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mtkd commented on Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back   promptql.io/blog/being-co... · Posted by u/tango12
mtkd · 2 days ago
The link is a sales pitch for some tech that uses MCPs ... see the platform overview on the product top menu

Because MCPs solve the exact issue the whole post is about

mtkd commented on Claude Code weekly rate limits    · Posted by u/thebestmoshe
paxys · a month ago
You can run a decent model on it, say highly quantized Qwen or Deepseek R1 getting 5-10 tokens/sec output, but it will be nothing in comparison to a commercial offering like Claude, o3 or Gemini. For that you need a datacenter-class GPU going for $50K-100K a pop.
mtkd · a month ago
But a small collective running that box, especially spanning timezones, could potentially be a viable alternative or will be soon -- with obv privacy gains too
mtkd commented on Claude Code weekly rate limits    · Posted by u/thebestmoshe
pembrook · a month ago
These resource constraints create an extremely strong incentive for customers to try all competitors…this is what makes for the best products/services. When there’s no network effects it’s a fight over algorithms and compute and fundraising ability and we actually get real competition instead of natural monopolies.

This is the most exciting business fight of our time and I’m chomping popcorn with glee.

I think Anthropic is grossly overestimating the addressable market of a CLI tool, while also falsely believing they have a durable lead right now in their model, which I’m not so sure of. Also their treatment of their partners has been…shall we say…questionable. These are huge missteps at a time they should be instead hitting the gas harder imo.

They’re getting cocky. Would love to see a competitor to swoop in and eat their lunch.

mtkd · a month ago
They need to max valuation before hardware catches up and qwen3-coder can be run locally for free

It's easy to forget the product Anthropic are selling here, and throttling, is based on data they mostly pay little or no content fee for

mtkd commented on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks   arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/jonbaer
mtkd · a month ago
Conversely, it's useful to get an immediate answer sometimes

6 months ago, "what temp is pork safe at?" was a few clicks, long SEO optimised blog post answers and usually all in F not C ... despite Google knowing location ... I used it as an example at the time of 'how hard can this be?'

First sentance of Google AI response right now: "Pork is safe to eat when cooked to an internal temperature of 145°F (63°C)"

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mtkd commented on Retail cyber attacks: NCA arrest four for attacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods   nationalcrimeagency.gov.u... · Posted by u/sandwichsphinx
djaychela · a month ago
A friend of mine is senior management at one of these companies. His life has been a real nightmare trying to get things back on track - there are so many interconnected systems that they needed to get back up 'clean' and running just to get their normal business running, let alone the online side. And he's not even directly responsible for any of this, but it's all so embedded in a modern retail business that if something like this happens it's your problem to deal with to a degree. The stress caused by this sort of thing is immense.
mtkd · a month ago
>it's your problem to deal with to a degree

How is it not the responsibility of senior management at a major retailer to ensure an exploit at a vendor can't take the whole house of cards down?

Many other major enterprise clients out there are all over vendor security/compliance ... auditing and reauditing vendors to minimise chance of this happening or worst-case, if does happen, containing it and recoverying quickly

mtkd commented on Clarifying our pricing   cursor.com/en/blog/june-2... · Posted by u/twapi
aprilthird2021 · 2 months ago
Thanks for the insight. I have seen similar uses at work, where people do a bit of an enhanced codemod to migrate code from using one deprecated thing (library, function, syntax) to another. And while a codemod has to be more exactly programmed. AI gives you the ability to cover spots in the code that may not 1 to 1 fit with what the pattern you had in mind.

EDIT: I haven't used Tailwind much but would something like this do what you're saying, or not really? https://www.loopple.com/tools/css-to-tailwind-converter

mtkd · 2 months ago
For the trivial cases that's fine (just using LLM does same)

But this particular project is not like a standard site and the CSS is in small fragments across 100s files and uses constants for some things like color values in places too

In that Loopple example you can see the conversion uses the Tailwind arbitrary value notation, the -[], so background-color:#afa8af gets converted to bg-[#afa8af], but I wanted nearest pure tailwind class bg-zinc-400, the agent seems to work out color distance fine so does all that in one-shot too

mtkd commented on Clarifying our pricing   cursor.com/en/blog/june-2... · Posted by u/twapi
aprilthird2021 · 2 months ago
What's an example of something you've had Claude Code do that would take a software engineer a week to do? Just curious.

I see people mention converting old legacy code from an old language to something more modern. I've also seen people mention greenfield projects.

Anything other than this? I'm trying to bring this productivity to my work but so far haven't been able to replace a week of work in a few minutes yet

mtkd · 2 months ago
Last week stripped out all CSS from a fairly substantial project and replaced with Tailwind equivs, it got all but a few cases right

That was gemini-cli, I could see some mistakes on trial run so created a GEMINI.md with system prompt and project description (about 50 lines) which clarified some tricky source layout situations

Second run it was fine, ran for about an hour or so -- I had attempted to do it manually a while back but it started to look like it would take a week or two

mtkd commented on LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary   science.org/doi/10.1126/s... · Posted by u/em3rgent0rdr
mtkd · 2 months ago
I expect in a few days there will be a new tool launched that returns word frequency/velocity in recent biomedical papers ... so next year's PhDs can level things using an MCP function

u/mtkd

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