What is the “cutoff” for mainstream? How far do you stretch the definition of “social media”?

A lot of arguments are not winnable by either side and it doesn’t imply they should both change their minds. Sometimes there is no “right” view.

I like to hear opinions of people who find it interesting; myself I’ve tried Claude and did not like the experience and don’t use it. I have a similar gaming GPU that could run small models but not ones powerful enough to be very interesting.

You have a good point that I missed about pricing that will keep many hobbyists away who can’t run something like Qwen Code locally. I don’t think the models have gotten worse although I don’t have data to back that up, but what I do know is a lot of devs in the private sector I know have gotten onboard recently and they had positive experiences with using it for coding tasks.

So given that it is more likely to me that opinion would soften even here. Most people just don’t care that much about the ethical or philosophical problems of LLMs and pragmatism for solving problems they care about will win out.

I have been expecting there to be some softening and some people who use AI for coding on the DL here. It really has gotten significantly more common to at least try out tools like Claude Code. But those people aren’t writing articles like that and I’m not seeing them.

There isn’t a universal answer, I expect it depends a lot on your worldview and whether you got past your hangups earlier in life, and what your health, regrets and living situation are. I have anecdotal evidence both ways.

Mostly feeling the vibes given the recent Australian report linking nicotine vapes to cancer and the anecdotal evidence I have for these strong vapes causing all sorts of negative mental outcomes or dependency for people I know who use them heavily. We still have a lot of space to learn about unintended consequences here and I’m pessimistic.

High THC cannabis vapes.

I’ve been here for a while without having ever posted yet. But I do comment and upvote.

Surely there are a lot of bitter people on the Internet. My opinion is that it doesn’t matter if you’re right and they’re wrong, hating them only hurts you while they dgaf, if anything it just makes them stronger. Don’t engage the hater, love on.

I forgot about this game, was pretty neat. A good way to learn about all the cars they made. If you find it in a PS1 game bargain bin somewhere check it out.

Took the dogs to the vet the other day to get their shots, and the friggin rabies tags were Texas-shaped. Ugly!