squid species, and it has one of the largest photophores (light organs) known in any organism.

  • Deconstructed the $9 quinoa shaker from my local organic grocery and made it myself for $3.50. This is going to be my staple for a while.

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  • Yeah, not ideal, but pretty handy on the go.

  • Deconstructed the $9 quinoa shaker from my local organic grocery and made it myself for $3.50. This is going to be my staple for a while.

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  • Technically I used a brand called Jimmy Joy, but it's pretty much the same idea.

    There are a number of Soylent-clones and I think many of them are doing quite well. The buzz around it has definitely died down, but I think there are still many people who are just quietly relying on meal replacements for a good portion of their nutrition. Honestly, I would continue to do the same if I could justify the shipping and total cost, but I'm trying this out for a change.

  • Deconstructed the $9 quinoa shaker from my local organic grocery and made it myself for $3.50. This is going to be my staple for a while.

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  • It's parsley on the quinoa. I bought the dried type, not freshly cut. I used green onions, not chives, specifically. The original shaker came with a dressing made of grapeseed oil, rice vinegar, lemon juice, cilantro, parsley, jalapeno, garlic, lime juice, smoked paprika, cumin, coriander, and salt and pepper.But I just use some off the shelf dressing. Still looking for one that is a close match.

  • Deconstructed the $9 quinoa shaker from my local organic grocery and made it myself for $3.50. This is going to be my staple for a while.

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  • Yup, It's usually similar ingredients, plus a dressing packaged in a cup or bowl with a lid, so you can literally shake it to mix just before you eat it.

  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    Deconstructed the $9 quinoa shaker from my local organic grocery and made it myself for $3.50. This is going to be my staple for a while.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    brianpeiris @lemmy.ca

    Memory Price Trends - PCPartPicker

    pcpartpicker.com /trends/price/memory/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    What is Bending Spoons? The little-known firm behind Vimeo's sweeping layoffs

    techcrunch.com /2026/01/25/what-is-bending-spoons-everything-to-know-about-aols-acquirer/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Announcing ARC-AGI-3 - A benchmark that tests if AI can explore, learn, and adapt in unfamiliar situations. Humans score 100%. Frontier AI scores 0.26%.

    arcprize.org /blog/arc-agi-3-launch
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

    www.theregister.com /2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    METR AI Coding Research Inconclusive Because Dev Participants Refused to Complete Tasks Without AI

    metr.org /blog/2026-02-24-uplift-update/
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Tumbler Ridge shooter had second ChatGPT account, OpenAI reveals as it overhauls safety protocols

    www.politico.com /news/2026/02/26/canada-openai-chatgpt-shooting-00802746
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name (EDIT: See description and comments regarding 404)

    arstechnica.com /ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Cursor is better at marketing than coding

    www.theregister.com /2026/01/26/cursor_opinion/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge

    www.theregister.com /2026/01/20/pwc_ai_ceo_survey/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge

    www.theregister.com /2026/01/20/pwc_ai_ceo_survey/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways

    spectrum.ieee.org /ai-coding-degrades
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways

    spectrum.ieee.org /ai-coding-degrades
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Who and What comprise AI Skepticism?

    buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com /p/who-and-what-comprises-ai-skepticism
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog

    www.waterfox.com /blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/crl95eg33k1o
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup's robots could 'fracture a human skull'

    www.cnbc.com /2025/11/21/figure-ai-sued.html