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Codex, OpenAI’s new bug factory

May 16, 2025 Codex, OpenAI’s new bug factory2025-05-25T23:01:23+01:00 No Comment AI, apocalypse, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, tips, vibecoding

There was a lot of talk about this shit, and now it went live: Introducing Codex: “A cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on many tasks in parallel, powered…

Not everyone is dumb regarding AI. But many are.

March 26, 2025 Not everyone is dumb regarding AI. But many are.2025-05-25T23:01:34+01:00 1 Comment AI, apocalypse, Cursor, idiocy, vibecoding

As usual, I find more fun reading the comments to some articles than from the articles themselves. Two selections from the NYT, with my comments to other people's comments, plus…

Peekaboo: Top 8 chatbots ➕ Top 10 advanced ways to use LLMs

March 11, 2025 Peekaboo: Top 8 chatbots ➕ Top 10 advanced ways to use LLMs2025-05-25T22:55:25+01:00 9 Comments AI, ChatGPT, Claude, Codeium, Copilot, Cursor, DeepSeek, Gemini, Goose, Grok, HuggingFace, LMStudio, longread, Mistral, Msty, Ollama, OpenRouter, Perplexity, Poe, SPECIAL, Windsurf

I had a strange experience with Claude yesterday, and it made me reanalyze the reliability and the practical availability of the main AI chatbots freely available online. It’s by no…

🤖 How to properly use AI as a software developer: through its API

February 10, 2025 🤖 How to properly use AI as a software developer: through its API2025-02-10T16:47:05+01:00 No Comment AI, ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Goose, OpenRouter, reddit, tips

Why, indeed, you shouldn’t use an AI chatbot to write non-open-source software, bar some code snippets and other minor adjustments, but people do it—with or without their employer's knowledge. It’s…

