D'oh. Mod me down; I deserve it for my fuckup.

This is the one I have my eyes on, though I'd spend money if someone had packaged that with nice hardware for a complete set that I don't need to spend three days to set up.

It's marketing as they try to stay relevant in the new AI era. Standard playbook but this time they have no control of the players because their OS is not relevant.
When they'd just announced Maia 200 earlier this year and now the 300 which the claim is that it's faster than the Maia 200 it's fluff and puffing hopping to be noticed and seen as 'trying".

After all, they're claiming it'll be used in their own data centers and nothing more. And I'm sure Microsoft doesn't like being just another line item on NVidia's purchasers list.
LoB

the game's uncommon method of generating galaxies of incomprehensible scale on device consistently for all players from a single-seed happening on a phone is remarkable for those of us who remember phones performing far behind consoles or desktop PCs.

No it isn't. Your phone is a supercomputer by 1980s standards, and seeded generation (whether from a PRNG or hashing coordinates or whatever) goes back to at least then (and probably '60s/'70s). I'm not slamming the game, and seeded generation is often a good idea, but the idea that you can do it on handheld supercomputers is not remarkable, even the tiniest little bit.

You wanna see something super-fucking-impressive on an iPhone? Go back to the very first model and behold that it runs a truly-remarkably decent web browser. That was way more futuristic than this.

but in theory, the human can explain the code they wrote, even if it is 'wrong'. i find there are times the human who submitted the AI code didn't understand it, meaning we have code proposed that truly NOBODY understands. That should be considered unacceptable, because when the inevitable bug happens...

Without buying into the conspiracy theory, but this is why I dislike these short lifetimes. It makes my otherwise 100% autonomous website dependent on an external party. I think I'll go back to also offer the site on unencrypted http instead of making an https redirect.

...in the hands of a competent, careful and passionate programmer like Linux Torvalds.

What I worry about is when Bob in the junior software dev team, who does his job to put food on the table, and just good enough to keep his job, uses it to vibe-code company data as his day job.

It's a game company. Odds are, they never valued programmers or artists.

Yeah, PC sales were artificially high in 2025 because of the Windows 11 requirements, now prices have rocketed so sales are artificially low. The next step is presumably when the AI companies - and their investors - realise that they are not going to make a profit on all those tokens and some go belly-up. The Chinese are also going to be making more RAM and SSDs for their own market to avoid sanctions, prices are going to have to drop.

Of course people should beware. Anyone who has a problem with Flock is surely aware that they are only a fraction of "the problem," though among the more visible.

I'm concerned that some Flock haters might take us down a slippery slope to where you can't have a camera in your house if it looks out onto the street, or that you shouldn't be allowed to record cops, or that I shouldn't be allowed to have a camera attachment on my Manhattan apartment balcony telescope that I normally just use to furiously goon to the good people of NYC who don't close their curtains. (Oops, forget that third example.)

I can't say I'm a fan of Flock but if their rights are infringed in a way that might possibly expand to everyone else, then they will need to be defended.

That said, I have a modest proposal for the law-enforcement-related problems of surveillance vendors. Require non-warrant sharing with LE to be unreliable. For every geo search, remove a random half of the applicable results and replace them with deliberate, randomized false positives, so that LE will know the data shouldn't be taken too seriously on its own. If cops act without confirmation while KNOWING it's _at least_ 50% likely to be wrong, that'll help with the civil suits for false arrests.

>Please just put a sock in it.

No.

The OP complained about low quality programmers and "slop"; clearly a reference to AI generated code.

My retort was to challenge that - to point out that fronteir LLMs are now much better at writing software than most programmers. That is objectively true. It doesn't "feel true"; it _is_ true.

Then someone replied to me to try and snipe at ESR and DHH, as if they weren't both excellent programmers. Both of them are. That wasn't a person arguing against my point; that was the response of someone who COULDNT argue against my point, but was upset about it.

There are some bright and accomplished people here. That's part of what makes the place interesting and valuable.

There are also a lot of drive by haters.

Those are two examples.

You can also go read what Carmack says about it. (example: x.com post from 2026/9/11)

I hope you won't be so stupid so as to try dunking on Carmack.

I apologize for not knowing you or your accomplishments, but just playing the law of averages, both ESR and DHH have significantly larger bodies of successfully and daily-used code than you do, with bigger impacts on the field and the industry, than you do.

You probably don't have the right to shit on them, given your own lack of contributions.

(But to be fair, I'm just assuming, based on the law of averages. I apologize if I should know you and your great contributions, but do not)

I can say that both of them certainly eclipse _me_ so greatly that I can't be seen on any map that is zoomed out enough to show both of them. And while I am a relative nothing, I've had a handful of patches accepted in my life... and I've secured a few software patents in my day. That puts me in above-average territory. But there's more accomplishment gap between them and I, than there is between me and a person who cannot code at all.

There's no harm in admiring outstanding people. A particular fault of our age is that men do not know how to truly compliment and admire greatness when they find it.

ESR is a great man. DHH is a great man. My world and our industry is better for both of them. When they say that LLMs have completely changed the way they do the thing that they are better than almost all other human beings at... you should listen.

I heard there are twelve Golden Flock cameras out there, each containing a coupon for a free blowjob, redeemable anywhere, but no one knows where these twelve are. You just have to search them all.

I agree we need better programmers.

We have better programmers.

The frontier models _are_ better programmers than all but the very best.

Look at the AI related posts from ESR and DHH on twitter. They are _all in_ on AI.

(DHH has been showing benchmarks of web apps being machine-re-written in Rust. Unsurprisingly, the apps get much faster)

A rough estimate is that the best LLMs do software engineering about as well as IQ 150 software engineers do it. That makes them better at it than the vast majority of people who write code.

People see an AI do something they dont like and then conclude "the AI sucks". But lets use honest weights and measures: Human programmers make worse mistakes, and make them more often, and iterate 1000x more slowly.

The way to think about it is this: generally the AI will write better code than the person prompting it would write, and it will do it several OOM faster. That means more code getting written than would otherwise get written, AND, it means that code is higher quality than it would be otherwise.

"Perfect" isn't the bar. "Better and in less time than if the human doing the prompting had written it themselves" is the bar. And that bar has been cleared with by a mile of daylight.

Junior engineers don't normally get to tell IQ 150 engineers what to go do. LLMs change that.

And? Hypertext isn't 'the internet.' It's a logical extension to the concept of a page reference.