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There’s age verification when you buy a gun. Not on a gun handle.

Kids should not be able/allowed to buy/use devices that are dangerous for them

But the device itself should not care at the fallacious idea “it might be able to”


Vibecoded code is not C, python, ts, je or whatever.

It need to be considered as a compiled output of vbc-c, vbc-python, or vbc-ts, or vbc-js.

Keeping the source code (the prompt) is very natural, when compiled binaries “vibecoded” output is lacking _context_ and _motivation_ (which the source code / prompt provides)


My grandma (and my parents, by the way) have never heard of Segway, NFTs, or crypto, but they use ChatGPT all the time.


That's alright, but that was not about whether chatbots will succeed or fail.

It was about countering dismissal of all voices of caution as blind dismissal.

Saying X succeeded while people were saying it will fail is just survivorship bias.

Also your parents and grandpa did indeed hear about the Segway.


And your grandma and parents pay for it, do they?

Free ChatGPT chat has made the company a household name, and helped it to persuade investors, but every single one of those free users costs the company money. Most of those free users have proved unwilling to convert to paid users, and adding ads to the free service promises to send it into the same enshittification death spiral so many other companies have fallen into.

Also, how on Earth would your grandma and parents not have heard of crypto? Crypto is frequently front page news, even in print newspapers. There have been crypto superbowl ads. Are they living under a rock?


They would use Claude or Grok for day-to-day if they had heard of it.


what’s the current, cumulative size of all housing, private home, apartments building roof surface ?


There’s only one way to implement a mission, an algorithm, a task. But there’s an infinity of path, inconsistants, fuzzy and always subjective way to live. Thàt’s our lives, that’s the code LLM are trained on. I do not think, and hope, it will ever change much


Hi gemini, i’ve booked some tickets for théater. Please look into mail mailbox, schedule it in my calendar and confirm me the planning for next week.

Beeing able to use natural processing my mail and calendar make me switch to gemini (app), there’s no way to achieve that with chatgpt (app)

Gemini is now good enough, even if i prefer chatgpt.

I only care about what i can do in the app as paying customer, even if, aside from that, i am working in IT with the SDK openrouter & MCP intégration & whatever RAG & stuff for work


They are trained with 100% true facts and sucessfull paths.

We humans grec our analysis/reasoning skills towards the 99.9999% failed attempts of everything we did, uncessfull trials and errors, wastefull times and frustrations.

So we know that behind a truth, there’s a bigger world of fantasy.

For LLM, everything is just a fantasy. Everything is as much true as it’s opposite. It will need a lot more than the truth to build intelligence, it will require controled malice and deceptions


I was with you until the very last line, can you expand on that?


I think he was getting at the fact that the Truth is not good news to everyone.


It’s a great time to start a CD burner business — I foresee public market demand soon


Using continious letters for addititives values is a good idea (F+3) can be predicted easily. Yet i agree that confusing « symbols » should be avoided. Forcing UPPERCASE formeront plus using a prefix (Z might be a good one)

ZA:03 ZB:23 ZL:55 ZI:12 ZO:08

would work greatly for me


Z can look like 2 in sloppy handwriting.


If OpenAI offers Codex and Anthropic offers Claude Code, is there a CLI integration that Google recommends for using Gemini 2.5? That’s what’s keeping me, for now, with the other two.


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