Evarist on Kimi’s useless “OK Computer” agent: “Totally agree with you. Gave it a try on Thursday, and it didn’t take long for it to tell me…” Sep 27, 17:09
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “A new cover by The Graystones: Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street, recorded on August 23, 2025.” Sep 26, 19:26
Béranger on 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits: “I dropped from the article a part describing the incompetence of Clement “Clem” Lefebvre and the Linux Mint team; now…” Sep 26, 15:29
Béranger on When being European pays the bill: Win10 has one more year: “Bleeping Computer: Update September 25, 14:58 EDT: In a follow-up statement after the article was published, Microsoft told BleepingComputer that…” Sep 26, 14:03
Béranger on A practical everyday puzzle: will AI solve it?: “I take it that “pla” stands for “People’s Liberation Army” 😉” Sep 25, 22:35
unalex on A practical everyday puzzle: will AI solve it?: “If you want to get home faster, the difference above is small enough, but there could be cases where the…” Sep 25, 22:26
Béranger on A practical everyday puzzle: will AI solve it?: “which option brings me home faster. It’s almost the same thing. It optimizes for walking + waiting. It only ignores…” Sep 25, 21:40
unalex on A practical everyday puzzle: will AI solve it?: “Wow, that’s a long post! But I think you optimized for the wrong thing. I would be interested to know…” Sep 25, 21:32
Béranger on 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits: “linux-hardware.org is a place where one can check the hardware support/compatibility, provided that the exact components are known. Here’s for…” Sep 24, 20:21
Béranger on 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits: “On Hacker News, someone who goes by the moniker farawayea is at least half-dumb. “They” call me “they” for politically…” Sep 24, 16:35
Béranger on 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits: “Ah, also on Hacker News, but too recent to trigger reactions (rebuttals, I expect).” Sep 24, 00:15
Béranger on 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits: “BONUS CHAPTER: Why Linux is the worst in compatibility, and why I hate Google more than I hate Microsoft!” Sep 23, 23:43
HAL on 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits: “A bunch of idiots, with one or two exceptions, who clearly haven’t understood and/or read anything (at least one of…” Sep 23, 17:27
Béranger on 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits: “Oh, this post has been submitted to the attention of Redditards. More than 330 visits from Reddit, as I’m writing…” Sep 23, 16:38
Béranger on Gramatica geto-dacă e cea mai superioară, etc. (cu completări): “Știați că toate edițiile DOOM și toate dicționarele ortografice dau grafia „gogoșărie”, cu excepția DOR 2008 și MDA2 2010, care…” Sep 23, 11:13
Béranger on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?: “Flyoobe, formerly Flyby11: Originally, Flyby11 was a simple patcher to remove the restrictions stopping you from installing Windows 11 (24H2)…” Sep 20, 21:15
Béranger on Dan, căpitan de plai: președintele „umpic” simpatizant legionar: “Oamenii de încredere ai lui Nicușor Dan, în speță Marius Lazurcă. Iote ce spune acilea Valeriu Nicolae: Georgescu și ce…” Sep 19, 20:27
Martin on The Tate brothers equivalent for the intellectual type: Grim: “Hey, man, thanks for the research!!!” Sep 19, 15:41
zugu on Sabine being Sabine, and the entanglement not being Einstein’s spooky action…: “Sabine Hossenfelder: I can’t believe this really happened.” Sep 19, 08:57
Béranger on My chatbot use in the last week: “● I prefer GPT-5 in Copilot than in ChatGPT because of the more generous limits. GPT-5 in ChatGPT Usage Limits:…” Sep 19, 01:24
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “One more update to the The Graystones: Fleetwood Mac, Landslide, recorded on August 30, 2025. From the description: Grayson -…” Sep 17, 08:21
Béranger on How Webcamoid laid bare the disaster that is the Linux kernel: “I forgot to add this update: HWE kernels 6.11 (only from a certain build onwards) and 6.14 now support my…” Sep 16, 13:50
Béranger on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?: “I’ve just learned of UpDownTool from this article: Downgrade to Windows 10 After the Rollback Period, With No Data Loss…” Sep 15, 11:20
Béranger on The Great AI Leap Forward: To panic or not to panic?: “Not again! FT: Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer’ (barrier-free).…” Sep 13, 22:32
Béranger on Dan Wang & Zhang Weiwei on China: “UPDATE: Christiane Amanpour also hosted Dan Wang!” Sep 12, 16:34
Béranger on How is Putin really seen by Xi? Notes on the 2025 SCO summit: “It’s not a joke. It’s China über alles!” Sep 10, 10:04
zorse on How is Putin really seen by Xi? Notes on the 2025 SCO summit: “This SCO summit is such a joke. Xi and Putin acting like best buddies while the rest of the world…” Sep 10, 09:49
Béranger on Bypass Paywalls will never die: “This is why I support the piracy of e-books. https://t.co/Q96PJ7edTR— Ludditus ex-Béranger (@ludditus) September 6, 2025” Sep 7, 12:53
Béranger on The Great AI Leap Forward: To panic or not to panic?: “Geoffrey Hinton brought his doomsday scenario to China. South China Morning Post: Geoffrey Hinton on preventing an AI takeover and…” Sep 6, 15:14
Béranger on Gramatica geto-dacă e cea mai superioară, etc. (cu completări): “Mi-am aruncat un ochi pe dexonline la articolul Forme greșite ale cuvintelor, iar sentimentul cu care am rămas este, exprimat…” Sep 6, 11:56
