Tag archives for AI
OK, so maybe the AI crash is here: now what?
I’m still not sure if AI is supposed to kill us all or whether the AI bubble will soon crash, leading to a new Great Depression of sorts. For the…
Reuters doesn’t understand AI, China, markets, and bubbles
Reuters: In China, the AI bubble has already burst: Oct 26 (Reuters) - While global tech stocks teeter, in China they have already crashed as lofty valuations collapse under worries…
🤖 „Profesorul Rughiniș iarăși se întoarce din nou încă o dată”
Radu Buzăianu („Ce se întâmplă”): 📹 Profesorul Răzvan Rughiniș despre lumea AI care a început. Nu reproduc absolut tot, dar o mare parte. #1 ● Criza din educație și anxietatea…
Radio player—refactored & reborn!
The Internet radio stream player hosted by this blog has been completely overhauled, revamped, refactored, rewritten. In fact, it’s literally by no means what it was, even if it looks…
When Pro is not quite Pro—farewell, Claude in Antigravity!
I might seem unreasonable to castigate Google’s new policies towards Pro plans obtained via bundled promotions or “partner benefits,” but even if such plans were unfair to the majority of…
I survived the PHP2Shell apocalypse! But I am outraged!
OMFG! That day has come! 🧟 Wiz Inc.: PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE vulnerabilities affecting 70% of the Internet 🧟 Calif Research: A tale of two PHP remote vulnerabilities 🧟…
America doesn’t even know what to ban from China!
I initially posted this as a quick note, but I decided it deserves more attention, as Uncle Sam is literally retarded. ● The US just banned DeepSeek from government agency…
Pangram: The Atlantic’s Vauhini Vara is a complete retard
The mediocre piece of fiction discussed by Vauhini Vara—a writer herself, but mostly a journalist for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine—might as well be…
Welcome to post-literacy!
These are excerpts from an NYT “Interesting Times” podcast episode where the guest was the Times of London columnist James Marriott, and the host was Mary Harrington. The full video…
Someone is using Claude to kill software development
A couple of days ago, I nearly fell off my chair when I read Joey Sneddon’s report. Then, Futurism mentioned the news. I expected global hysteria, yet no such thing…
Claude Haiku 5.5: a diligent, dumb workhorse?
As people who follow my blog might know, I fell out of love with Claude at some point, despite it being one of my favorite chatbots for a long time.…
Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?
Hugh Howey is the author of the Silo Saga (Wool, Shift, and Dust), the science fiction series Silo (Apple TV) is based on. Not such a huge author until Apple…
Now I am even more perplexed!
In my previous post, in a nutshell, I expressed my disappointment with Gemini (especially for coding, but also as an all-purpose chatbot) and, among other things, my surprise that ChatGPT’s…
Gemini is increasingly bad, but ChatGPT surprised me
Using LLMs is as unpredictable as the weather. One day a model seems decent; the next day its next version (or even the same version!) disappoints completely. I keep giving…
LM Studio Bionic: Agentic meh?
The first time I used LM Studio in February 2025, only to realize that it’s absurd to want to run an LLM locally without a proper GPU and enough VRAM.…
Adventures in Linux, September 2026 edition (+Postscript)
Lately, I’ve been unusually quiet regarding the evolutions (or involutions) in the Linux ecosystem. That’s because I am sick of the infantilism that defines everything Linux. Apparently, Linux is still…
Trust AI-generated code. Not.
Ludditus: WordPress search in posts now shows posts sorted probably by relevance instead of showing the most recent first. Can this be changed? Gemini: Yes, this can definitely be changed.…
Changes to Qwen I failed to notice
While using chat.qwen.ai in a browser, I noticed an “Upgrade” button to the right of my username. That means there is now a way to pay for extended chat usage.…
The fake Luis Burgado piano player and violinist
It’s an open secret that AI-generated fake artists are disrupting the music industry, and that the public is stupid enough to enjoy AI-generated music. Things seem, however, to be completely…
Rughiniș nu crede în apocalipsa AI
Spre deosebire de ramolitul de Geoffrey Hinton și de traumatizatul de Jacob Coxon, Răzvan Rughiniș tot nu crede în apocalipsa AI. L-am mai menționat pe excentricul nostru profesor de la…