What hardware that needs? My issue with running local models was that it’s too much of a resource hog to be able to do gamedev on the same machine, and any sensible model needs pretty expensive hardware to just get a server for it. Especially with current prices.

I can’t wait for companies to finally price out most of developers out of AI use, especially the FOSS ones.

I just hope most of them won’t get too addicted to the tech crack they are getting free/cheap samples of currently, and will be able able to find back their motivation and skill to work without a feel-good dopamine machines.

Also, lol at all the coments being like “if you’re 100% against the tech crack, you’re delusional. The cat is already out of the bag, it makes you way better at coding, if you use it responsibly!”

The problem isn’t that it’s not somewhat good, the issue is that soon you won’t be able to afford it, while also being addicted and dependant on it. But I’m sure y’all are able to use crack responsibly and will be fiiine.

I highly recommend reading and at least once trying to implement the Newport’s Digital Minimalism. Even if you don’t go all in, it has a lot of food for thought in regards to technolpoy usage.

I’ve spent almost a year with a dumb Nokia (the LTE version of bananaphone) that did still have a (barely usable) Maps app and also could make a hotspot, so I could use my powered off smartphone I always carried with me for emergencies.

I have since returned back to using smartphone, mostly because of work requirements, and have fallen out of a lot of Minimalism habits, but things like turned off notifications and learning not to care about missing stuff/replying later has stayed with me. Once you get rid of notification FOMO, it’s pretty liberating.

I should get a dumb phone again.

Wouldn’t like an eight-legged crawling bot with a 360 degree camera be able to do the same and faster? Seems like there’s a lot of time spend in air where he can’t control himself that well.

Interesting, it might’ve changed, I’ve had my domain for 5+ years by now, but if you set up all the signing keys, DKIM, SPF, and whatever properly, I never had a single issue as far as I know.

But I never tried sending my own emails - I’ve been using Protonmail’s custom domain option, which I’m sure helps. Running your own mailserver without a trusted provider might be a lot more problematic, I never even considered it. The idea wasn’t to run my own mailserver, but to be able to move my custom domain to a different provider that supports custom domains, so I don’t have to change my email anywhere.

I just made sure that my domain is passing all the email domain checker tests, and as long as I don’t get on a blacklist, I should be fine.

I have no reason to doubt that, it’s a stereotype I haven’t heard, but tbh I’m actively avoiding people who would have that view.

It’s mostly based on memes, where as far as I know, Asians are usually considered the smart archetype, but I understand that’s not really a reliable source of widespread view about a race.

I’d highly recommend getting your own domain.

Make sure it’s something that’s cheap to renew, cloudfare registrar prices should be at wholesale price.

Setting it up correctly can be a pain, but once your privacy friendly provider starts getting inevitably enshitiffied, you can move your email way more easily.

I think so, at last. Never had to move from Proton yet.

Snake-oil vendors are already pivoting to the next moral panic: “Your software is secure, but what if the evil AI agents steal your stuff? Install pink-rubber-band-AI-endpoint-SOC-SIEM today!” Just moving the goalpost to whatever is scary this quarter.

Sounds true, what else do you have?

What we are building

The system we are building at Mendral lives inside the CI. It connects threat information, production event logs, source code, historical CI logs, and any custom signals you want to add, alongside secure sandbox environments and a set of dedicated tools (see Andrea’s post on agent harness for how that is wired). The agent operates on triggers, at different stages of the lifecycle.

Concretely, here is what happens when a Dependabot-style PR lands. The agent…

Oh ffs it’s an ad for some agentic bullshit.

I wonder why they reject Asians, I thought asians were archetypaly considered as better/smarter/more disciplined workers, when generalized stereotypes are considered?

But maybe that’s just archetype for school? To be honest I’m not really up to speed on what the current meta in racism is.

Because their LLMs suck, and they still want their devs to be productive, while watching their usage to train the internal models.

They give you a choice, and no one is using the internal models.

I kind of respect that. I wonder what happened to him.

Meta has some tolerable studios, and I can kind of get how it could happen to you that you end up working for Meta. I know a few people from Beat Games, for example, and they work on a great game, are an amazing team, that has basically not much to do with what Meta does.

It’s difficult to stand your ground and just be “No, I’m not workibg for facists”, when the team you are in is full of amazing people burning Meta’s money to work on their dream game. You could leave, but you’re just leaving your friends behind that will loose a lot of domain knowledge and a good programmer, and it will not change anything. I also know a few contractors from 3rd party codevelopment studios that got sent to Meta’s 1st party studios, and there it’s even worse - they could say no, but then it’s cutting off an income source from Meta that might as well be keeping the studio afloat.