Rich on How to stop the blurring of KDE’s logout/shutdown and lock screens: “Thanks! This still works but they changed the location of the LockScreenUi.qml file. It’s now at: /usr/share/plasma/shells/org.kde.plasma.desktop/contents/lockscreen/LockScreenUi.qml” Sep 5, 11:33
Béranger on How is Putin really seen by Xi? Notes on the 2025 SCO summit: “Ivana Kottasová, CNN, with a great analysis, albeit “Captain Obvious” style: Putin attending China’s military parade and SCO summit underscores…” Sep 4, 08:09
Béranger on How is Putin really seen by Xi? Notes on the 2025 SCO summit: “FFS! In conclusion of his official visit to China, Vladimir Putin took media questions. ● Hindustan Times: Full video with…” Sep 3, 21:20
Béranger on How is Putin really seen by Xi? Notes on the 2025 SCO summit: “● China military parade 2025 LIVE by Associated Press (2h37m10s) ● FULL EVENT: China marks 80th anniversary of Japan’s WWII…” Sep 3, 05:48
Béranger on How is Putin really seen by Xi? Notes on the 2025 SCO summit: “Victor Gao, vice president for the Centre for China and Globalization, told Sky News (jump to minute 4): I think…” Sep 2, 19:46
Béranger on How is Putin really seen by Xi? Notes on the 2025 SCO summit: “The Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is in Beijing, as he’ll take part tomorrow, Sept. 3, in China’s Victory Day…” Sep 2, 18:48
HAL on Google’s “nano-banana” & some Nvidia shit: “It all makes your head hurt. But who thought a name like nano-banana was the way to go? Ditto for…” Sep 2, 17:02
KENNETH PRICE on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “I am 75 and these young ones fill my heart with joy.” Aug 31, 23:23
Béranger on Claude’s new policies: a tempest in a teapot: “In the article, yes. But some of its readers are dumb.” Aug 31, 19:55
HAL on Claude’s new policies: a tempest in a teapot: “But, unless you can’t read and/or understand, everything is very clear in The Reg article. I don’t see what the…” Aug 31, 19:46
Béranger on Dan, căpitan de plai: președintele „umpic” simpatizant legionar: “Astăzi, dincolo de negarea faptului că ar avea vreo propunere fermă pentru conducerea SRI și SIE, președintele Nicușor Dan a…” Aug 31, 15:09
Béranger on Kimi and Z.AI: The more Chinese, the merrier!: “The APK that can be downloaded on a mobile browser from kimi.com, and whose exact URL is https://kimi-img.moonshot.cn/prod-chat-kimi/kimi/kimi.apk, is at…” Aug 30, 10:33
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “A new cover by The Graystones: Radiohead, Creep — recorded on August 16 at 10am.” Aug 30, 09:24
Béranger on Don’t blame Microsoft for your suicidal SSD!: “Given all those retards who don’t understand that an SSD shouldn’t break anything if too much data is thrown at…” Aug 29, 23:57
Béranger on The one big mistake Xi is making right now: “Of course, Xi keeps persevering in his major error, i.e., pampering Putin: Xi shows Trump who holds the cards as…” Aug 29, 23:44
Béranger on A chat about stablecoins, and pessimism regarding AI: “Speaking of AI, watch this video by The Daily Show starting at about 18:30, with Sundar Pinchai saying that “AI…” Aug 29, 23:10
Béranger on The magic of Amazon’s Kiro: my 1st vibe-coded PyQt6 app!: “Kiro is extending the free usage until September 15th.” Aug 29, 20:52
Béranger on Student, dar nu absolvent? Să înțelegem CV-ul lui Nicușor: “Dragă doamnă care nu știți că punctul nu este precedat de un spațiu nici la sfârșitul unei propoziții, nici altminteri.…” Aug 29, 20:46
Béranger on Student, dar nu absolvent? Să înțelegem CV-ul lui Nicușor: “Băi frate, în primul rând că ești prost, apoi ești prost. 1. Eu nu am zis că ENS Paris-Saclay e…” Aug 29, 20:36
Andrei Secuesu on Student, dar nu absolvent? Să înțelegem CV-ul lui Nicușor: “Bai frate, așa proasta e ENS Paris-Saclay, ca uite cine iese de acolo: Sebastien Bubek.” Aug 29, 17:51
Septimia on Student, dar nu absolvent? Să înțelegem CV-ul lui Nicușor: “Stimate “domnule” ! Limbajul dumneavoastra de mahala nu va face cinste . Sunteti singur vinovat de compromiterea “adevarurilor” emise de…” Aug 29, 01:12
Béranger on Dan, căpitan de plai: președintele „umpic” simpatizant legionar: “Cătălin Tolontan: Nicușor Dan, de la activistul civic la președintele gata să numească doi conservatori naționaliști la SRI și la…” Aug 27, 22:30
Béranger on Lumo by Proton: a fraud of an AI: “OK, Lumo is not that bad. But it’s unpredictable. I used it on occasions with unpretentious questions. Sometimes it gave…” Aug 27, 15:57
Béranger on Frustrated, Exasperated, Done — Farewell to Linux Underway: “Not going to happen, that thing on Mint. Anyway, Mint has some parts that are better than the respective Ubuntu…” Aug 26, 23:15
HAL on Frustrated, Exasperated, Done — Farewell to Linux Underway: “Oooh ! 😳🫣 Donc, Win11 IoT ? Au moins un post sur Linux était attendu, celui concernant Mint et Clem.…” Aug 26, 22:55
Béranger on Frustrated, Exasperated, Done — Farewell to Linux Underway: “It will be so. And my Linux posts weren’t that regular lately.” Aug 26, 20:24
System Administrator on Frustrated, Exasperated, Done — Farewell to Linux Underway: “Say it isn’t so! I look forward to your regular Linux posts!” Aug 26, 20:20
Béranger on A chat about stablecoins, and pessimism regarding AI: “An update: SJVN steps in, but he’s misguided.” Aug 26, 08:14
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “Why America has no chance against China, from Dan Wang’s piece in The Atlantic, A Nation of Lawyers Confronts China’s…” Aug 24, 23:45
Béranger on Me no know much, but running LLMs locally was disappointing: “Being a frugalist, I’ll never have a “true graphics card,” and I know next to nothing about HIP, Vulkan, CUDA,…” Aug 24, 21:44