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willy_k commented on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung pcworld.com/article/29989... · Posted by u/sethops1

Dibby053 · 3 months ago

>Most developers in the third world don't make that in a full year

And many in the first world haha

willy_k · 3 months ago

25k annually (before taxes) is $12/hour with a 40 hour work week, how many software developers in the first world are working for that? There are probably some, but I’d be surprised if there were “many”.

willy_k commented on ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps metalhearf.fr/posts/chatc... · Posted by u/Metalhearf

bfg_9k · 6 months ago

> 2) Citizens here may be significantly less armed, but the same is true of government officials, and even law enforcement is significantly less armed. It kind of evens out, unless military gets involved, but at that point all bets are off - no different than in the US.

I don't think that's a correct comparison. If shit ever did hit the proverbial fan, you can bet that any US military walking around an American city would be constantly worried about getting a lead injection from any Tom, Dick or Harry who's got a firearm.

I don't think the same can be said for the vast majority of European cities (assuming the military gets involved).

willy_k · 6 months ago

> If shit ever did hit the proverbial fan, you can bet that any US military walking around an American city would be constantly worried about getting a lead injection from any Tom, Dick or Harry who's got a firearm.

And then in many scenarios, that Tom, Dick, or Harry gets returned the favor, except with a tank round or worse. If the military remained organized, or at least large factions of it did, it would considerably outclass the general population in both intelligence and firepower / strike capabilities.

Soldiers would be on edge and vulnerable, sure, just like in the conflicts of the past few decades, but overall the military would retain a significant advantage.

willy_k commented on Go has added Valgrind support go-review.googlesource.co... · Posted by u/cirelli94

holyknight · 6 months ago

damn, i remember using valgrind when writing C in university a long time ago.

willy_k · 6 months ago

And I’m going to be using Valgrind in a few weeks, writing C in university now.

willy_k commented on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/tosh

dingnuts · 7 months ago

there's also been a spate of reports like this one recently https://www.papsychotherapy.org/blog/when-the-chatbot-become...

which is definitely worse than not going to a therapist

willy_k · 7 months ago

Ironically an AI written article.

willy_k commented on GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/Philpax

justusthane · 7 months ago

> a real-time router that quickly decides which model to use based on conversation type, complexity, tool needs, and explicit intent

This is sort of interesting to me. It strikes me that so far we've had more or less direct access to the underlying model (apart from the system prompt and guardrails), but I wonder if going forward there's going to be more and more infrastructure between us and the model.

willy_k · 7 months ago

The router seems to only apply to the ChatGPT version, not the API, so it’s not really anything new. Gemini already has functionally dynamic reasoning effort.

willy_k commented on Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce openai.com/index/providin... · Posted by u/gmays

janice1999 · 7 months ago

Do these model releases really matter to cost if the hardware is still so very expensive and Nvidia still has a defacto monopoly? I can't buy x8 H100s to run a model and whatever company I buy AI access from has to pay for them somehow.

willy_k · 7 months ago

Yes they do, if the model size / vram requirement keeps shrinking for a given performance target, like has been happening, then it gets cheaper to run X level of model.

willy_k commented on Open models by OpenAI openai.com/open-models/... · Posted by u/lackoftactics

dingnuts · 7 months ago

The providers disagree. You pay per token. Verbacious models are the most profitable. Have fun!

willy_k · 7 months ago

For API users, yes, but for the average person with a subscription or using the free tier it’s the inverse.

willy_k commented on The EU can be shut down with a few keystrokes bitecode.dev/p/the-eu-can... · Posted by u/BiteCode_dev

lazystar · 8 months ago

counterpoint: is a "SOTA LLM" a net benefit to society as a whole?

willy_k · 8 months ago

That doesn’t really matter for the point at hand, which is that Europe’s overregulation stifles innovation and international competition. Unless you’re arguing that the reason Europe hasn’t produced a SOTA LLM is because it’s not a net benefit, in which case that’s ignoring that it’s going to happen regardless and if Europe supposedly has its head on straighter than others, it would be most beneficial for the leading LLM to be European.

willy_k commented on Gemini CLI blog.google/technology/de... · Posted by u/sync

bsenftner · 9 months ago

Thank you for your work on this. I spent the afternoon yesterday trying to convert an algorithm written in ruby (which I do not know) to vanilla JavaScript. It was a comedy of failing nonsense as I tried to get gpt-4.1 to help, and it just led me down pointless rabbit holes. I installed Gemini CLI out of curiosity, pointed it at the Ruby project, and it did the conversion from a single request, total time from "think I'll try this" to it working was 5 minutes. Impressed.

willy_k · 8 months ago

FWIW the fair comparison for Gemini 2.5 Pro would be o4-mini. That being said I’ve also found that Gemini is way better at getting it right on the first or second try and responding to corrections.

willy_k commented on Gemini CLI blog.google/technology/de... · Posted by u/sync

Spooky23 · 9 months ago

In the enterprise space, Microsoft’s pain is OpenAI’s gain. They are kicking butt.

In enterprises, Microsoft’s value proposition is that you’re leveraging all of the controls that you already have! Except… who is happy with the state of SharePoint governance?

willy_k · 9 months ago

You don’t have to be happy with it. If Microsoft already has all your data it’s much easier to trust them for AI than to add another entity into the equation, especially OpenAI.