So it’s not just black and white.

But anyone working on core Meta social networks/services/ad platform/algorithms?

Fuck those guys. There’s no excuse.

I’ve been kind of forced to use AI for my work, and since I had an unlimited access to whatever model I needed, I figured “why not try”. I was able to find my workflow that works, use it to explain the architecture of the code surrounding my bugfix/feature (I work in gamedev, on a project I’m only a contractor for, so I don’t know the codebase too well), make me a documentation, then draft a plan how to implement it. Implement it, then I just look through it for ideas, combine it with my domain knowlege to see if it missed any obvious things or solutions (which it usually does in a larger projects), and then build my own solution from scratch based on what I know, and what it suggested.

The part where it explains the architecture and data/systems flow is invaluable and it does make ot faster than I could have parsed through unknown code, while being verifiable enough to be trustworthy. It’s a good kickstarting process. Do I need it? Not really, but it would take me longer.

But. It eats tokens like hell. My average monthly token usage is around 800m tokens.

I’ve been told I’m not using the AI enough in my workflow, because I write my PR comments and don’t use AI for code reviews.

I’m seriously considering just leaving IT altogether. It’s just eroding my reverse engineering / codebase orientation skill, while I’m replacing it with something that costs the same amount as my sallary for doing it slightly faster/more easier, and the price will only get a lot worse. I don’t get it. How can’t they see it?? How can they look at “Oh, he’s costing us 2000$ a month in AI use [at current prices], but solves 3 instead of 2 tasks a week, while slowly loosing vital skills”, and say “that’s worth it! But he could use it more.”

I hate it. Fuck managment.

The first thing I did with my kindle that I got 10 years ago was to turn on Airplane mode and never turned it off since. I can upload books there via usb just fine, and I never had an issue.

I mean, I can imagine it’s a very real expense.

Not sure what is the difference between Meta and Microsoft in term of employee size, but if Meta is burning 300 000 000$ monthly on tokens (whichis a number reported by their internal tracking tool that leaked assuming 5$ per 1M tokens), then it’s not cheap :D

In a 30-day period, total employee usage on the dashboard exceeded 60 trillion tokens, and the highest-ranked individual user averaged 281 billion tokens. Using the least expensive version of Claude Opus 4.6, which costs $5 for every million tokens, that one user alone could have cost Meta more than $1.4 million.

⁨https://fortune.com/2026/04/09/meta-killed-employee-ai-token-dashboard/⁩

Meta was spending ~300 MILLION dollars per MONTH on tokens around a month ago.

I know they are using Claude, so the price estimation of 5$ per 1M tokens is kind of true, more or less.

Tell me how is this sustainable in the long term?

In a 30-day period, total employee usage on the dashboard exceeded 60 trillion tokens, and the highest-ranked individual user averaged 281 billion tokens. Using the least expensive version of Claude Opus 4.6, which costs $5 for every million tokens, that one user alone could have cost Meta more than $1.4 million.

⁨https://fortune.com/2026/04/09/meta-killed-employee-ai-token-dashboard/⁩

It’s not cheap, though. They are burning billions and as far as I know, not a single company has managed to turn in profit yet, and are still in the Uber phase.

It will get a lot worse.

A reminder that Tor’s Snowflake exists, and running a node can help and is as easy as just installing a browser extension and never thinking about it again.

https://snowflake.torproject.org/

If you’re interested in playing corporation-based, slightly occult, TTRPG, there is Corp Borg that fits the bill.

https://heltung-storytelling.itch.io/corp-borg

Corp Borg is an award-nominated (NDU, The Indie Groundbreakers), rules-light, office-crawl OSR tabletop RPG. While inspired heavily by MÖRK BORG aesthetics and gameplay, it’s a standalone game - all you need to play is this book.

The world of Corp Borg is bleak, bloody, and brutal, exactly like corporations are. They rule the world of Corp Borg, as they do in real life, but are a bit more obvious about summoning demons, making blood sacrifices, and performing occult rituals.

Good that it’s decentralized and people can just move on to another provider, since this one is doing this, haha, right?

I have no problem admitting that, it is indeed a repost from Reddit. But it’s also the only April fools that I found genuinly funny, and since I didn’t see it here I wanted to spread the joy :D

I thought about creditting it, but that’d kind of ruin the joke, plus I don’t really care about creditting Reddit anyway.